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58. Ahashverosh Song
… the Purim story. Composed by the medieval Andalusian poet Yehudah Halevy, it is sung on the sabbath before Purim …
54. David and the Mosquito
… In Zacharia’s analysis (2005, 174), it adds a spicy poetic flavor to this lively song. …
52. The Song of “Anokhi”
… stone, interpreted by Kerala Jews as diamonds. [3] The poetic imagery in the final Malayalam stanza—that of the …
39-40. Golden Manangĕ + My Dear Mamuchi
… image found also in songs 19 and 31 ); and in stanza 3 the poet calls her “jasmine flower,” illustrating her nickname, …
38. Song About Love
… a man and woman. This connotation is intensified by the poet’s personification of love through the use of feminine … vocabulary, she discusses its composition in the Hebrew poetic style of “end-rhyming couplets,” captured in her own …
37. Gorgeous Black-Haired Woman
… 2005 book, Kārkuḻali .” Zacharia was entranced that the poet chose this common poetic Malayalam epithet for an exceptionally beautiful … true to the Hebrew… and skillfully retaining the use of poetic alliteration.” The gendered Malayalam pronoun usage …
36. O Woman Dwelling in the Field
… 1980, 392), a Hebrew piyyut by the eleventh-century Spanish poet Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021–1058). Traditionally …
32. Prosper, Prosper (Our Bridegroom, Our Bride)
… folk culture, this song contributes particularly evocative poetic imagery in its royal portrayal of the bridal couple …
29. The Noble Bridegroom
… of non-Jewish musicians. Zacharia appreciates the rich poetry of this song, which he interprets as a dialogue …
26. After the Bath
… in more general terms that the song be approached as a poetic “word picture.” “After the Bath” is found only in …