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Yom Kippur and haftara prayers

Name of speaker: 
Shalom Salem
Participants in the conversation: 
Mazzal Salem
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Agronomist and dairy farmer
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
81
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Daga
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Prayer, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2020

If I observe the Shabbat

Name of speaker: 
Shoshana Berland
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Kindergarten teacher
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
81
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Al-Ḥada
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Piyyutim
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler and Yisca Yizchak
Year of recording: 
2020

Reading the Tora

In memory of Rabbi ʾAvraham Moshe Bashari and Rina Bashari

Name of speaker: 
Israel Bashari
Participants in the conversation: 
Pnina Bashari
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Grocery store manager, Israel Post employee, The State Comptroller and Ombudsman Office of Israel employee
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
79
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Bashar
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Bible
Documentation: 
Naʿama Ratsaby and Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

"ˁAlenu le-shabeaḥ" from Ḥabban

Name of speaker: 
Shemesh ʾEfrati
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housekeeper, goat herder, lectures on Ḥabban community
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
77
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Ḥabban
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Prayer
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2020

Ḥad Gadya

Name of speaker: 
Rabbi Nissim Mesika
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Rabbi, mohel, shochet, writer and hazzan
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
74
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Tunisia
Speaker's community of origin: 
Bizerte
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Passover Haggada and the Seder, Piyyutim
Documentation: 
Moshe Yosef and Kobi ʾOz (delivered to Yaʿel Baruch)
Year of recording: 
1981

'Eternal Lord' and 'dwell in houses of clay'

Name of speaker: 
Yosef Magro
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Farmer
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
81
Year of immigration: 
1950
Speaker's country of origin: 
Libya
Speaker's community of origin: 
Msallata
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Piyyutim
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2020

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