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Shabbat and holidays

Name of speaker: 
Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Nurse, factory worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
65
Year of immigration: 
1973
Speaker's country of origin: 
Bukhara
Speaker's community of origin: 
Samarkand, Dushanbe
Language: 
Judeo-Tajik
Conversation topics: 
Hanukka, Passover, Purim, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, Shabbat, Sukkot
Documentation: 
Yisca Yizchak
Year of recording: 
2020

Home remedies

Name of speaker: 
Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Nurse, factory worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
65
Year of immigration: 
1973
Speaker's country of origin: 
Bukhara
Speaker's community of origin: 
Samarkand, Dushanbe
Language: 
Judeo-Tajik
Conversation topics: 
Health
Documentation: 
Yisca Yizchak
Year of recording: 
2020

Wedding and its customs

Name of speaker: 
Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Nurse, factory worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
65
Year of immigration: 
1973
Speaker's country of origin: 
Bukhara
Speaker's community of origin: 
Samarkand, Dushanbe
Language: 
Judeo-Tajik
Conversation topics: 
Wedding
Documentation: 
Yisca Yizchak
Year of recording: 
2020

School's atmosphere

Name of speaker: 
Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Nurse, factory worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
65
Year of immigration: 
1973
Speaker's country of origin: 
Bukhara
Speaker's community of origin: 
Samarkand, Dushanbe
Language: 
Judeo-Tajik
Conversation topics: 
Education
Documentation: 
Yisca Yizchak
Year of recording: 
2020

Couple's life and women's status

Name of speaker: 
Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Nurse, factory worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
65
Year of immigration: 
1973
Speaker's country of origin: 
Bukhara
Speaker's community of origin: 
Samarkand, Dushanbe
Language: 
Judeo-Tajik
Conversation topics: 
Family, Women
Documentation: 
Yisca Yizchak
Year of recording: 
2020

Birth

Name of speaker: 
Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Nurse, factory worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
65
Year of immigration: 
1973
Speaker's country of origin: 
Bukhara
Speaker's community of origin: 
Samarkand, Dushanbe
Language: 
Judeo-Tajik
Conversation topics: 
Circle of life
Documentation: 
Yisca Yizchak
Year of recording: 
2020

Foods and food related traditions

Name of speaker: 
Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Nurse, factory worker
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
65
Year of immigration: 
1973
Speaker's country of origin: 
Bukhara
Speaker's community of origin: 
Samarkand, Dushanbe
Language: 
Judeo-Tajik
Conversation topics: 
Cuisine, Customs and traditions
Documentation: 
Yisca Yizchak
Year of recording: 
2020

Bukharan song (original melody of 'Pomegranate Tree')

In memory of Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Efraim ZT"L

The song was sung in 1983 during the night of Passover at Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Efraim’s house in Dushanbe

Name of speaker: 
Polina Kalantarova
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Epidemiologist
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
64
Speaker's country of origin: 
Bukhara
Speaker's community of origin: 
Samarkand, Dushanbe
Language: 
Judeo-Tajik
Conversation topics: 
Folk songs
Documentation: 
David Ben Efraim
Year of recording: 
1983
Transcriptor: 
Marina Shumunov
Transcription: 

1                                                            

Şudam ʙar surratat oşuq                       
Ki ʙar man mekunad gavƣo
Ci surrat surrati dilʹʙar,
Ci dilʹʙar dilʹʙari zeʙo

2

Agar az ʙoƣ xaʙar ojad
Ba sad gul gul ʙaron dilʹʙar
Ci gul gul gul guli ʙulʹʙul
Ci ʙulʹʙul ʙulʹʙuli şajdo

3

Nigori man ʙa sad xuʙi
Ki zulʹfaş naƣate dorad
Ci nagat nagati amʙar
Ci amaʙar amʙari soro

 

Passover Seder (part A)

Dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Efraim ZT"L.

Recorded in Dushanbe.

Name of speaker: 
Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Efraim
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Rabbi of the Dushanbe Jewish community
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
75
Speaker's country of origin: 
Bukhara
Speaker's community of origin: 
Dushanbe
Language: 
Judeo-Tajik
Conversation topics: 
Customs and traditions, Cycle of the year, Passover, Passover Haggada and the Seder
Documentation: 
David Ben Efraim
Year of recording: 
1983

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