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Addir ve-na'or (Adir ve nahor)
… - Who is like you O God! The version by Haim differs from the one widespread nowadays in most Eastern Sephardi …
Yah shema' evyonekha (Ya Chema Evyoneho)
… when compared with the more widespread versions documented from Sephardi hazzanim throughout the twentieth century. … An …
Scaria Zacharia
… in recovering archival knowledge and Malayalam manuscripts from the University of Tübingen in Germany. He served as a …
Barbara C. Johnson
… (1995), and Oh, Lovely Parrot!: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala (The Jewish Music Research Center, Jerusalem, … the playlist Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala on our website. … Anthropologist, Scholar of …
Ha-yom harat 'olam (Hajom Arad Olam)
… for the performance of each repetition; some are taken from the liturgical repertoire and others from Ladino songs (Seroussi 1999). Haim's version recalls the …
79. The Flag of Israel
… firm and raise us high. (x2) [Chorus] This Zionist song from the early 1950s, performed in Parur and Chendamangalam, …
78. Golden Aliyah
… Joseph Ḥai and Yaakov Itzhak, according to Esther Abraham from Ernakulam (interviewed 2004 in Moshav Nevatim). Its catchy melody is that of a well-known Kerala song from which they also adapted the title, transforming …
77. We Will Not Be Destroyed
… are alive, Victory you must achieve. Israel is our gift from God. Come on, let's go there—come, let's go! [Chorus] This Zionist song is found in two notebooks from Parur. We may guess that it is one of the later 1950s songs from the period closer to the time when the community made …
76. Herzl the Great
… movement. The tune is said to have been borrowed from an unidentified Hindi film that was popular in Kerala at …
75. It Is Dawning
… (x2) Chains are breaking; chains are falling, falling from our legs. (x2) The text of this song is found in notebook S-12, written down by Rivka Yehoshua from Parur, who sang it for Marcia Walerstein-Sibony in 1981 … in Galia’s performance. The song carries strong influences from Malayalam songs of the “freedom struggle” for Indian …