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Family life story

Dedicated to my husband, Raḥamim, and to our children: Shalom, ʾOrli, Ronen, Sarit, Michaʾella and Yehuda, and to the memory of my parents, Mantsur Ben Yehuda ʾAharon and Mazzal Bat Yehuda Mantsur Z”L

Name of speaker: 
ʾAviva Ḥabora
Participants in the conversation: 
Mazzal Djibli
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Restaurateur
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
88
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
ʿAden, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Family, Life story
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Baruch
Year of recording: 
2020

Parents, Aliya and absorption

Name of speaker: 
ʾIlana Kahalani
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Educator, day-care manager, kindergarten teacher and pensioner center coordinator
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
67
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Sanaʽa, Haz, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Aliya, Family, Settlement and absorption
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2020

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ from Baghdad

Dedicated to my grandfather Ḥacham Garji Yaʾir ZT"L

*We thank Ḥacham David Menaḥem for his permission to use this recording

Name of speaker: 
Ḥacham David Menaḥem
Occupation of speaker: 
Rabbi, musician and composer
Speaker's country of origin: 
Iraq
Speaker's community of origin: 
Baghdad, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Passover Haggada and the Seder, Piyyutim, Translations

Passover Haggada from Tunis

May listening to this Haggada create yearnings for God – the one who redeems Israel from exodus until this day, during our national revival in Israel. May we be empowered by the will to ascend to true liberty

Name of speaker: 
Rabbi Yosef Ben Shushan
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Tora teaching and public activity
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
56
Speaker's country of origin: 
Tunisia
Speaker's community of origin: 
Tunis, Israel
Language: 
Hebrew (Tunis tradition)
Conversation topics: 
Passover Haggada and the Seder
Documentation: 
Yaʿel Baruch
Year of recording: 
2020

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