Persons - Mother Tongue

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Rabbi Naḥmias

Rabbi Naḥmias who saved a baby from death on the day of brit mila

Rabbi Naḥmias' righteousness

Caucasus

Derbent

Folk poet Yirmiya Davidov

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Gulbohor Davydova

Mishi Bachshayev and Ḥizgil Avshalomov

Mordechai ʾAvshalom's story

Quba

Bereavement customs and rabbis

Qusar

Synagogue, rabbis, Shabbat and kashrut

Egypt

Cairo

The Karaites and story of believing in Eliyahu HaNavi

Europe: Western

Endingen

Ingwiller (France)

Naming celebration and the beggar from Alsace

Lucerne

Zurich (Switzerland)

Naming celebration and the beggar from Alsace

Greece

Aigio

Rabbi Yedidya HaCohen and his daughters

Iran

Golpayegan

Bar mitzva, rabbis and burial

Teheran

Tuyserkan

Story of her doctor grandmother and the king of Persia

Iraq

Baghdad

Abd al-Karim Qasim and treatment to Jews

Synagogue, relationship with the Muslims, the rabbi of the synagogue, mutual assistance within the Jewish community, status differences

The Story of Rimon

Basra

The Rabbis of Iraq and their roles

Kirkuk

Dream interpretation and Rabbi Eliyahu Kanush

Israel

Jerusalem

Her father's bookstore and his relationship with ʾEliʿezer Ben-Yehuda

History of the family and Benjamin Samuel Leon

Meeting with the Rabbi after the marriage

The Judeo-Spanish speaking club and the connection with Yitsḥak Navon

Tiberias

The history of family Toledano

Kurdistan

Amadiya

Rabbi Shimʿon: her mother in law's brother

Amedi

Ḥacham Shimʿon and a story about the murder of a rabbi

Roles of rabbis and a Jew who converted to Islam

Diana

The Jewish community, the rabbi and establishing the synagogue

Israel

My grandfather, Rabbi Yizchak Noah ʾEliyahu ZT"L and his tole in the community

Spiritual leadership and Rabbis' daughters

Koy Sanjaq

My father, Rabbi Yizchak Noah ʾEliyahu ZT"L and his tole in the community

My grandfather, Rabbi Yizchak Noah ʾEliyahu ZT"L and his tole in the community

Mergasor

The Jewish community, the rabbi and establishing the synagogue

Rekan

Rabbis and cycle of the year: brit mila, birth and death

Sanandaj

My grandfather: head of the Jewish community in Sanandaj, mediator and ḥazzan

Sulaymaniya

My father, Rabbi Yizchak Noah ʾEliyahu ZT"L and his tole in the community

My grandfather, Rabbi Yizchak Noah ʾEliyahu ZT"L and his tole in the community

Zakho

Aliya to Israel and stories about her father

Bar mitzva, rabbis and synagogue

Educators, education and punishments

Ḥacham Bashi and faith in the prophets

History of Zakho and hospitality of King Zakho’s son

King David

Life of mother: Debora Da'de Baruch

My father and his role as governor

Spiritual leadership and Rabbis' daughters

Lebanon

Beirut

Family, rabbis and Ḥachamim (sages of Talmud)

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

The communities' Ḥachamim

Libya

Al-Khums

School and Rabbi Frija

Benghazi

Bereavement customs and the name of the community's Rabbi

Israel

Rabbi Shakir and brit mila

Msallata

Bar mitzva, rabbis, wedding and brit mila

Education at the school in Kerem Ben Zimra under the direction of Rabbi Getz and learning the sewing profession

Her mother's livelihood and Rabbi Frija Zuares

Rabbi Mordechai Buskila and school

Tripoli

Rabbi Shakir and brit mila

Rabbi Shimon Lavi and Rabbi David Yamin

The Rabbi Kamos Yamin ZT"L story and the Ziyarat in his honor

Zliten

Rabbi Shakir and brit mila

Morocco

Aït Bouguemmaz

Blessings through the righteous

Asammer

Couple’s introduction, wedding and Rabbi Yitsḥak Malka

Asilah

Holidays, synagogues and Rabbis

Kashrut , Shabbat and Rabbi roles

Aїt Hakim

Celebrations, tombs of the righteous and marriage

Aїt Taguella

Rabbis and mohelim

Boudenib

Expulsion from the hammam, building a mikve and first immersion of the Baba Sali

Casablanca

Life in Morocco

School, Rabbi Baruch Toledano and Aliya to Israel

The Rabbis

Debdou

The importance of rabbis in the community and their roles

Demnate

Functioning as a foster family and Rabbi Maʾor ʿAkiva

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Brit, birth, Rabbis and mikve

Her father and grandfather as Ḥachamim (sages of Talmud) and kabbalists

Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai's assistance during her grandfather's passing

Er-Rich

Education and learning Hebrew

Erfoud

Death of Baba Ḥaki brother of Baba Sali

Death of Baba Sali's wife and brother in a car accident

Fedala (Mohammedia)

Shabbat, righteous and story of Shabbat foods

Fes

Josef the righteous

Goulmima

Baba Sali's blessing and marriage

Israel

My grandparents and the family lineage

Rabbis, folk medicine, amulets and folk beliefs

Kenitra

Rabbis, celebration and tombs of the righteous

Marrakesh

A dedicated and precise mohel who assists the poor

Rabbinic stories from Marrakesh

Tomb pilgrimage

Worshiping the holy, folk remedies and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Meknes

Belief in sacred rabbis and their manifestation in dreams

Celebration for Rabbi ʿAmram ben Diwan

Holidays, Rabbi Meʾir Baʿal HaNes and Rabbi Toledano

Rabbis, synagogue and community

School, Rabbi Baruch Toledano and Aliya to Israel

Shabbat Kalla (the Shabbat before a wedding to honor the bride), ḥenna, mikve, wedding preparations and Rabbis

Midelt

Rabbis, faith, Shabbat and holidays

Mogador (Essaouira)

Her father and his relationship with the community's Rabbis

Her mother's couscous

Ouarzazate

Men's roles in the community and family

School and educational frameworks for children

The town Skoura and its Rabbis

Ouled Mansour

Rabat

Rabbis and celebrations

Safi

A poor and unemployed neighbor who received payment for his service to the king in the fight against the Germans

Salé

Pilgrimige to Rabbi Raphael Ankawa's tomb

Writing Tora book and bringing Rabbi Shaul Biton's remains to Israel

Skoura

The town Skoura and its Rabbis

Tanger

Rabbis, community institutions and tombs of the righteous

Story of the Baba Sali

Tangier

Song about a woman from Tangier

Song about Raḥel la Simosa

Taroudant

Rabbi Dawid ibn baruch

Tazenakht

Rabbis, tombs of the righteous and education

Tirsal

My grandparents and the family lineage

Rabbis, folk medicine, amulets and folk beliefs

Tiznit

My grandparents and the family lineage

Rabbis, folk medicine, amulets and folk beliefs

Syria

Aleppo

Mediation of community sages in bail release

Visitng the great synagogue in Aleppo

Damascus

Cave of Elijah in Jobar

Rabbi Nissim Indibo HaCohen and the Ḥacham of Damascus

Rabbis

Rabbis of Damascus community

Qamishli

The Jewish community, his father the mukhtar and Rabbi Avraham Ḥamra

Tunisia

Djerba

Ateret Zion (Crown of Zion)

Marani's figure

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

Rabbis

Gabes

Celebration at the sacred tombs of Rabbi Meʾir and Rabbi Shimʿon

Rabbi Ḥaim Ḥuri

Rabbis

La Goulette

Grandfather the painter and dream

Mahdia

Synagogue and rabbis

Nabeul

Community life in Nabeul

Sousse

Synagogue and rabbis

Tozeur

Song of Queen Esther

Zarzis

Rabbi Shalom the miracle maker

Rabbis, oaths and celebration customs

Turkey

Edirne

Author of the commentary 'Meʿam Loʿez' by Rabbi Yaʿakov Culi, reading the Tora's portion of the week and the relationship between the Jews and the authorities

Israel

Author of the commentary 'Meʿam Loʿez' by Rabbi Yaʿakov Culi, reading the Tora's portion of the week and the relationship between the Jews and the authorities

Istanbul

Matilda Koen Sarano

Shifts in Ladino

Yemen

Al Bayda

Shabbat, the synagogue and Rabbis

Al Hajar

Lament for Ḥaim Giddis Z"L

The journey from ʿAden to Israel

Al Maḥwit

Imam who hated the Jews and broke a drought through prayer

Arhab

Story about Maurice Suleiman, the righteous shochet (ritual butcher)

Bani Hajaj

Song about Joseph the Righteous in the pit

Bashar

Pnina's father, the local rabbi

Baydha

Song on Rebecca and Isaac (during the end of a ḥenna ceremony)

Daga

Holiday dates, rabbis, Passover and Sukkot

Ḥawlan

Law in the community: her judge grandfather trialling both Arabs and Jews

Ḥumar

Israel

Nabat

Life in Nabat and Nabat's Rabbi

Najran (Saudi Arabia)

Relations with the village sheikh and the non-Jewish neighbors

Rusaba

Sanaʽa

My father, ʾAharon Tam

Story about being the daughter of a teacher (Rabbi)

Story about my father, the shochet (ritual butcher)

Sharʿab

Rabbi Shalom Shabazi

Tanˁam

Schooling and central figures at ‘Beit Zeirot Mizrachi’

Yarim

ʿAden

Folk remedies and blessings

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