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The Hanukkah song \\u201cOcho Kandelikas\\u201d (Eight Little Candles) is often referred to as a \\u201ctraditional Sephardic song.\\u201d In fact, it was written in 1983 by Flory Jagoda, an 88-year-old Sephardic folk singer who still performs today.

\\u201cOcho Kandelikas\\u201d is one of dozens of songs Jagoda has written and recorded, drawing from a rich musical tradition and sung in Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, the language she grew up with as a child in Bosnia. She carried that language and musical tradition with her to the United States, after WWII destroyed most of her family and the way of life she\\u2019d known.

Here, Jagoda offers her memories of making music with her mother, grandmother, aunts, and uncles as a child, and of her...

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