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The Songs of the Jews from Cochin and their Historical Significance
… … Folk songs … History … Texts … India … Cochin … Jews … Malayalam … Cochin … The Songs of the Jews from Cochin and …
Oh, Lovely Parrot!
… women of Cochin have been singing Jewish songs in the Malayalam language of Kerala, their ancient homeland on the … to Israel, where younger generations no longer understand Malayalam. Fortunately, a collaborative project is now under …
Enni enni tirttu dinam (The fifth of Iyyar)
… A Malayalam Zionist song celebrating the declaration of …
Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala
… Lane, unravels the symbolic and aesthetic layers of the Malayalam language song repertoire, anchored in the life of …
1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… tell a story, in the style of classical and folk epics in Malayalam literature. The parrot addressed here is a special … —literally translated as a “green parrot,” and in Jewish Malayalam an epithet for a very beautiful woman— hence the …