Placement in the Jerusalem National Sound Archives: Y2093/4b This is a Copla-Romance, depicting the story from Exodus when Moshe goes to Pharaoh's palace to demand that he release the people of Israel, is sung on...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc1188/8 With its characteristic nine line asymmetrical rhythm and structure of a Purim copla, this song combines several themes: the story of Haman who wished to destroy the people of...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5436/4 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 222, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. During the bride’s bath, an event attended only by women, that, in both the...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5977a/31 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 143, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. Playing with the baby's fingers, starting with stroking the child's palm, and then...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5977b/37 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 143, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. Playing with the baby's fingers, starting with stroking the child's palm, and then...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y6184a/8 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 154, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A game very popular among Saloniki Sephardim. One child hides his face while...
Composed during the Balkan War of 1912-1913. The theme develops around the pain a wife that looses her husband, or possibly a mother who looses her son, his name Yehuda sung in Hebrew.
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5433/2 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 271-272, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A song of parting of the bride from her family. This is a...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc1402/31 This is one of the songs sung at the end of the Passover meal. It is a cumulative song which is performed at length, thus complying with the rabbinical...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 6009d/18 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 155, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A nonsense singsong used to choose the roles for a game. This...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y6130b/51 Referenced and notated in En Buen Siman, Pardes, 2006, pg. 166 This song tells the story of Florika - a charming and coquetish maid who flirts with the three...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: NSA Yc 1188/6 Hablad mi madre, based on the liturgical poem composed in the 12th century by Rabbi Judah ibn Abbas of Fez, is chanted on Rosh Hashanah and in...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: NSA Y2059 Hablad mi madre, based on the liturgical poem composed in the 12th century by Rabbi Judah ibn Abbas of Fez, is chanted on Rosh Hashanah and in some...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y6130/18 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 172, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A song for the bride's ritual bath, typically filled with images of sensuality...