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The Preservation of Jewish Languages and Cultures in memory of Hayyim (Marani) Trabelsy
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In his life he longed to eat one date, and when he died they hung a cluster of dates on his neck
Moshe Rabbenu: story and piyyut
'Duri Manara'
A bald woman takes pride in her sister-in-law's hair
Adriane's father
Aliya and the beginning of settlement in Israel
Aliya to Israel
AMIT museum
Anyone who relied on a wedding meal, would sleep without dinner
Anyone who walks on fire gets burnt
Bar mitzva and engagement in Nabeul
Beware of a dripping house and a chattering wife
Bsisa during Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan (first month of the Hebrew year)
Buying fabrics
Childhood and life story
Childhood memory from World War II
Children's stories
Connection between Jewish communities and roots trips
Customs of Hoshaʿana Rabba (the seventh day of Sukkot) at the Trabelsi family
Customs [bsisa, Se'udat Yitro (Yitro's Feast), Daughters' Holiday and Passover]
Differences between communities in Tunisia
Difficulties in livelihood
Djerba's customs (lel ha'zohar, brit mila, bar and bat mitzva, Lag Ba'omer)
Dog's tail placed in a press for forty years and still remain curved
Education in Tunisia
Establishment of moshav (village) 'Sharsheret'
Even if you found honey, don't eat it all
Family members
Father's song for the birth of the son
Folk stories
Ḥanna's lamentation and her seven sons (Qesat Ḥanna)
Haste is from the devil and patiently you will sell things
Hatarat Nedarim (Annulment of vows and oaths)
Health advices from Maimonides
Ḥenna crushing song for the bride and her family
Holidays
Holidays and foods
Home remedies
Honor thy parents
Honouring parents
How the girls were taught Hebrew in Djerba
If a brother would have loved his siblings, they would not weep for their father's death
if it wasn't for eating, man would have grown diamonds
If the camel saw its hump, it would cut its neck off
If the Hakadosh Baruch Hu (Almighty) had not blinded the gentiles, we couldn't have lived with them
If you find honey, eat it and leave a little
Josef and his brothers
Josef the righteous
Life and wedding at the community of Tataouine
Life in Djerba and connection to the land of Israel
Life in Israel
Life in moshav (village) Shuva
Life story
Life story
Longing song for Jerusalem
Ma Nishtana (why is tonight different from all other nights?)
Making Aliya and importing garlic to Israel
Making Aliya and settling in the Ma'abara (absorption camp)
Many captains drown the ship
Marani's figure
Marani’s grandparents and the burial of the family
Matchmaking and wedding
Meeting his future wife and their wedding
Moshe Rabbenu
Mother's song for the birth of the son
Piyyut for brit mila: Hadi Mila u'bada
Pre-wedding (part I)
Pre-wedding (part II)
Proverb: the eye sees what is written on a man's forehead
Proverbs
Rabbi Moshe
Rabbi Moshe Chalphon Hacohen and the Nazi invasion
Rabbi Nisim Cohen ZT”L, his family and connections to moshav (village) Sharsheret
Rabbi Shalom and the non-Jew
Rabbi Shalom the miracle maker
Recipe for lemonade
Recitation for a newborn
Rooster sunk in stool and calls Kukuriku
Selling the monkey and laughing at the buyer
Settlement and absorption in Israel
Settlement in Israel
Shabbat, holidays and foods
Sick child passed away
Song for a bride on her wedding day
Song for a bride: Your White Hand
Song for a groom
Song for a groom on his wedding day
Song for encouraging prayer and piety
Song for good measures and piety
Song for my beloved
Song for Passover: "ya ilahna ya ilahna rəbbi fraji ikun mʿana"
Song of Aliya and praise to the Land of Israel
Song of Aliya to the Land of Israel
Story of innocence
Thanks to the oil all the merchandise is sold
The Aliya, the Ma'abara (absorption camp) and the home
The daughter who went missing and was found
The education system in South Tunisia
The family
The family in Tunis, Aliya and settlement in Israel
The Jewish community in Djerba
The layabout has the advice
The satiated man does not cry over hunger
The seven days of preparation for the wedding in Djerba
The son Gideon in his childhood
The stay in the concentration camps during World War II
The story of the rabbi's son and the king's ring
The story of the wise student and the rabbi's daughter
The transition to moshav (village) Sharsheret
The uses of crude oil in Moknine
Walking and returning from the mikve
Wedding and its customs
Wedding song for the groom
Work and livelihood in Tunisia
World War II
World War II
Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur in Djerba
פיוטים
Dear Moon by Rabbi Fraji Shawat
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