From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 A love song and its melody is used for the performance of a liturgical poem (piyut) as was done in many cases in what is called "contrafacta".
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...
From Decile a mi Amor, Judeo-Spanish songs from Tetuan, 2018. This North Moroccan havdala song is sung around the table at home asking for blessings for the new week.
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 The copla called The Night of Alhad (Noche de Alhad) is sung at the end of Shabbat to mark the transition to the coming of the...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Orit Perlman : voice Yarden Erez : accompanyment and arrangements One of the better known Ladino songs, adopted from a Bulgarian folksong song, as presented in the...
Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Yc1888/5 Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 181, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak. This love song, which tells of a diamond ring given to a beloved...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This love song, which tells of a diamond ring given to a beloved named Marika in the repeated chorus, includes Greek lyrics that hint at its origins in Saloniki....