Enjoy the recent re-release of “Eastern Mediterranean Judeo-Spanish Songs from the EMI Archive Trust (1907-1912),” found at https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/content/22952.

The full 78 tracks selected for this project are available for streaming, and the accompanying booklet is a free PDF download. It presents phenomenal years-long scholarship into the song texts and the artists and their milieu by Seroussi and Rivka Havassy, an independent researcher in the field of Sephardic studies, with a focus on Ladino traditional oral poetry.

“Hidden Voices—Ladino Songs From Over 100 years Ago” was produced as part of the Jerusalem Oud Festival in conjunction with the JMR and performed on November 22 at the Confederation House in Jerusalem. The event featured Hadass Pal-Yarden, one of Israel’s leading vocalists in the Judeo-Spanish tradition, along with an ensemble featuring some of Jerusalem’s top musicians in the genre. The concert can be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3MXK6nYxmI&feature=emb_logo