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Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
Study and commentaries: Rivka Havassy and Edwin Seroussi
Research collaborators:…
66. El amor furiente (Sida Musafija)
A very popular song among the Sephardim (see CMP AA66; Attias 1972, no. 83). There are…
[E-erokh nivi. Mi-kehilah]. (Berit-milah)
[E-erokh nivi. Mi-kehilah]. (Berit-milah) [I will raise my harp. From the community…
Kamti lehallel leshem hael hanikhbad
This is a rare baqqasha by an anonymous author for the opening of the Sabbath morning…
'Et sha'are ratzon
These are the first and last strophes of one of the most remarkable medieval Hebrew…
Shir hashirim (Song of Songs 1: 1-4)
A brief excerpt from the Song of Songs (1:1-4) that is recited in the Spanish-Portuguese…
Berukhim atem qehal emmunai
An old Sephardi piyyut for circumcision, it is sung by the congregation as the child to…
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of Idelsohn’…
"Sha'ali Yefefiyah" (Ask, lovely one)
Nashid by Zacharia Al-Dahri. It expresses yearning for Jerusalem (Seri-Tobi: 120). It…