# The Women Who Kept the Songs from India to Israel: The Musical Heritage of Cochin

For centuries Jewish women along India's Malabar Coast filled songbooks with Jewish-themed music sung in Malayalam at weddings, community celebrations and rituals. The subsequent influx of Jews from other nations splintered the Jews of Cochin (the present day port city of Kochi, India) and caused many to emigrate, principally to Israel. With them went a rich musical heritage that might have been lost to posterity but for the recent efforts of a team of researchers. In this program efforts to preserve the music of the Cochin region are discussed.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2008
- By: Library Of Congress. Asian Division
- Genres: Education, Music
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688161/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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