Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 930/26 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 291, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A mourning song sung when a young girl meets her death.
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 2774/18 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 172, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This is nocturnal love song of tenderness and stealth, where the young...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This is nocturnal duet is a love song of tenderness and stealth, where the young lover pleads to be let in before dawn, while the girl...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/36 In the children’s repertoire there are rhymes that are used as invocations, spells and prayers, blessings and sayings. Among them is this invocation for rain, which Jewish children used...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: NSA Y5479/3 Referenced and notated in: Romansero Sefardi de Oriente, pg. 83 Editorial Alpuerto S.A. 2010 Susana Weich-Shahak This is one of the themes about captives and prisoners typical of...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YcD2980/15 Sung to one of the many melodies of the High Holiday liturgical poem: Ben Adam ma Lecha Nirdam. This lyric song expresses the devotion and spiritual experiences in the...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD 2979/15 Bienvenida Aguado-Mushak sings a strophe in Turkish and one in Judeo-Spanish. In the Turkish strophe the sick maiden beseeches the surgeon (Aman, doctor), calling him "canem" (my soul),...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 The copla on the Emigration to Palestine (La emigración a Palestina) is one of the coplas composed in the 20th century, portraying the history of the...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 The copla on the Emigration to Palestine (La emigración a Palestina) is one of the coplas composed in the 20th century, portraying the history...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 During the bride’s bath, an event attended only by women, that, in both the Eastern and Western Sephardic traditions, a cumulative song is performed. Similar to...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc2774/9 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Oriente, pg. 97, Editorial Alpuerto, 2010 Susana Weich-Shahak. This Romansa, titled La vuelta del marido ("The Husband’s Return"), tells a story familiar...
From Arboleras Vol. 2 - Romances Sefardies Tradicion Oral This romansa, titled La vuelta del marido ("The Husband’s Return"), tells a story familiar throughout European balladry: the long-awaited return of a husband. Set among gentle...
From Morenika Izmirlia, 2021 A lyrical cantiga modeled after Turkish songs, composed of several loosely connected stanzas that touch on varied themes: a plea to a matchmaker for a suitable bride, a young woman’s impatience...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2981/1 This is one of the numerous version depicting the return of the husband, a well known pan-European theme, where the faithful wife awaits her husband, and when...