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1. Oh Lovely Parrot!
… in the style of classical and folk epics in Malayalam literature. The parrot addressed here is a special one, a … payinkiḷi —literally translated as a “green parrot,” and in Jewish Malayalam an epithet for a very beautiful woman— … and two others (songs 2 and 14) points to a tradition of Jewish roots in what is now the small town of Palayur, as …
Tish-nigunim Ascribed to Yosl Tolner and the Aesthetics of the Genre
… as early as 1927 in a collection of Lithuanian Jewish tunes (Bernstein [1927] 1958, #95), in which it is … is highlighted: Textless songs have probably been common in Jewish life for a long time. This could be connected with … use of the Yiddish language, which earlier dominated literature for women and “men like women” (i.e., illiterate …
Hadas Rishony
… on several projects led by Professor Edwin Seroussi at the Jewish Musical Research Center and was also a teaching … to develop in adulthood; however, evidence in the literature indicates that some individuals, both musicians …