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Rivka Havassy
An independent researcher in the field of Sephardic studies, with a focus on Ladino…
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
Introduction
It is November 15, 2016 and I am sitting in a car, driving on a mountain…
Review essay: Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics
Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…
Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs
Study and commentaries: Rivka Havassy and Edwin Seroussi
Research collaborators:…
1. Los árboles de almendra (Jacob Algava)
This is the earliest recorded version of this cantiga. It became extremely popular in…
2. Grande displacer me haces (Jacob Algava)
This love song, evidently very popular at the beginning of the twentieth century, was…
3. Hermanos mis queridos (Jacob Algava)
A song referring to the 1908 reenactment of the 1876 Ottoman constitution. It is an…
4. La constitución se dió (Jacob Algava)
Another patriotic song praising the constitutional regime established in the Ottoman…
5. Madame Gaspar (Jacob Algava)
A Judeo-Spanish version of the widespread cumulative French folksong known as Les…
6. Cantiga de Hanum Dudún (Jacob Algava)
A very popular wedding song of Greek origin, known mainly in Salonica (CMP AA63, AA65;…