Death and Mourning - Mother Tongue

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Keening

Bukhara

Samarkand

Bereavement customs among the Bukharan Jewish community

Caucasus

Quba

Bereavement customs and rabbis

India

Mumbai

Names, languages, relationships with non-Jews and burial customs

Iran

Borujerd

Shiv‘a (week-long mourning)

Golpayegan

Bar mitzva, rabbis and burial

Isfahan

Bereavement customs

Khorasan

The custom of commemorating the deceased on Purim and Mishloach Manot (Purim gifts)

Teheran

Bereavement customs

Birth, beliefs around birth and death

Tuyserkan

Bereavement customs

Urmia

Cemetery, bereavement, religious clothing and community

Iraq

Baghdad

Her family members and the passing of one of her siblings

Kurdistan

Amedi

Bereavement customs and the Covenant of Isaac

Rekan

Rabbis and cycle of the year: brit mila, birth and death

Zakho

Food distribution for the poor and Chevra Kadisha

Libya

Amrus

The life story of the sate son

Msallata

Bereavement customs

Her mother's passing and bereavement customs during shiv‘a (week-long mourning) and memorials

Tripoli

His grandfather's death during World War II and the labor camps in Libya

Morocco

Agadir

Bereavement customs

Casablanca

Ḥevra Qadisha and bereavement customs

Infant mortality, infertility and folk medicine

Debdou

Death and bereavement customs

Inappropriate behavior towards a widowed woman and her grandmother's words

Demnate

Birth, brit, my mother and the passing of my brother

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Ḥevra Qadisha in Morocco, burial and bereavement customs

Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai's assistance during her grandfather's passing

Fes

Different occupations: machinery repair, tailoring, Tora studies, Ḥevra Qadisha

Ḥevra Qadisha, the purification of the deceased and its burial

Making aliya with his mother and her passing

Inezgane

The death of Sultan Mehmed V and the heavy mourning for him

Israel

My father and the cemetery

Kenitra

Bereavement customs

Synagogue and the purification of the dead

Meknes

Bereavement customs: king of Morrocco's death and the professional weepers

Burial and bereavement customs

Ḥevra Qadisha and bereavement customs

Mogador (Essaouira)

Grandmother and the linen shrouds

Ouarzazate

Burial customs and shrouds

Tinejdad

My father and the cemetery

Zagora

Sukkot, breastfeeding, child mortality, bereavement, aliya

Syria

Damascus

Entering cemeteries, bereavement and distributing special bread during memorials

Passing away and bereavement customs

Turkey

Aydın

Bereavement customs

Buenos Aires

Bereavement customs

Izmir

Circle of life: birth, brit mila and bereavement

Yemen

Al Hajar

Lament for Ḥaim Giddis Z"L

Al-Lajam

Bereavement in Yemen and fasting in Israel

Bayt Baws

Bereavement customs

Daga

Bereavement customs

Najran (Saudi Arabia)

Customs of bereavement, burial without tombstones and observing shivʿa

Saada

Making aliya and his father's death

Sanaʽa

Bereavement in Yemen and fasting in Israel

ʿAnaka

Bereavement customs

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