… have been singing Jewish songs in the Malayalam language of Kerala, their ancient homeland on the tropical southwest … of Music Traditions in Israel … Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala … 18 … 2004 … Israel … Women … India … Cochin … Women …

… [2] but the rest of the Hebrew song may be unique to Kerala. Though not a direct translation, the Malayalam song includes concepts from the Kerala Hebrew piyyut and follows its melody and its musical … song “Oh My Darling Clementine,” perhaps transmitted to Kerala through the English colonial presence. It is also …

… and playful song exemplifies two widespread genres of Kerala folk music. Part I begins in the style of a … celebrations and varied Hindu religious rituals in Kerala (Aju Narayanan 2006). Our English version is a … the cycle of traditional Syrian Christian weddings in Kerala, in which relatives of the wedding couple sat on a …

… a musical family of the Paradesi Jewish community in Kochi, Kerala.  A close relative of the song expert Ruby Daniel … a BSc in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Kerala, she worked as an accountant  in Kerala, and then in Israel after her aliyah in 1972. Venus …

… first line refer to the traditional palm leaf documents of Kerala also mentioned in song 58 . In houses of the wealthy … dramas from other Jewish cultures, as well as that of many Kerala folk dramas. As in the previous song, the … Birds: Biblical narratives … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … 59. The Document Box …

… the melody for each stanza to make use of four popular Kerala Jewish melodies associated with joyous celebration. … tune for stanza 1 has been identified as the melody used in Kerala for three different piyyutim : for ’Eḥad Yaḥid sung … 178), a piyyut for Simḥat Torah that is, perhaps, unique to Kerala. This piyyut is so popular with Kochinim in Israel …

… famous, Herzl the great, the most famous! This is a 1950s Kerala Jewish tribute to Theodore Herzl (1860–1904), founder … from an unidentified Hindi film that was popular in Kerala at the time. … 52 … 7 … 44415 … Moshav Aviezer, … Birds: Zionist songs … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … 76. Herzl the Great …

… Living God Descended” (’Areshet 1980, 76). [2] According to Kerala tradition, it is sung before taking the Torah from … the tablets were made of precious stone, interpreted by Kerala Jews as diamonds. [3] The poetic imagery in the final … Birds: Biblical narratives … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Barbara C. Johnson … 52. …

… was built sometime between 1489 and 1650. [2] Of the eight Kerala synagogues that were active until the 1950s, it is … day (the fifteenth of the month, auspicious in all the Kerala religious communities) and hosted a grand celebration … were collected in aid of the building—a common practice in Kerala. The descriptive details at the end of the song focus …

… gets more and more rapid throughout the song, reminding Kerala listeners of similar performances of Muslim and … bangles and crown refer to customary gifts associated with Kerala weddings. Zacharia (2005, 196) guesses that the … Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog … …