Family - Mother Tongue

Afghanistan

Herat

Great grandfather

Of Dari language

The occupations of my mother and grandmother, and the trade relations of my second grandmother with the Muslims

Israel

Father, family and matchmaking of the sister

Kabul

Father, family and matchmaking of the sister

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Life in Algeria the night of arriving in Israel

Oran

Annette's mother

Balkans

Monastir

Bukhara

Dushanbe

Couple's life and women's status

Fergana

Her mother Rachel, meeting her husband and wedding

Margilan

Her mother Rachel, meeting her husband and wedding

Samarkand

Belief in the Messiah and Aliya to Israel

Couple's life and women's status

Grandparents and their work

Nursing family story

Tashkent

Brit mila, family and names

Grandparents and their work

Help with raising children, birth and folk beliefs about birth

Her father's draft evasion and her parents' relationship

Life at the parents' house, honoring parents and Shabbat

Nursing family story

Caucasus

Baku

Shabbat and family

Cuba

Lifa story and family

Derbent

Family, dating and wedding

Life story, making aliya and family

Memories from the neighborhood and home

Tension within the family concerning religion and communism

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Bereavement customs and her mother's death

Family and life story

Matchmaking and introduction with the spouse

Military service during World War II

Wedding customs and life as a married couple

Nalchik

Quba

Divorce

Shabbat and family

Song in memory of the bride and groom's relatives

The arrest of her grandfather, ʾElʿazar by the KGB

Egypt

Alexandria

Family and colloquial language

Cairo

Family roots, Aliya and absorption

Family story and life in Cairo

Home birth, tending the mother and family support

Life story and family

Life story of the Behar family

My grandmother and Purim customs

Story about my father

Europe: Eastern

Buhuși (Romania)

Family

Iași (Romania)

Family and family celebration

Roots trip to Romania

Europe: Western

Izmir

Family story and Ladino

Milan (Italy)

Family story and Ladino

Georgia

Kulashi

Life story and family's livelihood during World War II

Oni

Engagement and love story

Family, wedding and birth

Greece

Aigio

Her uncle's attempt to rescue Jews

Athens

Shabbat and family in the Thessaloniki community

Ioannina

History and personal memories from family and community

Israel

Family story and the Holocaust

Her family's residence in Florentin and North Tel Aviv

Life and family story

My mother and her aliya journey

Thessaloniki

Family story and the Holocaust

Her family's residence in Florentin and North Tel Aviv

Life and family story

My mother and her aliya journey

Shabbat and family in the Thessaloniki community

Trikala

Bereavement customs and death of her brother

Family and language

Volos

Family, Shabbat foods and education

India

Mumbai

Tension within the family: between Judaism and Hinduism

The family's Aliya to Israel

The variety of languages spoken at home

Iran

Arak

Attitude towards men and women

Bibles stories told by her mother

Family honors and values

Grandma's remedies for various diseases and her parents' falling in love story

Her doctors father and grandmother and Aliya to Israel

Her father and grandmother's work as alternative therapists

Her father as solider in the Muslim army

Her grandmother's story and life in Golpayegan

Her grandparents, their occupation and respecting the elderly

Her maternal grandmother

Home, family and children's games

My family's livelihood and my grandmother's work as a healer

My mother's Hebrew and the attitude towards the Persian language

Parable about parents and children

The parents' relationship and differences between them

The synagogue and her grandmother's beliefs

Women's social status, relationships and the story of her father

Bijar

Childhood in Jewish family

Familial relationships

Borujerd

Lamenting for a mother

Golpayegan

Attitude towards men and women

Bibles stories told by her mother

Family and education

Family honors and values

Grandma's remedies for various diseases and her parents' falling in love story

Her doctors father and grandmother and Aliya to Israel

Her father and grandmother's work as alternative therapists

Her father as solider in the Muslim army

Her grandmother's story and life in Golpayegan

Her grandparents, their occupation and respecting the elderly

Her maternal grandmother

Livelihood, home and shared life

My brother's story and occupation

My mother's Hebrew and the attitude towards the Persian language

Parable about parents and children

Rivka's mother and bereavement customs

The parents' relationship and differences between them

The synagogue and her grandmother's beliefs

Women's social status, relationships and the story of her father

Gorgan

My mother and life in Iran

Hamadan

Family

My parents' occupations, my sister and a story about my grandmother

Isfahan

Family and childhood

My parents' occupations

Stories of the Land of Israel

Israel

Istanbul

Family story and the Judeo-Aramaic dialect

Travel and World War II

ʾAvraham Dahpur

Kashan

My parents and their lives in Iran

Kerend

Family, education and dyeing fabric

Kerman

Life and family story

Kermanshah

Aliya, absorption and history of the family in Israel

Family

Her husband and moving to Ramat Gan

Her husband's illness

Meʾir Nadari's family

My parents' occupations, my sister and a story about my grandmother

The family's livelihood

The harvest scythe and the fireplace's leg

The mother finds her sick son in the hospital

Weddings and births in the family

Khorasan

My parents' introduction and wedding in Khorasan

Khorramshahr

Naʿima ʾAvrahami's family

Mahabad

Her brother’s matchmaking with his wife in Tehran

Her father's livelihood and their good financial status

Her father's robbery in Mahabad

Her parents' hospitality customs

Qasr-e Shirin

Life story and the family

Salmas

Family story and the Judeo-Aramaic dialect

Travel and World War II

ʾAvraham Dahpur

Sanandaj

Shabbat and holidays with the family

Sanqala

The birth of a fifth daughter

Saqqez

My father and brother

The daughter's passing and bereavement customs

The harvest scythe and the fireplace's leg

The mother finds her sick son in the hospital

Shahandasht

The attitude of non-Jews toward Jews: a story about the governor’s son and the brother

Shiraz

Matchmaking, wedding and divorce

Teheran

During Israel's wars

Meeting my wife, wedding and birth

My parents and their lives in Iran

My parents' occupations

My parents' occupations and grandfather Israel

My parents' occupations, my sister and a story about my grandmother

Tehran

Acquaintance with her partner, family and life in Israel

Tekab

Wedding of the parents

Tuyserkan

Dating

Engagement and wedding

Parting her mother during Aliya and preserving her name

Story of her doctor grandmother and the king of Persia

Urmia

Childbirth, breastfeeding, stillbirth, brit and names

Her grandmother's occupation and financial status

Marriage between cousins

The occupations of my parents, grandfather and grandmother, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law

The rabbi's father, Shabbat, living with her grandmother

Yazd

Occupation and livelihood, story about her grandfather

בוקאן

Walking to the river with his father before Shabbat and the family's Shabbat gathering

Iraq

Baghdad

Aliya, absorption and family

Divorce among Jews

First meeting with the extended family

Her family members and the passing of one of her siblings

Her grandmother's house and the acquaintance between the parents

Life and family in Baghdad

My family: birth in Jerusalem, moving to Baghdad, returning to Israel

The relationship between the mother and the mother-in-law, the family home, sleeping on the roof during the summer

Basra

A story about a resurrected woman

Her aunt's trip to Baghdad to marry

Her mother's passing

How her son met his wife

Erbil

My family's occupations, my grandmother and the relationship with the Muslims

Israel

Aliya, absorption and family

Kirkuk

The family's occupation and livelihood in Iraq and in Israel

The house in Kirkuk and the wedding that took place there

ʾIlana's parents life story

Mosul

Relationship with the Muslims, her parents and making aliya

Tuz Khurmatu

Family and livelihood

Family stories: the family's relationship with the Muslims

Family, life in Iraq and school

Life in Iraq: relationship with the Muslims, family life and speaking Turkish

Wedding and living in Tirat Hacarmel

ʿAna

Life story of the Muʿalem family

Israel

Hebron

History of the family living in Jerusalem

Jerusalem

A Jerusalem family of Spanish origin

Family story and Judeo-Spanish

Family story: history and making aliya

Her father who observes the Jewish tradition and Shabbat customs

Her mother's Greek dialect and her father's Jerusalem dialect

History of the family and Benjamin Samuel Leon

History of the family living in Jerusalem

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

Song for a grandmother

Ouarzazate

Zahavit talks about her grandmother

Peqi'in

Margalit Zinati's father

Thessaloniki

Family story: history and making aliya

Her father who observes the Jewish tradition and Shabbat customs

Her mother's Greek dialect and her father's Jerusalem dialect

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

Tiberias

Family

Life and family story

Life story and family

Passover at family Toledano

The history of family Toledano

Kurdistan

Amadiya

Aliya and family

Rabbi Shimʿon: her mother in law's brother

Sayings of the parents

The extended family

The grandfather and his family

Amedi

My father and his business

My grandfather, a dayan (rabbinical judge) and shochet (ritual butcher), and how he helped a couple get divorced

My mother and her acts of kindness toward the community

Awena

Wedding

Baghdad

Engagement, wedding, marriage life and domestic violence

Folk remedies and a story about a relative

My father's stories

Proverb of a bride who serves her mother-in-law meat that turns into a frog

Barzan

Aunt Z”L and her life document in Kurdistan and Baghdad

Parents' meeting and wedding

Batas

Cigarettes to her father: poverty and family values

Foods, her husband and his family

Bukan

Aliya of parents

Aliya, absorption and family

Duhok

Folk remedies and a story about a relative

My father's stories

Proverb of a bride who serves her mother-in-law meat that turns into a frog

The family's home and livelihood

Erbil

Family and the Kurdish community in Israel

Family, childhood and education

Josef’s maternal orphanhood

Kubbe recipe and memories from father

Spouses, dowries and the relationship between a bride and her mother-in-law

Work in Israel and Kurdistan

Ginz

Suspicion of abducting Ḥabiba’s son

Israel

Aliya and family

Her father's education and spreading the legacy of Kurdish Jews

My grandfather, Rabbi Yizchak Noah ʾEliyahu ZT"L and his tole in the community

My mother and family

Sayings of the parents

The grandfather and his family

Koy Sanjaq

Family

Family, life story and making aliya

My father's life story

My father, Rabbi Yizchak Noah ʾEliyahu ZT"L and his tole in the community

My grandfather, Rabbi Yizchak Noah ʾEliyahu ZT"L and his tole in the community

Name meaning of Shimʿon Yizchak

Mosul

Engagement, wedding, marriage life and domestic violence

The family's story

Qaladze

Josef’s maternal orphanhood

Qapʾachʾan

Wedding and family

Rekan

My grandfather and grandmother

Said 'ubed

Family

Family residence

Sanandaj

My grandfather: head of the Jewish community in Sanandaj, mediator and ḥazzan

My mother: mediator, matchmaker and clothing designer

Sandor

Aliya, family and life in Israel

Sulaymaniya

Family

Family, life story and making aliya

Her father's family: their orphanhood and the fate of the siblings

Life in Sulaymaniya

My father's life story

My father, Rabbi Yizchak Noah ʾEliyahu ZT"L and his tole in the community

My grandfather, Rabbi Yizchak Noah ʾEliyahu ZT"L and his tole in the community

Name meaning of Shimʿon Yizchak

Spring in Kurdistan: experiences, picnic and the connection with the Muslims

Zakho

Aliya to Israel and stories about her father

Aunt Z”L and her life document in Kurdistan and Baghdad

Engagement, wedding, marriage life and domestic violence

Family, community and synagouges

Her father's education and spreading the legacy of Kurdish Jews

Her home and neighborhood

Journey with father

Life of mother: Debora Da'de Baruch

Life story: childhood, education and family

Matchmaking, wedding and family compatibility

My father and his role as governor

My mother and family

Neḥama's family

Parents' meeting and wedding

Passover and motherhood

Raising children and women's lives in Zakho

The family's story

The family's story

Lebanon

Beirut

Description of the house

Family immigration to Israel and Mexico, difficulties in making aliya and absorption

Family, rabbis and Ḥachamim (sages of Talmud)

Grandmother's proverbs

Healing the son by applying ʿaraq (drink)

Making Aliya and reuniting with her brothers in Haifa

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Her family in Beirut

Malaga

Making Aliya and reuniting with her brothers in Haifa

Libya

Al-Khums

Family life in Al-Khums

Meeting his wife and sharing a life

Amrus

Difficulties of making a living and a life of scarcity

Az-Zawiya

History of the nuclear family

Benghazi

Her parents' matchmaking

Life story and blessings for the family

Rachel's family and children

Garyan

Holy studies, bar mitzva and family

Gharyan

Dropping out of school and helping with the household through agriculture

Honouring parents and treating the children with love and care

Marriage and livelihood in Israel and abroad

Misrata

Her parents' matchmaking

Msallata

Her grandmother's blessings for her grandchildren

Her mother's livelihood and Rabbi Frija Zuares

His father and bar mitzva

Meeting his wife, family and livelihood

Song about relationships in the family

Tripoli

Aliya, absorption and search for relatives

Dropping out of school and helping with the household through agriculture

Family

Family ties during childhood

Good neighborly relations with a Muslim woman and the birth of twins

Her mother giving birth in Libya

Her mother's life in Israel, charity to the poor and helping others

His family members' professions: education, sewing and dairy farming

His grandmother's passing at home in Libya

His mother's passing during World War II and his father remarrying

Holy studies, bar mitzva and family

Honouring parents and treating the children with love and care

Jewish holidays in the village (moshav) and family celebrations

Life story and family

Marriage and livelihood in Israel and abroad

My parents' occupations

The family's use of her mother's house

The history of the family and moving to Beʾer Yaʿakov

The history of the family: the life story of her mother, giving birth and the language spoken at home

The mother's family

Morocco

Agadir

Lifa and family story

Agdz

Ḥacham Gabbay's grandfather

Wedding and honouring parents

Aït Bouguemmaz

Description of the village houses

Asammer

Her husband, women's roles and relationship with the Muslims

Leah's son

Asilah

Gila's grandfather

Asslen

Way of living and the community

Beni Mellal

Acquaintance between the parents and the intervention of ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Boys and girls playing separately and shopping at the market

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye): cleansing with “bekhor,” the use of fish and hamsas, protection for a new home and for a mother and a baby

Boudenib

Brother's life story

Casablanca

Brit mila, acquaintance between spouses and family life

Childhood stories, honoring parents and children's games

Family

Family

Family residence at the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Her brother's passing

Her family

Her father’s profession as a farmer and female family members’ assistance in Israel

Home and childhood in Casablanca

Life in Morocco, the family and the Jewish Agency

Life story - Aliya, family and livelihood

Matchmaking, wedding and sharing a life together

Muslim nanny for the first-born son

My grandmother and parents

My parents' occupations

Our life together

Parents and their relationship

Parents and their work

Raḥel's youth

Relationship with the mother-in-law and father-in-law

Roles of women and men

Roles of women and the institution of marriage

Simi's children and grandchildren

Story of Moshe Naḥmani and his family

The financial status of her family on both sides

Wedding, relationship between the family of the bride and groom and the status of women

Debdou

History of the family and its record

My grandmother the midwife and postpartum care

Demnate

Birth, brit, my mother and the passing of my brother

Family events and hospitality

Functioning as a foster family and Rabbi Maʾor ʿAkiva

My father and relationship with Muslims

The history of the family in the city of Tshimshit

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Family

Her father and grandfather as Ḥachamim (sages of Talmud) and kabbalists

The house in El Kelaa and the relationship with the local Muslims

El-Qsar el Kebir

Relationship with the husband, children and friends

Erfoud

His parents' approach to education

My parents and grandmother

The grandfather's marriage, his death, and the subsequent lives of his children

Fedala (Mohammedia)

Lifa and family story

Fes

Family and life at a retirement home

History of the family

Origin of the family and Aliya story

Goulmima

Baba Sali's blessing and marriage

Raising children and life in moshav (village) Nofekh

Responsibility for my brothers and flood in the house

Inezgane

Bathing and sleeping in his childhood home

Family story and moving homes in Morocco

Preserving the Arabic language in Israel together with family members

Israel

History of his family and parents

Meeting the parents and family relationships

My father and the cemetery

My father reciting to sister: Zohara do not go up the mountains

My grandparents and the family lineage

My mother

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and the circle of life

Judeo-Arabic

Raḥel speaks about her mother

Kenitra

Meeting her husband and her family's livelihood

Marrakesh

Arranged matches between families, determining the dowry and presenting it in public

Dating and my parents' professions

Dating, wedding, and family

Education for politeness and diligence at home

Family

Family meals and ḥenna

Grandma's goody bag full of Tu BiShvat fruit

Her brother's occupation and meeting her husband

Revisiting Morocco

Simi's children and grandchildren

The family

Meknes

Absorption and life in Israel

Education

Her family in Morocco

Her husband's occupation and her son's injury during military service

Her mother's encouragement to pursue education

Her mother's life wisdom and clairvoyant ability

Life story - Aliya, family and livelihood

Meeting her husband

Music in his family culture

My brother, the athlete

The synagogue and the neighborhood

Ups and downs in her father's life

Women's roles in Meknes

Melilla

Her parents' acquaintance

Midelt

Making aliya and family

Mogador (Essaouira)

Education and relationship with the aunt

Engagement and wedding customs

Family outing on Shabbat

Her father and his relationship with the community's Rabbis

Her mother's couscous

My family

The family and their ways of communication

The family in Israel

Yom Kippur

Ouarzazate

Bride and mother-in-law relationship

Family residence at the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Her brother's passing

Her father’s profession as a farmer and female family members’ assistance in Israel

Raḥel speaks about her husband

Raḥel's family

Wedding and children

Ouled Mansour

Family and life story

Oumnass

Simi's children and grandchildren

Qsar Ssouq

Naming the children

Wedding and family

Rabat

Making Aliya and living in Israel

My grandmother and parents, and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Occupation and livelihood, wedding and brit mila

Safi

Mimouna, a purple suit that went up in flames and a family tradition that wearing purple brings bad luck

My father's studies, career and how he met my mother"

My parents' life story

Salé

Marriage of relatives

Sefrou

The birth of my sister and the protection of the newborn baby from demons

The neighborhood and the house

Settat

Talilit

Tangier

Family, community, Aliya and absorption in Tiberias

Her mother's nursery rhyme

Her parents' acquaintance

Romance about a meeting between brother and sister

Telouet

Introduction with her partner, her father and relationship with the Muslim

Timztot

My family

Tinejdad

My father and the cemetery

My mother

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and the circle of life

Tirsal

Family song describing life in the village and praises the Lord

History of his family and parents

Meeting the parents and family relationships

My father reciting to sister: Zohara do not go up the mountains

My grandparents and the family lineage

Tiznit

History of his family and parents

Meeting the parents and family relationships

My father reciting to sister: Zohara do not go up the mountains

My grandparents and the family lineage

Venezuela

Her parents' acquaintance

Zerkten

Family members and their occupations

מכנס

Bar mitzva in Meknes

Syria

Aleppo

Family story from Aleppo

Family's involvement in marital affairs

His father, the visit in Palestine and the decision to make aliya

His grandfather's grandparents

His mother, food delivery for their neighbors and eating plenty of meat

Sheep farming in Aleppo

The relationship with his uncle and his parents' uncles

Visiting the family home during holidays and after wedding

Damascus

Community life in Damascus

History of the Shaluḥ family

Lala Alfia's life and family story

Marriage, divorce and family's role

Men's occupations: her husband's livelihood and her father's store

My family

The family and presenting Syrian documents and diplomas

Weddings and family

Israel

His father, the visit in Palestine and the decision to make aliya

His grandfather's grandparents

His mother, food delivery for their neighbors and eating plenty of meat

The relationship with his uncle and his parents' uncles

Nusaybin

His father, the visit in Palestine and the decision to make aliya

His grandfather's grandparents

His mother, food delivery for their neighbors and eating plenty of meat

The relationship with his uncle and his parents' uncles

Qamishli

The Jewish community, his father the mukhtar and Rabbi Avraham Ḥamra

Tunisia

Ariana

Passing of the father

Djerba

Customs of Hoshaʿana Rabba (the seventh day of Sukkot) at the Trabelsi family

Dating and her parents' marriage

Her mother's poverty, poor girls' marriage and her parents' marriage

Marani’s grandparents and the burial of the family

Meeting his future wife and their wedding

Men's livelihood and women's house duties

Rabbi Nisim Cohen ZT”L, his family and connections to moshav (village) Sharsheret

Relationship between men and women

The daughter who went missing and was found

The son Gideon in his childhood

El Ḥamma

Meeting his future wife and their wedding

Gabes

Description of the father and grandfather

Family life story

Family story and Aliya to Israel

Father, mother and grandmother

His parents' marriage, his father's figure, life in Tunisia and settlement in Israel

Housing

Life at Zarat without a Jewish community and education and returning to Gabes with the help of his brother and sister-in-law

My mother, my family and I

Occupation and livelihood

Women and men's occupations

Gafsa

Aliya, absorption and family life

Mahdia

Dating and the events in Israel

Family and parents' occupations

Languages

Matmata

Father, mother and grandmother

My mother, my family and I

Moknine

Nabeul

Ḥaim Ḥadad father's will

Sousse

Dating and the events in Israel

Family and parents' occupations

Languages

Women's songs: divorce

Women's songs: singleness

Sulayman

Tozeur

Life in Tozeur's oasis

Tunis

The family in Tunis, Aliya and settlement in Israel

Zarzis

Attempted abduction of her sister

Matchmaking, wedding and early days of marriage

Zehava's mother and relationship with the Muslims

Turkey

Adana

Acquaintance of her parents and the relationship with her sisters

Family

Argentina

The family and life story

Aydın

Family and community customs

Family, community, education and holidays

Jewish education and holidays

Weddings and family life

Buenos Aires

Family and community customs

Family, community, education and holidays

Jewish education and holidays

Weddings and family life

Edirne

Her grandmother's life

Israel

Buying clothes for the holidays: story about aunt Sara

Dating and Victoria's husband

Family gatherings and going to the mikve

Her grandmother's life

Victoria finding Tamar's cigarettes, Tamar electrocuted

Victoria's concern for Tamar

Visit in America and life story

Istanbul

A mother's song

Aliya, absorption and family

Buying clothes for the holidays: story about aunt Sara

Childhood and family

Childhood and the relationship between family members

Dating and Victoria's husband

Family

Family and childhood in Istanbul

Family and life story

Family gatherings and going to the mikve

Family, community and language

Family, community and relationship with the Muslims

Family, community and their attitude towards Judaism

Family, Judeo-Spanish and other languages

History of the family

Life and family story

Life and family story

My children, grandchildren and the community

The family and life story

The urge to learn and knowing languages

Victoria finding Tamar's cigarettes, Tamar electrocuted

Victoria's concern for Tamar

Visit in America and life story

Izmir

Family and life story

Family and World War II

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

Making aliya with her brother and her parents' attempt to make aliya

Music and leisure at the family home

The family and work of the father

Unknown

Acquaintance of her parents and the relationship with her sisters

Family

Yemen

Aḥduf

My family's history

My parents' occupations and matchmaking

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

Al Bayda

Parents' occupation

Al Hajar

Apostasy and a song by my mother and me about converting to Islam

Living with trouble (a second wife) and a song about it

My grandfather's decision to make aliya and the use of water bottles

My grandfather's song about the pogroms in Europe

Song composed by my family

Teshura's mother and a song she composed

Al Maḥwit

Raḥel's relationship with her grandmother

Story about his uncle

Al Qif

Her step father's positive attitude

Al-Arous

Levirate marriage (marriage to a brother’s widow)

Al-Ashur

Her father's occupations

My mother's and grandmother's work in pottery

Working in the field as a guard

Al-Gades

Her father's illness, starvation and poverty

The house in Al-Gades and cooking

Al-Ghuraba (Saudi Arabia)

Ḥenna, immersion in the river and my mother’s wedding

My father the healer and folk medicine

My father-in-law and mother-in-law

My mother’s memories of the Najran Region (Saudi Arabia) and making aliya

Al-Ḥabal

Foods and celebrations

Al-Ḥada

Maʿabara (absorption camp) and family

Story of my aunt and a longing for the Messiah

Al-Lajam

My father

My mother and relationship with Muslim women

My sister's birth

Story about my parents and family

Arhab

Song for the second wife

Bane Bada

His mother's figure and his early childhood

Tora studies with his father on Fridays

Bani Hajaj

Home

Mikve and her mother, the mikve attendant

Bashar

Family, house work and life in Yemen

Baydha

Daughter to mother song

First wife song on the second wife

Her mother, births and naming

Bayt an Nasīm (Yarim area)

Song of the eldest son

Bayt Baws

His father’s reaction when he saw him without sidelocks

Women's roles and polygamy

Dar Hayd

Pottery and jewellery making

Dhahran

Her mother's occupation

Dhamar

Aliya, family and livelihood

Childbirth, children and children's songs

Family and life in Shfeya

Grandfather and grandmother

Ghazieh

"Birds of the Sky", a song composed by my mother

My parents and grandfather

Ḥabar

Life and family story

Story about my mother

Ḥabban

Childhood story

Family and life story

The uncle who was suspected of witchcraft

Ḥaima

Birth and brit mila

Matchmaking, wedding and marriage life

My paretns' occupations, women and men's roles

Relationship with the Muslims and my father's prevention of two children's conversion to Islam

Ḥajba

Family life and circle of life in Ḥajba

Hajjah

The Imam's attitude toward Jews, the occupations of women, and my parents

Ḥawlan

Childhood and helping at home

Conceding inheritance for marital harmony

Her mother's words and recitation

Introduction with her future husband and wedding

Marital problems in Yemen

The work of the father and mother

Ḥaydan

Ḥaydan as-Sham

Houses and way of life in Yemen

My family's story and relationship with the Muslims

My father and grandmother

Haz

Life and customs in Israel

Parents, Aliya and absorption

Relationship with the parents

Ḥumar

Aliya to Israel and its arduous journey

Children's games

Dating, wedding and sharing life together

Lice in the moshav (village)

Modesty, hospitality and relationship with the parents

Stories from home

Israel

Children's games

Family life story

Houses and way of life in Yemen

Lice in the moshav (village)

Modesty, hospitality and relationship with the parents

My family's story and relationship with the Muslims

My father and grandmother

Parents, Aliya and absorption

Stories from home

Jahran

Relationship with the Arabs and his wife Yona

Judeo-Arabic

Relationship with Muslims and her father's work as a singer for Jews and Muslims

Maswar

Dating

My parents

Mingide

Education, family and childhood memories

Nabat

Men and women relationship and wedding

Najran (Saudi Arabia)

Song about the relationship between a bride and her mother-in-law

Naʿab

Widowhood and marriage

Radaʿa

Father's illness and his care

Raymah

Her grandparents and their work as healers

Nursery rhyme her grandmother sang

Relationships with the mother-in-law and singing while grinding

Ruba

Returned and unreturned babies at the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Rusaba

My grandfather's occupations

Saada

Life story, family and coping with poverty

Making aliya and his father's death

Sanaʽa

My father

My father, ʾAharon Tam

My grandmother and her blessings

My mother and relationship with Muslim women

My sister's birth

Parents, Aliya and absorption

Story about being the daughter of a teacher (Rabbi)

Story about my father

Story about my father, the shochet (ritual butcher)

Story about my parents and family

The father figure and way of education

The structure of the house in Sanaʽa

Shaghadirah

Family story about ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Sharʿab

Family

Life in Yemen and in Israel

Sir

Family and the Yemenite way of living

Tanˁam

Naʿama's parents

Parents-children relationship

Shabbat in Yemen

Thula

Dating

ʿAden

Family and childhood story of Shalom Ḥai Jacob

Family life story

Structure and atmosphere of the home in ʿAden

ʿAnaka

His father’s reaction when he saw him without sidelocks

Women's roles and polygamy

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