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Una muchacha en Selanika

from Savor by Sarah Aroeste

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The first track off of Savor, an entire album of Ladino songs about food! In this song, a young Sephardic girl is disgraced because she doesn't know how to properly prepare a stuffed grape leaf.

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Ladino:
Una muchacha en Selanika
Ke la kijeron kastigar
Por unos negros yaprakitos
Ke no los supo bien gizar.

Su madre de ser ravioza
Chaketon le fue a dar
Por estos negros yaprakitos
Ke no los supo bien gizar.

Ya se alevanto Zimbulucha
Ya se va onde'l dayan
Ke le de la lisensia
Ke turka se va aboltar.

Djudia, mas ke djudia,
Turka se fue a aboltar
Por estos negros yaprakitos
Ke no los supo bien gizar.

English:
A girl in Salonica
They wanted to punish her
For burning the stuffed grape leaves
She didn't know how to cook them properly.

Her mother in a fit of rage
Went and slapped her
Because of those burnt grape leaves
Which she didn't know how to make.

So Zimbulucha got up
And went to the court
To get permission
To convert to Islam.

Jewish, more than Jewish,
But she wanted to convert to Islam
Because of those black grape leaves
Which she didn't know how to make.

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from Savor, released April 21, 2023

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Sarah Aroeste Massachusetts

Sarah Aroeste is a singer, composer, author, and activist in the language of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the language of her Sephardic ancestors. For two decades she has traveled the globe fusing original and 15th-century Ladino songs with her unique blend of mediterranean folk, pop and jazz. ... more

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