Women - Mother Tongue

Afghanistan

Herat

Women's status and men's studies

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Mikve (purification bath) in El Oued (Souf)

Wedding and birth customs

Women's education

Ghardaia

School and weaving

Oran

Annette's mother

Bukhara

Dushanbe

Couple's life and women's status

Samarkand

Couple's life and women's status

Keeping kosher and mikve

Making vodka and additional women's jobs

Tashkent

Dating, mikve and wedding

Help with raising children, birth and folk beliefs about birth

Keeping kosher and mikve

Caucasus

Baku

Birth, name giving, family and brit mila

Community life and women's status

Derbent

Women's customs, women in the arts and culture

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Matchmaking and introduction with the spouse

Wedding customs and life as a married couple

Quba

Birth, name giving, family and brit mila

Community life and women's status

Egypt

Cairo

Bat mitzva and wedding

Home birth, tending the mother and family support

Life in the community

Europe: Eastern

Europe: Western

Endingen

Women in the community

Lucerne

Women in the community

Zurich (Switzerland)

Women in the community

Georgia

Oni

Women's status, passing tradition from mother to daughter and birth

Greece

Aigio

Birth and its ceremonies

Iran

Arak

Attitude towards men and women

Bibles stories told by her mother

Education and her doctor grandmother

Her maternal grandmother

Virginity test on the wedding day

Women's social status, relationships and the story of her father

Bijar

The status of women

Women's modesty

Borujerd

Lamenting for a mother

Roles of men and women and daily life in the community

Golpayegan

Attitude towards men and women

Bibles stories told by her mother

Birth, impurity and purity and women's lives

Education and her doctor grandmother

Her maternal grandmother

Virginity test on the wedding day

Women's social status, relationships and the story of her father

Isfahan

Holidays and women's schooling

The Jewish neighbourhood, women's life and weddings

Women, occupation and livelihood

Saqqez

Births and breastfeedings

Livelihood in Iran and Israel

Tuyserkan

Medicine, makeup and folk beliefs

Story of her doctor grandmother and the king of Persia

Iraq

Basra

Men's career in trade and minority of working women

Subjects and languages taught at the girls' school

Women's house occupations and relationship between women

Kirkuk

Wedding and women's activities

Tuz Khurmatu

Lighting Shabbat and Hanukka candles, women and reading the Megilla

Relationship with the neighbour and her family

ʿAna

Birth, brit and girl's birth celebration

Immersion in the mikve

Israel

Peqi'in

Lighting candles

Tiberias

Eggs and sugar as present for giving birth

Kurdistan

Baghdad

Birth and bereavement

Engagement, wedding, marriage life and domestic violence

Diana

Men, women and livelihood

Israel

Community and women

Mergasor

Men, women and livelihood

Mosul

Birth

Birth and bereavement

Engagement, wedding, marriage life and domestic violence

History of the mother

Zakho

Birth

Birth and bereavement

Birth story and midwife gift

Community and women

Engagement, wedding, marriage life and domestic violence

History of the mother

Raising children and women's lives in Zakho

The Rabbi's wife

Lebanon

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Birth: preparations and customs

Women

Libya

Al-Khums

Abduction of Jewish girls by Muslims

Education and the teaching of women

Leading a bride to the mikve song

Relationship with the Muslims and women's abduction

Az-Zawiya

Congratulations and greetings

Foods and song about tea

Preparation of the bride to her wedding

Benghazi

Misrata

Maqama for women celebrating Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan

Tripoli

About birth: name choosing, brit mila and helping the mother

Community: life in communes, helping others, keeping mitzvot and nidda

Her mother's life in Israel, charity to the poor and helping others

Morocco

Agadir

Candles and light

Jewelry, clothing and makeup

Laundry and shower

Agdz

Status of women and matchmaking

Aït Bouguemmaz

Asammer

Her husband, women's roles and relationship with the Muslims

Nidda

Women's immersion

Asilah

Community and the relationship between men and women

Asslen

Women - cycle of life and status in the community

Bu Gammaz

Women's occupations

Casablanca

Birth and brit mila

Birth and tending the mother

Ceremony and songs for the single girl to find a husband

Pregnancy, birth, brit and relationship with the Muslims

Raḥel's youth

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Brit, birth, Rabbis and mikve

Dating and wedding

Gender segregated wedding

El-Qsar el Kebir

Relationship with the husband, children and friends

Fes

Pregnancy, birth, brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Marrakesh

Arranged matches between families, determining the dowry and presenting it in public

Attitude towards men and women

Birth and tending the mother

Grandma's goody bag full of Tu BiShvat fruit

Her Tunisian husband and her Moroccan cuisine

Names of women's jewelry

Pregnancy, birth, brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

School curriculum and sewing at girls' schools

Shabbat foods, hosting Muslim neighbours and women's visit to synagogue

Women's fasting, Fast of Esther and bereavement customs during Tishʿa BeʾAv

Women's professions

Women's roles in the community

Worshiping the holy, folk remedies and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Meknes

Birth and brit mila

Ceremony and songs for the single girl to find a husband

Education, modesty and bar mitzva

Pregnancy, birth, brit and relationship with the Muslims

Women's roles and Shabbat

Mogador (Essaouira)

Candles and light

Jewelry, clothing and makeup

Laundry and shower

Ouarzazate

Women's social status and occupation

Oumnass

Birth and tending the mother

Salé

Dedicated graceful wife

Marriage of relatives

Skoura

Women's social status and occupation

Talilit

Candles and light

Jewelry, clothing and makeup

Laundry and shower

Taroudant

Medicine and natural products

Religion, modesty and clothing

Timztot

Couscous making, walking to the mikve and singing

Men and women's education

Pregnancy and birth

Status of men and women in the community

Wedding and complementary ceremonies

Unknown

Education and way of life amongst the girls

ǝl-Qǝlʕa dǝ-sraghna'

Women in the community

Syria

Aleppo

Change within women's status over the years

Damascus

Women

Women's community in Damascus

Women's way of living

Women, holidays and community

Tunisia

Djerba

Customs: bsisa, Se'udat Yitro (Feast of Jethro), Daughters' Holiday and Passover

Her mother's poverty, poor girls' marriage and her parents' marriage

Keening and bereavement customs - shiva and first 12 months

Life and wedding at the community of Tataouine

Life in Djerba and connection to the land of Israel

Men's livelihood and women's house duties

Gabes

After birth customs

Clothing and jewellery

Female education - advice from mother to daughter

Female etiquette: modesty, dress, hygiene and make-up

Folk medicine and cosmetics

Health, pregnancy and birth

Jewellery, mikve and ḥenna

Song for son's birthday

Women

Women and men's occupations

Gafsa

Women's gathering, story readings and women's honour

Matmata

After birth customs

Female education - advice from mother to daughter

Female etiquette: modesty, dress, hygiene and make-up

Zarzis

Turkey

Argentina

Zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Israel

Song for a bride at the bathhouse

Istanbul

Zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Izmir

Song for a bride at the bathhouse

Yemen

Al Hajar

Song about an abandoned pregnant woman who committed suicide

Al-Gades

Engagement, wedding and sharing life together

Bashar

Jewellery

Mother's work, culinary and learning to read

Dhamar

Ḥabban

Birth

Birth

Matchmaking, wedding and woman after birth

Perfume and folk medicine

Perfume and incense

Women's status and children's schooling

Ḥawlan

Eye makeup

Marital problems in Yemen

Matchmaking and wedding story

Song about caring for women

Songs for a bride who leaves home

Ḥaydan

Birth

Ḥaydan as-Sham

"Mother and father, please do not sell me"

Ḥumar

Ibb

Education, women, community and child tax

Israel

Health and beauty

Nabat

Men and women relationship and wedding

Women and matzot preparation

Naʿab

Dress and jewellery

Radaʿa

Folk tale

Sanaʽa

Humility and matchmaking amongst women

Life story and the status of women

Women's clothing in celebrations and holidays

Sawraq

Girls' teaching in Yemen

Sayan

Birth folk beliefs

Childhood, friendship and foods

Life in Tanˁam

Singing and blessing differences between men and women

Women's mikve purification

Shaghadirah

Mikve and immersion

Sharʿab

Wedding: bride celebration followed by groom's

Sir

Absorption and first birth in the Land of Israel

Story about figs and the Yemenite woman's character

Tanˁam

Birth folk beliefs

Childhood, friendship and foods

Life in Tanˁam

Singing and blessing differences between men and women

Women's mikve purification

Women's social status and education

ʿAden

Health and beauty

Way of life and community in ʿAden

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