As centuries passed the Moed di Piombo was forgotten by most. However, over the past five years, congregations across the city have brought this holiday back in remembrance of the miraculous events that saved thousands of Jewish lives.
And what is a drinking party without drinking songs? As in other Jewish communities, drinking alcohol was part of the celebration of Purim, and an extensive corpus of rhymed, Ladino poems known as koplas (or komplas) developed by Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire