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Coplas are a unique Jewish genre that developed after the expulsion from Spain, flourishing mainly in the 18th century. Written my men, this genre deals with social and historical and traditional topics from biblical sources, therefor the abundance of Hebrew words. Coplas have complex literary structures, sometimes including acrostics, rhymes, and repeated choruses. Coplas were printed in booklets dedicated to holidays or other themes.

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From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996
From Decile a mi Amor, Judeo-Spanish songs from Tetuan, 2018.
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013.
From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996
From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996
From Merendjenas, Orit Perlman, 2023
From Decile a mi Amor, Judeo-Spanish songs from Tetuan, 2018.
From Merendjenas, Orit Perlman, 2024 A song for the morning before the circumcision, waiting for the cock to sing and announce the end of the last and dangerous  night before the circumcision. There is a...
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 Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013.
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...