| Tal Ben Ari (Tula) Website: www.talbenarimusic.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Mano suave - Tender hand Lyrics: ¡Ay! , mano suave tenía , a tocarla, nadie se atrevía ; ¡Ay! , madre, a tocarla, nadie se atrevía. Su alma le entregó , su corazón entero , ¡Ay! , madre, el corazón entero. Tula (Tal Ben Ari - www.talbenarimusic.com ) is singing it in Sephardic language , a Judaeo-Spanish idiom, in Israel commonly referred to as Ladino, a Romance language derived from Old Spanish. It is influenced heavily by Hebrew and Aramaic, Arabic, Turkish and to a lesser extent Greek and other languages where Sephardic exiles settled around the world when the catholics took Granada, the last moor kingdom in Spain, in January,1492, the jews were expeled, most of them had to emigrate to Netherlands and Portugal, where they were expeled later. The descendants of Jews who left Spain after the 1492 expulsion are referred to as Sephardim. The word "Sephardim" comes from the Hebrew word for Spain, Sepharad, that is stated in the Bible. It is believed that Jews have lived in Spain since the era of King Solomon (c.965-930 BCE). Little information can be found on these Jews until the beginning of the first century. The Sephardi Jews preserved their special language, which was a combination of Hebrew and Spanish, known as Ladino. When Jews left Spain , they continued to speak Ladino, in the same grammar and vocabulary of 14th and 15th century Spanish. The Sephardic exile communities of Amsterdam ... |
