Tale of the old mother who was asked for her hand

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: 
Yosef Rajuan
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Tailor and cloth merchant
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
75
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
Prof. Jacob Mansour and Prof. David Semaḥ
Year of recording: 
1975
Translator: 
Prof. Jacob Mansour