This 20th-century repertoire includes theatre music and new lyrics set to popular melodies like tangos and local songs. Themes often reflect social trends, such as fashion, or explore immigration to Palestine, highlighting its challenges and hopes.
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This song in the rhythm of a habanera, presents a coquetish and flirtatious woman who comments on her suitors young and old. This version was partially based on a...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 This song in the rhythm of a habanera, presents a coquetish and flirtatious woman who comments on her suitors young and old. This version...
From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 2, 2009 A common fate for young men who in the beginning of the 20th century, set out in search...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This song is by Sadik and Gazoz, (Sadik Gershon and Moshe Cazes) who set humorous ladino texts to popular tunes between 1924-1935 in Saloniki. This song about a musician...
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 Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 A song that expresses the Jewish community’s concern about marriage between Jews and Gentiles. The text clearly shows the difficulties in cooking, the abandonment...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 Another traditional Sephardic song from the world of sewing and tailoring, about the making and sewing of buttons, one of the typical women's trades...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. Composed during the Balkan War of 1912-1913. The theme develops around the pain a wife that looses her husband, or possibly a mother who looses her son, his name...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 Composed during the Balkan War of 1912-1913. The theme develops around the pain a wife that looses her husband, or possibly a mother who...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 One of the first songs (composed by Beni Benayora, one of the first promoters of the new settlements) that tells of the difficulties of...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 Among the trades, this song presents a character: the whitewasher, who is an ironic figure, since the lyrics say: "The whitewasher has dirty arms...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 The great change that military reform brought to Turkey in 1908, with the rebellion of the "Young Turks" and the abolition of exemption from...
From Decile a mi Amor, Judeo-Spanish songs from Tetuan, 2018. This is a courting waltz of Nesim and Jolita who is on the swing, borrowed from the French song Frou-frou, composed in 1889.