Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 1620/6 The ballad is widespread throughout the Hispanic world (in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, where it is a children's song). Text: Estaba'l Señor don Gato sentadito 'n su...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 1620/5 The dirge tells of a woman born into misfortune and raised away from her mother, marked from birth by darkness and bad omens. Her arrival occurs on a...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: NSA Yc 2990/16 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak Sephardic dirges, called endechas or oinas, were performed...