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Netflix series awakens ghosts of past for Turkey's Jews

“Don’t you ever believe Turkish Jews if they tell you they have watched the series without shedding a tear; they are simply trying to conceal their emotions,” wrote Karel Valansi in her column in T24, where she describes her favorite scene — one she shares with the many women I talked to for this piece:17-year-old Rasel, Matilda’s child from Mumtaz who grows up in an orphanage and, like her mother, has her heart broken by a Turkish man, stands under the pouring rain as an old Ladino song, "Adio Kerida" ("Farewell My Love") plays in the background in the husky voice of Yasmine Levy: "I no longer want to live after you have ruined my life.”

in Nazlan Ertan's article, Al Monitor 16 November 2021

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/11/netflix-series-awakens-ghosts-past-turkeys-jews#ixzz7CYDLAdq9

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