Childhood - Mother Tongue

Afghanistan

Herat

School

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Childhood

Childhood in 'El Oued' (Souf)

Children's story and song

Israel

Childhood

Bukhara

Samarkand

Nursing family story

Tashkent

Dating, wedding and children

Nursing family story

Caucasus

Baku

Birth, adolescence and adulthood

Derbent

Childhood play and occupation and livelihood

Memories from the neighborhood and home

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Childhood

Childhood memories from the village

Quba

Birth, adolescence and adulthood

Life story, childhood and play

Egypt

Cairo

Brave childhood friendship with Fatima and its unfortunate dissolution

Memories from summer break: a trip to a beach at Alexandria and a visit to his father's store

Europe: Western

Baden

Childhood memories (3)

Basel

Childhood memories (3)

Basel (Switzerland)

Childhood memories (2)

Durmenach (France)

Childhood memories (2)

Endingen

Childhood memories (1)

Grussenheim (France)

Childhood memories (1)

Mülheim (Germany)

Childhood memories (3)

Zurich (Switzerland)

Childhood memories (1)

Childhood memories (3)

Greece

Aigio

Christian female friends

Iran

Arak

Childhood and communal identity

Home, family and children's games

The parents' relationship and differences between them

Bijar

Childhood

Golpayegan

Childhood and communal identity

The parents' relationship and differences between them

Gorgan

My mother and life in Iran

Isfahan

A raffle song for children

Family and childhood

My childhood life

Israel

Life in Mashhad

Istanbul

Youth and childhood memories

Mashhad

Life in Mashhad

Nahawand

Children's songs and games

Salmas

Youth and childhood memories

Sultanabad

Home, bazaar, school and play

Teheran

My childhood life

Tehran

Childhood and education, occupation and livelihood

Childhood in Tehran, Shabbat and holidays

Tekab

School, education and life in Tekab

Shmuʾel's childhood

Urmia

Children's games, holidays and sweets

Yazd

Children's games and nursery rhymes

Iraq

Baghdad

Communal identity, children's games, shopping on Shabbat and wedding

Housewives, work during childhood, her grandmother the midwife, shopkeeper in the market, her parents' occupations

Life in Baghdad

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

Tuz Khurmatu

Israel

Ouarzazate

Zahavit talks about her grandmother

Tiberias

The visit to Jerusalem

Kurdistan

Baghdad

Inviting neighbors to listen to her father's stories and the girls' activities during this time

Shabbat, holidays and childhood memories

Showers near the river, bathing the babies and buying raw materials

Duhok

Inviting neighbors to listen to her father's stories and the girls' activities during this time

Showers near the river, bathing the babies and buying raw materials

Erbil

Family, childhood and education

Mosul

Children's sleep

Shabbat, holidays and childhood memories

Qapʾachʾan

Children's tales and songs

Zakho

Aliya and childhood

Childhood: swimming, fishing and horse riding

Children's sleep

Life story: childhood, education and family

Shabbat, holidays and childhood memories

Lebanon

Beirut

Childhood, education and teaching languages

Incident with a candle that almost caused a fire

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Adaptation and life in Israel

Libya

Gharyan

Childhood

Honouring parents and treating the children with love and care

Israel

Childhood in moshav Zeitan (village)

Janzur

Childhood during the Holocaust

Libya

Childhood in moshav Zeitan (village)

Msallata

Childhood and making aliya

Childhood memories

Education at the school in Kerem Ben Zimra under the direction of Rabbi Getz and learning the sewing profession

Finger song for children and recitation for the game

Meeting his future wife, youth and conscription

Tripoli

Childhood

Childhood in Libya after his mother's passing and commemorating her

Children's games: soccer, tiro, bocce ball and hopscotch

Children's song on rain

Family

Family ties during childhood

Honouring parents and treating the children with love and care

Morocco

Agadir

Childhood and education in Agadir

Aїt Hakim

Life at Aїt Hakim: education, children's games and livelihood

Beni Mellal

Boys and girls playing separately and shopping at the market

Boudenib

Children's games

Casablanca

Childhood memories

Childhood stories, honoring parents and children's games

Children's songs and games

Her childhood in Morocco while parents' were ill with typhus

Home and childhood in Casablanca

Meeting his wife, birth of his children and Aliya to Israel

Muslim nanny for the first-born son

Raḥel's youth

Demnate

Childhood, work in Morocco and marriage

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Brit, birth, Rabbis and mikve

The Jewish school: school subjects and social etiquette

Fedala (Mohammedia)

Childhood story about falling into a well

Fes

Childhood

Childhood in Fes, schools and Tree of Life yeshiva

Children's games in Morocco

Goulmima

Responsibility for my brothers and flood in the house

Judeo-Arabic

Raḥel speaks about her mother

Marrakesh

Childhood

Childhood: educations and play

Children's stories

Judeo-Arabic translation of the Book of Esther, mishloach manot (sending of portions) to the bride and Purim gifts

Sweets and games

Meknes

Childhood

Childhood memories from Morrocco

Her family in Morocco

Relationship with other Jewish communities

Mogador (Essaouira)

Family outing on Shabbat

Her mother's couscous

Instruments from Mogador

Shabbat customs

Ouarzazate

Children's games

Children's songs and games

Rabat

Early life and childhood

Salé

Childhood memories and Aliya

Sefrou

Community, childhood and Talmud Tora

Skoura

Children's games

Tanger

Zerkten

Childhood games in the village

Syria

Damascus

Childhood

Children names and childhood games

The children's schooling

Tunisia

Gabes

Atmosphere at school

Childhood

Childhood memories

Life in Tunisia, World War II, settlement and absorption

School curriculum

La Goulette

Education and life in La Goulette

Mahdia

Family and parents' occupations

Nabeul

An accident with a donkey

Sousse

Family and parents' occupations

Tozeur

Life in Tozeur's oasis

Turkey

Istanbul

Childhood and family

Childhood and the relationship between family members

Education, childhood and leisure

Family and childhood in Istanbul

Ladino in childhood and synagogues

Studying at a nunnery and taking music and sports classes

The use of Ladino during his childhood and Spanish dialects in Israel

Izmir

Circle of life: birth, brit mila and bereavement

Los Angeles

Ladino in childhood and synagogues

Rhodes

Ladino in childhood and synagogues

Yemen

Al Bayda

Childhood story of the relationship with the Muslims

Al Hajar

Childhood memories and secret language

Al Qif

Her step father's positive attitude

Marriage at the age of six

Al-Ashur

Working in the field as a guard

Arhab

Childhood, foods and home

Bane Bada

Healing a wound by a Muslim healer

His mother's figure and his early childhood

Warm relationship with their Muslim neighbors and his Muslim friend

Bani Al Awam

Nursery rhyme and children's game

Bashar

Living in moshav Yishʿi (village), childhood and education

Stories from school

Baydha

Marrying young to prevent girls from marrying Muslims

Daga

Games and Shabbat

Dawran

Childhood and the kidnapping of Yemenite children

Ghazieh

Birth and beliefs concerning the baby

Ḥabban

Childhood story

Ḥawlan

Talmud Tora studies

Childhood and helping at home

Her work as a singer

Israel

Childhood

Mingide

Education, family and childhood memories

Najran (Saudi Arabia)

Absorption in the maʿabara (absorption camp) and arrival at an orphanage

Naʿab

Childhood memory of domestic violence

Raimat and Sa'dah

Childhood in Yemen and girls' roles

Sanaʽa

Sayan

Childhood, friendship and foods

Shaghadirah

Children's games

Tanˁam

Childhood in Rosh HaʿAyin and Gedera

Childhood, friendship and foods

ʿAden

Childhood

Family and childhood story of Shalom Ḥai Jacob

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