Purim - Mother Tongue

Afghanistan

Herat

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Purim

Bukhara

Dushanbe

Shabbat and holidays

Fergana

Passover and Purim, making matzot and holiday customs

Margilan

Passover and Purim, making matzot and holiday customs

Samarkand

Shabbat and holidays

Caucasus

Qusar

Yom Kippur, Passover and Purim

Egypt

Cairo

My grandmother and Purim customs

Relationship with non-Jews

Shabbat and holidays

Yom Kippur and Purim

Europe: Eastern

Soroca (Moldova)

Shoyshanas Yaakov

Europe: Western

Endingen

Purim

Izmir

Purim, Sukkot, Simḥat Tora, Yom Kippur and Ḥanukka

Lucerne

Purim

Milan (Italy)

Purim, Sukkot, Simḥat Tora, Yom Kippur and Ḥanukka

Zurich (Switzerland)

Purim

Georgia

Oni

Shabbat and holidays

Greece

Aigio

Confection

Purim

Song for Rosh Ḥodesh Adar

Ioannina

Description of Purim and Easter

India

Iran

Arak

Passover, Purim and Shabbat

Borujerd

Holiday customs

Isfahan

Holidays and women's schooling

Tension with non-Jews on Purim

Kerman

Purim in Kerman

Kermanshah

Holidays

Khorasan

The custom of commemorating the deceased on Purim and Mishloach Manot (Purim gifts)

Khorramshahr

Jewish holidays

Mahabad

Purin in Mahabad

Qasr-e Shirin

Jewish holidays

Shahandasht

Holidays

Sultanabad

Shabbat, holidays and synagogue

Teheran

Purim

Purim and Passover

Tehran

Shabbat and holiday

Yazd

Holidays and festivals: fasting, Purim, Shabbat, Passover and Sukkot

Iraq

Baqubah

Purim

Basra

Scroll reading and sweet pastries for Purim

Erbil

Passover, Shabbat, Purim and Yom Kippur

Kirkuk

Holidays

Tuz Khurmatu

Lighting Shabbat and Hanukka candles, women and reading the Megilla

Israel

Jerusalem

Book of ʾEsther and a song for Purim

Peqi'in

Fast of Esther and Purim

Tiberias

Hanukka, Purim and Passover

Kurdistan

Amedi

Purim celebrations and breaking dry cow udders in the recitation of Haman

Baghdad

Purim

Duhok

Purim

Hasnaka

Purim, Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot

Sandor

Purim, Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot

Sulaymaniya

Purim foods, burning Haman and customs

Zakho

Holidays: Lag Ba'omer, Tu BiShvat, Purim, Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot

Lebanon

Beirut

Purim and Passover

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Jewish holidays

Libya

Benghazi

Holidays and customs (Purim, girls' Shabbat and ḥenna)

Tripoli

Purim

Shabbat, Sukkot, Purim and Yom Kipur

Morocco

Agadir

Reading the Megillah, Purim gifts and candle march

Asammer

Holidays

Asilah

Purim and Passover

Casablanca

Ḥanukka, Purim, Passover, Shavuot and Tishʿa BeʾAv

Purim

Purim

Sukkot, Purim and holidays' foods

Demnate

Purim and Mimouna

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Reading the Book of ʾEsther and mishloʾach manot (sending of portions)

Fedala (Mohammedia)

Passover, Sukkot, Purim and Ḥanukka

Marrakesh

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

Purim and Purim money

Sukkot and Purim

Meknes

Holidays, Rabbi Meʾir Baʿal HaNes and Rabbi Toledano

Purim

Purim

Purim

Purim and Passover

Ouarzazate

Purim and Fast of ʾEsther

Salé

Jewish holidays: building a sukka without any nails and wearing a custom for Purim

Tangier

Holiday songs: Shavuot, Tu Bishvat, Rosh Hashana, Mimouna and Purim

ǝl-Qǝlʕa dǝ-sraghna'

Purim and Passover

Syria

Aleppo

Purim

Damascus

Burning Haman (Purim custom), Mishloach Manot (Purim food gifts) and dressing up

Fast of Esther and Purim

Holidays and festivals (public and religious)

Purim

Tunisia

Beja

Holidays and traditions during the months of Tevet and Adar

Djerba

Hanukka, Tu BiShvat and Purim

Gabes

Shabbat and holiday

La Goulette

Purim

Mahdia

Purim and Fast of ʾEsther

Moknine

Holidays

Nabeul

Jewish holidays

Purim

Nefta

Holidays and festivals

Sousse

Purim and Fast of ʾEsther

Tozeur

Holidays, festivals and fasting

Song of Queen Esther

Zarzis

Jewish holidays

Turkey

Adana

Holidays and teething ceremony

Istanbul

Shabbat and holidays

Izmir

Excitement during the reading of The Binding of Isaac and Book of ʾEsther

Sukkot, Ḥanukka, Purim and Tu BiShvat

Unknown

Holidays and teething ceremony

Yemen

Al-Ḥada

Dhamar

Humorous recitation for Purim

Ḥabban

Holidays and Purim dance

Purim

Purim, Hanukka and Passover

Ḥawlan

Purim, Ḥenna, wedding and birth

Raymah

Purim, Sukkot and leisure

ʿAden

Jewish holidays

ʿAfar (Sanaʿa)

Purim

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