Tunisia - Mother Tongue

Djerba

Children's stories [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Marani’s grandparents and the burial of the family [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

'Duri Manara' [ Orida Mezig ]

Song for a bride: Your White Hand [ Orida Mezig ]

Wedding song for the groom [ Orida Mezig ]

Song for my beloved [ Orida Mezig ]

Customs [bsisa, Se'udat Yitro (Yitro's Feast), Daughters' Holiday and Passover] [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

The Jewish community in Djerba [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

World War II [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Differences between communities in Tunisia [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Pre-wedding (part II) [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Marani's figure [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

The daughter who went missing and was found [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

The transition to moshav (village) Sharsheret [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

The son Gideon in his childhood [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Hatarat Nedarim (Annulment of vows and oaths) [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Life in moshav (village) Shuva [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Customs of Hoshaʿana Rabba (the seventh day of Sukkot) at the Trabelsi family [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Pre-wedding (part I) [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Life in Djerba and connection to the land of Israel [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Aliya and the beginning of settlement in Israel [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Djerba's customs (lel ha'zohar, brit mila, bar and bat mitzva, Lag Ba'omer) [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Life and wedding at the community of Tataouine [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Rabbi Nisim Cohen ZT”L, his family and connections to moshav (village) Sharsheret [ Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi ]

Djerba, El Ḥamma

Holidays [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Aliya to Israel [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Story of innocence [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

The education system in South Tunisia [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Meeting his future wife and their wedding [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Bsisa during Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan (first month of the Hebrew year) [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

World War II [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Work and livelihood in Tunisia [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Establishment of moshav (village) 'Sharsheret' [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Settlement and absorption in Israel [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Establishment of moshav (village) 'Sharsheret' [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Settlement and absorption in Israel [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Holidays [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Aliya to Israel [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Story of innocence [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

The education system in South Tunisia [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Meeting his future wife and their wedding [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Bsisa during Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan (first month of the Hebrew year) [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

World War II [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Work and livelihood in Tunisia [ Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya ]

Djerba (Hara Kebira)

How the girls were taught Hebrew in Djerba [ Ḥanna Cohen Yehonatan ]

Djerba (the small quarter)

Life story [ Louisa Buchris ]

The seven days of preparation for the wedding in Djerba [ Louisa Buchris ]

Song for a groom [ Louisa Buchris ]

Song for a bride on her wedding day [ Louisa Buchris ]

Ḥenna crushing song for the bride and her family [ Louisa Buchris ]

Mother's song for the birth of the son [ Louisa Buchris ]

Honouring parents [ Louisa Buchris ]

Father's song for the birth of the son [ Louisa Buchris ]

Song for a groom on his wedding day [ Louisa Buchris ]

Yom Kippur in Djerba [ S'ada Trabelsi Z"L ]

Gabes

Rabbi Moshe Chalphon Hacohen and the Nazi invasion [ Yehudit Sarusi ]

Yom Kippur [ Yehudit Sarusi ]

The stay in the concentration camps during World War II [ Yehudit Sarusi ]

Medenine

Ḥanna's lamentation and her seven sons (Qesat Ḥanna) [ Ilan ʿAmarusi ]

Moknine

Childhood memory from World War II [ Adrian Perets ]

Adriane's father [ Adriane Perets ]

Walking and returning from the mikve [ Adriane Perets ]

Family members [ Adriane Perets ]

Home remedies [ Adriane Perets ]

The uses of crude oil in Moknine [ Adriane Perets ]

Proverbs [ Adriane Perets ]

Buying fabrics [ Adriane Perets ]

Recipe for lemonade [ Adriane Perets ]

Difficulties in livelihood [ Adriane Perets ]

Nabeul

Bar mitzva and engagement in Nabeul [ Kuka Uzan ]

Sfax

Sick child passed away [ Mazzal Shelly ]

Sulayman

Matchmaking and wedding [ David Damri ]

The Aliya, the Ma'abara (absorption camp) and the home [ David Damri ]

Life story [ David Damri ]

Connection between Jewish communities and roots trips [ David Damri ]

Life in Israel [ David Damri ]

Childhood and life story [ David Damri ]

The family [ David Damri ]

Wedding and its customs [ David Damri ]

Holidays and foods [ David Damri ]

Tripoli

Ma Nishtana (why is tonight different from all other nights?) [ Ḥaim Bublil ]

Tunis

Piyyut for brit mila: Hadi Mila u'bada [ David Ḥajaj ]

The family in Tunis, Aliya and settlement in Israel [ Jacqueline Bokra ]

Folk stories [ Mazzal Tabeka ]

AMIT museum [ Mazzal Tabeka ]

Shabbat, holidays and foods [ Mazzal Tabeka ]

Zarzis

Recitation for a newborn [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Making Aliya and settling in the Ma'abara (absorption camp) [ Mili Hadas Cohen ]

Education in Tunisia [ Mili Hadas Cohen ]

The satiated man does not cry over hunger [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Rooster sunk in stool and calls Kukuriku [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Anyone who relied on a wedding meal, would sleep without dinner [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Haste is from the devil and patiently you will sell things [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

If the camel saw its hump, it would cut its neck off [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

if it wasn't for eating, man would have grown diamonds [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

The layabout has the advice [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Even if you found honey, don't eat it all [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Dog's tail placed in a press for forty years and still remain curved [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Thanks to the oil all the merchandise is sold [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

In his life he longed to eat one date, and when he died they hung a cluster of dates on his neck [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Health advices from Maimonides [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Beware of a dripping house and a chattering wife [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

If you find honey, eat it and leave a little [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Anyone who walks on fire gets burnt [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Many captains drown the ship [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

If the Hakadosh Baruch Hu (Almighty) had not blinded the gentiles, we couldn't have lived with them [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Settlement in Israel [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Selling the monkey and laughing at the buyer [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

A bald woman takes pride in her sister-in-law's hair [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

If a brother would have loved his siblings, they would not weep for their father's death [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Making Aliya and importing garlic to Israel [ Moshe Amram Cohen ]

Song for good measures and piety [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Moshe Rabbenu: story and piyyut [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Song for encouraging prayer and piety [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Rabbi Shalom the miracle maker [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Rabbi Shalom and the non-Jew [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Song of Aliya to the Land of Israel [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Longing song for Jerusalem [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

The story of the wise student and the rabbi's daughter [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Josef the righteous [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Song for Passover: "ya ilahna ya ilahna rəbbi fraji ikun mʿana" [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Song of Aliya and praise to the Land of Israel [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

The story of the rabbi's son and the king's ring [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Josef and his brothers [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Proverb: the eye sees what is written on a man's forehead [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Moshe Rabbenu [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Honor thy parents [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

Rabbi Moshe [ Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen ]

פיוטים

Dear Moon by Rabbi Fraji Shawat

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