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35. A Green Bird
… comes a refreshing chill. [1] This short song appears in six Kochi-Paradesi notebooks. In just one notebook it is … (song 12), probably indicating its shared melody. Its content, which is not specifically Jewish, has no apparent …
34. Golden Palanquin
… give to her the crown—the great crown for the shapely maid. Six and ten and four together go into the marriage chamber. The … an interpretation that the numbers refer to the human body: six for the six senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, …
27. The Elegantly Adorned Bride
… particular style of earring ( alikkattu ) mentioned in the sixth line (see Gundert 1991, 57) and the shining … to Kerala Jewish custom, the bride’s family would often borrow costly gold and jeweled ornaments from relatives, …
23. Happiness to the Bridegroom
… Tamburan's command, he heard the dear child sing. As he listened to her voice, he could hear the sweet sound: “Yoseph … Despite the presence of this song text in notebooks from six different communities, our only recordings of it are …
22. Brit Milah (Circumcision) Song
… shine, like those of the Prophets, Those who are counted ten and two. May your happiness increase; may you have a … “David Mashiaḥ .” This popular Malayalam song is found in sixteen notebooks from Kochi, Ernakulam, Chendamangalam, and …
17. Blessing Song
… the thirty-eight catalogued notebooks, representing all six communities from which notebooks were collected. It was … of emic units” which he discovered in many of the sixteen variants then available to him. In his analysis it is “a genuine folk song,” rephrased and written down by different performers according to the occasion, …
16. Song of the Ten Commandments
… (x2 1. With the help of Lord Tamburan, (x2) Ten commandments came to be. (x2) 2. Moshe Rabbenu went; … (x2) 1. With the help of Lord Tamburan, (x2) Ten commandments came to be. Āa-ayyumma (x2) 2. … Temimah ”(’ Areshet 1980, 204), customarily sung during the sixth hakafah procession of Simḥat Torah afternoon. Sarah …
13. Manacheri Women! Mattancherry Women!
… women of the Jewish Street!—těy těy 3. Oh, thief of the utensil for turning fried appam!—těy těy Oh, woman who steals … turmeric and lungi-knot rice!—těy těy Oh, thief of five or six whiskers of prawn!—těy těy This amusing folk song is … non-Jewish street-singers in Kochi, it was recorded and written down in 1997 by Ruby Daniel and her sister Rahel Kala. …
8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… Beneath the roof of tiles, it is splendid indeed. 4. Ten plus five ceiling beams they made with delight. They … constructed with five large teakwood crossbeams and ten smaller connecting beams, creating fifteen panels. After … possibility that it may have been composed as early as the sixteenth century, when the memory of its creation was still …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… twentieth-century Moroccan Jews. The publication of an extensive new essay, [1] the first one in English, about him, … from the Land of Israel “Ḥamesh shanim ‘al Michael,” written by Itzhak Katzenelson; this song itself originates from … immediate geopolitical realities in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War, and the Andalusian Hebrew repertoire of Shir …