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14. The Paliat Achan Song
… song as reflecting a connection between the Chendamangalam Jews and ancient Palur. Ruby Daniel had heard the song from … this leading family of the Nayar caste was “fond of the Jews” and “known for valor and for . . . hospitality toward … in the second stanza—implying that the Chendamangalam Jews were among the “strangers” who settled there (Daniel …
13. Manacheri Women! Mattancherry Women!
… Ruby Daniel and her sister Rahel Kala. They theorized that Jews must have added the second stanza for fun, to include … antennae of prawns (no parts of which are kosher food for Jews). Each of the first three items, integral to Kerala …
12. North Side, South Side (A Visit from the Raja)
… Raja Perumpatappu appears in royal splendor To behold the Jews, who are beautifully adorned. Among all the peoples, … raja makes an appearance to admire the elegantly adorned Jews who are parading to the paḷḷi, perhaps in celebration … royal favor and public security experienced by the Kerala Jews. Perumpaṭappu is the title of the Kochi dynasty of …
11. Famous Kochi Harbor
… Harbor and its inhabitants, especially the highly respected Jews who came there. The eight hundred people referred to in …
8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… place in the world—Kochi is the one! The most respected Jews are from Kadavumbhagam. All of Kadavumbhagam united as … for Israel in the 1950s, this synagogue was sold to non-Jews and used as a warehouse until the Israel Museum …
9. Paradesi Synagogue Song
… upstairs room in the entrance building. Older Paradesi Jews today still remember the seats in the more comfortable … to see the synagogue and then requesting God to take the Jews, led by the Prophet (Elijah) and the Messiah ( Mashiya …
7. Tekkumbhagam-Ernakulam Synagogue Song
… late Isaac Joshua (president of the Association of Kerala Jews in India) read a Malayalam text of this song for the …
6. Parur Synagogue Song
… purpose some Portuguese landed and came. “Why should the Jews have a paḷḷi so fine?” They looked at the paḷḷi and … “Muziris project” (http://www.muzirisheritage.org/kerala-jews-historical-museum.php). In his article for this book … to foreign visitors, merchants, and immigrants, including Jews as well as Muslims and Christians (Gundert 1995, 810). …
5. Mala Synagogue Song
… kinds of Peoples [2] are found in my land, But only the Jews are not here in my land. 4. So ten of you should stay … no recordings. Here he is the leader of a minyan of ten Jews [5] displaced from Palur, who are invited by the ruler … Zacharia 2002). Here the welcoming ruler wants to include Jews among the diverse “Peoples” he likes to have in his …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… is one of their most iconic twentieth-century Moroccan Jews. The publication of an extensive new essay, [1] the … This dramatic step exposed him, among many other Moroccan Jews from rural areas migrating to this emergent modern … by modernizing, Hebrew-centered, Zionist-oriented European Jews. This was not a simple step to take, because Zionism …