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Alegre m'alegre (Juego de callarse)
… is completed, the first one who speaks loses the game. Here is a translation of the rhyme: “The merry one goes to … the Sabbath, from the Hebrew, hamin ). Under the steps there is a kettle full of disgusting matters.” This last line …
34-35. Los dos haninos
… courtship: “Thank you for sending me the matchmaker, but there are problems with the dowry. Too much money is required …
Y el nuestro novio (El novio desprendido + Los buenos augurios + Los campos de la boda)
… the fourth and fifth strophes speak about green fields, where the bride is with her family, and about yellow fields, where she is with her friends. A refrain closes each strophe: “Here I come to see, let them enjoy and achieve and have much …
Oí decir que bodas hay aquí (Rumores de boda)
… The song says: “I heard that there is a wedding here; I come to see. Let them (the participants in the …
Cuan bien me lavī (Las telecas)
… feels faint) and Duda (the bride’s name would be inserted here) faints.” Second strophe: “Let my brother- in-law pay. …
3-6. La galana y el mar
… is similar to the first; it is also from Thessaloniki, where this wedding song was a very prominent one. We recorded … in Jerusalem, as shown in the fourth variant included here. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the …
Estas casas tan hermosas (La casa de la boda)
… “Oh, what beautiful houses, for the brides to dance there at weddings; this one and another one.” … Judeo-Spanish …
20-21. La novia alcanzada + Los quidusín de la novia + Los regalos de los novios
… There are two versions of the same song. The first one, from … time of the evening prayer ( arvit in Hebrew). I went by, there and back; I did not see you, my soul remained there.” Following this statement, the bride and groom …
28-30. Licencia para la novia
… the table, pour and fill his glass. My daughter, be well.” Thereafter the song continues with strophes in the same …
Jews in Gibraltar and the music of their synagogues
… siege. The British victory led in 1729, to an agreement whereby the Jewish (and Muslim) subjects of the Sultanate of … (1702–1774) of London arrived to Gibraltar, establishing there Kahal Kadosh Sha'ar HaShamayim on Engineer Lane, the … as well as from periodical sieges by the Spaniards. They therefore had to be reconstructed time and again and …