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Kerala Jewish Women’s Folksongs: A Story of New Life
After a brief introduction to the varied Jewish communities of India, this presentation will center on the “Cochin” Jews of Kerala and their traditional women’s music. The Kerala Jews lived in peace and security for perhaps 2000 years on the tropical southwest coast of India, until most of them migr...
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| 245 | |a Kerala Jewish Women’s Folksongs: A Story of New Life | ||
| 500 | |a Proceedings of the 44 Annual Convention of the Association of Jewish Libraries (Chicago, IL – July 5-8, 2009) | ||
| 520 | |a After a brief introduction to the varied Jewish communities of India, this presentation will center on the “Cochin” Jews of Kerala and their traditional women’s music. The Kerala Jews lived in peace and security for perhaps 2000 years on the tropical southwest coast of India, until most of them migrated to Israel beginning in the1950s. For many centuries Cochin Jewish women have performed songs in Malayalam, the language of Kerala - songs for weddings and other life-cycle events, biblical narratives, devotional hymns, and songs about the history and legends of their community. With the move to Israel these songs were in danger of being forgotten. Fortunately they are being brought back to performance revival in Israel, and scholarly publications about them are reaching an international audience. Discussion of the songs and of some of the Kerala Jewish women who sing them will be illustrated with video excerpts from recent performances. | ||
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