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Alekhem 'eda qedoshah
The qinnot (dirges) for the Ninth of Av, the Hebrew date marking the destruction of the…
Revisiting a Forgotten Treasure in Philadelphia
The library of Gratz College is very well known among scholars and collectors of Jewish…
The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Liturgy
Few Jewish liturgical music traditions have been as consistently maintained as were…
Levantáivos el parido (1a)
A circumcision song about the father and mother of the newborn. The father, still asleep…
Ay, mi padre y ay, mi madre (3a)
A bar mitzvah song. The boy asks his parents to prepare a room for him where he can…
Mateša, mateša (4a)
This is a nonsense song girls sing while sitting on a swing (mateša). The word for swing…
Eres chiquita y bonita [Coplas de mateša] (5a)
Songs 5a and 5b are composed of a series of couplets sung at the swing as a poetic-…
Yo me levantaría un lunes (6a)
This song is performed at weddings, although the text refers only allusively to the…
7. Levantíśme, madre/ Hecha está la cama
(7a) This wedding song is about the choosing of a husband and what characteristics and…
Ajuar nuevo (8a)
A wedding song about the dowry display. It is very important that the bride's dowry…