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,...
From Decile a mi Amor, Judeo-Spanish songs from Tetuan, 2018. 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...
From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 This copla celebrates the giving of the Torah, drawing on Talmudic commentaries and legends, and interweaving numerous Hebrew expressions. It is composed in quatrains...
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...
From Arboleras Vol. 2 - Romances Sefardies Tradicion Oral This beautiful romance is unique to the Sephardic tradition. It tells the story of a king who envies his nephew (in most texts, as in ours,...
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...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: 2287/10,11 Although known in some versions from the Canary Islands and Portugal, in no tradition has this romance been preserved with as much vitality as in the Sephardic one (from...
From Arboleras Vol. 2 - Romances Sefardies Tradicion Oral Here we find a common occurance, a fusion of two romances, both from the French epic tradition, El cautiverio de Guarinos, lines 1-10, and El sueño...