Europe: Western - Mother Tongue

Baden

David Maier

Childhood memories (3)

Baden (Switzerland)

Isaak Jacob Guggenheim (Jacob Guggi)

Shabbat in Endingen

Basel

David Maier

Childhood memories (3)

Basel (Switzerland)

Arthur Zivy

Childhood memories (2)

Durmenach (France)

Arthur Zivy

Childhood memories (2)

Endingen

Anna Bollag Geismar

Childhood memories (1)

Berta Schmuklerski Guggenheim

Cooking and preparation for the holiday

Dr. Yosef Meʾir

'Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Switzerland - (Eins will ich sie kennen)

'Ḥad Gadya' from Switzerland (Ein Lähmchen ein Lähmchen)

Bar mitzva in Lucerne

Children games in Ḥanukka

Children's song of cats and mice

Hosha'ana Rabba

Humiliating Jews

Kiddush (wine blessing)

Passover customs and 'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya' from Endingen

Piyyutim of Passover Haggada

Plum war

Proverbs

Purim

Secret language

Shabbat

Shared buildings for Jews and non-Jews

Shidduch (matchmaking)

Sukkot

Synagogue in Endingen

The family's livelihood

The immigration of Eastern European Jews to Switzerland

The Jewish communities in Lucerne

The Meʾir family members

The synagogue's bell

Tikkun leil Shavuot

Western Yiddish expressions (Alsace dialect)

Women in the community

Emanuel Bollag-Bollag

Strolling around Baden, wedding and birth customs, Shabbat cooking, Sukkot and lullabies

Isaak Guggenheim-Bloch

Jewish occupations, Shabbat preparation and Tishrei holidays

Rosa Bloch Guggenheim

Newlyweds customs and Ḥanukka games

Endingen (Switzerland)

Berta Schmuklerski-Guggenheim

A Ḥanukka ghost

Grussenheim (France)

Anna Bollag Geismar

Childhood memories (1)

Ingwiller (France)

Sara Kahn-Erstein

Naming celebration and the beggar from Alsace

Izmir

Lengnau (Switzerland)

Daniel Braunschweig

Rosa Bloch Guggenheim

Newlyweds customs and Ḥanukka games

Lucerne

Dr. Yosef Meʾir

'Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Switzerland - (Eins will ich sie kennen)

'Ḥad Gadya' from Switzerland (Ein Lähmchen ein Lähmchen)

Bar mitzva in Lucerne

Children games in Ḥanukka

Children's song of cats and mice

Hosha'ana Rabba

Humiliating Jews

Kiddush (wine blessing)

Passover customs and 'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya' from Endingen

Piyyutim of Passover Haggada

Plum war

Proverbs

Purim

Secret language

Shabbat

Shared buildings for Jews and non-Jews

Shidduch (matchmaking)

Sukkot

Synagogue in Endingen

The family's livelihood

The immigration of Eastern European Jews to Switzerland

The Jewish communities in Lucerne

The Meʾir family members

The synagogue's bell

Tikkun leil Shavuot

Western Yiddish expressions (Alsace dialect)

Women in the community

Milan

Mülheim (Germany)

David Maier

Childhood memories (3)

Wissembourg (France)

Paul Gerschel

The Jewish communities in Alsace-Lorraine, Jewish occupations and expressions

Zurich

Dr. Yosef Meʾir

Children's song of cats and mice

Zurich (Switzerland)

Anna Bollag Geismar

Childhood memories (1)

Berta Schmuklerski Guggenheim

Cooking and preparation for the holiday

David Maier

Childhood memories (3)

Dr. Yosef Meʾir

'Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Switzerland - (Eins will ich sie kennen)

'Ḥad Gadya' from Switzerland (Ein Lähmchen ein Lähmchen)

Bar mitzva in Lucerne

Children games in Ḥanukka

Hosha'ana Rabba

Humiliating Jews

Kiddush (wine blessing)

Passover customs and 'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya' from Endingen

Piyyutim of Passover Haggada

Plum war

Proverbs

Purim

Secret language

Shabbat

Shared buildings for Jews and non-Jews

Shidduch (matchmaking)

Sukkot

Synagogue in Endingen

The family's livelihood

The immigration of Eastern European Jews to Switzerland

The Jewish communities in Lucerne

The Meʾir family members

The synagogue's bell

Tikkun leil Shavuot

Western Yiddish expressions (Alsace dialect)

Women in the community

Emanuel Bollag-Bollag

Strolling around Baden, wedding and birth customs, Shabbat cooking, Sukkot and lullabies

Henri Guggenheim

Isaak Guggenheim-Bloch

Jewish occupations, Shabbat preparation and Tishrei holidays

Paul Gerschel

The Jewish communities in Alsace-Lorraine, Jewish occupations and expressions

Sara Kahn-Erstein

Naming celebration and the beggar from Alsace

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