Tunisia - Mother Tongue

Djerba

Varda (Vardia) Trabelsi

Children's stories

Marani’s grandparents and the burial of the family

Aliya and the beginning of settlement in Israel

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

Djerba's customs (lel ha'zohar, brit mila, bar and bat mitzva, Lag Ba'omer)

Hatarat Nedarim (Annulment of vows and oaths)

Life and wedding at the community of Tataouine

Life in Djerba and connection to the land of Israel

Life in moshav (village) Shuva

Marani's figure

Pre-wedding (part I)

Pre-wedding (part II)

Rabbi Nisim Cohen ZT”L, his family and connections to moshav (village) Sharsheret

The daughter who went missing and was found

The Jewish community in Djerba

The son Gideon in his childhood

The transition to moshav (village) Sharsheret

Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya

Aliya to Israel

Bsisa during Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan (first month of the Hebrew year)

Establishment of moshav (village) 'Sharsheret'

Holidays

Meeting his future wife and their wedding

Settlement and absorption in Israel

Story of innocence

The education system in South Tunisia

Work and livelihood in Tunisia

Orida Mezig

Song for a bride: Your White Hand

Song for my beloved

Wedding song for the groom

Djerba (Hara Kebira)

Ḥanna Cohen Yehonatan

How the girls were taught Hebrew in Djerba

Djerba (the large quarter)

Rivka Sofer (Bashiri)

Brit mila and Zohar

Education and school atmosphere

The community's atmosphere and foods

Wedding customs against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Djerba (the small quarter)

Louisa Buchris

Father's song for the birth of the son

Ḥenna crushing song for the bride and her family

Honouring parents

Life story

Mother's song for the birth of the son

Song for a bride on her wedding day

Song for a groom

Song for a groom on his wedding day

The seven days of preparation for the wedding in Djerba

S'ada Trabelsi Z"L

Yom Kippur in Djerba

El Ḥamma

Mimon Yehoshuʿa ʿAtiya

Aliya to Israel

Bsisa during Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan (first month of the Hebrew year)

Establishment of moshav (village) 'Sharsheret'

Holidays

Meeting his future wife and their wedding

Settlement and absorption in Israel

Story of innocence

The education system in South Tunisia

Work and livelihood in Tunisia

Gabes

Yehudit Sarusi

Rabbi Moshe Chalphon Hacohen and the Nazi invasion

The stay in the concentration camps during World War II

Yom Kippur

Medenine

Ilan ʿAmarusi

Ḥanna's lamentation and her seven sons (Qesat Ḥanna)

Moknine

Adrian Perets

Childhood memory from World War II

Adriane Perets

Adriane's father

Difficulties in livelihood

Proverbs

Recipe for lemonade

The uses of crude oil in Moknine

Walking and returning from the mikve

Nabeul

Kuka Uzan

Bar mitzva and engagement in Nabeul

Sfax

Mazzal Shelly

Sick child passed away

Sousse

Sulayman

David Damri

Childhood and life story

Connection between Jewish communities and roots trips

Holidays and foods

Matchmaking and wedding

The Aliya, the ma'abara (absorption camp) and the home

Wedding and its customs

Tripoli

Ḥaim Bublil

Ma Nishtana (why is tonight different from all other nights?)

Tunis

David Ḥajaj

Dear Moon by Rabbi Fraji Shawat

Piyyut for brit mila: Hadi Mila u'bada

Jacqueline Bokra

The family in Tunis, Aliya and settlement in Israel

Mazzal Tabeka

Shabbat, holidays and foods

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Zarzis

Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen

Recitation for a newborn

Moshe Rabbenu: story and piyyut

Honor thy parents

Josef and his brothers

Josef the righteous

Longing song for Jerusalem

Proverb: the eye sees what is written on a man's forehead

Rabbi Shalom and the non-Jew

Rabbi Shalom the miracle maker

Song for encouraging prayer and piety

Song for good measures and piety

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

The story of the rabbi's son and the king's ring

The story of the wise student and the rabbi's daughter

Mili Hadas Cohen

Education in Tunisia

Making Aliya and settling in the ma'abara (absorption camp)

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

A bald woman takes pride in her sister-in-law's hair

Anyone who relied on a wedding meal, would sleep without dinner

Anyone who walks on fire gets burnt

Beware of a dripping house and a chattering wife

Dog's tail placed in a press for forty years and still remain curved

Even if you found honey, don't eat it all

Haste is from the devil and patiently you will sell things

Health advices from Maimonides

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

Making Aliya and importing garlic to Israel

Many captains drown the ship

Rooster sunk in stool and calls Kukuriku

Selling the monkey and laughing at the buyer

Settlement in Israel

Thanks to the oil all the merchandise is sold

The layabout has the advice

The satiated man does not cry over hunger

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