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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 … Israel … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … …
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, … Israel … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … …
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. … Israel … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … …
10. Tekkumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… was from Mala, but I regret not knowing her own community of origin. It seems possible she may have been … Torah ark is preserved in the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, … now living in Israel recall being told by elders that their community’s original synagogue was called “south-side” …
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 … Jerusalem … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … …
9. Paradesi Synagogue Song
… The song opens with an extended prayer that members of the community be united in their intention to build a paḷḷi as a … 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 …
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 … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … …
6. Parur Synagogue Song
… again after that and served as the center of a vibrant Jewish community until the mass aliyah of the 1950s. Beginning in … 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, … Israel … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … …
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 … faced resistance by conservative elements within the Jewish community of Casablanca. Buzaglo promoted modern Hebrew, …