Tale of two men arriving at the synagogue

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: 
Moshe Muʿalem
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Merchant
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
69
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
David Shemesh
Year of recording: 
1974
Translator: 
Prof. Jacob Mansour