Ladino Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/ladino Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:18:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-BNyb0KwmkKGrHgoH-C8EjlLlhlGBJrZchZqHQ_35-32x32.jpg Ladino Archives - Hal Phillips https://www.halphillips.net/tag/ladino 32 32 What Made Grandma Grandma? Graver Fleshes her out, using Family History and Fiction https://www.halphillips.net/what-made-grandma-grandma-kantika-avoids-overworked-immigration-tropes-with-fiction?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-made-grandma-grandma-kantika-avoids-overworked-immigration-tropes-with-fiction https://www.halphillips.net/what-made-grandma-grandma-kantika-avoids-overworked-immigration-tropes-with-fiction#respond Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:16:03 +0000 https://www.halphillips.net/?p=5347 Book Review There is historical fiction. There are the literary cousins of memoir and family history. Then there is the canny, lyric hybrid Elizabeth Graver conjures in Kantika, the 2023 novel that tracks her own family’s 20th-century journey from Constantinople to America, by way of Barcelona and Havana. Don’t worry: Ellis Island and its many […]

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