Occupations and livelihoods - Mother Tongue

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Life in El Oued Souf: foods, relationship with the Arab neighbours and family trades

Livelihood in Israel

Poverty and livelihood difficulties

Poverty and neighbourliness with the Muslims

The father's work and fortune

Ghardaia

School and weaving

Bukhara

Samarkand

Making vodka and additional women's jobs

Caucasus

Derbent

Childhood play and occupation and livelihood

Jews' occupations and relations with non-Jews

Women's customs, women in the arts and culture

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Education and employment

Occupations and livelihood

Egypt

Alexandria

School and work

Cairo

Work and relationships with 'non-Jews'

Europe: Eastern

Buhuși (Romania)

Work and leisure

Iași (Romania)

Work

Europe: Western

Endingen

Jewish occupations, Shabbat preparation and Tishrei holidays

The family's livelihood

Lucerne

The family's livelihood

Wissembourg (France)

The Jewish communities in Alsace-Lorraine, Jewish occupations and expressions

Zurich (Switzerland)

Jewish occupations, Shabbat preparation and Tishrei holidays

The family's livelihood

The Jewish communities in Alsace-Lorraine, Jewish occupations and expressions

Georgia

Kulashi

Life story and family's livelihood during World War II

Oni

Greece

Ioannina

History and personal memories from family and community

India

Ernakulam

Family livelihood and occupation of women

Livelihood

Iran

Arak

Education and her doctor grandmother

Her doctors father and grandmother and Aliya to Israel

Her father and grandmother's work as alternative therapists

Her grandparents, their occupation and respecting the elderly

Borujerd

Golpayegan

Education and her doctor grandmother

Her doctors father and grandmother and Aliya to Israel

Her father and grandmother's work as alternative therapists

Her grandparents, their occupation and respecting the elderly

Livelihood, home and shared life

Isfahan

Alcohol production and relations with the Muslims

Poverty and community

Women, occupation and livelihood

Istanbul

Kerend

Family, education and dyeing fabric

Foods, livelihood, wedding and mimouna

Kermanshah

Housing, livelihood and celebration in Israel

Occupation and arts

The family's livelihood

Khorramshahr

Naʿima ʾAvrahami's family

Qasr-e Shirin

The community's customs, traditions and way of living

Salmas

Saqqez

Livelihood in Iran and Israel

Tehran

Childhood and education, occupation and livelihood

Tekab

Life story, education and occupation and livelihood

Iraq

Baghdad

Grandma and preserving the Iraqi language and culture

Hobbies and leisure

Life story, occupation and livelihood

Basra

Men's career in trade and minority of working women

Subjects and languages taught at the girls' school

Women's house occupations and relationship between women

Israel

Grandma and preserving the Iraqi language and culture

Kirkuk

The family's occupation and livelihood in Iraq and in Israel

Work, school and relationship with the Muslims

Tuz Khurmatu

Family and livelihood

Life in Iraq: relationship with the Muslims, family life and speaking Turkish

ʿAna

Livelihood

Israel

Peqi'in

Livelihood

Tiberias

Dating, wedding and her hotel job

Kurdistan

Amadiya

Work and trade with the Muslims

Awena

Baghdad

Education, employment and Bar mitzva

Making and earning from ʿaraq (drink)

Diana

Education and livelihood

Men, women and livelihood

Duhok

The family's home and livelihood

Erbil

Occupation and livelihood

Work in Israel and Kurdistan

Mergasor

Education and livelihood

Men, women and livelihood

Mosul

Education, employment and Bar mitzva

History of the mother

Making and earning from ʿaraq (drink)

The family's story

Sulaymaniya

Aliya and work in Israel

Zakho

Children's education and parents' livelihood

Daily life in Zakho

Difficulties in livelihood

Education, employment and Bar mitzva

History of the mother

Making and earning from ʿaraq (drink)

The family's story

Work and education

Lebanon

Beirut

Occupation and professions

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Lebanon's Jewish communities

Libya

Al-Khums

Journey on donkeys and the discovery of an ancient Jewish script

The professions of the Jews in Libya

Benghazi

Occupations and livelihoods

Gharyan

Dropping out of school and helping with the household through agriculture

Marriage and livelihood in Israel and abroad

Misrata

Occupations and livelihoods

Msallata

Her mother's livelihood and Rabbi Frija Zuares

Meeting his wife, family and livelihood

Tripoli

Dropping out of school and helping with the household through agriculture

Farming in Israel

Marriage and livelihood in Israel and abroad

Morocco

Agdz

Aliya to Israel and employment

Aït Bouguemmaz

Occupations and livelihoods

Asammer

Life and barter in Asammer

The importance of work amongst the men

Asilah

Asslen

Way of living and the community

Aїt Taguella

Source of water, laundry, making blankets and clothing

Boudenib

Aliya without possession, absorption and settlement in Kiryat Gat

Sewing and tailoring

Casablanca

Aliya and adaptation in Israel

Aliya, work as a house painter and relationship with the Muslims

Life in Morocco and longing for it

Life story - Aliya, family and livelihood

Livelihood and living in the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Livelihood and professions

Painting and work

Parents and their work

Visit to Morocco and paintings by Meʾir from the visit

Work and livelihood in Morocco and Israel

Work and livelihood, Aliya and absorption

Demnate

Childhood, work in Morocco and marriage

Demnate's Jewish community

Livelihood struggles and family ties in Israel

Poverty in Demnate

El-Qsar el Kebir

Aliya, absorption and parents' occupation

Work and introduction with husband

Er-Rich

Absorption and livelihood in Israel

Fes

Community life in mellah and relationship with the Muslims

Education and acquiring a profession

Jew's occupations

Goulmima

Marrakesh

Acquiring a profession for boys

Acquiring a profession for girls

Birth, brit mila and livelihood

Education and acquiring a profession

School curriculum and sewing at girls' schools

Women's professions

Work and livelihood in Morocco and Israel

Meknes

Life story - Aliya, family and livelihood

The story of the Sabag family from Meknes

Women's roles and Shabbat

Mogador (Essaouira)

Aliya, absorption and livelihood

Painting and work

Visit to Morocco and paintings by Meʾir from the visit

Ouarzazate

Livelihood and professions

Women's social status and occupation

Oumnass

Work and livelihood in Morocco and Israel

Salé

Life story: education in Morocco, care for his brothers and livelihood in Israel

Skoura

Women's social status and occupation

Tangier

Work, friends and a visit to Morocco

Taroudant

Occupations in Morocco

Syria

Aleppo

Conduct with partners and clients at work

Education and occupation

Jew's importance in Aleppo's economy

Jews' social status and use of Hebrew in trade in Syria

Sheep farming in Aleppo

Working in trade in Aleppo

Damascus

Economic status and employment

Education, occupation and integration in society

History of the Shaluḥ family

Occupation

Professions and integration in the economy

Weddings and family

Qamishli

Aliya, absorption and livelihood

Education, barbering school and livelihood

Tunisia

Ariana

Education and acquiring a profession

Djerba

Establishment of moshav (village) 'Sharsheret'

Her mother's poverty, poor girls' marriage and her parents' marriage

Men's livelihood and women's house duties

Work and livelihood in Tunisia

El Ḥamma

Establishment of moshav (village) 'Sharsheret'

Occupations in El Ḥamma

Work and livelihood in Tunisia

Gabes

Education, occupation and livelihood

Father's livelihood amongst the villages

My mother, my family and I

Occupation and livelihood

Occupation and livelihood

Women

Women and men's occupations

La Goulette

Education and life in La Goulette

Matmata

My mother, my family and I

Moknine

Difficulties in livelihood

Tozeur

Livelihood and relationship with the Muslim neighbours

Tunis

Zarzis

Making Aliya and importing garlic to Israel

Zehava's mother and relationship with the Muslims

Turkey

Argentina

Cultural Center of Spain and Ladino teaching

Aydın

Ladino teaching

Buenos Aires

Ladino teaching

Istanbul

Cultural Center of Spain and Ladino teaching

School, occupation and livelihood

Izmir

The family and work of the father

Yemen

Al Bayda

Parents' occupation

Singing as a profession

Al-Gades

Bashar

Agriculture and mikve attendance

Agriculture, weapon manufacturing and trade relations with the Muslims

Commuting in Israel and Yemen

Livelihood in the moshav (village), language and rhyming story

Livelihood, community life and communal work in the moshav (village)

Mother's work, culinary and learning to read

Moving from city to country and communal assistance in agriculture

Occupations of Yemenite Jews in Yemen

Daga

Absorption in Israel and carpentry studies

Education and livelihood

Dar Hayd

Pottery and jewellery making

Dhamar

Aliya, family and livelihood

Father's livelihood

Ḥaima

Livelihood and relationships with 'non-Jews'

Occupation and livelihood

Ḥawlan

Life story and livelihood of handicraft professions

The work of the father and mother

Ḥaydan

Occupation and livelihood

Ḥumar

Absorption and livelihood

Jahran

Foods and growing tobacco

Mingide

Aliya, absorption, livelihood and community

Ruba

Her work as a teen

Sawraq

Livelihood in Israel

Shaghadirah

Description of the house and occupations of Jews

Sharʿab

House chores by women

Tanˁam

Absorption in Gedera, fear of brother’s abduction and locals’ attitude

Traditional clothing

ʿAden

Occupations in ʿAden

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