Women - Mother Tongue

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Mikve (purification bath) in El Oued (Souf)

Women's education

Caucasus

Derbent

Women's customs, women in the arts and culture

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Matchmaking and introduction with the spouse

Egypt

Cairo

Bat mitzva and wedding

Europe: Western

Endingen

Women in the community

Lucerne

Women in the community

Zurich (Switzerland)

Women in the community

Iran

Bijar

The status of women

Women's modesty

Golpayegan

Birth, impurity and purity and women's lives

Isfahan

Holidays and women's schooling

The Jewish neighbourhood, women's life and weddings

Israel

Peqi'in

Lighting candles

Kurdistan

Baghdad

Birth and bereavement

Engagement, wedding, marriage life and domestic violence

Israel

Community and women

Mosul

Birth and bereavement

Engagement, wedding, marriage life and domestic violence

Zakho

Birth and bereavement

Birth story and midwife gift

Community and women

Engagement, wedding, marriage life and domestic violence

Raising children and women's lives in Zakho

The Rabbi's wife

Lebanon

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Birth: preparations and customs

Women

Libya

Az-Zawiya

Congratulations and greetings

Foods and song about tea

Preparation of the bride to her wedding

Benghazi

Khoms

Education and the teaching of women

Morocco

Agdz

Status of women and matchmaking

Asammer

Nidda

Women's immersion

Asslen

Women - cycle of life and status in the community

Bu Gammaz

Women's occupations

El-Qsar el Kebir

Relationship with the husband, children and friends

Fes

Pregnancy, birth, brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Marrakesh

Attitude towards men and women

Names of women's jewelry

Pregnancy, birth, brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Worshiping the holy, folk remedies and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Timztot

Couscous making, walking to the mikve and singing

Men and women's education

Status of men and women in the community

Wedding and complementary ceremonies

Syria

Damascus

Tunisia

Djerba

Customs: bsisa, Se'udat Yitro (Feast of Jethro), Daughters' Holiday and Passover

Life and wedding at the community of Tataouine

Life in Djerba and connection to the land of Israel

Turkey

Israel

Song for a bride at the bathhouse

Izmir

Song for a bride at the bathhouse

Yemen

Ḥawlan

Eye makeup

Marital problems in Yemen

Matchmaking and wedding story

Song about caring for women

Songs for a bride who leaves home

Ḥumar

Israel

Sanaʽa

Humility and matchmaking amongst women

Life story and the status of women

Women's clothing in celebrations and holidays

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