Mira Rivka Blum

Ladino paved Mira Rivka Blum’s initial pathway to Yiddishkeit while studying abroad in Spain, but it took ten more years and a doctorate specializing in Turkic languages before she discovered the vibrant and enticing world of Yiddish and Yiddishists. Since then, her life has become fully faryidisht. She currently works as a teacher at a Yiddish immersion preschool, writes and translates Yiddish texts, and uses Yiddish as the primary language of the home with her husband. With her two children, she strives to speak in Ladino, or at least Spanish. What else would she speak, Turkish?