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17. Blessing Song
… different time periods. Based on his experience as a Malayalam linguist, he assumed that while singing verses in an old Malayalam which they did not understand, women may have … these meanings (through the process of consulting each Malayalam variant) without knowing their Hebrew …
16. Song of the Ten Commandments
… procession of Simḥat Torah afternoon. Sarah identified this Malayalam “Song of the Ten Commandments” as a kurukan … fail to the Great God you must pray.” Kerala Jews use the Malayalam term kuṃbiṭu (bowing down) to refer to the …
15. Sefer Torah Dedication Song
… Torah piyyut, “Kumu beRinah” (’ Areshet 1980, 178). The Malayalam song was also recorded in the late 1990s by Sarah …
14. The Paliat Achan Song
… me that its melody was the same as that of a non-Jewish Malayalam folk song titled “In Calicut a Tarakan [Merchant] …
13. Manacheri Women! Mattancherry Women!
… to Kerala women’s culture, is expressed in just one Malayalam word. The nonsense syllables “těy těy” are …
8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… to it. Measurements are specified in kols —a traditional Malayalam measure by means of a carpenter’s rod, which might … ________________________________ [1] Kol is the Malayalam word for a carpenter’s measure. [2] Tevah (pronounced teybah in Jewish Malayalam) is the Sephardi Jewish term for the raised …
9. Paradesi Synagogue Song
… to dwell in unity, to dwell in unity. This is one of two Malayalam songs about the Paradesi Synagogue in Mattancherry … here as “some others,” might come from the Jewish Malayalam saying, “Why don’t you ask four people?”—a stock … on two spaces on the upper level, each referred to in Malayalam as a mādam or upstairs room. The one immediately …
7. Tekkumbhagam-Ernakulam Synagogue Song
… of the Association of Kerala Jews in India) read a Malayalam text of this song for the first time, he was able …
6. Parur Synagogue Song
… __________________________________ [1] Māppiḷḷa was a Malayalam honorific title given in the past to foreign …
5. Mala Synagogue Song
… stanza 3 as the title of their German language book on the Malayalam songs (Frenz and Zacharia 2002). Here the … he likes to have in his land. To translate the collective Malayalam noun kulam (Jewish Malayalam gulam)—which can refer to a flock, family, caste, …