We Speak and Write This Language against Our Will

Moise B. Soulam

1928

Dear Vara of my soul,

Wherever it may be, I am always hit in the face by a pet peeve, some vexation and angst, due to the misbehavior of certain of our women who still do not know whether they are in New York, in the city of the veritable Tower of Babel, where many languages are spoken, or whether they are living in the old Turkey, where our women…

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Moise B. Soulam

1890–1967

The Salonika-born Ladino journalist Moise B. Soulam settled in New York City in 1913. He was best known for an advice column he wrote, using the feminine pseudonym Tia Satula or Bula Satula, from 1913 to 1934. Sometimes entitled “Palavras de mujer” (Words of a Woman) and sometimes “Postemas de mujer” (Pet Peeves of a Woman), the column appeared intermittently in the Ladino newspapers La Amérika, El Progresso, and La Vara. Written in a popular style, the columns urged female readers to lead respectable, upright lives and to adopt American habits and customs.

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