Morocco - Mother Tongue

Afourer

Peraḥya (Pirḥa) Asraf

Holiday traditions

Agadir

Zohara Israel

Aliya to Israel

Candles and light

Children's recitation

Diseases and folk medicine

Jewelry, clothing and makeup

Laundry and shower

Rabbis tomb pilgrimage

Wedding

Why there are no Levies in Tunisia

ʾIris Yitsḥaqi

Making mofletta and other foods

Agdz

Ḥacham Gabbay

Aliya to Israel and employment

Bereavement customs

From birth to bar mitzva, liturgical bar mitzva song

Ḥacham Gabbay's grandfather

Shabbat and holidays

Status of women and matchmaking

Wedding and honouring parents

Aït Bouguemmaz

Ḥaviv Perets

Blessings through the righteous

Description of the village houses

Holidays

Matchmaking and marriage

Medicine and folk beliefs

Occupations and livelihoods

Relationship between Jews and Muslims

Songs in Berber

The Berber language

The four towns of the Atlas Mountains

Tombs of the righteous

Tour in Morocco

Amassine

ʾAvraham ʾOḥana and Yaʿish Perets

Passover Haggada from Morocco

Asammer

Leah ʾAzrad

Aliya and community

Birth, bar and bat mitzva

Couple’s introduction, wedding and Rabbi Yitsḥak Malka

Duet between Leah and her brother David

Emotional women's prayer

Folk remedies and foods

Her husband, women's roles and relationship with the Muslims

Holidays

Leah's son

Life and barter in Asammer

Lullaby for a baby

Mimouna and Mimouna song

Yaʿel ʿAzrad

Holidays

Life in Morocco

Medicine and products

Nidda

Revisiting Morocco

Shabbat

The importance of work amongst the men

Women's immersion

Asilah

Alegria Ben-Harosh (Gila Albo)

Community and the relationship between men and women

Curses

Dating and dowry

Dating her husband and engagement

Death and Chevra Kadisha

Folk medicine and folk beliefs

Foods and proverbs

Gila's grandfather

Holidays, synagogues and Rabbis

Kashrut , Shabbat and Rabbi roles

Life in Asilah during the Six-Day War

Mimouna, Hanukka and Hillula of Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai

Purim and Passover

School education

The Ḥaketia language

Asslen

ʾIlana ʾibn Naʿim

Birth and naming the child

Birth of sons and brit mila

Holidays and fasting

Matchmaking, engagement and wedding

Shabbat

Tora education and preparation for the Tora reading (bar mitzva)

Way of living and the community

Women - cycle of life and status in the community

Azemmour

Shula Revaḥ

Aliya to Israel

Education of the children

Holidays

Jews of the Atlas mountains (Shluḥ)

Medicine, products and folk remedies

Aїt Hakim

R. Nissim Avichzer

Folk Song

Aїt Rbiʕ

ʿAliza Gabay

Wedding, mikve, ḥenna and marriage life

Aїt Seedelli

Masʿuda (ʾOsher) ʾOḥanuna

Song for the Covid pandemic

Aїt Taguella

Rina Danino

Aliya and absorption

Authentic Mimouna in Morocco: unlike in Israel

Bar Yoḥai Piyyut

Holidays

In haste we left Egypt

Rabbis and mohelim

Relationship with the Muslims and other villagers

Shabbat, making ḥamin and bread

Source of water, laundry, making blankets and clothing

Beni-Mellal

Yeḥiʾel Shitrit

Youth group in a linguistic battle against a French General

ʿAliza Shitrit

Aliya

Aliya without possession, absorption and settlement in Kiryat Gat

Brother's life story

Children's games

Dialects and cultural differences

Expulsion from the hammam, building a mikve and first immersion of the Baba Sali

Hebrew language acquisition

Making a Hitler doll, forced labour and staying in the dark

Meeting the husband

Sewing and tailoring

Underground Zionist activity towards making Aliya

Bu Gammaz

Liza Gabay

Relationships with the Muslims

Shabbat and holidays

Women's occupations

Casablanca

ʾAvraham ʾEdri

Aliya to Israel in ship Egoz's last journey before it drowned

Aliya, work as a house painter and relationship with the Muslims

Life in Morocco, the family and the Jewish Agency

Livelihood and living in the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Meeting his wife, birth of his children and Aliya to Israel

Mimouna and relationship with the Muslims

Muslim nanny for the first-born son

Synagogues and time of the holocaust

The Rabbis

Anet (Ninnet) Malul

Bar mitzva

Birth

Clothing for weekdays and holidays

Popular music in Morocco

Purim

School education

Shabbat, holidays and Mimouna

Sukkot

Wedding customs

Jacob ʾIfargan

Education and language

Life in Morocco and longing for it

Meʾir Kadosh

Aliya and absorption

Mogador (Essaouira)'s name meaning and moving to Casablanca

Painting and work

Shabbat and schooling at cheder

Visit to Morocco and paintings by Meʾir from the visit

World War II and the abundance that followed

Mordechai Azulay

Brit mila, acquaintance between spouses and family life

Holidays

Work and livelihood, Aliya and absorption

Moshe Naḥmani

Aliya and settlement

Bar mitzva at ORT school

Life in Morocco

Story of Moshe Naḥmani and his family

Perla Cohen

Raḥel Dadon

Passover

Sukkot, Purim and holidays' foods

Raḥel Gozlan

Aliya and settlement

Celebrations: brit mila and wedding

Life in Casablanca

Raḥel's youth

Raḥel Lalush

Aliya

Family

Matchmaking, wedding and sharing a life together

Passover and Mimouna

Raḥel Yifraḥ

Holidays and wedding celebration

Life in Morocco and Aliya to Israel

Rivka Ḥaviv

Aliya and adaptation in Israel

Childhood memories

Holidays and folk tale

Rivka ʾAzulay

Aliya to Israel after pogroms

Shoshana Dadon

School, Aliya and absorption

Shula Revaḥ

Aliya to Israel

Education of the children

Holidays

Jews of the Atlas mountains (Shluḥ)

Medicine, products and folk remedies

Simi Amzaleg

Life story - Aliya, family and livelihood

Pregnancy, birth, brit and relationship with the Muslims

Simi ʾAmzaleg

Birth and tending the mother

Brit mila and fertility remedies

Choosing children's names and its reasons

Differences between the Jewish communities in Morocco

Family's absorption into Israel

Introduction with her future husband in Morocco

Proverb about good-will that ends in disaster

Relationship with the Muslims

Simi's Aliya story

Simi's children and grandchildren

Wedding

Work and livelihood in Morocco and Israel

Sylvia Wizman Meimon

Bereavement customs

Blessings and proverbs

Children's songs and games

Folk beliefs and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Livelihood and professions

Multi languages and dialects

Righteous and synagogue

Yosef Buḥbut

Life in Safed and first settlement in moshav (village) Nofekh

Our life together

ʾEster Yifraḥ

Absorption and life in Israel

Life in Casablanca and Aliya to Israel

ʿAmram Ben David

Birth and brit mila

Ceremony and songs for the single girl to find a husband

Ḥevra Qadisha and bereavement customs

Muslims, French and Jews

Proverbs and wise words

School, Rabbi Baruch Toledano and Aliya to Israel

Wedding and funny songs

ʿAziza Edri

Childhood

Making Aliya and absorption difficulties

Meeting her husband and their wedding

Newborn ceremony - Brit milla (son); zeved habat (daughter)

Passover

‘Aliza Tapiro

Home and childhood in Casablanca

Parents and their work

Debdou

Esther Cohen (Ben Gigi)

Aliya to Israel and cultural differences

History of the family and its record

Passover

Stories: naming Esther and a story of a scarf and an iron

Demnate

Donna Elmaliaḥ

Berber local music

Demnate Jews' way of life

Poverty in Demnate

The history of the family in the city of Tshimshit

The Jewish Agency's visit to Morocco and Aliya plan

Donna Elmaliaḥ

Demnate's Jewish community

Relationships between Jews and Muslims

Laʿazhizh Maymon Simḥon

Aliya and absorption

Childhood, work in Morocco and marriage

Mazzal Perets

Joke

Semolina soup with fat

Shula Kraՙat

Livelihood struggles and family ties in Israel

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Alice Dahan

Aliya and absorption

Family

Gender segregated wedding

Passover

Roots trip and tombs of the righteous

Yafa Michaʾeli (Janet Buḥbut)

Aliya and absorption

Brit, birth, Rabbis and mikve

Dating and wedding

Folk beliefs and folk medicine

Neighbor relationships with the Muslims

Passover, Mimouna and fasting

Shabbat and its foods

The Jewish school: school subjects and social etiquette

El-Qsar el Kebir

Raḥel Afriʾat

Aliya, absorption and parents' occupation

Holidays and foods

Relationship with the husband, children and friends

Work and introduction with husband

Er-Rich

Yeḥiʾel Shitrit

Absorption and livelihood in Israel

Education and learning Hebrew

Er-Rich community

Holidays

Home-made bread making

Judeo-Arabic, Muslim-Arabic and Berber dialects

Prostration at sacred tombs

Relationships between Jews and Muslims

Shabbat

Stops along the Aliya journey to Israel

Well drilling and near disaster

Zionist activity, arrests and escape

Erfoud

Fes

Dina ʾElkayam

Bar mitzva

Education and acquiring a profession

Engagement and wedding

Pregnancy, birth, brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Rosh Ḥodesh and Jewish holidays

Pinḥas Benizri

Bereavement costumes

Clothing in Morocco and clothes' names

Education in Fes

Foods

History of the family

Jew's occupations

Judeo-Arabic dialects in Morocco: pronunciation, vocabulary, expressions, etc.

Passover Haggada from Fes

Proverb

Students' protest song against the war

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Raphael Ben ʿEzri (Benizri)

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ from Morocco (version I)

B'chol Dor Vador (in every generation) in Arabic from Morocco

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ from Morocco (version II)

Vehi Sheʿamda (this kept promise) in Arabic from Morocco

Shalom ʾAdraʿi

Community life in mellah and relationship with the Muslims

Maʿabara (absorption camp), settling in Jerusalem and army service

Origin of the family and Aliya story

Unknown

'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya'

Proverbs, curses and blessings

Zohara (Rozet) Turjeman

Childhood

Family and life at a retirement home

Passover, folk beliefs and observing religion

Song in Moroccan

ʿAziza Shitrit

Ḥenna and wedding song

Life in Fes and Aliya to Israel

Passover and relationship with the Muslims

Goulmima

Sima Buḥbut

Baba Sali's blessing and marriage

Raising children and life in moshav (village) Nofekh

Responsibility for my brothers and flood in the house

Ighil Noro

Marrakesh

ʾEster Weizman

Aliya and settlement in Israel

Customs of Berber Jews

Names of women's jewelry

Worshiping the holy, folk remedies and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Dani (Mas'ud) Levi

Brit mila and bar mitzva

Dani (Mas՚ud) Levi

Childhood memories

Happy songs in Moroccan

Holidays

Rabbinic stories from Marrakesh

Songs for brit mila

The Jewish quarter

Dina ʾElkayam

Bar mitzva

Education and acquiring a profession

Engagement and wedding

Pregnancy, birth, brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Rosh Ḥodesh and Jewish holidays

Ḥananya Benlulu

Bar mitzva in Marrakesh

Brit mila in Marrakesh

Ḥanna ʾOḥana

Blessings and congratulations

Children's stories

Dating, wedding, and family

Family meals and ḥenna

The Jewish community, celebrations and Sukkot

Josef Laski (Lasry)

'Eḥad Mi Yodea' (Who Knows One)

Acquiring a profession for boys

Acquiring a profession for girls

Attitude towards men and women

Bein Hametzarim (The Three Weeks)

Bereavement customs

Berkoksh: semolina with milk dish

Counting of the Omer

Dish for Yom Kippur Eve

Homemade ʿaraq (drink)

Mimouna

Parturient

Passover preparations

Passover Seder and 'Eḥad Mi Yodea' (Who Knows One)

Purim and Purim money

Relationships between the Jews and non Jews

Seliḥoth (Jewish penitential prayers)

Shabbat

Simḥat Tora in Marrakesh

Sukkot customs in Marrakesh

Talmud Tora and school in Marrakesh

Tu BiShvat

Youth Aliya from Marrakesh

Zeved habat - Tasmiya (naming the girl ceremony)

Mordechai Ben Naʿim

Birth, brit mila and livelihood

Ninet ʾAzulay

Proverbs and blessings

Raḥel Ḥassid

Jewish holidays

Life story

The family

Rina Goldfarb

Education

Language and proverbs

Revisiting Morocco

Sukkot and Purim

Sweets and games

Simi ʾAmzaleg

Birth and tending the mother

Brit mila and fertility remedies

Choosing children's names and its reasons

Differences between the Jewish communities in Morocco

Family's absorption into Israel

Introduction with her future husband in Morocco

Proverb about good-will that ends in disaster

Relationship with the Muslims

Simi's Aliya story

Simi's children and grandchildren

Wedding

Work and livelihood in Morocco and Israel

Yehudit Qablah

Aliya to Israel

Childhood

Foods and holidays

Her Tunisian husband and her Moroccan cuisine

Moroccan children's songs in French

Proverbs and blessings

Relationship between Jews and Muslims

Schooling and education

Tomb pilgrimage

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and folk remedies

ʾEster ʿAttar

Arranged matches between families, determining the dowry and presenting it in public

Bereavement customs during the counting of the Omer

Building the Sukka, the prophet Elijah's chair and guest hospitality

Cooking raisins, 'Bibhilu' ritual, and the Messiah's pie

Curses, ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye), ghosts and demons

Decorating the house and feasting on Rosh Ḥodesh (first of the month)

Education for politeness and diligence at home

Education in a pleasant and soft language

Grandma's goody bag full of Tu BiShvat fruit

Ha-qafot (encirclement) at Simḥat Tora and studying Kabbalah in Hosha'ana Rabba

Hanukka: charity, grace and other good deeds

Judeo-Arabic translation of the Book of Esther, mishloach manot (sending of portions) to the bride and Purim gifts

Last meal before fasting on Yom Kippur and kapparot (atonement ritual)

Meeting Montefiore, vowing to make Aliya, the grandfather's injury during the 1919 events in Jerusalem, temporary return to Morocco and renewed Aliya

Mimouna: flowers, mint and midrash (exegesis)

Positive language embellished in blessings

Proverbs and expressions

School curriculum and sewing at girls' schools

Seven day wedding: entertainment, song, presents and hosting

Shabbat foods, hosting Muslim neighbours and women's visit to synagogue

Shavuot: feast and water pouring ceremony

Tasmiya (naming the girl ceremony)

The community's institutions and supporting the poor

The Month of Elul and performing good deeds

Women's fasting, Fast of Esther and bereavement customs during Tishʿa BeʾAv

Women's professions

Women's roles in the community

Mazagan (El Jadida)

Unknown

'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya'

Proverbs, curses and blessings

Meknes

Laurette Olansky (Sabag)

Life in Morocco and Aliya to Israel

Michael Segev (Mayer Michel Sabag)

Education, Aliya and my name change

Passover

Purim

The story of the Sabag family from Meknes

Mira Sharon

Aliya, Zionism and relationship with the Arabs

Birth, brit mila and name giving

Death and bereavement

Education, modesty and bar mitzva

Holidays, Rabbi Meʾir Baʿal HaNes and Rabbi Toledano

Medicinal herbs, secret language, trade and community

Shabbat

Wedding and social status

Perla Ben David

Dating and wedding

Hillula (celebration) of Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai and visits to Morocco

Homes in Meknes and relationship with the Muslims

Purim and Passover

The community and relationship with the Muslims

Women's roles and Shabbat

Perla Maman (Sabag)

Wedding songs and customs

Rivka Ben David (Sabag)

Education

Mimouna and Passover

Tishrei holidays

Simi Amzaleg

Life story - Aliya, family and livelihood

Pregnancy, birth, brit and relationship with the Muslims

Simona Butbul

Aliya and settlement

Cultural life in Meknes

I Will Sing in Your Glory - Azamer Bishvaḥin (piyyut)

Purim

Schools and Jewish education for boys and girl

ʾEster Shalem

Proverbs and short tales

ʿAmram Ben David

Birth and brit mila

Ceremony and songs for the single girl to find a husband

Ḥevra Qadisha and bereavement customs

Muslims, French and Jews

Proverbs and wise words

School, Rabbi Baruch Toledano and Aliya to Israel

Song for finding a husband and wedding song

Wedding and funny songs

Melilla

Suzana (Sara) ʾIfargan (Bitan)

Naming in Ḥaketia

Papiro

She took me home

Stories and anecdotes in Ḥaketia

The mornings of King David

ʾAbraham and Nimrod

Mogador (Essaouira)

Bat Shevʿa Twito

Aliya and absorption

Birth and holiday celebrations

Dating, wedding and ḥenna

Education and relationship with the aunt

Ida Shriki

Ḥenna celebrations and the wedding

Husband's arrest in Morocco

Passover

Meʾir Kadosh

Aliya and absorption

Mogador (Essaouira)'s name meaning and moving to Casablanca

Painting and work

Shabbat and schooling at cheder

Visit to Morocco and paintings by Meʾir from the visit

World War II and the abundance that followed

Perla Cohen

Phoebe Ifargan

Aliya and absorption

Folk tale

My family

Passing of the father

Passover

The family in Israel

Simi Mor Yosef

Aliya, absorption and livelihood

Birth celebrations, bar mitzva and studies of the boys

Dating, matchmaking and wedding

Language, foods and holidays

Relationship with the Muslims

The family and their ways of communication

Zohara Israel

Aliya to Israel

Candles and light

Children's recitation

Diseases and folk medicine

Jewelry, clothing and makeup

Laundry and shower

Rabbis tomb pilgrimage

Wedding

Why there are no Levies in Tunisia

North-East

Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Morocco

Ouarzazate

Shlomo Biton

Avivim school bus bombing

Children's games

Clothing customs

Folk and natural remedies

Holidays and celebrations

Integration difficulties at Avivim

Language and typography

Living next door to the Muslims

Metropolitans, villagers and Berbers: language and society

Mimouna customs

Righteous, celebration and miracles

Schooling and education

The town Skoura and its Rabbis

Women's social status and occupation

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye), demons and folk remedies

Sylvia Wizman Meimon

Bereavement customs

Blessings and proverbs

Children's songs and games

Folk beliefs and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Livelihood and professions

Multi languages and dialects

Righteous and synagogue

ʿAliza (ʿAisha) Zrihan

Joke

Life in Morocco and Aliya to Israel

Wedding and children

Ouled Mansour

Sara Dadon

Holidays

Aliya and absorption

Family and life story

Love song

Morocco during the holocaust

Passover and flour grinding

Wedding and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Oumnass

Simi ʾAmzaleg

Birth and tending the mother

Brit mila and fertility remedies

Choosing children's names and its reasons

Differences between the Jewish communities in Morocco

Family's absorption into Israel

Introduction with her future husband in Morocco

Proverb about good-will that ends in disaster

Relationship with the Muslims

Simi's Aliya story

Simi's children and grandchildren

Wedding

Work and livelihood in Morocco and Israel

Qsar Ssouq

Ḥanna Oḥayon

Aliya and life in Israel

Building the synagogue

Holidays and customs

Moroccan and Hebrew

Naming the children

Roots trip in Morocco

Wedding and family

Rissani

Ruḥama ʾAtias

Conversation with the greengrocer

Safi

Roza Lalush

Brit mila

Rosh Ḥodesh (first of the month) and Simḥat Tora

Songs in Moroccan

Violence at school

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Salé

Ḥaim ʾElbaz

Aliya to Israel via France and arrival at Hatzor HaGlilit

Dedicated graceful wife

Generosity and giving

His bar mitzva celebrations in Morocco

Life story: education in Morocco, care for his brothers and livelihood in Israel

Pilgrimige to Rabbi Raphael Ankawa's tomb

Writing Tora book and bringing Rabbi Shaul Biton's remains to Israel

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye), celebration and revelation of figures covered in black

Raḥel ben ʾArbon

Aliya and absorption

Childhood memories and Aliya

Marriage of relatives

Short song in rhymes

The Muslim neighbours

Settat

Shaba Vanunu

Community life in Settat

Customs against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Skoura

Shlomo Biton

Avivim school bus bombing

Children's games

Clothing customs

Folk and natural remedies

Holidays and celebrations

Integration difficulties at Avivim

Language and typography

Living next door to the Muslims

Metropolitans, villagers and Berbers: language and society

Mimouna customs

Righteous, celebration and miracles

Schooling and education

The town Skoura and its Rabbis

Women's social status and occupation

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye), demons and folk remedies

Talilit

Zohara Israel

Aliya to Israel

Candles and light

Children's recitation

Diseases and folk medicine

Jewelry, clothing and makeup

Laundry and shower

Rabbis tomb pilgrimage

Wedding

Why there are no Levies in Tunisia

Tangier

Donna Elmaliaḥ

Passover Haggada portions in Ḥaketia and Hebrew

Mercedes Truzman

Family, community, Aliya and absorption in Tiberias

Work, friends and a visit to Morocco

Raḥel (Chala) ben Lulu

About Ḥaketia and Arabic

Suzana (Sara) ʾIfargan (Bitan)

Naming in Ḥaketia

Papiro

She took me home

Stories and anecdotes in Ḥaketia

The mornings of King David

ʾAbraham and Nimrod

Taroudant

Raḥel Dook

Aliya and settlement in Israel

Earthquake and holiday preparation

Medicine and natural products

Occupations in Morocco

Rabbi Dawid ibn baruch

Religion, modesty and clothing

Visit to Morocco

Tassort

Raḥima Dadon

Berber song and a description of making couscous

Conversation in Berber

Telouet

Solika Malka

Brit mila, wedding, Passover and education

Introduction with her partner, her father and relationship with the Muslim

Life in Telouet, Aliya to Israel and foods

The Moroccan language and the origin of the name Solika

Tétouan

Alicia Ben Dayan

Mushito

Timztot

ʾEster Perets (Sandrosi)

Relationships with the Muslim neighbours

Aliya and adjustment

Another song in Berber

Assisting in capturing a terrorist

Bar mitzva and bat mitzva

Brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Couscous making, walking to the mikve and singing

Life in Timztot

Matchmaking, engagement and wedding

Medicine, cosmetic products and folk remedies against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Men and women's education

My family

Passover

Pregnancy and birth

Relationships with non-Jewish neighbours

Shabbat

Songs and dances

Status of men and women in the community

Treating rubella

Wedding and complementary ceremonies

Yom Kippur, fasting and Sukkot

Tirsal

Unknown

Saʿada Perets

Aliya and settlement

Celebrations: wedding and bar mitzva

Education and way of life amongst the girls

Life and community

Life story

Relationship with the Muslims

ǝl-Qǝlʕa dǝ-sraghna'

Lydia Vaʿanunu

Bar mitzva

Birth: customs, traditions and ceremonies

Community structure and management

Engagement and wedding

Fasting

Purim and Passover

Relationships with the Muslim neighbours

Selection process among Moroccan Olim, maʿabarot (absorption camps) and settlement

Shabbat preparations

Tishrei holidays

Women in the community

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