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34-35. Los dos haninos
… I am lovely and you are lovely, we shall marry and our children will be like the moon and the sun. I am lovely and so are you, let us get married.” … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … …
Alegre m'alegre (Juego de callarse)
… A children’s game in which, after this rhyme is completed, the … at the punishment for whoever speaks first. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … …
Luvia del Dio (Invocaciòn a la lluvia)
… Children’s invocation of rain is common in Sephardic traditions. When rain was needed, Jewish children were asked to pray, even by non-Jews. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … …
Endentino (Retahila de sorteo)
… This rhyme is the origin of one of the most common Israeli children’s rhymes, “Endendino sofalacatino,” which derives … the Sephardic tradition for the Balkans. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … …
Dicotín dicotán (Ricotín ricotán)
… A children’s game: one child lowers his head, hides his face … verses are obscure or incomprehensible, as is common in children’s games. A very similar text is used in Spain today for the same game. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … …
18 -19. Los dedos hambrientos
… Two variants of a children’s rhyme recited while playing with the fingers, … At the end the singer tickles the child. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … 18 …
8-11. El nacimiento de Abraham- version 4: Cuando el rey Nimrod
… Nimrod (like the later Pharaoh) ordered all male newborn children to be killed. When the king went out to the field, … father, blessed father, light of Israel.” … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … …
James Levy
… father, was born in 1868. By 1886, Hayyim, his wife and children had already settled in Argentina together with a … 1946 As a child, James was enthralled by the religious songs that his father sang so beautifully at the synagogue … he was able to recall from memory hundreds of liturgical songs that his father used to sing. James named his …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… the synagogal modes and “Zemiroth” as well as Jewish Folk-Songs. At home I received an orthodox education and … the poorest suburb which was teeming with prostitutes and children. There was an oven to heat the room, a table, two … a number of songs and assembled Mr. Dimont and all their children in the apartment. They recorded 10 records and …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… Jewish culture, with a new national repertoire of Zionist songs, the internationalization of Jewish scholarship, and … indeed Mother was a good woman, devoted to her husband and children. Her kindly spirit was always apparent when she … to the kindergarten teachers who gathered all of the children together and all of us sang the same songs that I …