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Three songs

Name of speaker: 
ʾAharon Ḥemi
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Worked at 'Solel Boneh'
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
89
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Egypt
Speaker's community of origin: 
Alexandria
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Folk songs
Documentation: 
Ilana Chemoul
Year of recording: 
2018

School and work

Name of speaker: 
ʾAharon Ḥemi
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Worked at 'Solel Boneh'
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
89
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Egypt
Speaker's community of origin: 
Alexandria
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Education, Occupations and livelihoods
Documentation: 
Ilana Chemoul
Year of recording: 
2018

Army stories

Name of speaker: 
ʾAharon Ḥemi
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Worked at 'Solel Boneh'
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
89
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Egypt
Speaker's community of origin: 
Alexandria
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Life story, Zionism
Documentation: 
Ilana Chemoul
Year of recording: 
2018

Passover Haggada from Fes

Dedicated to documenting the tradition of the Jews of the Holy City of Fes, with longing and yearning

Name of speaker: 
Pinḥas Benizri
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Textile factory manager at Kitan, Dimona
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
81
Year of immigration: 
1962
Speaker's country of origin: 
Morocco
Speaker's community of origin: 
Fes
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Passover Haggada and the Seder, Sacred songs, Translations
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Baruch
Year of recording: 
2020

"Let Us Praise" - Passover Piyyut from Tunis

May listening to this Haggada create yearnings for God – the one who redeems Israel from exodus until this day, during our national revival in Israel. May we be empowered by the will to ascend to true liberty

Name of speaker: 
Rabbi Yosef Ben Shushan
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Tora teaching and public activity
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
56
Speaker's country of origin: 
Tunisia
Speaker's community of origin: 
Tunis, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Passover Haggada and the Seder, Piyyutim, Sacred songs
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Baruch
Year of recording: 
2020

Aliya and life in the maʿabara (absorption camp)

In memory of my parents and to my children

Name of speaker: 
Shoshana Jibli
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Ceramics and handicrafts
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
80
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Baghdad
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Aliya, Settlement and absorption, Zionism
Documentation: 
Dr. Matan Shapira
Year of recording: 
2020

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