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43. The Song of Mother Sarah
… worthy of greatest respect. Likewise, the use of the Malayalam word “puja” in reference to the potential … (Ginzberg 1968, 1:286). In another variant of the Malayalam song, Satan approaches Sarah after the events on … story about the appearance and fate of the goat. The other Malayalam variant refers to the story of Abraham taking both …
42. Adam the First Person
… communication) it seems to be a modern song with no Malayalam Jewish linguistic markers other than the many … of other stories that are popular throughout the corpus of Malayalam songs. Rivka Yehoshuah and Leah Madai, both from …
41. The Ten Songs of King Solomon
… mentioning a song or proclamation. [8] Stanza 7 of the Malayalam song, about the biblical Hannah, includes an … reference to me while she was translating the song. The Malayalam phrase “day when the year was complete” she … to her mother’s tune. _________________________ [1] A Malayalam honorific for King Solomon (H: Shlomo ha-Melekh) …
39-40. Golden Manangĕ + My Dear Mamuchi
… The format of a comic dialogue probably echoed elements of Malayalam folk and drama songs of the early 1930s, the time … Japheth (1850–1935). All three men were composers of other Malayalam songs. More recently, a Paradesi elder speculated … name is pronounced Manangay. There is no “soft” g sound in Malayalam. [2] As noted in the commentary on song 8, a kol …
38. Song About Love
… a wide range of emotions from liking to passion, its Jewish Malayalam form ābāh or ahabah (a transliteration of the … pronouns, which would refer to a woman or girl in standard Malayalam. Whereas the comparison in stanza 7 of love’s … emphasis of the song is evident in its use of different Malayalam terms for the qualities of God, and in the …
37. Gorgeous Black-Haired Woman
… beauty, until they are white, As white as snow. (x2) This Malayalam translation of the Hebrew piyyut “ Yefefiyah ” … Woman”) was the source of Zacharia’s and Gamliel’s Malayalam title for their 2005 book, Kārkuḻali .” Zacharia … was entranced that the poet chose this common poetic Malayalam epithet for an exceptionally beautiful …
36. O Woman Dwelling in the Field
… in the field! O woman dwelling in the field! This is a Malayalam version of Shokhant baSadeh (’ Areshet 1980, 392), … Golan Heights). In a striking cultural transformation, the Malayalam version recorded and translated here opens with … and in the Kerala Hebrew version as “secret”[1] becomes in Malayalam a “garden like the purest gold”— heightening its …
35. A Green Bird
… connection to that of the other song. Perhaps this was a Malayalam folk song with wider circulation, from which the …
34. Golden Palanquin
… phrase makkamoṭe as “with children” (a common Jewish Malayalam elision), Lane suggests that the speaker may be …
33. In the Ship
… stanza 2 is characteristic of Jewish, rather than standard, Malayalam. Our composite English translation of the song … BenZaken. Though not herself Kochini, she performed it in Malayalam, with the Modalius Ensemble ( … as of a few years ago was looking forward to including more Malayalam Jewish songs in her repertoire (personal …