Judeo-Arabic

Conversation topics:

Cuisine, Cycle of the year, Simḥat Tora, Sukkot

Documentation:

Ophir Carmel-Phofliger

Year of recording:

2022

Passover customs: reading the Haggada, prize-themed quiz and dressing up as women

Name of speaker:

Nissim Ben-‘Aqiva

Gender of speaker:

Male

Occupation of speaker:

Poet, actor and merchant

Age of speaker at time of recording:

73

Speaker's country of origin:

Syria

Speaker's community of origin:

Nusaybin, Aleppo, Israel

Language:

Cycle of the year, Passover, Passover Haggada and the Seder

Conversation topics:

Documentation:

Ophir Carmel-Phofliger

Year of recording:

2022

Eḥad Mi Yodeʿa from Aleppo

Name of speaker:

Nissim Ben-‘Aqiva

Gender of speaker:

Male

Occupation of speaker:

Poet, actor and merchant

Age of speaker at time of recording:

73

Speaker's country of origin:

Syria

Speaker's community of origin:

Nusaybin, Aleppo, Israel

Language:

Passover Haggada and the Seder, Sacred tombs, Translations

Conversation topics:

Documentation:

Ophir Carmel-Phofliger

Year of recording:

2022

Integration in Israel and life at Kurdani maʿabara (absorption camp)

Name of speaker:

Toni Kaḥlon (ʾElgawi)

Participants in the conversation:

School secretary

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

School secretary

Age of speaker at time of recording:

78

Year of immigration:

1950

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Settlement and absorption

Conversation topics:

Documentation:

ʾEsther Shorr (Gavi) and Nir Zuʾarets

Year of recording:

2019

Song for a mother

לזכרם ולכבודם של בני משפחת ניסרייה, שאול אלגאוי וצאצאיהם

Name of speaker:

Toni Kaḥlon (ʾElgawi)

Participants in the conversation:

ʾEsther Shorr (Gavi)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

School secretary

Age of speaker at time of recording:

78

Year of immigration:

1950

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Conversation topics:

Women, Women's songs

Documentation:

ʾEsther Shorr (Gavi) and Nir Zuʾarets

Year of recording:

2019

The 1948 anti-Jewish riots in Tripoli

Name of speaker:

Julia Gil (Zigdon)

Participants in the conversation:

ʾEsther Shorr (Gavi)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Age of speaker at time of recording:

79

Year of immigration:

1952

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Conversation topics:

Pogroms

Documentation:

ʾEsther Shorr (Gavi) and Nir Zuʾarets

Year of recording:

2019

Making aliya and integrating at a maʿabara (absorption camp)

Name of speaker:

Julia Gil (Zigdon)

Participants in the conversation:

ʾEsther Shorr (Gavi)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Age of speaker at time of recording:

79

Year of immigration:

1952

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Aliya, Settlement and absorption

Conversation topics:

Documentation:

ʾEsther Shorr (Gavi) and Nir Zuʾarets

Year of recording:

2019

Women’s household duties and raising their children, and girls’ schooling

Name of speaker:

Julia Gil (Zigdon)

Participants in the conversation:

ʾEsther Shorr (Gavi)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Age of speaker at time of recording:

79

Year of immigration:

1952

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Conversation topics:

Education, Women

Documentation:

ʾEsther Shorr (Gavi) and Nir Zuʾarets

Year of recording:

2019

New clothes for the bar mitzva celebrations

Name of speaker:

Geʾula Yamin (Sasi)

Participants in the conversation:

ʾEsther Shorr (Gavi)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Kindergarten teacher

Age of speaker at time of recording:

70

Year of immigration:

1949

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

טריפולי

Language:

Conversation topics:

Circle of life, Clothing

Documentation:

ʾEsther Shorr (Gavi) and Nir Zuʾarets

Year of recording:

2019

Passover Seder plate, 'Bibhilu' ritual and holiday foods

Name of speaker:

Rina ʾEdri (Ben-David)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

School secretary

Age of speaker at time of recording:

68

Year of immigration:

1956

Speaker's country of origin:

Morocco

Speaker's community of origin:

Ouarzazate, Casablanca

Language: