From Merendjenas, Orit Perlman, 2023 This copla, connected to the circumcision ritual, recounts a Talmudic legend about Abraham’s miraculous birth and early years. Terah’s wife gives birth to him in a cave, and like a...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD 2979/3 Typical of the cantigas genre, the order of the strophes are not necessarily important. The text speaks of the sand paths in Sirkigi, where the lover walks...
From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 Typical of the cantigas genre, the order of the strophes are not necessarily important. The text speaks of the sand paths in Sirkigi,...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 1332/21 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Oriente, pg. 63, Editorial Alpuerto, 2010 Susana Weich-Shahak. The ballad recounts the mysterious murder of Giovanni (Juan) Borgia, Duke of Gandia,...
Jerusalem's National Library Sound Archive placement: Yc 2774/22 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 234, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This wedding song weaves together several recurring themes: A reference to...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2096/6. Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 235, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This wedding song weaves together several recurring themes: A reference to Song...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This wedding song weaves together several recurring themes: A reference to Song of Songs, Chapter 1 — “Do not gaze at me because I am dark,...