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Blessings, curses and proverbs

In memory of my parents, Levi and Zruia Kurt

 
Name of speaker: 
Miriam Kurt Sudek
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Banking
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
65
Speaker's country of origin: 
Afghanistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Herat, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Afghan
Conversation topics: 
Proverbs
Documentation: 
Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

The grandfather and his family

Dedicated to my brother Mʾeir

Name of speaker: 
Avraham ʿAmedi
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Worked in agriculture, construction, foreman, bus driver, tester at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles; today: pensioner
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
76
Speaker's country of origin: 
Kurdistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Amadiya, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Family
Documentation: 
Alona Dashevsky Apkarian and Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

Sayings of the parents

Dedicated to my brother Mʾeir

 
Name of speaker: 
Avraham ʿAmedi
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Worked in agriculture, construction, foreman, bus driver, tester at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles; today: pensioner
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
76
Speaker's country of origin: 
Kurdistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Amadiya, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Family, Proverbs
Documentation: 
Alona Dashevsky Apkarian and Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

Father's Aliya to Israel

Dedicated to my brother Mʾeir

 
Name of speaker: 
Avraham ʿAmedi
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Worked in agriculture, construction, foreman, bus driver, tester at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles; today: pensioner
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
76
Speaker's country of origin: 
Kurdistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Amadiya, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Aliya
Documentation: 
Alona Dashevsky Apkarian and Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

Kurdish Jews' foods

Dedicated to my brother Mʾeir

Name of speaker: 
Avraham ʿAmedi
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Worked in agriculture, construction, foreman, bus driver, tester at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles; today: pensioner
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
76
Speaker's country of origin: 
Kurdistan
Speaker's community of origin: 
Amadiya, Israel
Language: 
Judeo-Aramaic
Conversation topics: 
Community, Cuisine
Documentation: 
Alona Dashevsky Apkarian and Yaʿel wecsler
Year of recording: 
2019

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

Dedicated to the next generations

Name of speaker: 
Shlomo Tovy
Participants in the conversation: 
Itsḥak Tovy, Avraham Tovy
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Judaism teacher
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
67
Speaker's country of origin: 
Yemen
Speaker's community of origin: 
Sanaʽa, Israel
Language: 
Hebrew (Sanaʽa tradition)
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Sacred songs
Documentation: 
Ḥava Shmulevich
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

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

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