From Merendjenas, Orit Perlman, 2023 This copla, connected to the circumcision ritual, recounts a Talmudic legend about Abraham’s miraculous birth and early years. Terah’s wife gives birth to him in a cave, and like a...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This copla, associated with the ritual of circumcision, tells the story of Abraham's birth. Like many coplas, it is rooted in a Talmudic legend. It describes how...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This songs reflects a mother's doubts about which profession a groom should have for a daughter. The daughter refuses all except the last, a shoemaker. This version...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This wedding song includes typically several themes: 1. from Song of Songs chapter "Do not see me as being dark, for the sun has darkened me". 2....
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This wedding song weaves together several recurring themes: A reference to Song of Songs, Chapter 1 — “Do not gaze at me because I am dark,...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This wedding cantiga structured in a Balkan asymmetrical meter of 9/8, describes the gifts that the bride and groom give to each other, while in the repeating...