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Hanukka: charity, grace and other good deeds

Name of speaker: 
ʾEster ʿAttar
Participants in the conversation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Social worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1962
Speaker's country of origin: 
Morocco
Speaker's community of origin: 
Marrakesh
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Customs and traditions, Hanukka
Documentation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin and Shay Rabad
Year of recording: 
2021

Grandma's goody bag full of Tu BiShvat fruit

Name of speaker: 
ʾEster ʿAttar
Participants in the conversation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Social worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1962
Speaker's country of origin: 
Morocco
Speaker's community of origin: 
Marrakesh
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Family, Tu BiShvat, Women
Documentation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin and Shay Rabad
Year of recording: 
2021

Positive language embellished in blessings

Name of speaker: 
ʾEster ʿAttar
Participants in the conversation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Social worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1962
Speaker's country of origin: 
Morocco
Speaker's community of origin: 
Marrakesh
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Language
Documentation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin and Shay Rabad
Year of recording: 
2021

Last meal before fasting on Yom Kippur and kapparot (atonement ritual)

Name of speaker: 
ʾEster ʿAttar
Participants in the conversation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Social worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1962
Speaker's country of origin: 
Morocco
Speaker's community of origin: 
Marrakesh
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Customs and traditions, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
Documentation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin and Shay Rabad
Year of recording: 
2021

Mimouna: flowers, mint and midrash (exegesis)

Name of speaker: 
ʾEster ʿAttar
Participants in the conversation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Social worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1962
Speaker's country of origin: 
Morocco
Speaker's community of origin: 
Marrakesh
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Customs and traditions, Mimouna
Documentation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin and Shay Rabad
Year of recording: 
2021

Women's professions

Name of speaker: 
ʾEster ʿAttar
Participants in the conversation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Social worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1962
Speaker's country of origin: 
Morocco
Speaker's community of origin: 
Marrakesh
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Occupations and livelihoods, Women
Documentation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin and Shay Rabad
Year of recording: 
2021

The Month of Elul and performing good deeds

Name of speaker: 
ʾEster ʿAttar
Participants in the conversation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Social worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1962
Speaker's country of origin: 
Morocco
Speaker's community of origin: 
Marrakesh
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Customs and traditions, Cycle of the year, Seliḥoth
Documentation: 
Tsipi Bar Yamin and Shay Rabad
Year of recording: 
2021

Ha Laḥma ʿAnya in Arabic and Ma Nishtana in Hebrew

Name of speaker: 
Faraj Binyamin
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Barber
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1995
Speaker's country of origin: 
Syria
Speaker's community of origin: 
Qamishli
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Passover Haggada and the Seder, Sacred songs, Translations
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

The Jewish community, his father the mukhtar and Rabbi Avraham Ḥamra

Name of speaker: 
Faraj Binyamin
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Barber
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1995
Speaker's country of origin: 
Syria
Speaker's community of origin: 
Qamishli
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Community, Family, Persons
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Shavuot and pilgrimaging to the Tomb of Judah ben Bathyra

Name of speaker: 
Faraj Binyamin
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Barber
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1995
Speaker's country of origin: 
Syria
Speaker's community of origin: 
Qamishli
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Cycle of the year, Sacred tombs, Shavuot
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

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