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34-35. Los dos haninos
… content, yet all related to courtship: “Thank you for sending me the matchmaker, but there are problems with … I am lovely and you are lovely, we shall marry and our children will be like the moon and the sun. I am lovely and so are you, let us get married.” … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … 34-35. Los …
Alegre m'alegre (Juego de callarse)
… A children’s game in which, after this rhyme is completed, the … disgusting matters.” This last line hints at the punishment for whoever speaks first. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … Alegre …
Luvia del Dio (Invocaciòn a la lluvia)
… Children’s invocation of rain is common in Sephardic traditions. When rain was needed, Jewish children were asked to pray, even by non-Jews. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … Luvia del …
Endentino (Retahila de sorteo)
… This rhyme is the origin of one of the most common Israeli children’s rhymes, “Endendino sofalacatino,” which derives from the Sephardic tradition for the Balkans. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … Endentino …
Dicotín dicotán (Ricotín ricotán)
… A children’s game: one child lowers his head, hides his face … games. A very similar text is used in Spain today for the same game. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … Dicotín …
18 -19. Los dedos hambrientos
… Two variants of a children’s rhyme recited while playing with the fingers, … the end the singer tickles the child. … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … 18 -19. …
8-11. El nacimiento de Abraham- version 4: Cuando el rey Nimrod
… Nimrod (like the later Pharaoh) ordered all male newborn children to be killed. When the king went out to the field, … blessed father, light of Israel.” … Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean … 8-11. El …
James Levy
… father, was born in 1868. By 1886, Hayyim, his wife and children had already settled in Argentina together with a … kept in Morocco the Gibraltar liturgy and traditions of his forefathers which he transmitted to James. James Levy, at … abandoning his dream of becoming an engineer and his love for aviation to work as a bookkeeper. He got married during …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… This document, in the form of a synoptic table, incorporates three versions of … autobiography. The original table is available in table format as a PDF download here , and at the bottom of the … the poorest suburb which was teeming with prostitutes and children. There was an oven to heat the room, a table, two …
A Recovered Voice from the Past
… and Geistesgeschichte . Jewish Studies in this formulation consisted of the commemoration of a people’s … musical imagination in both its scholarly and popular forms. But Idelsohn the man himself remains an enigmatic, … indeed Mother was a good woman, devoted to her husband and children. Her kindly spirit was always apparent when she …