Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala

Collected and Translated with Commentary by Barbara C. Johnson

This playlist is the advanced release of Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala, one of the longstanding projects of the Jewish Music Research Centre. Led with diligence, profound dedication and meticulous scholarship by anthropologist Barbara Johnson, the project relies on fieldwork carried out in India and Israel for over four decades. Johnson’s work, in collaboration with singer and translator Tzipporah Lane, unravels the symbolic and aesthetic layers of the Malayalam language song repertoire, anchored in the life of the Jewish communities of Kerala, on the southwest seacoast of India.

Section I: Songs of Origin and Community Identity

Section II: Songs for Special Occasions

Splendid Singing Birds

Miriam Daniel, Rahel Nehemiah, Toba Sofer, Simcha Yosef

Splendid Singing Birds

Sarah Cohen, Ruby S. Hallegua

Splendid Singing Birds

Rahel Kala, Venus Lane, Simcha Yosef

Splendid Singing Birds

Sarah Cohen, Seema Salem, Ruby S. Hallegua

Splendid Singing Birds

Sarah Cohen, Seema Salem, Ruby S. Hallegua

Splendid Singing Birds

Rivka Hai, Molly Pal, Simcha Yosef, Venus Lane

Splendid Singing Birds

Rahel Kala, Venus Lane

Splendid Singing Birds

Sarah Cohen, Ruby S. Hallegua.

Splendid Singing Birds

Sarah Cohen, Ruby S. Hallegua

Splendid Singing Birds

Simcha Yosef, Hannah Yitzhak

Splendid Singing Birds

Miriam Daniel, Rahel Nehemia, Toba Sofer, Simcha Yosef

Splendid Singing Birds

Rahel Nehemia, Toba Sofer and others

Splendid Singing Birds

Rahel Nehemia, Toba Sofer, and others

Splendid Singing Birds

Rahel Kala, Venus Lane, Hannah Yitzhak, Simcha Yosef

Splendid Singing Birds

Simcha Yosef, Hannah Yitzhak

Splendid Singing Birds

Rahel Nehemia, Toba Sofer and others

Splendid Singing Birds

Rahel Kala, Venus Lane

Splendid Singing Birds

Hannah (Dolly) Japheth

Section III: Biblical narratives

Splendid Singing Birds

Leah Madai, Rivka Yehoshua

Splendid Singing Birds

Rahel Nehemiah, Toba Sofer and others



Attachments

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Splendid Singing Birds- Title pages.pdf
The cover page of "Splendid Singing Birds" and the Table of Contents
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Splendid Singing Birds- Bibliography final.pdf
"Splendid Singing Birds": References quoted
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Section I- Songs of origin and community identity: Introduction.pdf
Section I- Songs of origin and community identity: Introduction
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Section II- Songs for special occasions: Introduction.pdf
Section II- Songs for special accasions: Introduction
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Section III- Biblical narratives: Introduction.pdf
Section III- Biblical narratives: Introduction
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Section IV- Devotional songs: Introduction.pdf
Section IV- Devotional songs: Introduction
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Section V- Zionist songs: Introduction.pdf
Section V- Zionist songs: Introduction

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