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Seal of the Tora (Deuteronomy 34)

Name of speaker: 
Rabbi Shalom Cohen (Salem Ibn Sliman el Cohen)
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Jewellery and Judaica goldsmith
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
60
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Sanaʽa
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: Bible reading
Documentation: 
Provided to Yaʿel Wecsler by Yeḥiʾel Cohen
Year of recording: 
1974

Song of the Sea

Name of speaker: 
Rabbi Shalom Cohen (Salem Ibn Sliman el Cohen)
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Jewellery and Judaica goldsmith
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
60
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Sanaʽa
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Piyyutim
, Bible reading
Documentation: 
Provided to Yaʿel Wecsler by Yeḥiʾel Cohen
Year of recording: 
1974

The Ten Commandments

Name of speaker: 
Rabbi Shalom Cohen (Salem Ibn Sliman el Cohen)
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Jewellery and Judaica goldsmith
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
60
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Sanaʽa
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: Bible reading
Documentation: 
Provided to Yaʿel Wecsler by Yeḥiʾel Cohen
Year of recording: 
1974

From the songs of Rabbi Frija Zoaretz

Name of speaker: 
Shalom Ḥamisa
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Shepherd and farmer
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Libya
Speaker's community of origin: 
Al-Khums
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Piyyutim
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Baruch
Year of recording: 
2021

Reading Bereshit

Name of speaker: 
Zecharya ʾElḥil
Participants in the conversation: 
Yedida ʾElḥil
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Teacher, school principle and book editor
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
84
Year of immigration: 
1944
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Saada
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: Bible reading
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2021

Prayer and reading the Tora

Name of speaker: 
Yona Ben-David
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Poultry farm owner
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
83
Year of immigration: 
1950
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Al-Gades
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Prayer
, Tora reading
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2021

Blessings through the righteous

In loving memory of my wife, Raḥel-Rachelle Perets Z”L

Name of speaker: 
Ḥaviv Perets
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Farmer
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
80
Year of immigration: 
1955
Speaker's country of origin: 
Morocco
Speaker's community of origin: 
Aït Bouguemmaz
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Persons, Proverbs
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Baruch
Year of recording: 
2021

Even if the gates of the rich are closed (piyyut)

Name of speaker: 
Naʿama Malʾachi
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Ḥenna ceremonies director, singer and wrote a phrase book in Judeo-Yemeni Arabic
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
75
Year of immigration: 
1949
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Dhamar
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Conversation topics: 
Piyyutim
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2021

"I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness"

From the collection of composer and Jewish music curator, Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L (1947-2019)

Kindly delivered by Ḥava Shmulevich for his blessed memory

Name of speaker: 
Riva Darer
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Accountant
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
77
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Dunaivtsi (Ukraine)
Language: 
(community tradition) Hebrew
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Sacred songs
Documentation: 
Composer and curator Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L
Year of recording: 
1989

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