Lebanon - Mother Tongue

Beirut

Gracia ʾArazi (Muhaddeb)

Educational institutions

Educational Institutions: Receiving a community scholarship and her role as a teacher at Alliance

Foods

Institutions of the Jewish community in Beirut

Jewish relations and their surroundings

Language of the Jews

Passover

Professional studies

Professions in Beirut

Proverbs

Moshe Zaʿafrani

Childhood, education and teaching languages

Description of the house

Grandmother's proverbs

His grandfather's story about a peddler, a donkey, general Gouraud and his son

Jews and Arabs relationships and a Jewish child rescued by an Arab

Jews' clothing in Beirut

Jews' occupations

Planning to make aliya and keeping it a secret

Purim and Passover

Syrian and Lebanese dialects

Teaching Hebrew and using it as a secret language

Reine Akad

Arabic dialects: Jews, Lebanese and Syrians

Bereavement customs

Clothing

Entertainment and Lebanese cuisine

Holidays

Home remedies and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Life in Lebanon

Occupation and professions

Proverbs and blessings

Recitation in Arabic teaching

Relations between Lebanese and Syrians

Relationship between Jews and Arabs

Song and recitation for toddlers

Wedding

Rozette Zaʿafrani (Cohen)

Proverbs

Antisemitism and relationship with the Christians and Muslims

Different dialects of Lebanese Jews

Family immigration to Israel and Mexico, difficulties in making aliya and absorption

Family, rabbis and Ḥachamim (sages of Talmud)

Healing the son by applying ʿaraq (drink)

Incident with a candle that almost caused a fire

Making aliya through Turkey

Making ḥaroset and cookies for Passover

Natural disasters: floods and earthquakes in Lebanon and Mexico

Studying the book of the "Hatikva" anthem and Israeli songs

Wedding

Yom Kippur and Shavuot and Rosh Hashana foods

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) and brit mila

ʾAlegria Dahan

Making Aliya and reuniting with her brothers in Haifa

Shabbat and holidays

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Rabbi David Jamal

Beirut and Sidon

Brit mila and bar mitzva

Education

Jewish holidays

Lebanon's Jewish communities

Passover

Pilgrimage to holy tombs (Ziyarat)

Piyyut for Eliyahu HaNavi after Shabbat

Reading of the Ten Commandments

The communities' Ḥachamim

Raḥel (Shala) Muhadab

Aliya and settlement in Israel

Bar mitzva, engagement and wedding

Birth: preparations and customs

Common folk beliefs and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)

Education

Jewish holidays

Raḥel's friend

Story about a woman and her husband

The Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) and the rabbis

Tishrei holidays

Women

Shirley Greko

Tishrei holidays

Adaptation and life in Israel

Aliya

Community life and her parents' occupations

Her family in Beirut

Kabbalat Shabbat (the Friday evening prayer service)

Passover in different parts of the world

The Six-Day War in Beirut

Malaga

ʾAlegria Dahan

Making Aliya and reuniting with her brothers in Haifa

Shabbat and holidays

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