English

Scroll reading and sweet pastries for Purim

Name of speaker: 
Mazal (Saʿida) Levi (Noah)
Participants in the conversation: 
Sigalit ʿAmrousi
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
86
Year of immigration: 
1948
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2021

Desecration of Rabbi Yosef Ḥaim

Name of speaker: 
Mazal (Saʿida) Levi (Noah)
Participants in the conversation: 
Sigalit ʿAmrousi
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
86
Year of immigration: 
1948
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2021

Men's career in trade and minority of working women

Name of speaker: 
Mazal (Saʿida) Levi (Noah)
Participants in the conversation: 
Sigalit ʿAmrousi
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
86
Year of immigration: 
1948
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2021

How her son met his wife

Name of speaker: 
Mazal (Saʿida) Levi (Noah)
Participants in the conversation: 
Sigalit ʿAmrousi
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
86
Year of immigration: 
1948
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2021

The Jewish communities of Iraq

Name of speaker: 
Mazal (Saʿida) Levi (Noah)
Participants in the conversation: 
Sigalit ʿAmrousi
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
86
Year of immigration: 
1948
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2021

Pre-wedding traditions

Name of speaker: 
Mazal (Saʿida) Levi (Noah)
Participants in the conversation: 
Sigalit ʿAmrousi
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
86
Year of immigration: 
1948
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2021

The bar mitzva ceremony and its customs

Name of speaker: 
Mazal (Saʿida) Levi (Noah)
Participants in the conversation: 
Sigalit ʿAmrousi
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
86
Year of immigration: 
1948
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2021

Subjects and languages taught at the girls' school

Name of speaker: 
Mazal (Saʿida) Levi (Noah)
Participants in the conversation: 
Sigalit ʿAmrousi
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
86
Year of immigration: 
1948
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2021

Babies abduction in Israel

Name of speaker: 
Mazal (Saʿida) Levi (Noah)
Participants in the conversation: 
Sigalit ʿAmrousi
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
86
Year of immigration: 
1948
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2021

Pilgrimage to Ezekiel's Tomb during Shavuot

Name of speaker: 
Mazal (Saʿida) Levi (Noah)
Participants in the conversation: 
Sigalit ʿAmrousi
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
86
Year of immigration: 
1948
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2021
Translator: 
Nathan Himmelfarb & Yehudit Henshke

Translation: 

Shvuot - (people( would go to the synagogue. They (would) read all of the night (all night long). And they (would) sit in the morning, (and) go visiting (tombs of prophets).

They (would) go (to) Rabbi Sem…no, Rabbi…What (was) his name, this…Rabbi Hesqel. Rabb Hesqel, they (would) go there to visit (tombs).

(On) Shavuot we would make a visit. In the last year, (my) aunt’s husband took us, mercy on his soul. He took us to Baaquba, and we went to visit (the tomb), and we slept in Baaquba.

And how they made us fish (what fish they made us)! Fish. They made us fish, and they made us salad, and we sat, we ate, and the bread was hot, we ate and we became full, and the next day we returned to our house. Mercy on his soul, my aunt’s husband.

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