Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y7888/2 This a a humorous and festive copla from North Morocco, celebrating the downfall of Haman and the joy of the Jewish people. Haman here is the protagonist, foreseeing all...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5842a-C 232 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 103, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. One of the Coplas de Parida (Songs for the mother of the...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: NSA Y 2854/17 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, pg. 76, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak This Romance is used as a...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 1620/6 The ballad is widespread throughout the Hispanic world (in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, where it is a children's song). Text: Estaba'l Señor don Gato sentadito 'n su...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5418/8 Referenced and notated in: Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989 Susana Weich-Shahak. This wedding song talks about the tall houses appropriate for...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc 1332/21 Referenced and notated in: El Ciclo de la Vida, pg. 245, Editorial Alpuerto S.A. 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak A song of praise to the house in which the wedding...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc1038/12 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 247, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. A song of blessing for wedding tables, whether wine or wooden, ensuring an...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5696a/8 Referenced and notated in: Romancero Sefardi de Marruecos, pg. 165, Editorial Alpuerto, Pardes Publishing House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. The well-known hexasyllabic romance is widespread in the Peninsula and among...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y5627a/28 Referenced and notated in: Moroccan Sephardic Romancero, pg. 106, Gaon Books, House, 2018 Susana Weich-Shahak. The romance tells the story of the rape of the noble Roman lady Lucretia...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/41 This is a tragic story of a scandalous affair between a man who left his wife for Esterina Serfati.
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc2936/19 Referenced and notated in: En Buen Siman, Panorama del repertorio Musical Sefardi, pg. 173, Pardes Publishing House, 2006 The Charleston swept the 20th century and with it the Sephardic...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: YCD2980/48 In this song the guardian of the house (el hangi bashi) did not bolt the door properly resulting in the pregnancy of the bride, her belly now is the...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y6130b/51 Referenced and notated in En Buen Siman, Pardes, 2006, pg. 166 This song tells the story of Florika - a charming and coquetish maid who flirts with the three...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: NSA Yc 1188/6 Hablad mi madre, based on the liturgical poem composed in the 12th century by Rabbi Judah ibn Abbas of Fez, is chanted on Rosh Hashanah and in...