Avre tu Puerta Cerrada is a Turkish Sephardic folklore song which was first recorded on Folklor de los judios de Turkiya, a collection of songs, short stories, refrains, proverbs, poems and jokes. The original songwriter, Eli Shaul, was born in 1916 and grew up in Istanbul’s Balat neighborhood, before moving over the Golden Horn to Galata and then migrating to Israel with his family in 1950.

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