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.
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y6130b/51 Referenced and notated in En Buen Siman, Pardes, 2006, pg. 166 This song tells the story of Florika - a charming and coquetish maid who flirts with the three...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This song tells the story of Florika - a charming and coquettish maid who flirts with the three generations of men in the house, finally marrying the youngest. By...
From Merendjenas, Orit Perlman, 2023 This song tells the story of Florika - a charming and coquetish maid who flirts with the three generations of men in the house, finally marrying the youngest. By duo...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 This song tells the story of Florika - a charming and coquetish maid who flirts with the three generations of men in the house,...
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...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This song criticizes the free ways of modern women. It's melody and refrain are borrowed from “La Madelon”, a popular French World War I song about a lively girl...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 Upon arriving in Israel, there was a meeting between all the Judeo-Spanish congregations. The meeting center, called in Hebrew "moadon," serves as a place...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Kobi Zarco: voice Yarden Erez : ud, guitar, gumbush; violin, keyboard and arrangements Zeev Yaniv : darbuqa, sonaja, bendir, cajón A song celebrating the meeting of Bulgarian...
This is a parody of an Argentinian tango as sung by renowned singer Emperio Argentina. Originally the song recounts his lost joy when his horse died. In this Haketiya version, written by the informants's relative...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 The lyrics of this Sephardic song appeared in a collection first published in the newspaper La Trompeta, and later gathered in a notebook titled...
This song, El servicio militar turco, is one of the songs which complains about the obligatory draft into the Turkish army (Askerlik), which included all male citizens as well Jews.
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5671/15 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Oriente, pg. 119, Editorial Alpuerto, 2010 Susana Weich-Shahak. Only the first four verses belong to the theme Casada con un viejo -...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y6486a/12 Referenced and notated in: En Buen Siman, Panorama del repertorio Musical Sefardi, pg. 174, Pardes Publishing House, 2006 The Charleston swept the 20th century and with it the Sephardic...