Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y 2919/8 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 121, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This Coplas' text is probabaly influenced by late midrashim (Sefer Hayashar), placing Abraham's...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement:Y5756b/16 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos, pg. 103, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. The ballad is found only in the Sephardic tradition of Morocco. It...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5773 This copla is typical of the Sephardic repertoire of northern Morocco. Its theme is the figure of Queen Esther, whose intelligence and beauty convinced King Ahasuerus to save the...
This is a copla sung on the festivity of Shavuot, commemorating Matan Tora, the biblical event in which God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses at Mount Sinai.
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement:Y2854/11 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 73, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak. The bride is longing for the days when she...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 2325/2 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos pg. 208, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. We know this romance exclusively from the Sephardic versions from...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/6 Referenced and notated in: La Boda Sefardí, Música, texto y contexto, Editorial Alpuerto S.A. 2007, Susana Weich-Shahak This concern for the financial burden of the dowry was expressed in...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement:Y4552/7 Referenced and notated in: La Boda Sefardi, pg. 132, Editorial Alpuerto, 2007 Susana Weich-Shahak. A song about when the new couple arrives at the household of the groom. They enter...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: CD2980/39 This rare Hanuka copla presents the drink and delicacies that are prepared for the festive occasion: chicken and roast meat (tandur, Tur.) that the muchachas - girls, offer on...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement:Y 3995/3 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos, pg. 88, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. This romance recounts the death of the son and heir of...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5982a/21 Referenced and notated in: El Ciclo de la Vida, en el Repertorio Musical de las Comunidades Sefardies de Oriente, pg. 176, Editorial Alpuerto S.A. 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak This is...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5982a/40 This is a fragment of the Romance of the Captured sister, Hermana Cautiva, but a few borrowed lines another romance. Text: De las altas mares traien a la niña...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5842b/27 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Oriente, pg. 70, Editorial Alpuerto, 2010 Susana Weich-Shahak. Another ballad about prisoners and captives, this one widely spread among Sephardic Jews in...