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58. La despedida (Isaac Algazi)
The author of this song, Dr. Maimon Levy, was an ophthalmologist, native of Corfu, who…
60. Noche de alhad (Elie Cohen)
A paraphrase of the first stanza of the piyyut Be-moza’ei yom menuhah, this traditional…
Paul Fenton
Paul Fenton is a French-British Jewish historian and orientalist, a professor of…
63. El parto feliz (Isac Haim)
Haim Effendi’s recording of this song (2008, CD IV, no. 12, from 1922) which we formerly…
64. El mancebo seboso + La fea y el viejo (La novia exigente) + Las camas altas (Sida Musafija)
A song of the şarki type combining various themes, all of them of serial structure, sung…
65. El baile de los falsos (Sida Musafija)
This is a Judeo-Spanish contrafact of an extremely popular dance melody of the early…
66. El amor furiente (Sida Musafija)
A very popular song among the Sephardim (see CMP AA66; Attias 1972, no. 83). There are…
67. La seducida en la fuente (La Gloria)
See our notes to song no. 10 above. Unlike the version by the Compagnie Espagnole de…
68. Los árboles llorosos ( La Gloria)
See our notes to nos. 13 and 41 above. In La Gloria’s recording, the first two lines of…
70. El barón despreciado ( La Gloria)
One of the most well-known modern Ladino songs in Western European style. It was also…