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19. As You Stand Before Us (Saturday Night Bride Song)
The introduction to songs 18–20 is available here.
Sarah Cohen, Seema Salem,…
18. Our Food
… as did the table of Father Abraham. Looking for Kerala Jewish touches, in the last line of stanza 4 we translate a … “Our Food” is one of the most widely distributed Kerala Jewish songs, found in at least eighteen notebooks from all …
17. Blessing Song
… refrain that “wanders” through the corpus of Malayalam Jewish songs; it refers to the midrash about the young girl, … granted to Jacob's innocent granddaughter Seraḥ. [2] This Jewish song shares the first line and a few other lines and …
16. Song of the Ten Commandments
… This song was recorded by women from three different Kerala Jewish communities, each with a different melody and …
15. Sefer Torah Dedication Song
… and writing of a new scroll was always done by a trained Jewish sofer (scribe), and often it was commissioned and … of the entire community, also including guests from other Jewish communities. The second stanza of the song refers to …
14. The Paliat Achan Song
… he’s the one! This song is not found in any of the Jewish notebooks but was recorded from memory in 1981 by … Rahel told me that its melody was the same as that of a non-Jewish Malayalam folk song titled “In Calicut a Tarakan … between the town of Palur (where there was an ancient Jewish community) and the Paliam family of Chendamangalam …
13. Manacheri Women! Mattancherry Women!
… 2. Oh, the women of Mattancherry!—těy těy Oh, women of the Jewish Street!—těy těy 3. Oh, thief of the utensil for … also as a clear example of “Judaizing” an inherently non-Jewish song. Remembered as one of many songs heard from itinerant non-Jewish street-singers in Kochi, it was recorded and written …
12. North Side, South Side (A Visit from the Raja)
… respectively in the southern and northern sections of the Jewish street. First alluding to rivalry between the two … Kerala Jews. While the contents of the song are certainly Jewish, Gamliel (2005, 225) notes that its first two words, …
11. Famous Kochi Harbor
… whole world the best harbor is Kochi, Where the honorable Jewish people came. With brightness You are shining, Lord … may simply signify a large number, or perhaps the estimated Jewish population of Kochi at whatever time it was composed. …
10. Tekkumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… Torah ark is preserved in the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, …