Syria - Mother Tongue

Aleppo

Anonymous

Mediation of community sages in bail release

Torture in the Syrian prison

Tu BiShvat customs

Acquaintance of the couple

Aleppo pogroms and Aleppo Codex

Brit mila and bar mitzva

Business with the Muslims

Change within women's status over the years

Conduct with partners and clients at work

Deterioration of relations with the Muslims since 1955

Education and occupation

Family story from Aleppo

Family's involvement in marital affairs

Fasting: Yom Kippur and the Seventeenth of Tammuz

Hanukka

House arrest in Syria

Importance of holidays and Shabbat in Aleppo

Jew's importance in Aleppo's economy

Jewish neighbourhoods in Aleppo

Jews' social status and use of Hebrew in trade in Syria

Kashrut and Shabbat

Muslim and Christian relations with the Jews

Neighbourhoods and ethnic groups in Aleppo

Passover

Passover and Sukkot

Pre-brit mila celebration

Proverbs

Purim

Relationship with the regime and the non-Jewish population

Religious and national holidays in Syria

School and education

Shavuot and Tishʿa BeʾAv

Sheep farming in Aleppo

Social connections in the community

Social hierarchy within the community

Solidarity within the community

Solidarity within the community after the Aleppo pogroms

Status of the Star of David in Aleppo

Story about Zionism

Syrian-Jews during the Yom Kippur War

The different dialects in Syria

The different languages and dialects in Aleppo

The importance of Aleppo Codex

Tishrei holidays

Tora learning and education

Uniqueness of the Jewish People

Use of Hebrew words

Visiting the family home during holidays and after wedding

Visitng the great synagogue in Aleppo

Visits in Tadif

Working in trade in Aleppo

ʾAvraham Hilleli

Aliya to Israel

Community life in Aleppo

Proverbs

Buenos Aires

Mordechai (Markus) Sʿayed (Naḥmias)

Eḥad Mi Yodea

Damascus

ʾEli Shaluḥ

History of the Shaluḥ family

Between the Aleppo and Damascus communities

Birth celebration and name giving

Counting of the ʿOmer and Tishʿa BeʾAv

Education

Eliyahu HaNavi synagogue in Jobar

Hanukka, Tu BiShvat and Tenth of Tevet

Matchmaking, engagement and wedding

Motzaʾei Shabbat

Names of Jewish holidays

Occupation

Passing away and bereavement customs

Passover

Purim

Rabbis of Damascus community

Secret language

Shabbat blessings

Shavuot

Tishrei holidays

Dr. Nathan Ḥaswa

Education, occupation and integration in society

Life in Syria during wars in Israel

Personal details, the community and school

Proverbs

School

The family and presenting Syrian documents and diplomas

Weddings and family

Women, holidays and community

Frida Ḥaswa

Bar mitzva

Bereavement customs

Children names and childhood games

Economic status and employment

Foods, beverages and medicine

Holidays

Koshering meat and poultry

Languages

Rabbis

Relationship with non-Jews

Synagogue

The children's schooling

The Jewish community in Damascus during wars in Israel

Wedding

Women

Women's community in Damascus

Lala Alfia

Aliya and settlement

Children's songs and Red Riding Hood (Layla Wa Dib)

Education and language amongst Jews

Engagement and wedding

Foods and beverages

Holidays and festivals (public and religious)

Lala Alfia's life and family story

Relationship with the Muslims before and after the Six-Day War

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye): proverbs and traditions

Meʾir Salomon

Death of Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of God's name)

Fear of the Palestinians and neighbours during the holidays

Making Aliya from Syria

Schools in Damascus

Mordechai (Markus) Sʿayed (Naḥmias)

Eḥad Mi Yodea

Rabbi ʾUri Lati

Passover Haggada

Stella Salomon

Vicky Gada (Sweid)

"Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ"

"Ha Laḥma ʿAnya"

Children's songs

Education

Fast of Esther and Purim

Illustrating Exodus on Seder evening

Life in Syria as Jewish minority

Muslim and Jewish dialects

Names of holidays and special foods

Passover foods and their significance

Passover prohibitions and customs

Protection from ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and folk remedies

Simḥat Tora songs

Women's way of living

ʾOlga Duʾek

Childhood

Cooking

Holidays and festivals

Lifestyle in Damascus

Medicine and natural products

Names of days, months and holidays

Protecting the house against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Recreation and leisure

ʿAzar Ḥalabi

Arrest and imprisonment following Aliya to Israel

Colloquial language

Community and solidarity between 1967-1973

Community life in Damascus

Damascus community during wars in Israel

Demography and politics in Syria

Freedom of speech at school

Good neighbourliness

Immigration to the USA and connection to Syria

Marriage, divorce and family's role

My family

Professions and integration in the economy

Rabbi Nissim Indibo HaCohen and the Ḥacham of Damascus

Relationship with the Muslims

School system of Damascus Jews

Synagogue in Jobar

Translation of Passover Haggada and 'Ma Nishtana'

Ḥalab

Itsik Gindi

Community traditions

Ze'ev Beni

Father-son traditions

Making Aliya to Israel and celebrating Purim in Qiryat Atta

Israel

Nusaybin

Qamishli

Faraj Binyamin

Aliya, absorption and livelihood

Education, barbering school and livelihood

Ha Laḥma ʿAnya in Arabic and Ma Nishtana in Hebrew

Matchmaking, wedding, brit mila and bar mitzva

Passover and its celebrations

Shavuot and pilgrimaging to the Tomb of Judah ben Bathyra

The Jewish community, his father the mukhtar and Rabbi Avraham Ḥamra

Tishrei holidays

Ze'ev Beni

Father-son traditions

Making Aliya to Israel and celebrating Purim in Qiryat Atta

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