Egypt - Mother Tongue

Alexandria

Eko Victorin

Folk song

ʾAharon Ḥemi

Aliya

Family and colloquial language

School and work

Shabbat and holidays

Song about the maʿabara (absorption camp)

The Jewish community of Alexandria

Cairo

Marlen ʾUliʾel

Egyptian-Jews' abrupt departure after the Suez Crisis in 1956

Moses' fountain and the Abuhatzeira family's tombs

Arabic dialects

Egyptian Dukkah recipe

Penicillin and medicine

Brave childhood friendship with Fatima and its unfortunate dissolution

Family roots, Aliya and absorption

Proverbs

Relationships between Jews and Muslims

Transporting kitchenware from Egypt to Israel

Mordechai ‘Ovadia

Marriage in Israel

Memories from summer break: a trip to a beach at Alexandria and a visit to his father's store

Making special matzot for Passover

Aliya to Israel and absorption at moshav Ranen (village)

Complicated relationship between the Muslims and the Jews

School subjects and uniform in Egypt

Flora Menashe

Aliya from Egypt, transit camp in France and its medical care

Changes in relations with the Arabs and gradual Aliya to Israel

Foods and making pita bread

Home birth, tending the mother and family support

Jewish schools and teaching topics

Matchmaking and marriage

Shabbat and its food

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

David Eligolof

Aliya, absorption and community in Israel

Community, relationship with the Muslims and foods

Life story and family

Synagogues in Alexandria and Cairo

The Karaites and story of believing in Eliyahu HaNavi

Flora Matitya

Family story and life in Cairo

Relationship with the non-Jewish neighbors and with the authorities

Shabbat and holidays

Prof. Jacob Choueka

Keeping Shabbat in Cairo

Prof. Yitzḥak Chave's life story

Relationships with the Muslims

The schools in Cairo

The spoken languages in Egypt

The spoken languages in Egypt

Writing in Judeo-Arabic

Yeshiva in Cairo

Rabbanit Marcel Sabato

Origins of the family

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur customs

Spoken languages and relationships with the neighbours

Use of Arabic and interaction between Jews and Arabs

Rabbanit Marsel Sabato

Relationships with 'Non-Jews'

Rosie Ḥefets

Birth, brit mila, bar and bat mitzva

Death and bereavement

Life in the community

Life story

Matchmaking and wedding

Relationship with non-Jews

Yom Kippur and Purim

Sara Choueka

My grandmother and Purim customs

Sayings, proverbs, songs and blessings

Story about my father

ʾEli (ʾEliyahu) Behar

Aliya and absorption

Bat mitzva and wedding

Duties of the gabbai (synagogue warden)

Education

Foods

Karaites in Egypt

Life story of the Behar family

Passover

Passover

Schools and children's education

Work and relationships with 'non-Jews'

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