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Aliya, tradition and holidays

Name of speaker: 
Luna Bonan
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Seamstress
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
82
Year of immigration: 
1948
Speaker's country of origin: 
Turkey
Speaker's community of origin: 
Istanbul
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Aliya, Customs and traditions, Cycle of the year
Documentation: 
Naʿama Botser
Year of recording: 
2018

Song for a bride at the bathhouse

Dedicated to my dear sister Camalia

Name of speaker: 
Ḥana Vaknin
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Worked at the Garage and Automobile Department of the Israel Post
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
64
Speaker's country of origin: 
Turkey
Speaker's community of origin: 
Izmir, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Women, Women's songs
Documentation: 
Yaʿel wecsler and Tali Heiman
Year of recording: 
2019

Life story and wedding

Dedicted to our children, Eli, Tsaḥi and Tomer 

Name of speaker: 
Sol Cohen
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Worked at The Academy of the Hebrew Language Publications Department
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
74
Speaker's country of origin: 
Balkans
Speaker's community of origin: 
Monastir, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Circle of life, Life story
Documentation: 
Alona Dashevsky Apkarian
Year of recording: 
2019

The family

Dedicted to our children, Eli, Tsaḥi and Tomer 

Name of speaker: 
Sol Cohen
Participants in the conversation: 
Shlomo Cohen
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Worked at The Academy of the Hebrew Language Publications Department
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
74
Speaker's country of origin: 
Balkans
Speaker's community of origin: 
Monastir
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Family
Documentation: 
Alona Dashevsky Apkarian
Year of recording: 
2019

Jerusalem during Israel's austerity period and The 1948 War of Independence

Dedicted to our children, Eli, Tsaḥi and Tomer 

Name of speaker: 
Sol Cohen
Participants in the conversation: 
Shlomo Cohen
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Worked at The Academy of the Hebrew Language Publications Department
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
74
Speaker's country of origin: 
Balkans
Speaker's community of origin: 
Monastir, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Conflict with non-Jews, Cuisine
Documentation: 
Alona Dashevsky Apkarian
Year of recording: 
2019

Family and education

Dedicted to our children, Eli, Tsaḥi and Tomer 

Name of speaker: 
Shlomo Cohen
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Mechanic in the past
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
85
Speaker's country of origin: 
Greece
Speaker's community of origin: 
Thessaloniki, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Education
Documentation: 
Alona Dashevsky Apkarian
Year of recording: 
2019

Songs in Ladino

Dedicted to our children, Eli, Tsaḥi and Tomer 

Name of speaker: 
Shlomo Cohen
Participants in the conversation: 
Sol Cohen
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Mechanic in the past
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
85
Speaker's country of origin: 
Greece
Speaker's community of origin: 
Thessaloniki, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Folk songs, Nursery rhymes
Documentation: 
Alona Dashevsky Apkarian
Year of recording: 
2019

Five Years - Cinco Amiyos

To my mother, Klara daughter of Rashel and Baruch Balio

Name of speaker: 
Klara De Picciotto (of Balio)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Seamstress
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
68
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Turkey
Speaker's community of origin: 
Ḥalab, Izmir
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Folk songs
Documentation: 
Adina Cohen (of De Picciotto)
Year of recording: 
1983

Little Dark Lass - Morenica

To my mother, Klara daughter of Rashel and Baruch Balio

Name of speaker: 
Klara De Picciotto (of Balio)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Seamstress
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
68
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Turkey
Speaker's community of origin: 
Ḥalab, Izmir
Language: 
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)
Conversation topics: 
Nursery rhymes
Documentation: 
Adina Cohen (of De Picciotto)
Year of recording: 
1983
Translation: 

Moshe Giora Elimelech

 They call me "dark one"

 I was born white

The summer sun made me thus

Dark one, you are graceful,

Dark and graceful, with dark eyes

The lyrics and translation are taken from a website of Jewish folk songs: http://www.jewishfolksongs.com/en/morenica

Transcription: 

Morenica 

Morenica a mi me llaman

- yo blanca nací

el sol del enverano

a mi m'hizo ansí

Morenica, grociosica sos

morenica y graciosica

y mavra matiamu

Trancription and traslation:  http://www.jewishfolksongs.com/he/morenica-he

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