Yemen - Mother Tongue

Al Bayda

Al Hajar

Al-Amluk

Hadassa Shamaʿ

Education, Aliya and absorption

Al-Darb

Al-Gades

Al-Ḥabel

Al-Ḥada

Al-Rawda

Bab al-Ḥyder

ʾAvraham Yadʿi

Baking matzot and making ḥaroset

Education and Tora studies

Piyyut for Shabbat by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi

Piyyut for Shabbat by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi (2)

Relationships with the Arabs

Bane ḥakem (Arḥab)

Avraham Ben-Yaḥya Tsabari

Brit mila

Wedding

Bashar

Daga

Dar Hayd

Dawran

Dhamar

ʾAviva Qesar

Childbirth, children and children's songs

Passover

Dweḥa

Menashe Shimʿon

Passover Haggada

Rabbi Shalom Shabazi song

Reading the Zohar

Song of Songs including an intro prayer

Ḥabban

Kamer Maʿatuf

Proverbs and song

Haidan

Salḥa Faiez

Bride leaving her father's house song

Polygamy

Song that accompanies a bride to the Mikve

Wedding and marriage

Salha Faiez

Brit mila and pidyon haben (redemption of the first-born son)

Ḥaima

Naʿama David

Aliya, absorption and the Yemenite children affair

Birth and brit mila

Celebrations: customs and humility

Livelihood and relationships with 'non-Jews'

Songs of wedding and ḥenna

Wedding customs

Yemenite women's songs

Sara Nisim

Matchmaking, wedding and marriage life

Yosef Yosef

Aliya to Israel

Encounters with demons

Jewish prayers for rain

Manners of payment amongst Jews

Occupation and livelihood

Relationships with 'non-Jews'

The non-Jew and the orchard

Ḥajba

Shlomo Sliman Ḥajbi

'So I Keep Shabbat'

Aliya and absorption

Engagement

Family life and circle of life in Ḥajba

Relationships between Jews and Muslims

Ḥawlan

Mazzal (Saʿida) Samin (Uzi)

Brit mila, zeved habat, bar and bat mitzva, ḥenna and wedding

Life story and livelihood of handicraft professions

Rosh Hashana and foods

Synagogue and Tora studies

Sara Vaʿalani

Birkat Hamazon (blessing the food)

Childhood and helping at home

Conceding inheritance for marital harmony

Eye makeup

Kiddush

Life in Yemen and Aliya and settlement in Israel

Natural medicine

Passover preparations

Protection from ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Song in Ḥawlan Jews dialect

Songs for a bride who leaves home

The work of the father and mother

Shoshana (Shamʿa) Ladani

Introduction with her future husband and wedding

Leaving Yemen and making Aliya to Israel

Moving to moshav (village) 'Tnuvot' and agricultural theft

The meaning of the name 'Shamʿa'

Transit camps: Ḥashed, Aden and ʿEin Shemer

Tsiona Halevi

Aliya and settlement

Life in Rosh Haʿayin

Marital problems in Yemen

Matchmaking and wedding story

Medicine, folk remedies and dealing with ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Natural medicine

Tales and proverbs

Wedding customs

Women's wisdom stories

Yisrael Halevi

Talmud Tora studies

Bride, groom and the Sheikh

Ruta chalepensis (plant) against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Shavuot

Song about caring for women

Songs about Imam Yaḥya

Story about the Arab and the prayer

Ḥaydan as-Sham

Haz

Ḥumar

Alice Madmoni

Children's games

Funny stories from living in the moshav (village)

Lice in the moshav (village)

Medicine and products

Modesty, hospitality and relationship with the parents

Relationships with the Muslim neighbours

Stories from home

The different Yemenite dialects

Mazzal Shimʿi

Aliya to Israel and its arduous journey

Ibb

Israel

Alice Madmoni

Children's games

Funny stories from living in the moshav (village)

Lice in the moshav (village)

Medicine and products

Modesty, hospitality and relationship with the parents

Relationships with the Muslim neighbours

Stories from home

The different Yemenite dialects

Ḥanina Pedahel

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

Miriam Levi

Childhood

Dialect differences between ʿAden and Sharʿab

Dowry and wedding gifts

How to turn to Hakadosh Baruch Hu (Almighty)

Love song

Medicine and folk remedies

My mother's life story

Passover and Shabbat

Protection against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Shlomo Tovy

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

Jahran

Kaukaban

Khaw

Yona Yiḥya

Relationships between Arabs and Jews, Aliya and absorption

Mingide

Sara Nahari

Folk song

Aliya, absorption, livelihood and community

Education, family and childhood memories

Nabat

Naʿab

Radaʿa

Radda

Radʿa

David Shamaʿ

Jewish-Arab relations, Aliya and absorption

Story and short song about the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Famine in Yemen

Love for poetry and folk songs

Raymah

Naomi Dahari

Matchmaking in Yemen

Ruba

Sa'dah

Zecharya Yehud

Absorption in Israel

Matchmaking and wedding

Sanaʽa

Avraham Levi

The abduction of Yemenite children

Bat Sheva Ḥatuka

Bereavement customs

Foods amongst the Jews of Sanaʽa

Life in Yemen and Aliya to Israel

Men and women's education

Story of different dialects

Traditional medicine

Ḥanina Pedahel

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

׳Shabbat rest is for all of us׳

Shlomo Tovy

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

Yona Koraḥ

Humility and matchmaking amongst women

Lag La'omer and Passover

Life story and the status of women

Nursery rhymes for children

The establishment of The Conservation of Heritage Museum

The father figure and way of education

The structure of the house in Sanaʽa

The use of different plants

Women's clothing in celebrations and holidays

Women's songs at weddings

Sanaʿa

Bat Sheva Ḥatuka

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Sayan

Sharʿab

Shibam

Sir

Sodom (Ḥawlan)

Yona Levi

Alphabet teaching and song memorising

Celebratory songs

Love songs

Proverbs

Songs from mother to daughter

Tanˁam

Yarim

Shoshana Ben Shim'on

Bereavement customs

The thwarted son's abduction

Shoshana Ben Shimʿon

Yona Yiḥya

Relationships between Arabs and Jews, Aliya and absorption

Yemen - Center

Zohara Mevorakh

Conversation with Zohara Mevorakh

ʿAden

Miriam Levi

Childhood

Dialect differences between ʿAden and Sharʿab

Dowry and wedding gifts

How to turn to Hakadosh Baruch Hu (Almighty)

Love song

Medicine and folk remedies

My mother's life story

Passover and Shabbat

Protection against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

ʿAfar (Sanaʿa)

Yosef ʿOfri

Aliya and settlement

Life story and Aliya preparations

Purim

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