La Kantika de Fuego - ELYSHEVArleen Ramirez

Buen Shabbat i Janucá Alegre! שבת שלום וחנוכה שמח As we continue to commemorate and celebrate the victorious Light that a small group of Jews known as the Maccabees brought to the Jewish people against the Greeks, I also remember the many persecutions that the Jewish people have endured throughout history… Because it did not stop there. 🔥This song, “La kantika de Fuego” was inspired by the Sephardic “copla” “El Incendio de Saloniki” (The fire of Saloniki). Saloniki, Greece!The song was written after a devastating fire in 1917 that left thousands of Sephardic Jews without a home, consuming majority of the Jewish quarter in the old city. 🔥Another interesting fact is that on February 1943 Jews from Salonika started to be deported to Nazi concentration camps. 54,000 out of 56,000 Jews who had been living in Salonika before the war were murdered in the Holocaust. 🔥We must continue to remember, because history repeats itself. The fact that I can sing this song today, after hundreds of years since the persecution of many of my ancestors during the Inquisition attest to the powerful Light and resilience that has carried our people throughout history. 🔥It is our FAITH in a mighty G-d of miracles and the preservation of our traditions what has carried us through and what will continue to carry us through shining HaShem’s Light bright! #borikenspharadladinomusicproject #djudezmo #janucáalegre #jewishhistory #ladino #sephardic #juderías #Greece #maccabees #hanukkah #jewishwomen #caribbeansephardic #remo #framedrum #instarest #jewishwomenoffaith #ochokandelasparami