Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

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Weich-Shahak, Susana. Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean. Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel, vol. 24. Jerusalem, Israel: Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2014. Research Recording. CD.

The album includes folksongs in Ladino that Sephardic Jews used to sing in events of the life cycle in their communities in Turkey, the Balkans and Israel. The recordings and accompanying commentaries are the work of Dr. Susana Weich-Shahak, one of the veteran associate researchers of the JMRC and one of the most prominent scholars of the folksong in Ladino worldwide. These CDs summarize the ethnographic work of Weich-Shahak at the JMRC and the National Sound Archives of the Israel National Library that span for over four decades.  Eighty-seven songs are included in the CDs, some of them rare pearls, some of them in different versions, all performed by the best folksingers, mostly women, from the Sephardic communities of Turkey and the Balkan who were recorded in Israel after their immigration. The CDs are accompanied by a substantial trilingual booklet (English, Spanish, and Hebrew) that includes detailed commentaries on the contexts of performance of the songs, their language and literary content as well as the musical styles of the melodies.

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CD 1

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Malka Shabtay and Lea Bason Behar (Bursa)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Pepo Salem (Thessaloniki)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel-Alhadef (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar, Victoria Peres, Luna Franco, Fortunee Israel, Vita Sarova (Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Amelie Piha-Pinhas (Fetiye and Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Josepo Burgana (Izmir)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Bienvenida Aguado-Mushabak (Çanakkale)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel-Alhadef (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar (Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa [Svilengrad]/Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Group of women, accompanied by Mordecai Halfon

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel-Alhadef (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rahel Altalef-Brenner (Izmir)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel-Alhadef (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Valentina Soref (Sliven)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Sara Shahar-Miles-Agranat (Izmir)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Nahmías (Izmir)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Julie Saltiel (Thessaloniki)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Pepo Salem (Thessaloniki)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Bienvenida Aguado-Mushabak (Çanakkale)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Zelda Machorro Barbut (Istanbul)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Pepo Salem (Thessaloniki)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rivka Peretz (Jerusalem)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Moshe Cabilio (Sarajevo, Bosnia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Salamón Bivas (Thessaloniki)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Abraham Sadikario et al. (Monastir, Macedonia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Yehuda Venezia (Jaffa)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Yehuda Venezia (Jaffa)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Amelie Piha (Fethiye)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rahel Altalef-Brenner (Izmir)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Bienvenida Aguado-Mushabak (Çanakkale)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Haim Dassa andand Henrietta Tarabulus (Thessaloniki)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Yaqov Sadikario (Thessaloniki)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Dona Cohen (Sarajevo)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Clara Kadmon-Cohen (Sarajevo)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar (Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa [Svilengrad]/Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Ana Cides (Thessaloniki)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar, Victoria Peres, Luna Franco, Fortunée Israel, Vita Sarova (Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel-Alhadef and Estela Israel (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Kobi Zarco Alvayero (Haifa)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Valentina Soref (Sliven/Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Malka Shabtay and Lea Bason Behar (Bursa)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel-Alhadef (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mati Mandil (Dupnitsa)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Kobi Zarco Alvayero (Haifa)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Josepo Burgana (Izmir)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Kobi Zarco Alvayero (Haifa)

CD 2

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar (Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa [Svilengrad]/Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar (Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa [Svilengrad]/Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Renée Bivas (Thessaloniki)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Bienvenida Manu (Thessaloniki)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel-Alhadef (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rivka Peretz (Jerusalem)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Josepo Burgana (Izmir)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel-Alhadef (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Kobi Zarco Alvayero (Haifa)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar (Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa [Svilengrad]/Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rahel Altalef-Brenner (Izmir)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Josepo Burgana (Izmir)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar (Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa [Svilengrad]/Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel-Alhadef (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rachel Levy, Sarah Cohen, Milka David, Yosef Buco, Mosé Capón, Shalom Hayaari, Sara Mashiah; panderos: Berto Yom-Tov, Yaacov Hizkiyah and others (Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rachel Levy, Milka David, Yosef Buco, Mosé Capón, Shalom Hayaari, Sara Mashiah, ; panderos: Berto Yom-Tov, Yaacov Hizkiyah and others (Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar (Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa [Svilengrad]/Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Bienvenida Aguado-Mushabak (Çanakkale)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar (Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa [Svilengrad]/Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Bienvenida Aguado-Mushabak (Çanakkale)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Clara Kadman (Sarajevo)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel-Alhadef (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rahel Altalef-Brenner (Izmir)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel-Alhadef (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Josepo Burgana (Izmir)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Bienvenida Aguado-Mushabak (Çanakkale)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel-Alhadef (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rachel Levy, Bela Behar, Victoria Mezán, Sara Cohen, Esther Nardea, Sara Mashiah, Abraham Yom Tov, Moshé Capón, Albert Brahá (Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mati Mandil (Dupnitsa)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar (Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa [Svilengrad]/Sofia), Victoria Peres, Fortunee Israel, Luna Franco, Vita Sarova (Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Bela Behar, Abraham Behar and others

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar (Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa [Svilengrad]/Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Kobi Zarco Alvayero (Haifa)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Rosa Avzaradel (Rhodes)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Carolina Ashkenazi (Istanbul)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Bienvenida Aguado-Mushabak (Çanakkale)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Mazaltó Lazar (Cisr-i Mustafa Paşa [Svilengrad]/Sofia)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Abraham Altalef (Izmir)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

Sara Shahar-Miles-Agranat (Izmir)


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