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Scaria Zacharia
… to the documentation of Jewish Malayalam literature and oral traditions. He collaborated with members of the Cochin …
Barbara C. Johnson
… in New York. She has conducted extensive research on the oral song traditions of Cochin Jewish women. Her forthcoming …
71. Our Ancient Hope
… that the Ernakulam composer may have learned the song orally rather than from a text. The remaining five stanzas …
Eliezer Goldberg, alias Leyzerke Kremenitser
… by expressive cantorial solos often accompanied by choral drones and very short responses as was customary in … and antiphonal compositional techniques, contrasting choral textures, with sections recalling the more archaic …
44. Joseph the Righteous
… and engaging narrative song about Joseph is a composite of oral and written variants. The entire song was sung from … followed by stanzas that combine lines from written and oral versions to describe his joyful journey to behold his …
29. The Noble Bridegroom
… will throb, and your bangles will jingle. Your veins and coral bracelet will throb. Like kunkum, your veins and … to the color red in her throbbing veins and jingling coral bangles. The scene of this wedding procession is …
28. The Gold-Clad Bride
… The final lines in stanza 7 are from that oral version, concluding with the proud proclamation “We are …
27. The Elegantly Adorned Bride
… with gems, (x2) 7. Along with other chains of lovely coral beads. (x2) With rings upon her fingers and bangles …
12. North Side, South Side (A Visit from the Raja)
… song about Jewtown in Kochi was remembered and performed orally by women from both the Kadavumbhagam and Paradesi …
10. Tekkumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… regard for their actual geographical locations. But the oral version of this song implies another explanation, local … Paradesi elders, as interpreted in the written version. The oral version sung by Leah Ben Eliyahu portrays two separate … chains that adorn Kerala Torah scrolls. Whereas the oral version translated here portrays a harmonious and …