Ballads Wedding Piyyutim
- Year of Recording 1983.
- Record Label Folkways Records.
- Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
- Credits Produced by Henrietta Yurchenco ; Recorded by Henrietta Yurchenco ; Design by Ronald Clyne ;
- 101 Dice la nuestra novia – Says the Bride-to-Be Alicia Benassayag de Bendayam 3:14.
The songs on this 1983 Folkways release are both soulful and haunting, reminders of a “golden age” prior to 1492, when Jews were expelled from Spain. The Jews of Tetuan, which became one of the most important Jewish communities in North Africa, preserved the old ballads in Medieval Spanish, and for daily use spoke an updated idiom. Here women sing romance and ritual songs a cappella, while a cantor from Tangier performs the piyyutim, the religious poetry written in Hebrew by the great Medieval J
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