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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, …
8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… dwelled in its Torah ark (heikhal). I have also heard other Jewish elders from Kerala refer to the Shekhinah (Hebrew), … a carpenter’s measure. [2] Tevah (pronounced teybah in Jewish Malayalam) is the Sephardi Jewish term for the raised platform from which the Torah is …
9. Paradesi Synagogue Song
… translated here as “some others,” might come from the Jewish Malayalam saying, “Why don’t you ask four people?”—a … in order to represent the synagogues of as many Kerala Jewish communities as possible. Venus Lane set it to a … [1] Sefer is the Hebrew word for book, used also in Jewish Malayalam, and capitalized here for respect when it …
7. Tekkumbhagam-Ernakulam Synagogue Song
… there are two synagogues near each other in what was a Jewish residential and commercial center until the … or “by the shining silver lamp.” [2] “Jutapaḷḷi” means Jewish paḷḷi. … 52 … 7 … 44193 … Moshav Taoz, Israel … …
6. Parur Synagogue Song
… again after that and served as the center of a vibrant Jewish community until the mass aliyah of the 1950s. … Parur paḷḷi, they may well have been elements of the Jewish building at whatever time the song was composed. The …
5. Mala Synagogue Song
… with the same name as the recipient of the eleventh-century Jewish copper plates (mentioned in the section I … his land. To translate the collective Malayalam noun kulam (Jewish Malayalam gulam)—which can refer to a flock, family, … Karthas (Nair 1975: 493-94). Although no Malayalam Jewish song notebooks from Mala itself have been found, …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… exponentially in the collective memory of the Moroccan Jewish diaspora. [3] After receiving a traditional Jewish religious training, as was customary in the … also faced resistance by conservative elements within the Jewish community of Casablanca. Buzaglo promoted modern …
4. Song of Moshe Mutaliyar
… built is not associated with any one of the eight Kerala Jewish communities known to recent history. Like Evarayi in song 3 , Moshe is a Jewish religious teacher ( ribbi ) and traveling merchant … not arrive in Palur. Instead, he arrives in “Shingly,” a Jewish name for ancient Kodungallur, which is praised as a …