Libya - Mother Tongue

Al-Khums

Bruria Gedwa

Life in Al-Khums, school, Aliya and meeting Yosef

Pogroms and burning of the synagogue

School and Rabbi Frija

Nissim Rubin

Song about American aircraft

Shalom Ḥamisa

Abduction of Jewish girls by Muslims

Belief in demons, use of amulets and fish and changing the family name

Family life in Al-Khums

From the songs of Rabbi Frija Zoaretz

German bombings, forced labour and starvation

Harassment and false accusations of Muslims against Jews

Integration in Israel and the beginning of settlement in moshav Dalton

Introduction to his wife, asking for her hand and their wedding

Journey on donkeys and the discovery of an ancient Jewish script

Leadership of the Jewish community

Learning Hebrew, bat mitzva lessons and celebration

Rabbi Shimon Lavi's tomb and the person of Rabbi Chamous Cohen (Meiss Cohen)

School punishments and learning to sing psalms in three voices

The different dialects of the Jewish communities in Libya

The imprisonment of his friend in the Italian military prison and bringing Jewish women from the labour camp

The initial organization of Aliya to Israel

The professions of the Jews in Libya

ʿAmos Raḥamim

"I didn't look at your beautiful face"

Education and the teaching of women

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic from Libya

Leading a bride to the mikve song

Meeting his wife and sharing a life

Piyyut for the people of Israel

Relationship with the Muslims and women's abduction

Song about earthquake

Az-Zawiya

Liza Zigdon

Aliya and settlement in Israel

Bsisa

Congratulations and greetings

Foods and song about tea

Natural remedies

Preparation of the bride to her wedding

Slat Ibn Shaif Synagogue

Song for bride and groom

Miriam Hallel

Aliya to Israel and the relationship with non-Jews

Passover and matzot making

Benghazi

Prof. Maurice M. Roumani

Passover Haggada from Libya

Rachel ʾArbib

Aliya, discrimination in Israel and compensation from Germany

Brit Yitzchak and bar mitzva

Language and community

Moving to Zliten following the Holocaust and the relationship with the Muslims

Rachel's family and children

Toni (Tova) Bramly

Bereavement customs and the name of the community's Rabbi

Blessings

Childhood and death of the grandfather

Children's songs

Family experience in Libya and Israel

Foods

Holidays and customs (Purim, girls' Shabbat and ḥenna)

Life story (the family, the Holocaust and Aliya)

Protection against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and entering a new home

Songs and women's proverbs

ʾIda Sasson

Absorption and life in Israel

Aliya to Israel

Escape to the mountains and life during the Nazi invasion of Libya

Girls' education

Her parents' matchmaking

Life on a mount village near Misrata

Meeting her husband

Muslim pogroms in Benghazi

Occupations and livelihoods

Garyan

Ḥassan ʾEliyahu

Arab-Jews relations

Foods and holidays

Holy studies, bar mitzva and family

Ravita Ḥassan

Holidays and their foods

Journey to Israel by ship and adjusting to the country

ʿAmos Ḥajaj

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ in Arabic from Libya

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic from Libya

Leval Yimmot Netzach (Let It Never Fall) - Passover piyyut

Gharyan

ʿAmos Ḥen (Ḥassan)

Dropping out of school and helping with the household through agriculture

Aliya to Israel and absorption

Childhood

Community life and mutual aid

Honouring parents and treating the children with love and care

Life in Gharyan and Tripoli

Marriage and livelihood in Israel and abroad

Military service

Israel

Tsuri ʾArviv

"Let Us Praise" - Passover Piyyut from Libya

Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Libya

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic from Libya

ʾAriela ʾEliyahu (Liktevi)

Passover customs

Rabbi Shakir and brit mila

ʿAmos Ḥajaj

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ in Arabic from Libya

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic from Libya

Leval Yimmot Netzach (Let It Never Fall) - Passover piyyut

Janzur

Sara Ben ʿAmos

Aliya and absorption

Childhood during the Holocaust

Matchmaking, wedding and crossing Israel

Rosh Hashana and Passover foods

Misrata

Yehudit ʾEnoshi (Samia)

'Dayenu' ("it would have sufficed us”) in Arabic

Blessings for the month of Nisan

Maqama for women celebrating Rosh Ḥodesh Nisan

ʾIda Sasson

Absorption and life in Israel

Aliya to Israel

Escape to the mountains and life during the Nazi invasion of Libya

Girls' education

Her parents' matchmaking

Life on a mount village near Misrata

Meeting her husband

Muslim pogroms in Benghazi

Occupations and livelihoods

Msallata

Yosef Gedwa

Aliya and Zionism

Bar mitzva, rabbis, wedding and brit mila

Yosef Magro

'Eternal Lord' and 'dwell in houses of clay'

Aliya to Israel

His father and bar mitzva

Meeting his future wife, youth and conscription

Passover customs

Schooling and education

Song and proverb: "You laugh, the world laughs"

Story and song of friend lost along the way

ʾEliyahu Shamaka

Childhood memories

Holidays and their foods

Language, Aliya and absorption

Meeting his wife, family and livelihood

ʿAziza Dishek

Event recitation

Folk beliefs and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Her mother's livelihood and Rabbi Frija Zuares

Matchmaking and wedding

Pogroms in Tripoli and moving to Al-Khums

Rabbi Mordechai Buskila and school

Recitation composed after Aliya to Israel

Shabbat and holidays

Song recitation

Tripoli

ʿAmos Ḥen (Ḥassan)

Dropping out of school and helping with the household through agriculture

Aliya to Israel and absorption

Childhood

Community life and mutual aid

Honouring parents and treating the children with love and care

Life in Gharyan and Tripoli

Marriage and livelihood in Israel and abroad

Military service

Ahisamakh residents

Love song about separation

David (Didi) Bechor Tayer

Life in Tripoli until 1967

Pogroms in Libya and Aliya to Israel

Doris Bracha (Sarusi)

Family

Passover

Fortuna Diamant (Maimon)

Aliya, absorption and search for relatives

Passover preparations

Hadassa Toledano

A song for a girl who came of age

Children's plaything song: Mumna ya Mumna

Mimouna: the holiday of engagement

Piyyutim on Shabbat eve

Purim

Shabbat and holiday foods

Songs and Piyyutim

Tale of the Sultan and the loaf of bread

The Jewish school in Tripoli

Ḥaim Bublil

Abraham's tale ('utqul lu ya ibni')

Ha Laḥma ʿAnya

Piyyutim of Simḥat Tora ha-qafot (encirclement)

The long kiddush of Passover Seder

Ḥassan ʾEliyahu

Arab-Jews relations

Foods and holidays

Holy studies, bar mitzva and family

Lina Naḥum (Daʿadush)

School and making couscous

Malka (Regina) Barda (ʾArbiv)

About birth: name choosing, brit mila and helping the mother

Children's song on rain

Community: life in communes, helping others, keeping mitzvot and nidda

Farming in Israel

Her mother's life in Israel, charity to the poor and helping others

Matchmaking, ḥenna celebration and party for groom

Shabbat in Tripoli

Suitor's song to his beloved

Wedding songs for bride

Raḥamim Fadlon

Education and school curriculum

Life story and family

Relationship with the Muslims and the Tripoli pogroms

Wedding

Zionism, Aliya and settlement

Toni Yona (Tsemaḥ)

Aliya and life story

Birth ceremonies

Tsuri ʾArviv

"Let Us Praise" - Passover Piyyut from Libya

Eḥad Mi Yodea' from Libya

Ḥad Gadya in Arabic from Libya

ʾAriela ʾEliyahu (Liktevi)

Passover customs

Rabbi Shakir and brit mila

Zliten

ʾAriela ʾEliyahu (Liktevi)

Passover customs

Rabbi Shakir and brit mila

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