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Passover Seder plate

Name of speaker: 
Naḥum Bosmi (Atʾar)
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Former Head of Human Resources of the Israel Police
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
95
Year of immigration: 
1925
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Baghdad
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Customs and traditions, Cycle of the year, Passover
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke and Uri Giron
Year of recording: 
2016

Proverbs and stories

In memory of Perla and Mordechai Nagad Z"L

Name of speaker: 
Sara Nagad
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
70
Year of immigration: 
1950
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Baghdad
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Proverbs
Documentation: 
Liran Osi and Dafna Mizraḥi
Year of recording: 
2018

Farhud in Baqubah: pogroms

To my children Hezi, Aviva, Vera and Asi

 

Name of speaker: 
Daisy Elias
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
82
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Baqubah
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Pogroms
Documentation: 
Lilach Rocker
Year of recording: 
2019

Passover customs

Name of speaker: 
Naḥum Bosmi (Atʾar)
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Former Head of Human Resources of the Israel Police
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
95
Year of immigration: 
1925
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Baghdad
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Cycle of the year, Passover
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke and Uri Giron
Year of recording: 
2016

Fear in Iraq

In memory of Perla and Mordechai Nagad Z"L

Name of speaker: 
Sara Nagad
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
70
Year of immigration: 
1950
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Baghdad
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Relationships with non-Jews
Documentation: 
Liran Osi and Dafna Mizraḥi
Year of recording: 
2018

Mutual help and assistance in the community

In memory of my parents, Victoria and Meʾir ʿAbeda

Recorded in collaboration with the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center

Name of speaker: 
Lydia Sasson (ʿAbeda)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Biology teacher
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
63
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Baghdad
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Community
Documentation: 
Lilach Rocker
Year of recording: 
2017

Story of a cow from Basra

For fans of the spoken Iraqi Arabic, in hopes that this language will continue to live on 

Name of speaker: 
Oded Amit
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Cultural activist at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
70
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Baghdad
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Jokes
Documentation: 
Lilach Rocker
Year of recording: 
2017

Family story

In memory of Perla and Mordechai Nagad  Z"L

Name of speaker: 
Sara Nagad
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
70
Year of immigration: 
1950
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Baghdad
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Life story
Documentation: 
Liran Osi and Dafna Mizraḥi
Year of recording: 
2018

Personal life story

To the Morag family

                                                                                                        

Name of speaker: 
Jacob Morag
Participants in the conversation: 
Shirley Morag
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Regional manager at Amigour
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
71
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Basra
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Life story
Documentation: 
Liron Leibo
Year of recording: 
2017

Life story

                                                                                                      

Name of speaker: 
Zamira Sasson
Participants in the conversation: 
Yehuda Avrahami
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Pensioner
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
67
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Baghdad
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Life story
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2017
Translator: 
Nathan Himmelfarb
Translation: 

…ten children. Six girls and four boys. My father passed away (when) we were young and my mother raised us. And our name was famous: Naima with the fabric. She would sell fabric. All of her ancestors were fabric merchants and from my father’s side too - they were also fabric merchants. They raised us…until (19)66. They were arrested. And they hit her and put an iron on her arm and said to her […]. 

(19)63. After, they said to her “give us money”. She gave them money and…they let her out. After…three years, they arrested my brother Sami, the second one. And…they took him and tied him to a […]. They hit his head. They said to us, “bring us money”.

My mother heard that he was in prison, and was seeing that they were arresting people and throwing them in the river. 

She said, “oh my Gd, my son! My son! My son!”. She had a headache for three days. Then she went into a coma and passed away.

My siblings…they arrested the family and in (19)67 in…the Six Day War, six day war. The Arabs…lost the war. And they started taking revenge on the Jews in Iraq. Because the Iraqi army was…in Jordan. The Iraqi army was in Jordan and Israel came and beat them in […]. They started taking revenge on the Jews.

They didn’t allow them (Jews) to study at universities, and didn’t let them do business […] they cut their house telephones. The money…they couldn’t take it from the bank. What else? They couldn’t sell their houses, and later they started…they couldn’t go from house to house. They had to […] permission. 

I finished secondary school at Frank Eini school in (19)68. I brought the paperwork to get accepted into university and in the end they didn’t accept me, because I’m Jewish.

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