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Karkulali - Y efefiah - Gorgeous!
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Jewish Women's Songs in Malayalam
with Hebrew Translations
Edited and translated with introduction
and critical commentary
by
Scaria Zacharia
and
Ophira Gamliel
and an Afterword
by
Barbara C. Johnson
Ben-Zvi Institute
Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem 2005
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