From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This wedding cantiga is sung as a blessing for the bride and groom, portraying the groom’s gifts and the bride’s graceful qualities in return.
From Merendjenas, Orit Perlman, 2023 This wedding cantiga is sung as a blessing for the bride and groom, portraying the groom’s gifts, with an interesting emphasis on types of shoes, and the bride’s beauty and...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This is one of the few hexasyllabic romances whose lines do not have 16 syllables (as is more common, divided into two hemistiches of 8) but...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y6486b/24 The Ketubah of the Torah was composed in the 18th century, written by Rabbi Judah Leon Kalai. It is customary to sing it at home, with the whole family...
This is a partial rendition of The Ketubah of the Torah, which was composed in the 18th century, written by Rabbi Judah Leon Kalai. It is customary to sing it at home, with the whole...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc6536c/2 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 144, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. Naming the features of the child's face: chin (barba), teeth (dientes), nose (nariz),...
From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 This is a tragic story of a scandalous affair between a man who left his wife for Esterilika (Esterina) Serfati.
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/41 This is a tragic story of a scandalous affair between a man who left his wife for Esterina Serfati.
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc2936/19 Referenced and notated in: En Buen Siman, Panorama del repertorio Musical Sefardi, pg. 173, Pardes Publishing House, 2006 The Charleston swept the 20th century and with it the Sephardic...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/48 In this song the guardian of the house (el hangi bashi) did not bolt the door properly resulting in the pregnancy of the bride, her belly now is the...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 In this romance about the painful life of the galley (La vida de las galeras) the musical stanza comprises only one line, followed by a sort...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2979/1 This well-known song is based on a translation of a Turkish original that tells the story of a demanding bride who rejects a series of suitors, each for a...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2931/1 A song of longing for Jerusalem, used to be sung on the night of the "mortaja", when people gathered in a feast to prepare the shrouds for the old...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 5982a/44 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 118, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This copla, connected to the circumcision ritual, recounts a Talmudic legend about...