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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