From Arboleras vol. 1 - Sephardic cancionero and coplas oral tradition,1996 This Copla speaks to the discovery of Abraham of the one God. This is a partial version learned through the recording of Hanna Malaj.
From Merendjenas, Orit Perlman, 2024 A song sung on the morning before the circumcision, awaiting the rooster’s crow to signal the end of the final and perilous night preceding the rite. The baby’s qualities are...
From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 2, 2009 A song for the morning before the circumcision, waiting for the cock to sing and announce the end...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This copla is likely influenced by late Midrashic sources, such as the Sefer HaYashar, which place Abraham’s birth in Ur Kasdim during the reign of King Nimrod, son of...
From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd 2, 2009 A lullaby listing the future achievements and good fortune of the baby boy.
From Arboleras - De las altas mares, Ecos Sefardies de la isle de Rodas, cd1, 2009 One of the Coplas de Parida (Songs for the mother of the newborn), sung during the last night before...
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 Orit Perlman: voice Yarden Erez : ud, guitar, gumbush; violin, keyboard and arrangements Zeev Yaniv : darbuqa, sonaja, bendir, cajón This copla, associated with the ritual of...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. In this copla, El parto feliz - The Happy Birth, emerges as a communal event, accompanied by prayers and blessings for the entire congregation, blessing the newborn and his...
From Merendjenas, Orit Perlman, 2023 This beautiful lullaby with Spanish roots, is unusual since very few true lullabies exist in the Judeo-Sephardic repertoire since typically Romansero function as lullabies.