Names - Mother Tongue

Bukhara

Tashkent

Brit mila, family and names

Caucasus

Baku

Birth, name giving, family and brit mila

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Birth, naming and children's care

Quba

Birth, name giving, family and brit mila

Qusar

Engagement, wedding, brit mila and naming the newborn

Europe: Western

Ingwiller (France)

Naming celebration and the beggar from Alsace

Zurich (Switzerland)

Naming celebration and the beggar from Alsace

India

Ernakulam

Names of family members

Mumbai

Names, languages, relationships with non-Jews and burial customs

Iran

Arak

Her childhood's first name

Golpayegan

Her childhood's first name

Hamadan

The history of my name

Kermanshah

The history of my name

Teheran

Brit, children's names and bar mitzva

The history of my name

Tuyserkan

Parting her mother during Aliya and preserving her name

Urmia

Childbirth, breastfeeding, stillbirth, brit and names

Iraq

Baghdad

Personal details and name change after making Aliya

Israel

Peqi'in

Birth and name giving

Tiberias

Language, education and namings

Kurdistan

Koy Sanjaq

Name meaning of Shimʿon Yizchak

Sulaymaniya

Name meaning of Shimʿon Yizchak

Libya

Al-Khums

Belief in demons, use of amulets and fish and changing the family name

Msallata

Speaking Arabic in the family and the moshav (village) and the names of the children

Morocco

Asilah

Casablanca

Choosing children's names and its reasons

Mogador (Essaouira)'s name meaning and moving to Casablanca

Debdou

Stories: naming Esther and a story of a scarf and an iron

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Change to a Hebrew name, child labor to save on school expenses, raising poultry and avoiding injections

Naming her

Inezgane

The surname Wizman and other names

Marrakesh

Choosing children's names and its reasons

Tasmiya (naming the girl ceremony)

Meknes

Birth, brit mila and name giving

Education, Aliya and my name change

Origin of my name and birth

Mogador (Essaouira)

Mogador (Essaouira)'s name meaning and moving to Casablanca

Oumnass

Choosing children's names and its reasons

Qsar Ssouq

Naming the children

Sefrou

Name giving, Covenant of Isaac and brit mila

Origin of my name

Telouet

The Moroccan language and the origin of the name Solika

Syria

Damascus

Birth celebration and name giving

Children names and childhood games

Tunisia

Djerba

Names in Arabic and Hebrew

Turkey

Istanbul

Gifts for babies during pregnancy, celebrations of the birth of a son and daughter and naming

Izmir

Ladino as a mother, changing her name at school and her children's interest in the language

Yemen

Aḥduf

The origin of my Arab name and the kidnapping of my brother from the hospital

Al Bayda

Birth

Al Hajar

My life story, the origin of my name and community

Baydha

Her mother, births and naming

Bayt Baws

Birth, first and last names giving and brit mila

Ḥawlan

The meaning of the name 'Shamʿa'

Sawraq

Children's names

ʿAnaka

Birth, first and last names giving and brit mila

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