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19. As You Stand Before Us (Saturday Night Bride Song)
… The introduction to songs 18–20 is available here . 19a. Sarah Cohen, Seema … … Kochi/ Kibbutz Neot Mordekhai … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Barbara C. …
18. Our Food
… The introduction to songs 18–20 is available here . 18a. Rahel Kala, Venus Lane, … Food” is one of the most widely distributed Kerala Jewish songs, found in at least eighteen notebooks from all the … a brit milah. The source of their first melody (shared with songs 19 and 20) has not yet been identified, but the second …
17. Blessing Song
… use, it has been one of the most enigmatic of all the songs. Though many women were familiar with it, none claimed … that “wanders” through the corpus of Malayalam Jewish songs; it refers to the midrash about the young girl, Seraḥ … similarity to passages from “a long tradition of (wedding songs) in Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic poetry.” When the …
16. Song of the Ten Commandments
… Taoz/ Moshav Aviezer/ Kochi … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Barbara C. …
15. Sefer Torah Dedication Song
… … 52 … 7 … 44220 … Jerusalem … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … 15. Sefer …
14. The Paliat Achan Song
… [Merchant] Came,” describing both as children’s play-songs. For a clearer rendition of the Paliat Achan song, … Kibbutz Neot Mordekhai/ Jerusalem … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Barbara C. …
13. Manacheri Women! Mattancherry Women!
… an inherently non-Jewish song. Remembered as one of many songs heard from itinerant non-Jewish street-singers in … těy” are characteristic line-endings in similar Kerala folk songs. Because there is no written version of this song in … Mordecai, Israel/ Tiberas, Israel … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs …
12. North Side, South Side (A Visit from the Raja)
… are a characteristic opening for certain Mappilla Muslim songs from northern Kerala. Zacharia (2005, 199) discusses … “A Green Bird ”), perhaps combined because the two short songs share the same simple melody. They were initially … in 2023. … 52 … 7 … 44210 … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs …
11. Famous Kochi Harbor
… [1] This is one of several references in the songs to the biblical David (rather than “ben David”—a … … Kibbutz Neot Mordecai, Israel … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Barbara C. …
10. Tekkumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… out loudly with sounds of kurava, Lifting their voices in songs of joyous praise. (x2) The assembly elders were … food, drink, fireworks, the music of drumming and women’s songs, and the sound of joyous kuruva ululation. Then … … 44204 … Kiryat Motzkin, Israel … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs …