Sarah Aroeste

[3] Her family roots can be traced to the formerly vibrant Sephardic Jewish community of Monastir (now known as Bitola, North Macedonia, Битола, Македониа) which was almost completely destroyed in the Holocaust.

[3] The latter, produced by Grammy Award winner Frank London, was described as "traditional Ladino music updated with rock, funk and jazz.

[8] Produced and arranged by Shai Bachar,[12] it features the rapping of poet Vanessa Hidary, and its opening track samples from a 1971 speech by Gloria Steinem.

[12] With this release, she "developed a style that borrows liberally from all sorts of unexpected places, from Santigold fusion-pop to gothic metal," while taking care to insure that "during these genre experiments the Ladino influences don’t disappear, but are integrated.

[13] The songs teach simple concepts in Ladino and range in themes from learning about mealtimes to body parts to animals on a farm.

It features 30 musicians from 5 countries, singing in 3 languages to honor the Macedonian Jewish community of Aroeste's family, destroyed in WWII.

[18] One of the songs in the album, Estreja Mara honors the memory of Estreya Ovadya, the Macedonian Jewish partisan from Monastir who died in battle against the Nazis in 1944.