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39-40. Golden Manangĕ + My Dear Mamuchi
… the humorous songs remain unidentified. Neither has the melody source been identified for Kakicha’s popular Zionist …
35. A Green Bird
… from the Raja” (song 12), probably indicating its shared melody. Its content, which is not specifically Jewish, has …
32. Prosper, Prosper (Our Bridegroom, Our Bride)
… it; I’ll cut the deer,” so says the bride. Part II Same melody 1. Polika, oh prosper in the wedding shelter. Polika, …
24. Blessing for the Bridegroom
… cases (Isenberg letter, Nov. 23, 1981). They sang it to the melody appropriately shared with a popular Simḥat Torah … in Kochi, who began the first stanza with the same melody, and then switched for the second stanza to the tune … Areshet 1980, 155). [3] Venus Lane recalls that this second melody was also used for teaching the Hebrew alphabet to …
23. Happiness to the Bridegroom
… Daniel and other members of her family, who sang it to the melody for the Hebrew piyyut ’El ‘Elyon , the same as for …
21. Great God Who Has Fed Us
… repeats the final stanza, changing to a different melody. This is a common practice among Kerala Jews, who may repeat the final stanza of this Hebrew song by using a melody associated with a particular festive occasion—e.g. a wedding melody to celebrate the news of an engagement or a brit …
20. The Command Is Proclaimed
… women who recorded it in Kochi in 1977. After the initial melody, shared with songs 19 and 21, the second tune is from … Areshet 1980, 210). The third was the as yet unidentified melody used by Daniel’s grandfather, Eliyahu Japheth, when …
18. Our Food
… The 2002 recording transcribed here was sung to a Kerala melody for the popular Hebrew Shabbat piyyut “ Yom Zeh … the celebration of a brit milah. The source of their first melody (shared with songs 19 and 20) has not yet been …
17. Blessing Song
… and Ruby Hallegua in Kochi, they used the same chanting melody that they had used for song 26, “After the Bath.” …
16. Song of the Ten Commandments
… different Kerala Jewish communities, each with a different melody and arrangement. 16a. Miriam Daniel, Rahel … by Sarah Cohen (without repetitions or a refrain) to the melody of a Hebrew piyyut: “ Torat ’Adonai Temimah ”(’ …