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Song for Zion

Name of speaker: 
Pinḥas Qoma
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Maintenance manager
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Erbil
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Language, Sacred songs, Zionism
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2023

Education and bar mitzva

Name of speaker: 
Pinḥas Qoma
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Maintenance manager
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Erbil
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Circle of life, Education
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2023

The opening of the Haggada, Ḥad Gadya and the first verse of the Book of Lamentations

Name of speaker: 
Pinḥas Qoma
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Maintenance manager
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Erbil
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Bible, Passover Haggada and the Seder, Piyyutim
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2023

Reading the haftara of vision of Isaiah the son of ʾAmots

Name of speaker: 
Pinḥas Qoma
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Maintenance manager
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Erbil
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Bible
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2023

Josef’s maternal orphanhood

Name of speaker: 
Yosef Moshe
Participants in the conversation: 
ʾAsnat Moshe
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Military man, security coordinator and owner of a flock of sheep
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
76
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Kurdistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Qaladze, Erbil
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Family, Life story
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2021

Making aliya

Name of speaker: 
ʾEsther Shabtai
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
73
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Kurdistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Erbil
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Aliya
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2023

Islam conversion

Name of speaker: 
ʾEsther Shabtai
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
73
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Kurdistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Erbil
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Conversion
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2023

Passover

Name of speaker: 
ʾEsther Shabtai
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
73
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Kurdistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Erbil
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Passover
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2023

Her sisters' marriages to Muslims and their abduction

Name of speaker: 
ʾEsther Shabtai
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
73
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Kurdistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Erbil
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Conversion, Relationships with non-Jews
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2023

Her parents' occupations, birth, brit mila and bar mitzva

Name of speaker: 
ʾEsther Shabtai
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
73
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Kurdistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Erbil
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Circle of life, Folk beliefs, Occupations and livelihoods
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2023

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