English

Tishrei holidays

Name of speaker: 
Faraj Binyamin
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Barber
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1995
Speaker's country of origin: 
Syria
Speaker's community of origin: 
Qamishli
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Cycle of the year, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, Sukkot
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Passover and its celebrations

Name of speaker: 
Faraj Binyamin
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Barber
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1995
Speaker's country of origin: 
Syria
Speaker's community of origin: 
Qamishli
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Cycle of the year, Mimouna, Passover
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Ha Laḥma ʿAnya in Arabic and Ma Nishtana in Hebrew

Name of speaker: 
Faraj Binyamin
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Barber
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1995
Speaker's country of origin: 
Syria
Speaker's community of origin: 
Qamishli
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Passover Haggada and the Seder, Sacred songs, Translations
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

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

Name of speaker: 
Faraj Binyamin
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Barber
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1995
Speaker's country of origin: 
Syria
Speaker's community of origin: 
Qamishli
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Community, Family, Persons
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Shavuot and pilgrimaging to the Tomb of Judah ben Bathyra

Name of speaker: 
Faraj Binyamin
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Barber
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1995
Speaker's country of origin: 
Syria
Speaker's community of origin: 
Qamishli
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Cycle of the year, Sacred tombs, Shavuot
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Education, barbering school and livelihood

Name of speaker: 
Faraj Binyamin
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Barber
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1995
Speaker's country of origin: 
Syria
Speaker's community of origin: 
Qamishli
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Education, Occupations and livelihoods
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Matchmaking, wedding, brit mila and bar mitzva

Name of speaker: 
Faraj Binyamin
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Barber
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1995
Speaker's country of origin: 
Syria
Speaker's community of origin: 
Qamishli
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Circle of life, Customs and traditions, Wedding
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Aliya, absorption and livelihood

Name of speaker: 
Faraj Binyamin
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Barber
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
72
Year of immigration: 
1995
Speaker's country of origin: 
Syria
Speaker's community of origin: 
Qamishli
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Aliya, Occupations and livelihoods, Settlement and absorption
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Making Aliya to Israel and celebrating Purim in Qiryat Atta

Name of speaker: 
Ze'ev Beni
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Standing army
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
38
Year of immigration: 
1994
Speaker's country of origin: 
Syria
Speaker's community of origin: 
Ḥalab, Qamishli
Language: 
Judeo-Arabic
Conversation topics: 
Aliya, Settlement and absorption
Documentation: 
Netanʾel Goretzki
Year of recording: 
2017
Transcriptor: 
Netanʾel Goretzki
Transcription: 

1. ṭayyeb..ʾismi ʔisḥāq. 2.ʾana xleʾət fi Sūrya. fi balad ʾisma.. fī balad ʾisma Ḥalab. 3.ʾana yahūdi. 4.ʿumri tnən wu ʾarbaʿīn sane. 5.kint ʾatʿallam hōwnīk fi madrase yahūdiyye. 6.ʾabi kān ʿando maṣnaʿ hōwnīk. maṣnaʿ.. bibīʿ.. kolōnya wu marham la-lʾīdēn. mətl ePnina Rosenblume əl-yōm. wu ʾəmmi kānat fil-bēt ma təštəġel bass itrabbīna. 7.bass.. ʾəmmi.. ma kānat ḍḍall-kil yōm fil-bēt, trūḥ kil yōm tətsaẉẉaʾ fi sūʾ tištri ġrāḍ tištri ʾakel tištri dahab. yiruḥú yilʿabu Komkān. Komkān yaʿni HRemiH.. maʿ ṣḥāḅa. yaʿnī ʿīše mnīḥa wu əlḥamdəlla yaʿni kin(n)a ʿayšin imniḥ ktīr min naḥye madiyye. [1:05]. [1:37] 8. kinna nrūḥ kil yōm ʾabəl ma niṭlaʿ.. la-lmadrase. 9. kint ʾarūʿ ʿal- fərən ʾažīb əl-xəbəz ṭāẓa wu la-ʾənno əl-faṛṛān kan biʿaref ʾabūyy fa kān ma yixallini ʾastanna fi ddōr. kint... ʾāxod əl-xəbəz ṭāẓa wu ʾamši ʿal-bēt. 10. wu ʾažīb kamān ʾakle Maʾmūniyye ʾisma Maʾmūniyye yaʿnī ʾakle biʿamlūha maʿa HsōletH ʾisma Maʾmūniyye wu biḥoṭṭo ʿalēha fistuʾ Ḥalabi wu hād əl-fṭār tabaʿna.. lfṭūr. 11. fa ḅaḅā kan kil 
 

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