Reading Time: 2 minutes

Podcast Resources and Footnotes

 

Background Songs

 

0:00 – 0:25

The Spirit of Sepharad. A La Una Yo Naci. The Spirit of Sepharad, 1996, Accessed June 16th, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8TIuwPXz9o

 

0:25 – 1:50

Accentus Ensemble. Kavaldulka. Accentus Ensemble. Kavaldulka, 1996, Accessed June 16th, 2021. https://youtu.be/YrreMFc9WOE

 

2:30 – 4:00

Accentus Ensemble. A la nana. Accentus Ensemble, 1996, Accessed June 17th, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpzkF3BkbbY

 

6:00 – 6:20

Isaac Levy Una Pastora. Isaac Levy, 2001, Accessed June 17th, 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyG3Hce6btQ

 

10:26 – 11:50

Isaac Levy. Yo En La Prizion, Tu En Las Flores. Isaac Levy. Yo En La Prizion, Tu En Las Flores. 2001, Accessed June 17th, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oenvTcCR-gk&list=PLRreNQlHxp1XfLZql5t7-Gfd_Nx4eWC3e&index=5

 

18:10 – 18:17

Solace. Morrocan 6/8. Rhythm of the Dance. 2003, Accessed June 20th, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eby7PG2MT44

 

18:17 – 18:20

Thrace. Alexandris. Ethnic Moments. 2014, Accessed June 20th, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_naZj0Hloc

18:20 – 18:33

N/A. 9/8 Percussion Loop. N/A. 2020, Accessed June 20th, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuWcmxoAv9w

 

Primary Sources

 

Songs:

 

4:05 – 5:38

Mara Aranda. Al pasar por Casablanca. Mara Aranda, 2016, Accessed June 18th, 2021.

 

7:45 – 9:10

Yasmin Levy. Naci En Alamo. Yasmin Levy, 2005, Accessed June 19th, 2021.

 

12:15 – 14:08

Isaac Levy. Una Muchacha En Selanika. Isaac Levy, 2001, Accessed June 19th, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejsPpdByebM&list=PLRreNQlHxp1XfLZql5t7-Gfd_Nx4eWC3   e&index=12

1

5:06 – 16:14

Jacob Algava. Madame Gaspar. Jacob Algava, 1909, Accessed June 20th, 2021. https://www.sephardicmusic.org/labels/Odeon/46279.46286.htm

 

Book:

10:28

Constable, O. R., & Zurro, D. (2012). In Medieval Iberia: readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish sources (pp. 516–523). poem, University of Pennsylvania Press.

 

Secondary Sources 

Cohen, J. R. (2010). Judeo-Spanish song: a Mediterranean-wide interactive tradition. Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música, (14),1-8. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82220947013

Fleming, K. E. (2010). Greece: a Jewish history. Princeton University Press.

Molho, R. (2008, December 26). The Jerusalem of the Balkans: Salonica 1856-1919 – by Rena Molho – “LA JERUSALEM DES BALKANS”: SALONIQUE, 1856-1919. http://www.geocities.ws/LesJuifs_Salonique/molho.html.

Pomeroy, H. (2019). Sephardi Balads. European Judaism, 52(2), 82–94. https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2019.520207

Ray, J. (n.d.). New Approaches to the Jewish Diaspora: The Sephardim as a … https://www.jstor.org/stable/40207032.

 

Footnotes

 

14:52

Dr. Rena Molho states that 96% of jews in Thessaloniki were wiped out by Nazis when they arrived.

Molho, R. (2008, December 26). The Jerusalem of the Balkans: Salonica 1856-1919 – by Rena Molho – “LA JERUSALEM DES BALKANS”: SALONIQUE, 1856-1919. http://www.geocities.ws/LesJuifs_Salonique/molho.html.

 

17:04

In Volume 52, No. 2 European Judaism  “Sephardi Ballads” Hillery Pomeroy writes about how ballads were sung by people in their homes as they did daily tasks and not performed as shows or entertainment.

Pomeroy, H. (2019). Sephardi Balads. European Judaism, 52(2), 82–94. https://doi.org/10.3167/ej.2019.520207

 

17:23

Not sure where the chronicle is from but I read Judith Cohen’s description about it in “Judeo-Spanish song: a Mediterranean-wide interactive tradition”

Cohen, J. R. (2010). Judeo-Spanish song: a Mediterranean-wide interactive tradition. Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música, (14),1-8. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82220947013

 

18:28

Cohen describes the rhythms of Morocco as a driving 6/8, and that of the former Ottoman Empire as a crooked 7/8 and 9/8.

Cohen, J. R. (2010). Judeo-Spanish song: a Mediterranean-wide interactive tradition. Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música, (14),1-8. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82220947013

 

19:25

This song is called “My Spanish Heart” and it’s by Chick Corea and his Ladino band, on the album titled “My Spanish Heart” from 1976.

Chick Corea. My Spanish Heart. Chick Corea, 1976, Accessed June 22nd, 2021. https://open.spotify.com/album/5V1WcC2ldcMBdFwQg0LltV