World War I

From Prof. Jacob Mansour’s (1924-2020) research

In the memory of one of greatest scholars of Baghdadi Jews’ spoken Arabic, and one of the founders of the Department of Hebrew Language at the University of Haifa and the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University

Name of speaker: 
ʾElisha Shina
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Merchant, farmer and kosher food supplier
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1971
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Conversation topics: , World War I
Documentation: 
Clarette ʿEinat-Shina
Year of recording: 
1974
Translator: 
Prof. Jacob Mansour