Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc1494/17 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos, pg. 70, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. This romance is known only in the Sephardic Moroccan tradition. It...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc2151/15 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos pg. 70, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. This romance is known only in the Sephardic Moroccan tradition. It...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc2117/18 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos, pg. 219, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. This is not a romance but a narrative poem used as...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2910/4 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 56, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak. In this song the bride is asked about...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y932/7 This copla celebrates the giving of the Torah, drawing on Talmudic commentaries and legends, and interweaving numerous Hebrew expressions. It is composed in quatrains with a zejel rhyme scheme,...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5457/1 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 34, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak. This song precedes the ritual of circumcision, praising...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 1620/5 The dirge tells of a woman born into misfortune and raised away from her mother, marked from birth by darkness and bad omens. Her arrival occurs on a...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5418/12 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 55, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak.
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc2325/38 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos, pg. 226, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. In this romance from North Morocco Cidi prays in sorrow because...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5627a/24 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos, pg. 240, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. Polo, sunk in melancholy, meets a page who reveals a scandal...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc22641/41 Polo, sunk in melancholy, meets a page who reveals a scandal at the royal court: the queen’s daughter has secretly borne children with Count Vergico. The queen confronts the...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2856/4 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos, pg. 140, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. The theme of the husband going off to war, leaving his...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc5540 This is a version of La doncella guerrera, The warrior maiden, which is widely spread across Spain and within the Sephardic diaspora. In all versions, a dialogue takes place...