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Rosh Hashana blessings and praying at the synagogue

Name of speaker: 
Saʿid ʿArusi
Participants in the conversation: 
Zecharya ʿArusi
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Merchant and Solel-Boneh worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
113
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Al-Arous
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2022
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הדובר משלב בלשונו עברית (מסורת אל-ערוס)

Preparing for Shabbat

Name of speaker: 
Saʿid ʿArusi
Participants in the conversation: 
Zecharya ʿArusi
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Merchant and Solel-Boneh worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
113
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Al-Arous
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Piyyutim
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2022

Bar Yoḥai

Name of speaker: 
Saʿid ʿArusi
Participants in the conversation: 
Zecharya ʿArusi
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Merchant and Solel-Boneh worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
113
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Al-Arous
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Piyyutim
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2022

Piyyutim of brit mila

Name of speaker: 
Shalom Ḥamisa
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Shepherd and farmer
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Libya
Speaker's community of origin: 
Al-Khums
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Piyyutim
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Baruch
Year of recording: 
2021

If I observe the Shabbat

Name of speaker: 
Zahara Yaʿish
Participants in the conversation: 
Tranja Yahud and Shoshana Gridi
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
102
Year of immigration: 
1948
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Yarim
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Piyyutim, Shabbat
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2022

Song of the righteous

Dedicated with love to my family, and especially my granddaughters and grandsons!

Name of speaker: 
Shimʿon ʾOhana
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Manufacturing plant worker and events singer
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
73
Year of immigration: 
1963
Speaker's country of origin: 
Morocco
Speaker's community of origin: 
Beni Mellal
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Sacred songs
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Baruch
Year of recording: 
2020

Blessings for the Tora reading (bar mitzva)

Name of speaker: 
David Shuker
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Head of the Bnei Ayish Council and chairman of the Committee for the Rescue of Yemenite Jews
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
75
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Najran (Saudi Arabia)
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Bible
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2022
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אזור נג'ראן נמצא בסעודיה על הגבול עם תימן.

Reading the Tora as she heard it from her father

Name of speaker: 
Naʿomi Shuker
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Cook
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
73
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Najran (Saudi Arabia)
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Bible
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2022
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אזור נג'ראן נמצא בסעודיה על הגבול עם תימן.

Blessing before reading the Tora and reading the Tora

Name of speaker: 
Yehi’el (Yiḥya) Qarwani
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Artist who works with a Jerusalem stone
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
84
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Al Maḥwit
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Bible, Prayer
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2022

Seal of the Tora (Deuteronomy 34)

Name of speaker: 
Rabbi Shalom Cohen (Salem Ibn Sliman el Cohen)
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Jewellery and Judaica goldsmith
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
60
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Sanaʽa
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: Bible reading
Documentation: 
Provided to Yaʿel Wecsler by Yeḥiʾel Cohen
Year of recording: 
1974

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