Synagogues - Mother Tongue

Bukhara

Samarkand

Synagogues, making matzot, Sukkot and shechita

Caucasus

Baku

Community life, synagogues and holidays

Judaism during Communism and relationship with non-Jews

Derbent

Synagogue

Quba

Community life, synagogues and holidays

Judaism during Communism and relationship with non-Jews

Qusar

Synagogue, rabbis, Shabbat and kashrut

Egypt

Cairo

Duties of the gabbai (synagogue warden)

Synagogues in Alexandria and Cairo

Europe: Eastern

Buhuși (Romania)

Passover, the synagogue and attitude towards religion

Georgia

Kulashi

Religious world, Jewish courts and tension against communism

Greece

Aigio

Secret language and the synagogue

The synagogue and war time

Iran

Arak

The synagogue and her grandmother's beliefs

Golpayegan

The synagogue and her grandmother's beliefs

Isfahan

The synagogue and the school

Kermanshah

Shabbat foods, Shabbat eve dinner and going to the synagogue

Sanandaj

The synagogue, education and relationship with the Muslim neighbours

Saqqez

Shabbat foods, Shabbat eve dinner and going to the synagogue

Sultanabad

Shabbat, holidays and synagogue

Teheran

Holidays, synagogue and community

The synagogue and the school

Iraq

Baghdad

Description of the synagogue’s structure

Synagogue, relationship with the Muslims, the rabbi of the synagogue, mutual assistance within the Jewish community, status differences

Basra

The many synagogues in Basra

Erbil

Synagogue and Beit Midrash (house of learning)

ʿAna

Synagogues and cemeteries

Israel

Jerusalem

Synagogue and Shabbat

Peqi'in

Peqi'in Synagogue

Synagogue

Tiberias

Synagogues, Shabbat and weddings

The history of family Toledano

Kurdistan

Amedi

Bar mitzva, synagogue and immersion in the frozen river

Baghdad

Shabbat, men's and women's roles on Shabbat, the synagogue's structure and its customs

Diana

The Jewish community, the rabbi and establishing the synagogue

Duhok

Shabbat, men's and women's roles on Shabbat, the synagogue's structure and its customs

Erbil

Synagogue and the role of rabbis

Hasnaka

Synagogue, Shabbat and Diwan

Mergasor

The Jewish community, the rabbi and establishing the synagogue

Qapʾachʾan

Life in Kurdistan, community and the synagogue arson

Rustaqa

Refurbishing the synagogue with the assistance of the Muslims

Sanandaj

Synagogues in Sanandaj

Sandor

Synagogue, Shabbat and Diwan

Sulaymaniya

Birth of a son, tending the mother, synagogue and brit mila

Zakho

Bar mitzva, rabbis and synagogue

Family, community and synagouges

Holidays and Yom Kippur

Rituals, the synagogue and the community

Lebanon

Beirut

Holidays

Libya

Al-Khums

Pogroms and burning of the synagogue

Amrus

Synagogue and the Jewish community in Amrus

Az-Zawiya

Slat Ibn Shaif Synagogue

Israel

Bushaeff: it's magnificence, the synagogue named after it and celebrations created for it

Msallata

The celebration in the Bushaeff synagogue at Zeitan moshav (village) and a special song

Tripoli

Bar mitzva: studying the Haftara and celebrating at the synagogue

Bushaeff: it's magnificence, the synagogue named after it and celebrations created for it

Zawiya

Tombs of the righteous and celebration at the Bushaeff synagogue

Morocco

Agadir

Making ḥamin and walking to synagogue on Shabbat eve

Asilah

Holidays, synagogues and Rabbis

Beni Mellal

Preserving tradition and language in the synagogue

Casablanca

Righteous and synagogue

Synagogue and relationship with the Muslims

Synagogues and time of the holocaust

Debdou

Synagogues in Debdou and Yom Kippur

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Shabbat and attending synagogue in Morocco

Erfoud

Yom Kippur in synagogues in Morocco

Kenitra

Synagogue and the purification of the dead

Marrakesh

Synagogue

Synagogue and Shabbat

Meknes

Celebration for Rabbi ʿAmram ben Diwan

Rabbis, synagogue and community

Synagogue and song of the sea

The synagogue and the neighborhood

Tora studies and Shabbat women's class

Mogador (Essaouira)

A married woman immersing at the mikve

Her father and his relationship with the community's Rabbis

Her father the poet and the family's singing talent

Synagogue in Mogador

Ouarzazate

Bar mitzva in the synagogue

Bar Mizva celebrations

Righteous and synagogue

Qsar Ssouq

Building the synagogue

Safi

Learning Hebrew in the synagogue

Salé

Bar mitzva celebration at the synagogue, a meal and a sermon

Sefrou

Synagogues, entering Shabbat and building a mikve due to injury to a woman who immersed in a river

מכנס

Bar mitzva in Meknes

Syria

Aleppo

Visitng the great synagogue in Aleppo

Damascus

Eliyahu HaNavi synagogue in Jobar

Synagogue

Their lives in Lebanon: community, synagogues and an announcement before Shabbat

Tunisia

Ariana

Education and poetry studies

Beja

Life in Beja (Tunisia)

School and Talmud Tora

Synagogue

Gabes

'Ḥebron' synagogue

Rabbis

Mahdia

Shabbat

Synagogue and rabbis

Matmata

'Ḥebron' synagogue

Moknine

Synagogues, Rabbis and righteous

Nefta

Bar mitzva in Tunis

Entrance to a synagogue through a brothel

Schooling at cheder

The synagogue in Nefta

Sousse

Shabbat

Synagogue and rabbis

Tunis

The synagogue, school and holidays

Turkey

Adana

Community, Shabbat and synagogue

Ankara

Jewish communities and synagogues

Aydın

Passover and synagogues

Buenos Aires

Passover and synagogues

Edirne

Synagogues, Talmud Tora, brit mila, bar mitzva and community

Israel

Synagogues, Talmud Tora, brit mila, bar mitzva and community

Istanbul

Jewish communities and synagogues

Ladino in childhood and synagogues

School, synagogue, community and World War II

Izmir

The synagogue, community and dating

Los Angeles

Ladino in childhood and synagogues

Rhodes

Ladino in childhood and synagogues

Unknown

Community, Shabbat and synagogue

Yemen

Al Bayda

Shabbat, the synagogue and Rabbis

Al Qif

The synagogue in their home and the prohibiting women to study the tora

Al-Arous

Kiddush on Shabbat eve and going to the synagogue

Mori Pinḥas (Melamed)

Al-Gades

Synagogues and studying at the Yeshiva

Bab al-Ḥyder

Education and Tora studies

Bani Hajaj

Shabbat and the synagogue

Bashar

Shabbat and synagogues

Ḥawlan

Synagogue and Tora studies

Jahran

Tora reading studies

Najran (Saudi Arabia)

Synagogue, jewelry making, sharpening knives

Thula

Synagogue

Yarim

Studying the tora at the Mori, receiving advices from her father

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