Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/48 In this song the guardian of the house (el hangi bashi) did not bolt the door properly resulting in the pregnancy of the bride, her belly now is the...
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...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2931/1 A song of longing for Jerusalem, used to be sung on the night of the "mortaja", when people gathered in a feast to prepare the shrouds for the old...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 5982a/44 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 118, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This copla, connected to the circumcision ritual, recounts a Talmudic legend about...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 5982a/20 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 250, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A song mockingly comparing the guests from the groom's family with those form...
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 to...
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 National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/4 A lyrical song in a pastoral scene: the young maiden with her basket gathering flowers in the garden, the young lad so handsome he resembles the moon. Text: Oh...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/9 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Oriente, pg. 133, Editorial Alpuerto, 2010 Susana Weich-Shahak. Another ballad on the universal theme of the adulterous woman discovered by her husband...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/2 This songs announces that understanding the world can be explained immediately in thirty verses, in this version we have five focusing on the topic of love. Currently only the...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5982a/35 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 157, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A singsong performed by the Sephardic children in Turkey on the last day...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/27 A wedding song that reflects the the bitter sweet moment of separation, in which the bride says goodbye to her mother, asking permission to leave with the one she...