Iraq (Baghdad)
Tsur levavi shokhen aliya (shir le-hatunah)
From the Collection of Isaac Lurie
Songs of Palestinian Jews from the Collection of Isaac Lurie
Tsur levavi shokhen aliya (shir le-hatunah)
Tsur levavi shokhen aliya (shir le-hatunah). The stronghold of my heart, the inhabitant of heights (wedding song). A wedding piyut by Iraqi Jewish poet Salih Masliah (d. 1785). Performed by Ezra ben hakham David from Baghdad on July 21, 1913. Cylinder # 657. 1:44
Tsur levavi shokhen ‘aliya by Rabbi Salih Masliah continued to be sung to the same melody by Iraqi Jews in Israel. See the recording by Shlomo Mu’alem at the Sound Archive of the National Library of Israel.
