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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 the communities with preserved notebooks. Not surprisingly, it …
17. Blessing Song
… the thirty-eight catalogued notebooks, representing all six communities from which notebooks were collected. It was … 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 arrangement. … of a new sefer Torah is performed in three different communities with three completely different tunes, but with …
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 two …
12. North Side, South Side (A Visit from the Raja)
… orally by women from both the Kadavumbhagam and Paradesi communities, who resided 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, …
10. Tekkumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… Torah ark is preserved in the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, … of the month, auspicious in all the Kerala religious communities) and hosted a grand celebration for everyone, …
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 Kerala tune …
7. Tekkumbhagam-Ernakulam Synagogue Song
… there are two synagogues near each other in what was a Jewish residential and commercial center until the … song have been found, in notebooks from all three Kochi communities and one from Chendamangalam, in addition to the … or “by the shining silver lamp.” [2] “Jutapaḷḷi” means Jewish paḷḷi. … 52 … 7 … 44193 … Moshav Taoz, Israel … …
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, … governing bodies of all the other Kerala synagogue communities, including an appearance and donation by the …
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 …