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Sarah “Shorty” Elias
… up in Ottoman Monastir, where she worked as a house maid from a young age. In 1911, she left the Ottoman Empire for … child, born in 1933, remembered learning around 150 songs from his parents. Shorty Elias died in Brooklyn, NY, 1965. …
Joe Elias
… . As a schoolteacher in the 1960’s, he would collect songs from the grandparents of his Sephardic students. He went on …
"Betzet ḥatan be'et qiddush" (When the groom goes out at the time of qiddush)
… Jerusalem … With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen … Central Yemen … Diwan … Wedding songs … …
"Le-fellaḥ ha-rimon" (To a segment of the pomegranate)
… of the poem, omitting the fourth stanza. Arussi begins and from the second verse they sing in a responsorial manner: … Jerusalem … With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen … Central Yemen … Diwan … Wedding songs … …
"Ashira la'ahuv ve-ha-shir lo asdir - Halleluya" (I will sing to my love, and regulate the song - Hallelujah)
… Jerusalem … With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen … Central Yemen … Diwan … Hallel … Wedding …
"Ahuv mehar hamor natan li morasha" (My beloved from the mountain of Myrrh has given me an inheritance)
… Jerusalem … With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen … Central Yemen … Diwan … Wedding songs … … Yemenite … "Ahuv mehar hamor natan li morasha" (My beloved from the mountain of Myrrh has given me an inheritance) …
"Bo le-shalom ḥatan - Vehalleluya" (Groom, come in peace - Halellujah)
… soloist, Aharon Amram, opens with the introduction, and from the first stanza onwards the children and their tutor, … Jerusalem … With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen … Central Yemen … Diwan … Hallel … Wedding …
"Ḥatani ma me'od yeqera menato - Vehalleluya" (My groom, how treasured is his lot - Hallelujah)
… as a refrain, thus creating a new sequence, distinct from the printed poem. An immediate transition leads to the … Jerusalem … With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen … Central Yemen … Diwan … Hallel … Nashid …
"Shaday emor na dai le-galuteinu" (O Lord, say that our exile is enough)
… Jerusalem … With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen … Central Yemen … Diwan … Nashid … Yemen …
"Vatzulna hataf al-alhan - Vehalleluya" (May the sound of the song come to me - Hallelujah)
… and begins the shira in Arabic, and Yosef responds from the second verse onwards, with Zecharia singing the … Jerusalem … With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen … Central Yemen … Diwan … Hallel … Shalom …