Israel - Mother Tongue

Hebron

Raphaʾel Golan

Bar mitzva

Education

History of the family living in Jerusalem

Holidays

Matchmaking, engagement and wedding

Songs and proverbs

The 1948 War of Independence

Jerusalem

Nitsa Flor Genuth

Her father who observes the Jewish tradition and Shabbat customs

Children's song encouraging studying the Tora

Family story: history and making aliya

Passover, filling the bowel with wine custom and Rosh Hashana

Proverbs

Her mother's Greek dialect and her father's Jerusalem dialect

Judeo-Spanish: the approach towards the language and studying it, and her sister ʾAviva Cohen Z"L establishing a Judeo-Spanish culture center

Relationship with the Turkish and English, and conflict with the Arabs in Israel

Thessaloniki Jewry: fire in the Jewish Quarter, the rise of antisemitism, the strengthening of Zionism and making Aliya

Sara ʾAlbeg

Family story and Judeo-Spanish

Her father's bookstore and his relationship with ʾEliʿezer Ben-Yehuda

Passover, Rosh Hashana and Sukkot foods

Songs in Judeo-Spanish

Synagogue and Shabbat

The Judeo-Spanish speaking club and the connection with Yitsḥak Navon

Dorit Lev Or

"Mornita" song and the importance of singing and dancing at home

A Jerusalem family of Spanish origin

Community and Shabbat and Passover customs

Foods

Judeo-Spanish and proverbs

Song for a grandmother

Mazal Hess

Bar mitzva

Book of ʾEsther and a song for Purim

Meeting with the Rabbi after the marriage

Neighborhood stories

Shabbat and holidays in the neighborhood

Raphaʾel Golan

Bar mitzva

Education

History of the family living in Jerusalem

Holidays

Matchmaking, engagement and wedding

Songs and proverbs

The 1948 War of Independence

Siman Tov Peres

Additional communities in Shapira neighbourhood, Tel Aviv

Greek song: Mi Mulete

Life and neighbourhood story

Yehuda Lion

Blessing after Grace after Meals in Judeo-Spanish

Expressions and proverbs

History of the family and Benjamin Samuel Leon

Ouarzazate

Zahavit Swissa

Zahavit talks about her grandmother

Peqi'in

Margalit Zinati

Birth and name giving

Fast of Esther and Purim

Ḥanukka and Tu BiShvat

Kashrut (dietary laws)

Lighting candles

Livelihood

Margalit Zinati's father

Passover

Peqi'in Synagogue

Piyyutim of the hours after Shabbat

Shabbat

Songs

Synagogue

Tale of Rabbi Yossi the righteous

The Zinati family and the neighbours

Tishrei holidays

Tithe and charity for the poor

Wedding and divorce

ʿOmer, Shavuʿot and Tishʿa BeʾAv

Thessaloniki

Nitsa Flor Genuth

Her father who observes the Jewish tradition and Shabbat customs

Children's song encouraging studying the Tora

Family story: history and making aliya

Passover, filling the bowel with wine custom and Rosh Hashana

Proverbs

Her mother's Greek dialect and her father's Jerusalem dialect

Judeo-Spanish: the approach towards the language and studying it, and her sister ʾAviva Cohen Z"L establishing a Judeo-Spanish culture center

Relationship with the Turkish and English, and conflict with the Arabs in Israel

Thessaloniki Jewry: fire in the Jewish Quarter, the rise of antisemitism, the strengthening of Zionism and making Aliya

Siman Tov Peres

Additional communities in Shapira neighbourhood, Tel Aviv

Greek song: Mi Mulete

Life and neighbourhood story

Tiberias

Adele Maman (Toledano)

Eggs and sugar as present for giving birth

Passover at family Toledano

Secret language and the use of Hebrew

Secret language and use of Hebrew in Tiberias as apposed to Pekiʿin

Shabbat and music

The history of family Toledano

The visit to Jerusalem

Visiting Samakh

Rachelle Cohen

Children's song

Life and family story

Yehudit Drori

Departure of local Arabs, maʿabarot (absorption camps) and food stamps

Foods, bakery, gardening and foraging

Hanukka, Purim and Passover

Language, education and namings

Life story and family

Relationship with the Arabs before and after 1948 and encounter with an Arab neighbour after the war

Synagogues, Shabbat and weddings

Tishrei holidays

ʾEsther (Satura) Cohen-ʿOdeh

Community life and foods

Dating, wedding and her hotel job

Family

Greetings and hospitality

Life in Tiberias and relationship with the Muslims

Passover

Proverbs

Schools in Tiberias

Western and folk medicine

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