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Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean

8-11. El nacimiento de Abraham- version 3: La mujer de Terah

… A shorter version of the song, quite similar in content to the former ones. The last strophe stresses the importance of the circumcision …

8-11. El nacimiento de Abraham- version 2: La mujer de Terah

… This is another version of the copla about Terah’s wife’s pregnancy and the miraculous birth of Abraham. Like mythical heroes, baby …

La mujer de Terah

… Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … La mujer de Terah …

8-11. El nacimiento de Abraham- version 1: La mujer de Terah

… We mentioned that the figure of Abraham, the first circumcised Israelite, is central to the brit milah . This copla , mentioning Abraham’s mother …

… These are six versions of the most well-known copla de parida . A rather complete version of this song was published by Binyamin … in his chapbook, El buquieto de romanzas (Istanbul, 1926). The first version (CD 1, no. 2) is fragmentary, with two …

Esta noche es alabada (La noche alabada)

… One of the coplas de parida sung during the last night before the circumcision. The text stresses that there should be …

The liturgical music of the Portuguese Jews

The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Liturgy

… have been as consistently maintained as were those of the Spanish-Portuguese Jewish congregations, also known as Western Sephardi. The exceptionally small size of these communities and their concentration in very few urban …