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2. Dr. Rowena Rivera, ethnomusicologist at the University of New Mexico, has studied the folk songs of New Mexico and compared them to Sephardic music from that period in Spain, where she has found examples of Jewish religious themes. Illustrated with a 1942 recording of the New Mexican folk song "La Zalaga".
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| Tile plaque from a wall in Segovia, Spain, marking the street of the Jewish neighborhood "before the Expulsion decreed by the Catholic Monarchs" (Ferdinand and Isabella) |
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