India - Mother Tongue

Ahmedabad

Avigail Burgauker

Bar mitzva, wedding and bereavement customs

Shabbat and holidays

Chennamangalam

Aharon Moses

Brit mila

Clothing

Diseases and hospitalization

Location of neighbourhoods by religion

Midwife and medicinal herbs for a woman in confinement

My mother and house work

Oath and ascent to the tomb of Namia Motta (Rabbi Nehemiah ben Avraham)

Of snakes and catching a cobra

Shavuot

Stance towards the caste system in India

Staying in Ernakulam

The man who waited for the messiah

Trip to Paravur to order boats

Cochin

Rabbi ʾAvraham Ḥai ʿEzra

"Faith of the People" - Piyyut for Passover

About Night of Ruin Day

Alas, Fire Came Down

Alas, Great Lament

Angles Stopped Singing

Blessed Be the Lord

Blessed Be Your Honour (piyyut for Shavuot)

By the Rivers of Babylon

Come My Friend to My Heaven

Do Like They Do

Every Year Lament

Expelled from the House of Pleasures

Fire Shall Burn in My Heart

From God's Mouth

Gates of Flaming Gems

God in the Heavens

God's Voice will Create

God, Remember What We Had

Great and Terrible God

Great, Gigantic, Ginormous God

Holy Congregation

How Much Longer Lord

How My Home was Robbed

How the city sits solitary

I am Your Lord (piyyut for Shavuot)

I Heard the Daughter of Zion

I will Thank the Lord Everyday

Israel Captured Me

Israel Shall Sing a Pleasant Song

Keep My Heart Safe

Lifted and High

Mountains shall Melt Like Beeswax (piyyut for Shavuot)

My Lord, My Lord, Why Have You Forsaken Me

My People, Mourn the Destruction of the Temples

My Spirit, My Lord

No One is Like You Our Lord

Open My Mouth to Thank

Our Sins Destroyed the Temple and How Far Cry

Over This Our Heart Aches

Please God

Praise Thy Name

Raise Your Hand My Lord

Remember God for the Sake of Juda and ʾEphraim

Send to the Sick

Shallow Land is Risen

Sing in Organ Voice

Song Anew

Sound of Mourning You Shall Weep

Tan as the Sun (piyyut for Passover)

Thank My Desired Heart

The Fallen Will Rise

The Fifth Month

The Great and Terrible God

The One in the Rock and the Burning Bush

The World Rumbled

This is My Lord

This Night We Weep

Three Times your Holiness (piyyut for Passover)

Tired of Weeping

Tora and Commandments (piyyut for Shavuot)

Tora is this Day

Wake, My Heart Wake

We Need the Lord Everyday

Who is Like You God of Israel

Who Shall I Cry To?

You Shall Console in Exile

Ernakulam

Aharon Moses

Brit mila

Clothing

Diseases and hospitalization

Location of neighbourhoods by religion

Midwife and medicinal herbs for a woman in confinement

My mother and house work

Oath and ascent to the tomb of Namia Motta (Rabbi Nehemiah ben Avraham)

Of snakes and catching a cobra

Shavuot

Stance towards the caste system in India

Staying in Ernakulam

The man who waited for the messiah

Trip to Paravur to order boats

Bat ʾAsher ʾEliyahu

Family livelihood and occupation of women

Matchmaking and marriage

Names of family members

Ruthy Elias

Livelihood

Ruthy ʾEliʾas

Community life among the extended family

Family business : exporting coconut to the Netherlands

Pregnancy, birth and medical care

Sets of clothing during the holidays

Gujarat

Avigail Burgauker

Bar mitzva, wedding and bereavement customs

Shabbat and holidays

Kerala

Tsipora Daniel

Male

Aharon Moses

Brit mila

Clothing

Diseases and hospitalization

Location of neighbourhoods by religion

Midwife and medicinal herbs for a woman in confinement

My mother and house work

Oath and ascent to the tomb of Namia Motta (Rabbi Nehemiah ben Avraham)

Of snakes and catching a cobra

Shavuot

Stance towards the caste system in India

Staying in Ernakulam

The man who waited for the messiah

Trip to Paravur to order boats

Mumbai

Elizabeth Solomon

Wedding ceremonies

Sara ʾEliʾas

Childhood in India

Place of birth and life path

ʾAaron Sharma

Adhering to kosher and learning Hebrew prayers

Meat consumption during the holidays

Tension within the family: between Judaism and Hinduism

The family's Aliya to Israel

The variety of languages spoken at home

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