Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2091/11 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 252, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A dialogue between groom and bride in alternate stanzas, this wedding cantiga structured...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD7410/15 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 262, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This wedding song celebrates the beauty of the bride (like the star Diana)...
This song, El servicio militar turco, is one of the songs which complains about the obligatory draft into the Turkish army (Askerlik), which included all male citizens as well Jews.
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 2091/2 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 172, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This copla describes a woman who has just given birth and receives...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5457/1 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 34, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak. This song precedes the ritual of circumcision, praising...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y6131/34 In this copla, the birth is portrayed as a communal celebration, filled with prayers and blessings for the entire congregation, honoring both the newborn and his mother. Text: Parida...
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: Y5418/12 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 55, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak.
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc2325/38 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos, pg. 226, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. In this romance from North Morocco Cidi prays in sorrow because...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5627a/24 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos, pg. 240, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. Polo, sunk in melancholy, meets a page who reveals a scandal...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc22641/41 Polo, sunk in melancholy, meets a page who reveals a scandal at the royal court: the queen’s daughter has secretly borne children with Count Vergico. The queen confronts the...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 2091/6 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 193, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This song was performed at the exhibition of the bride’s dowry, as...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2096/6 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 194, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This song was performed at the exhibition of the bride’s dowry, as mocking...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2856/4 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos, pg. 140, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. The theme of the husband going off to war, leaving his...