David Saltiel

David Saltier continues to be called “most likely the last from the old-style Judeo-Spanish singers from Salonica.” Followed by oud, violin, framework drum, and cymbalom, Saltier requires a fresh method of centuries-old songs, performing in Ladino, a Yiddish-like mixture of Hebrew and Spanish. A indigenous of Thessalonkia in Salonica, a slot town in Greece between Athens and Istanbul near Macedonia and Bulgaria, Saltier continues to be recording because the 1950s. His 1997 recording Berlin, Germany was accompanied by Jewish-Spanish Tracks of Thessalonika the next year.