EL CANT DELS OCELLS vs. "A Yiddishe Mamme",

The first 9 syllables (beats)  from the  popular catalan song EL CANT DELS OCELLS are identical to the the traditional "A Yiddishe Mamme", "The Jewish Mother", it's remarcable that together with the catalan National Anthem (Cant dels segadors), we reach a duo of important traditional Catalan songs, which have a common root with traditional Jewish songs.

Pau Casals interpreting "El cant dels ocells"  at the White house...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKoX01170l0

Itzhak Perlman performing "A Yiddishe Mamme" with his violin..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPLDLFRRaco

Spanish anthem vs. Catalan anthem

Note as well that... the Catalan anthem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFV993YEFvU

it's much related to a Jewish  religious song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPGZvag6H5E

...while the Spanish anthem that it's strongly connected to a song from Al-Andalus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA6jOzzMgFA

Spanish anthem (guitar version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTdAvG52eoc

Anyone with two ounces of common sense will know the reason..

We may not forget that Jews were around the actual Catalonia from the days of the Phoenicians through the Roman empire, so were established there for centuries with their own idiosincracy so it is normal that they made some great contribution to the catalan culture. Furthermore, the direct ancestors of the royal Catalan family were Jewish. The grand-grandfather of Wilfred the Hairy was the exilarch Habibai Ben Natronai of Babylon, important but unknown fact from the history Catalonia .

A beautiful jewish-ladine song

http://www.delacole.com/musica-judia/ladino/adio-kerida.shtml

and others too...

http://www.delacole.com/musica-judia/ladino.shtml