Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2981/1 This is one of the numerous version depicting the return of the husband, a well known pan-European theme, where the faithful wife awaits her husband, and when...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement:Y3979 This is a lyrical cantiga of disconnected stanzas, with Turkish words included in the text. The second stanza alludes to military service, since he has weapons (a revolver instead of...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 2261/4 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 48, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak. Often North Moroccan wedding songs are sung...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc2774/3,9 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Oriente, pg. 98, Editorial Alpuerto, 2010 Susana Weich-Shahak. The medieval story of the long gone husband who returns and, without making himself...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5773/5 From Cantares y Romances Tradicionales Sefardies de Marruecos, 1991 In this rare Bar mitsvah song, the son asks his parents for a special room to study in. This version...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y4588/5 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg.35, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak. This is a copla for the Bar mitsva ceremony....
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement:Y3966/12 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marreucos, pg. 50, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. This North Moroccan wedding song refers to the bride’s ritual bath before...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y6184a/8 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 154, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A game very popular among Saloniki Sephardim. One child hides his face while...
Song for Havdala asking for health and joy, life for children as well the performing the rituals of naming of the girl, circumcision of the boy and the laying of the tefilim (allusive to the...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 1215/16 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 179, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A lyric song with a refrain of nonsense syllables. The groom addresses the...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement:Y5996a/33 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 195, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A debate between the two mothers in law, the groom's mother is criticizing the...