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26. After the Bath
… Kochi—six from the Paradesi community and one from Tekkumbhagam-Kochi. The two Paradesi women who sang it in 1977 in …
25. Song of the Four Crowns
… women’s notebooks, from Parur, Ernakulam, and Kochi-Kadavumbhagam. It combines translations of two piyyutim that are …
24. Blessing for the Bridegroom
… the elaborate wooden or metal sefer Torah cases. Kadavumbhagam-Kochi women told Shirley Isenberg that they remembered …
18. Our Food
… (’ Areshet 1980, 246). [1] Miriam Daniel from Kadavumbhagam-Kochi sang it to an entirely different tune in 1977 …
16. Song of the Ten Commandments
… only slight differences in text. Versions 16a from Kadavumbhagam-Kochi (with each line repeated) and 16b from Parur … down to accept the Torah, but only in the Parur and Kadavumbhagam versions is this action illuminated by a subsequent …
15. Sefer Torah Dedication Song
… the elaborate wooden or metal sefer Torah cases. Kadavumbhagam-Kochi women told Shirley Isenberg that they remembered …
12. North Side, South Side (A Visit from the Raja)
… and performed orally by women from both the Kadavumbhagam and Paradesi communities, who resided respectively in …
11. Famous Kochi Harbor
… or “short verse” immediately following song 8, the Kadavumbhagam-Kochi Synagogue song. Its first line partially echoes …
10. Tekkumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… world, You Who gave us the paḷḷi from before. (x2) Tekkumbhagam people—together they came. (x2) The assembly elders … Sefer Torah was installed (x2) Inside the paḷḷi of Tekkumbhagam. (x2) With elegant ornaments the Sefer was … of origin. It seems possible she may have been from Tekkumbhagam-Kochi, as she sang this Kochi song from memory, …
8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… is the one! The most respected Jews are from Kadavumbhagam. All of Kadavumbhagam united as one, To raise up a paḷḷi like Mount Sinai. … a Jesuit visitor in 1556 (Tavim 2010, 10–11). The Kadavumbhagam Paḷḷi of Kochi (in contrast to the synagogue of the …