Dushanbe

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Conversation topics:

Hanukka, Passover, Purim, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, Shabbat, Sukkot

Documentation:

Yisca Yizchak

Year of recording:

2020

Home remedies

Name of speaker:

Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Nurse, factory worker

Age of speaker at time of recording:

65

Year of immigration:

1973

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Conversation topics:

Health

Documentation:

Yisca Yizchak

Year of recording:

2020

Wedding and its customs

Name of speaker:

Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Nurse, factory worker

Age of speaker at time of recording:

65

Year of immigration:

1973

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Conversation topics:

Wedding

Documentation:

Yisca Yizchak

Year of recording:

2020

School's atmosphere

Name of speaker:

Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Nurse, factory worker

Age of speaker at time of recording:

65

Year of immigration:

1973

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Conversation topics:

Education

Documentation:

Yisca Yizchak

Year of recording:

2020

Couple's life and women's status

Name of speaker:

Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Nurse, factory worker

Age of speaker at time of recording:

65

Year of immigration:

1973

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Speaker's community of origin:

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Conversation topics:

Family, Women

Documentation:

Yisca Yizchak

Year of recording:

2020

Birth

Name of speaker:

Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Nurse, factory worker

Age of speaker at time of recording:

65

Year of immigration:

1973

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Conversation topics:

Circle of life

Documentation:

Yisca Yizchak

Year of recording:

2020

Foods and food related traditions

Name of speaker:

Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Nurse, factory worker

Age of speaker at time of recording:

65

Year of immigration:

1973

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Cuisine, Customs and traditions

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Documentation:

Yisca Yizchak

Year of recording:

2020

Bukharan song (original melody of 'Pomegranate Tree')

In memory of Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Efraim ZT"L

The song was sung in 1983 during the night of Passover at Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Efraim’s house in Dushanbe

Name of speaker:

Polina Kalantarova

Gender of speaker:

Female

Occupation of speaker:

Epidemiologist

Age of speaker at time of recording:

64

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Conversation topics:

Folk songs

Documentation:

David Ben Efraim

Year of recording:

1983

Transcriptor:

Marina Shumunov

Transcription:

1

Şudam ʙar surratat oşuq
Ki ʙar man mekunad gavƣo
Ci surrat surrati dilʹʙar,
Ci dilʹʙar dilʹʙari zeʙo

2

Agar az ʙoƣ xaʙar ojad
Ba sad gul gul ʙaron dilʹʙar
Ci gul gul gul guli ʙulʹʙul
Ci ʙulʹʙul ʙulʹʙuli şajdo

3

Nigori man ʙa sad xuʙi
Ki zulʹfaş naƣate dorad
Ci nagat nagati amʙar
Ci amaʙar amʙari soro

Passover Seder (part A)

Dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Efraim ZT"L.

Recorded in Dushanbe.

Name of speaker:

Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Efraim

Gender of speaker:

Male

Occupation of speaker:

Rabbi of the Dushanbe Jewish community

Age of speaker at time of recording:

75

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Speaker's community of origin:

Dushanbe

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