Iran - Mother Tongue

Arak

Bijar

Ḥana ʾAssayag (Geʾula)

Women's modesty

Childhood

Passover preparations

Shulamit Ganal (Basharat)

My wedding

Religion and belief

Lea Etashga

Childhood in Jewish family

Familial relationships

Jewish holidays

Shabbat customs

Leah Etashga

Idioms and phrases

The status of women

Borujerd

Miriam Shergian

Making Aliya from Borujerd

Golpayegan

Raḥel Menashe-Ziafti (Nana Jan)

Song about a girl falling in love with a young man against her father's will

Rivka Elipur

Birth, impurity and purity and women's lives

Holidays

Livelihood, home and shared life

Rivka's mother and bereavement customs

Tsion Yeshaʿyahu

Love song

Hamadan

Rut (Faroch) Bekhori

Aliya and settlement

The city of Hamadan: daily life and spoken languages

Homsar

Isfahan

Dalia Pajand

Contemporary love song

Five songs in Mahali

Goodbye song from wedding guests

Groom's Sabbath song

Song for groom at the wedding

Neʿeima Senjani (ʿAnawim)

Holidays

Life in Isfahan

Medicine and products

Shabbat

Stories of the Land of Israel

Pirḥiya Ḥakshur

Holidays and women's schooling

The Jewish neighbourhood, women's life and weddings

Rivka ʾAmiri (Munir Forostmihan)

The Jewish neighbourhood in Isfahan

Wedding preparations

Shoshana Novhari (Shahanaz Refuʾa)

Matchmaking and wedding preparations

Passover and Passover Eve preparations

Zion Ḥakshur

Alcohol production and relations with the Muslims

Aliya and absorption

Israel

Rivka Cohen (Kalimi)

Wedding customs and songs

Istanbul

Kerend

Kerman

David Shergian

Purim in Kerman

Kermanshah

Meʾir Nadari

Meʾir Nadari's family

Nowruz (Iranian New Year)

Numbers, days of the week and names in Aramaic

The Aramaic language

Khorramshahr

Mashhad

Shlomo Ziafti

Blessing for baby Raḥel

God do not take me away

Moshe Rabbeinu and the people of Israel crossing the Red Sea

Your eyes shall see the Messiah

Nahawand

Muhatram Yazenfur

Buying bread for a non-Jewish neighbour during Passover

Children's songs and games

Folk song in Judeo-Persian

Mikve, wedding and brit mila

Music teaching in Tehran

The situation in Iran before making Aliya

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Persian Azerbaijan

Ester Shmueli

The 1948 liberation war in Jerusalem in the Bukharian quarter

The big sister's wedding

Qasr-e Shirin

Salmas

Sanandaj

Marcel Sevgan

Engagement and marriage

Rosh Ḥodesh (first of the month) customs

Moshe Eshtegha

The transition from experiencing pogroms to settling down in Israel

Rivka Golan

Childhood

Persian 'Mimouna'

Proverbs

Shabbat: foods and customs

Traditional Beliefs

Shifra Martziano

Familial Relationships

Matchmaking and Marriage

Saqqez

Shahandasht

Yeḥezkel Yagana

Holidays

Aliya and absorption

Shiraz

Eliezer Shats

Story about a non-Jew

Story about the non-Jew at the grocery store

Difficulties in making Aliya

Shabbat

Eliʿezer Schatz

Persian 'Mimouna' (Shiraz)

School in Shiraz

Ḥana Shachen Tov

Aliya to Israel

Bar and bat mitzva

Birth and name giving

Engagement, wedding, wedding and celebration songs

Shabbat

Yom Kippur and Passover

Takab

Peri Kalimi

Song in Aramaic about the Persian lemon

Rivka Cohen (Kalimi)

Wedding customs and songs

Tehran

Rut (Faroch) Bekhori

Aliya and settlement

The city of Hamadan: daily life and spoken languages

Tekab

Shmuʾel Benyamini

Bar mitzva

Brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Schooling

Shabbat

Shmuʾel's childhood

Wedding of the parents

Tuyserkan

Urmia

Shoshana ʾAharoni

Aliya to Israel

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