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Courtesy and mutual responsibility

In memory of my parents, Levi and Zruia Kurt

 
Name of speaker: 
Miriam Kurt Sudek
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Banking
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
65
Speaker's country of origin: 
Afghanistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Herat, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Afghan
Conversation topics: 
Community
Documentation: 
Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

Blessings, curses and proverbs

In memory of my parents, Levi and Zruia Kurt

 
Name of speaker: 
Miriam Kurt Sudek
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Banking
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
65
Speaker's country of origin: 
Afghanistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Herat, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Afghan
Conversation topics: 
Proverbs
Documentation: 
Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

From Afghanistan to the maʿabara (absorption camp), to Raʿanana

Dedicated to my mother

 
Name of speaker: 
Miriam Vidal (Pinḥasi)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Secretary at the scholarship fund of Bar-Ilan University
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Afghanistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Herat
Language: 
Judeo-Afghan
Conversation topics: 
Aliya, Settlement and absorption
Documentation: 
Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

Of Dari language

Dedicated to my mother

 
Name of speaker: 
Miriam Vidal (Pinḥasi)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Secretary at the scholarship fund of Bar-Ilan University
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Afghanistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Herat
Language: 
Judeo-Afghan
Conversation topics: 
Family, Language
Documentation: 
Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

Matchmaking and wedding

Dedicated to my mother

 
Name of speaker: 
Miriam Vidal (Pinḥasi)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Secretary at the scholarship fund of Bar-Ilan University
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Afghanistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Herat
Language: 
Judeo-Afghan
Conversation topics: 
Circle of life
Documentation: 
Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

Holidays

Dedicated to my mother

Name of speaker: 
Miriam Vidal (Pinḥasi)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Secretary at the scholarship fund of Bar-Ilan University
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Afghanistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Herat
Language: 
Judeo-Afghan
Conversation topics: 
Cycle of the year
Documentation: 
Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

Life and studies in Herat

Dedicated to my mother

 
Name of speaker: 
Miriam Vidal (Pinḥasi)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Secretary at the scholarship fund of Bar-Ilan University
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Afghanistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Herat
Language: 
Judeo-Afghan
Conversation topics: 
Community, Education
Documentation: 
Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

Great grandfather

Dedicated to my mother

 
Name of speaker: 
Miriam Vidal (Pinḥasi)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Secretary at the scholarship fund of Bar-Ilan University
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Afghanistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Herat
Language: 
Judeo-Afghan
Conversation topics: 
Family
Documentation: 
Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

Afghan love song

In memory of my parents, Levi and Zruia Kurt

 

Name of speaker: 
Seno Zruia Kurt
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
88
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Afghanistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Herat
Language: 
Judeo-Afghan
Conversation topics: 
Women's songs
Documentation: 
Miri Kurt Sudek
Year of recording: 
2018
Transcription: 

A pen carved from my bones,

Ink I will take from the artery of my soul,

A letter I will write on the septum of my heart,

To my dear beloved good were the days where we sat together,

With pen on a paper we wrote to him the pen broke and the paper the wind took,

Why the days of our parting we wrote the pen yellowed,

And the paper is yellow leaf,

I will...read more

Counting of the Omer

Name of speaker: 
Rabbi Refael Bezalel
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Rabbi and educator
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
76
Speaker's country of origin: 
Afghanistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Herat
Language: 
Judeo-Afghan
Conversation topics: 
Counting of the Omer, Customs and traditions, Cycle of the year
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2018

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