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Judeo-Spanish: the approach towards the language and studying it, and her sister ʾAviva Cohen Z"L establishing a Judeo-Spanish culture center

מוקדש באהבה לאחותי המנוחה אביבה כהן ז"ל (1937-2017), יוזמת הקמת חוג 'אבלאדינו' במתנ"ס זיו בבית הכרם בירושלים ומובילת החוג במשך שלוש שנות פעילותו הראשונות

Name of speaker: 
Nitsa Flor Genuth
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Sociology lecturer
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
75
Speaker's country of origin: 
Israel
Speaker's community of origin: 
Thessaloniki, Jerusalem
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Family, Language
Documentation: 
Dr. Shifra Schnoll
Year of recording: 
2022

Family story: history and making aliya

מוקדש באהבה לאחותי המנוחה אביבה כהן ז"ל (1937-2017), יוזמת הקמת חוג 'אבלאדינו' במתנ"ס זיו בבית הכרם בירושלים ומובילת החוג במשך שלוש שנות פעילותו הראשונות

Name of speaker: 
Nitsa Flor Genuth
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Sociology lecturer
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
75
Speaker's country of origin: 
Israel
Speaker's community of origin: 
Thessaloniki, Jerusalem
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Aliya, Family
Documentation: 
Dr. Shifra Schnoll
Year of recording: 
2022

Relationship with the Turkish and English, and conflict with the Arabs in Israel

מוקדש באהבה לאחותי המנוחה אביבה כהן ז"ל (1937-2017), יוזמת הקמת חוג 'אבלאדינו' במתנ"ס זיו בבית הכרם בירושלים ומובילת החוג במשך שלוש שנות פעילותו הראשונות

Name of speaker: 
Nitsa Flor Genuth
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Sociology lecturer
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
75
Speaker's country of origin: 
Israel
Speaker's community of origin: 
Thessaloniki, Jerusalem
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Relationships with non-Jews
Documentation: 
Dr. Shifra Schnoll
Year of recording: 
2022

Thessaloniki Jewry: fire in the Jewish Quarter, the rise of antisemitism, the strengthening of Zionism and making Aliya

מוקדש באהבה לאחותי המנוחה אביבה כהן ז"ל (1937-2017), יוזמת הקמת חוג 'אבלאדינו' במתנ"ס זיו בבית הכרם בירושלים ומובילת החוג במשך שלוש שנות פעילותו הראשונות

Name of speaker: 
Nitsa Flor Genuth
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Sociology lecturer
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
75
Speaker's country of origin: 
Israel
Speaker's community of origin: 
Thessaloniki, Jerusalem
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Aliya, Relationships with non-Jews, Zionism
Documentation: 
Dr. Shifra Schnoll
Year of recording: 
2022

Ḥad Gadya

Name of speaker: 
Yosef Alsheikh
Participants in the conversation: 
Alsheikh family
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Founder of First International Bank of Israel, COO of El Al, economist, CEO's consultant
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
83
Speaker's country of origin: 
Greece
Speaker's community of origin: 
Thessaloniki, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Passover Haggada and the Seder, Piyyutim, Translations
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2020

The holocaust

Name of speaker: 
Yehuda Saporta
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Civilian employee of the IDF in the military industry
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
82
Year of immigration: 
1944
Speaker's country of origin: 
Greece
Speaker's community of origin: 
Thessaloniki
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Holocaust
Documentation: 
Dr. ʾIlʾil Baum
Year of recording: 
2020
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The documentation took place at a virtual gathering of Ladino speakers during Holocaust Memorial Day.

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