Judeo-Arabic

Speaker's community of origin:

Medenine

Language:

Conversation topics:

Sacred songs

Documentation:

Tsila Cohen

Year of recording:

2011

Song for a bride: Your White Hand

In memory of Orida Mezig, a wonderful woman who spread Djerba's scents wherever she went

Name of speaker:

Orida Mezig

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Housewife

Age of speaker at time of recording:

78

Year of immigration:

1951

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Djerba

Language:

Conversation topics:

Women's songs

Documentation:

Tsila Cohen

Year of recording:

2011

Translation:

Explanation and translation appear at the second part of the recording, from minute 1:49 onward.

Song for my beloved

In memory of Orida Mezig, a wonderful woman who spread Djerba's scents wherever she went

Name of speaker:

Orida Mezig

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Housewife

Age of speaker at time of recording:

78

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Djerba

Language:

Conversation topics:

Women's songs

Documentation:

Tsila Cohen

Year of recording:

2011

Wedding song for the groom

In memory of Orida Mezig, a wonderful woman who spread Djerba's scents wherever she went

Name of speaker:

Orida Mezig

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Housewife

Age of speaker at time of recording:

78

Year of immigration:

1951

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Djerba

Language:

Conversation topics:

Women's songs

Documentation:

Tsila Cohen

Year of recording:

2011

Song of Aliya and praise to the Land of Israel

Name of speaker:

Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Housewife

Age of speaker at time of recording:

101

Year of immigration:

1978

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Conversation topics:

Aliya, Women's songs, Zionism

Documentation:

Raḥamim and Suzi Cohen

Year of recording:

2018

Longing song for Jerusalem

Name of speaker:

Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Housewife

Age of speaker at time of recording:

101

Year of immigration:

1978

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Conversation topics:

Sacred songs, Women's songs, Zionism

Documentation:

Raḥamim and Suzi Cohen

Year of recording:

2018

Rabbi Shalom the miracle maker

Name of speaker:

Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Housewife

Age of speaker at time of recording:

101

Year of immigration:

1978

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Persons, Sermons and moral tales

Conversation topics:

Documentation:

Raḥamim and Suzi Cohen

Year of recording:

2018

Rabbi Moshe Chalphon Hacohen and the Nazi invasion

In memory of Yinon ben Yehudit (the son) who fell during the 1982 Lebanon War, and Yishai Yitzḥak ben Zargona (the husband)

Name of speaker:

Yehudit Sarusi

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Housewife

Age of speaker at time of recording:

77

Year of immigration:

1950

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Gabes

Language:

Conversation topics:

Community, Holocaust, World War II

Documentation:

Tsila Cohen

Year of recording:

2017

Moshe Rabbenu: story and piyyut

Name of speaker:

Shashuna (Shoshana) Cohen

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Housewife

Age of speaker at time of recording:

101

Year of immigration:

1978

Speaker's country of origin:

Speaker's community of origin:

Language:

Sermons and moral tales, Women's songs

Conversation topics:

Documentation:

Raḥamim and Suzi Cohen

Year of recording:

2018

Talmud Tora and school in Marrakesh

Name of speaker:

Josef Laski (Lasry)

Gender of speaker:

Male

Occupation of speaker:

Seaman and engraver

Age of speaker at time of recording:

83

Year of immigration:

1952

Speaker's country of origin:

Morocco

Speaker's community of origin:

Marrakesh

Language: