Taking her show on the road, singer and trombonist Nani Vazana brings a lost language and culture to audiences familiar with it and to newcomers alike

'Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948,' opens this week, shows how the old language survived in the new Israel - sometimes hiding in plain sight

On each of the 49 days between Passover and Shavuot, researchers will post recitation in different language, including Ladino, Yiddish and more obscure tongues like Judeo-Georgian

The language was spoken by Jewish communities in the Ottoman Empire and North Africa who had fled the Spanish Inquisition; today, their descendants are seeking to reclaim it

The classes, which began this week, run for an hour a week online and are free for all students