Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/36 In the children’s repertoire there are rhymes that are used as invocations, spells and prayers, blessings and sayings. Among them is this invocation for rain, which Jewish children used...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YcD2980/15 Sung to one of the many melodies of the High Holiday liturgical poem: Ben Adam ma Lecha Nirdam. This lyric song expresses the devotion and spiritual experiences in the...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD 2979/15 Bienvenida Aguado-Mushak sings a strophe in Turkish and one in Judeo-Spanish. In the Turkish strophe the sick maiden beseeches the surgeon (Aman, doctor), calling him "canem" (my soul),...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2981/1 This is one of the numerous version depicting the return of the husband, a well known pan-European theme, where the faithful wife awaits her husband, and when...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 5982a/19 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 273, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This is a parting song between daughter and mother. The daughter tells her...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/6 Referenced and notated in: La Boda Sefardí, Música, texto y contexto, Editorial Alpuerto S.A. 2007, Susana Weich-Shahak This concern for the financial burden of the dowry was expressed in...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: CD2980/39 This rare Hanuka copla presents the drink and delicacies that are prepared for the festive occasion: chicken and roast meat (tandur, Tur.) that the muchachas - girls, offer on...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5982a/21 Referenced and notated in: El Ciclo de la Vida, en el Repertorio Musical de las Comunidades Sefardies de Oriente, pg. 176, Editorial Alpuerto S.A. 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak This is...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5982a/40 This is a fragment of the Romance of the Captured sister, Hermana Cautiva, but a few borrowed lines another romance. Text: De las altas mares traien a la niña...
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...
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),...
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...