Iran - Mother Tongue

Arak

Ḥanna Dustari

Attitude towards men and women

Education and her doctor grandmother

Her doctors father and grandmother and Aliya to Israel

Her grandmother's story and life in Golpayegan

Her maternal grandmother

Passover

Proverbs and secret language

Shabbat and water pool

The home, the community and ceremonies

The synagogue and her grandmother's beliefs

ʾEsther (ʾAbsar) Yehudai

Bibles stories told by her mother

Birth

Childhood and communal identity

Family honors and values

Grandma's remedies for various diseases and her parents' falling in love story

Groom to bride song

Her childhood's first name

Her father and grandmother's work as alternative therapists

Her father as solider in the Muslim army

Her grandparents, their occupation and respecting the elderly

Meeting her partner and ḥenna ceremony

My mother's Hebrew and the attitude towards the Persian language

Parable about parents and children

Reason to make Aliya to Israel

Relationships with the Muslims

Shavuot and Passover ceremonies

The parents' relationship and differences between them

Virginity test on the wedding day

Women's social status, relationships and the story of her father

Bijar

Ḥana ʾAssayag (Geʾula)

Women's modesty

Childhood

Passover preparations

Shulamit Ganal (Basharat)

My wedding

Religion and belief

Lea Etashga

Childhood in Jewish family

Familial relationships

Jewish holidays

Shabbat customs

Leah Etashga

Idioms and phrases

The status of women

Borujerd

Mary Morim

Birth and bar mitzva

Engagement and wedding

Holiday customs

Jews-Muslims relations and education at the Muslim school

Lamenting for a mother

Mixed Jewish school (boys and girls), uniform and rules

Proverb and story

Roles of men and women and daily life in the community

Shivʿa

Song for loved one who passed away

Miriam Shergian

Making Aliya from Borujerd

Golpayegan

Ḥanna Dustari

Attitude towards men and women

Education and her doctor grandmother

Her doctors father and grandmother and Aliya to Israel

Her grandmother's story and life in Golpayegan

Her maternal grandmother

Passover

Proverbs and secret language

Shabbat and water pool

The home, the community and ceremonies

The synagogue and her grandmother's beliefs

Ḥanna Sulimani

Family and education

Passover: mimouna, Salino night and matzot making

Raḥel Menashe-Ziafti (Nana Jan)

Song about a girl falling in love with a young man against her father's will

Rivka Elipur

Birth, impurity and purity and women's lives

Holidays

Livelihood, home and shared life

Rivka's mother and bereavement customs

Tsion Yeshaʿyahu

Love song

ʾEsther (ʾAbsar) Yehudai

Bibles stories told by her mother

Birth

Childhood and communal identity

Family honors and values

Grandma's remedies for various diseases and her parents' falling in love story

Groom to bride song

Her childhood's first name

Her father and grandmother's work as alternative therapists

Her father as solider in the Muslim army

Her grandparents, their occupation and respecting the elderly

Meeting her partner and ḥenna ceremony

My mother's Hebrew and the attitude towards the Persian language

Parable about parents and children

Reason to make Aliya to Israel

Relationships with the Muslims

Shavuot and Passover ceremonies

The parents' relationship and differences between them

Virginity test on the wedding day

Women's social status, relationships and the story of her father

Hamadan

Leah Mizraḥi

Aliya, absorption and her wedding at a young age

Birth

How she met her husband

Language

The Shah and his attitude towards Jews

Rut (Faroch) Bekhori

Aliya and settlement

The city of Hamadan: daily life and spoken languages

Yafa Ben-Yaʾir

Family

Homsar

Dvora Ohev Zion

Aliya to Israel

Dating and wedding

Foods and Passover

Raḥel Shuv

Muslim kid disturbing Passover eve

Isfahan

Dalia Pajand

Contemporary love song

Five songs in Mahali

Goodbye song from wedding guests

Groom's Sabbath song

Song for groom at the wedding

Dalya Magen (Faḥri Mutahada)

Aliya and absorption

Children's song from Isfahan

Family and childhood

Intermarraige - Jews and Muslims

Life in Iran and drawing water from wells

Nursery rhyme from Isfahan

Passover

Poverty and community

Neʿeima Senjani (ʿAnawim)

Holidays

Life in Isfahan

Medicine and products

Shabbat

Stories of the Land of Israel

Pirḥiya Ḥakshur

Holidays and women's schooling

The Jewish neighbourhood, women's life and weddings

Rivka ʾAmiri (Munir Forostmihan)

The Jewish neighbourhood in Isfahan

Wedding preparations

Shoshana Novhari (Shahanaz Refuʾa)

Matchmaking and wedding preparations

Passover and Passover Eve preparations

Tsiona Lulian

Dating and wedding

Education and bar mitzva

Holidays and foods

Women, occupation and livelihood

Zion Ḥakshur

Alcohol production and relations with the Muslims

Aliya and absorption

Israel

Rivka Cohen (Kalimi)

Wedding customs and songs

Sarit Tillinger Lulae

Aliya and family gatherings in Israel

Children's song

Holidays and weddings in Mashhad and Israel

Life in Mashhad

Mashhad community, dialect and preserving tradition

Istanbul

Sara Rosenblat

Bereavement customs

Holiday customs

Preserving the language amongst the family

Youth and childhood memories

Yitsḥak Dahpur

Days of the week and proverbs in Aramaic

Family story and the Judeo-Aramaic dialect

Foods

Natural medicine

Travel and World War II

ʾAvraham Dahpur

Kerend

Malka Qamari

Family, education and dyeing fabric

Zeri Saramili

Foods, livelihood, wedding and mimouna

Kerman

David Shergian

Purim in Kerman

Sara Mahadizda

Life and family story

ʾEster Neʾemani

Enlisting to the IDF

Making Aliya and living in Israel

ʾEsther Musai-Sulimani

Kerman's economic situation

Kermanshah

Marcel Carmeli

Aliya, absorption and history of the family in Israel

Bar mitzva, wedding ceremonies and school

Family

Her husband and moving to Ramat Gan

Her husband's illness

Holidays

Housing, livelihood and celebration in Israel

Matchmaking and dating

Occupation and arts

Poverty and relationship with the Muslims

The family's livelihood

Weddings and births in the family

Meʾir Nadari

Meʾir Nadari's family

Nowruz (Iranian New Year)

Numbers, days of the week and names in Aramaic

The Aramaic language

Khorramshahr

Naʿima ʾAvrahami

Marriage and giving birth

Medicine and story of a plague

Naʿima ʾAvrahami's family

Proverbs and short stories

Shabbat and foods

Mashhad

Sarit Tillinger Lulae

Aliya and family gatherings in Israel

Children's song

Holidays and weddings in Mashhad and Israel

Life in Mashhad

Mashhad community, dialect and preserving tradition

Shlomo Ziafti

Blessing for baby Raḥel

God do not take me away

Moshe Rabbeinu and the people of Israel crossing the Red Sea

Your eyes shall see the Messiah

Nahawand

Muhatram Yazenfur

Buying bread for a non-Jewish neighbour during Passover

Children's songs and games

Folk song in Judeo-Persian

Mikve, wedding and brit mila

Music teaching in Tehran

The situation in Iran before making Aliya

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Persian Azerbaijan

Ester Shmueli

The 1948 liberation war in Jerusalem in the Bukharian quarter

The big sister's wedding

Qasr-e Shirin

Yossi Harel

Foods

Jewish holidays

Life story and the family

The community's customs, traditions and way of living

The Lishán Didán dialect

Salmas

Sara Rosenblat

Bereavement customs

Holiday customs

Preserving the language amongst the family

Youth and childhood memories

Yitsḥak Dahpur

Days of the week and proverbs in Aramaic

Family story and the Judeo-Aramaic dialect

Foods

Natural medicine

Travel and World War II

ʾAvraham Dahpur

Sanandaj

Marcel Sevgan

Engagement and marriage

Rosh Ḥodesh (first of the month) customs

Moshe Eshtegha

The transition from experiencing pogroms to settling down in Israel

Rivka Golan

Childhood

Persian 'Mimouna'

Proverbs

Shabbat: foods and customs

Traditional Beliefs

Shifra Martziano

Familial Relationships

Matchmaking and Marriage

Shirin Qabesa

Shabbat and holidays with the family

The synagogue, education and relationship with the Muslim neighbours

Saqqez

Sara Yeḥezkeli

Bar mitzva and Shabbat

Births and breastfeedings

Engagement and wedding

Holidays

Livelihood in Iran and Israel

My father and brother

The daughter's passing and bereavement customs

The Jewish language and poetry language

Shahandasht

Yeḥezkel Yagana

Holidays

Aliya and absorption

Shiraz

Eliezer Shats

Story about a non-Jew

Story about the non-Jew at the grocery store

Difficulties in making Aliya

Shabbat

Eliʿezer Schatz

Persian 'Mimouna' (Shiraz)

School in Shiraz

Ḥana Shachen Tov

Aliya to Israel

Bar and bat mitzva

Birth and name giving

Engagement, wedding, wedding and celebration songs

Shabbat

Yom Kippur and Passover

Shoshana Kiali

Customs for Shabbat and Passover

Memories from Iran

Zion Dror

Eliyahu HaNavi tales: "an ugly person"

Eliyahu HaNavi tales: "living in the light of the Tora"

Takab

Peri Kalimi

Song in Aramaic about the Persian lemon

Rivka Cohen (Kalimi)

Wedding customs and songs

Tehran

Flora Davidi (Yarijnian)

Acquaintance with her partner, family and life in Israel

Childhood in Tehran, Shabbat and holidays

Relationship with the Muslims

Rut (Faroch) Bekhori

Aliya and settlement

The city of Hamadan: daily life and spoken languages

Simona (Fahima) ʾAvrahami (ʾAvrahamian)

Birth and birthdays

Childhood and education, occupation and livelihood

Dating, wedding and ḥenna

Food and showers

Shabbat and holiday

Use of incense and bereavement customs

Tekab

Pinḥas Ḥariri

School, education and life in Tekab

Raphaʾel Benyamini

Folk song

Life story, education and occupation and livelihood

Piyyut for brit mila

Song for the king of Persia's wife

Shmuʾel Benyamini

Bar mitzva

Brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Schooling

Shabbat

Shmuʾel's childhood

Song about a female solider

Wedding of the parents

Tuyserkan

Bulur Ben Ruḥi

Birth and brit mila

Congratulations song

Medicine, makeup and folk beliefs

Parting her mother during Aliya and preserving her name

Passover and Sukkot

Story of her doctor grandmother and the king of Persia

The Jewish community in Tuyserkan and life story

Urmia

Shoshana ʾAharoni

Aliya to Israel

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