Iraq - Mother Tongue

Baghdad

Naḥum Bosmi (Atʾar)

Ha Laḥma ʿAnya and Passover preparations

Integration in Israel

Passover customs

Passover Seder plate

Shabbat

Shabbat customs and foods

Avraham Ben-Eliyahu

The early days of the city of Shamia

The Lid of the Bomb

Carmela (Rima) Raḥamim

Torture in Iraq

David Khedher Basson

Abd al-Karim Qasim and treatment to Jews

Cup of tea in London

First attempt to immigrate to the UK

First meeting with the extended family

Flight to the UK and absorbing the country

Life and family in Baghdad

Life story, occupation and livelihood

Political background and Jews' immigration from Iraq

Relationship with the Muslim neighbour and meeting her again

School and attempt to get a student visa in the UK

The Jewish and Muslim dialects

Ezra Mashiaḥ‘

A mother's fable

Ḥacham David Menaḥem

'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya' from Baghdad

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ from Baghdad

Ḥanna Taḥan (Yeḥezkel)

Baghdad customs

Learning Hebrew, pre-army training and the State of Israel

Proverbs

Luiz Ben-Eliyahu

Sweet and Sour Turnip Soup

The "Shasha" Ceremony

The Jew and the Jugs

The Story of Rimon

The value of salt

Lydia Sasson (ʿAbeda)

Arab hostility after the Six-Day War

Community and Farhud

Holiday dishes and customs

Mutual help and assistance in the community

The community's customs

The education system

The imprisonment of men by Saddam Ḥussein

Moshe Muʿalem

Comparing life in Baghdad to life in Israel

Tale of two men arriving at the synagogue

Naomi Moshe

Brit mila

Cooking

Dowry, ḥenna and ḥenna songs

Proverb against betrayal

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Oded Amit

Story of a cow from Basra

Odille Somekh Hansen

How My Parents Met and Got Married

When a Girl Was Born in Baghdad

Pirḥa Azar

The Farhud (The 1941 Pogrom Against Iraqi Jewry)

Pirḥa ʿAzar

Yom Kippur, Passover and Shavuot in Baghdad

Rani Cohen

Aliya, absorption and family

Brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony) piyyutim and customs

Grandma and preserving the Iraqi language and culture

Ḥenna and ḥenna songs

Iraqi song and culture

Rhythmic recitation for children

Tomb pilgrimage on Shavuot

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Sara Nagad

Education of boys and girls in Baghdad and fear of the Muslims

Foods

Proverbs and stories

Shabbat and relationships with non-Jews

The day of Ashura

Shirley Morag

Lullabies for children

The Farhud

Traditional foods: Shabbat and holidays

Shoshana Jibli

Aliya and life in the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Hobbies and leisure

Love song

Shabbat and holidays

Wedding and holidays in Iraq

Shulamit Ḥaziza

Deterioration of the Jew's' conditions in Iraq and Aliya to Israel

Life in Iraq and story about the souk (bazaar)

Tsvi Bar-Moshe and Asʾad Muʿalem

They were hanged in Taḥrir Square

Yosef Rajuan

Tale of a neighborhood thug

Tale of Jewish merchant and Muslim buyer

Tale of the Jew who whispered to a donkey

Tale of the man and his nightshirt

Tale of the merchant who befriended the angel of death

Tale of the old man who bequeathed all his property in his life

Tale of the old mother who was asked for her hand

Tale of the rich man who used to exaggerate

Tale of the sheikh and the king's son

Tale of the son who hit his mother

Yvette Eliyahu (Levi)

The Jewish school in Baghdad

Zamira Sasson

Life story

Zmira Sasson

Fighting for Zionism

ʾAvraham ʾAshuri

Ha Laḥma ʿAnya from Iraq

ʾElisha Shina

Jewish brigade of the British army

Tale of guards caught stealing

The capture of 40 thieves

The flood in Baghdad during 1915

ʿEzra Ḥacham

Bar mitzva

Holidays

Life in Baghdad

ʿOvadia Ben-ʾOr

Lifestyle, religion and community

My family: birth in Jerusalem, moving to Baghdad, returning to Israel

The Farhud and Aliya to Israel

‘Ezra Mashiaḥ

Tale of an angry man

Tale of the man and the porter

Baqubah

Daisy Elias

Birth and midwife

Farhud in Baqubah: pogroms

Forced marriages of Jewish girls to Muslims

Hanukka

Purim

Settlement in Tirat Hacarmel

Shabbat and Rosh Ḥodesh (first of the month)

Shiv‘a (week-long mourning)

Sukkot

The family orchard and the Muslim guard

Yom Kippur

Ezra Mashiaḥ‘

A mother's fable

‘Ezra Mashiaḥ

Tale of an angry man

Tale of the man and the porter

Basra

Carmella Lin

Love song by Mohammed Abdel Wahab

Jacob Morag

'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya' - Basra tradition

Personal life story

To a king who is a redeemer and a savior

Woman of valor (eishet hayil mi yimza)

Mazal (Saʿida) Levi (Noah)

A story about a resurrected woman

Babies abduction in Israel

Birth and brit mila

Desecration of Rabbi Yosef Ḥaim

Engagement: Requesting the woman's hand in accordance with her desire

Fear of the Muslims during the Farhud pogrom

Her aunt's trip to Baghdad to marry

Her mother's passing

Home-made matzot and date syrup, Hagala (koshering dishes for Passover) and reading the Haggada in Hebrew and Arabic

How her son met his wife

Language and other common elements with the Muslims

Life in the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Men's career in trade and minority of working women

Pilgrimage to Ezekiel's Tomb during Shavuot

Pre-wedding traditions

Restrictions on new immigrants to Israel and her brother's security check

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur

Scroll reading and sweet pastries for Purim

Shabbat night tradition and Shabbat foods

Subjects and languages taught at the girls' school

Sukkot's customs and traditions

The bar mitzva ceremony and its customs

The Jewish communities of Iraq

The many synagogues in Basra

The Rabbis of Iraq and their roles

Women's house occupations and relationship between women

Violet Natan

Proverbs

Erbil

Leʾah Moshe

Aliya to Israel

Foods

Learning Hebrew and adapting to Israel

Passover

Relationships with the Muslims

Song: Sound of Foot Bracelets

Rabbi Nissim Eliyahu

Biblical Translation (Genesis 1)

Koy Sanjak's Jews

Israel

Ḥacham David Menaḥem

Eḥad Mi Yodeaʿ from Baghdad

Rani Cohen

Aliya, absorption and family

Brit mila and zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony) piyyutim and customs

Grandma and preserving the Iraqi language and culture

Ḥenna and ḥenna songs

Iraqi song and culture

Rhythmic recitation for children

Tomb pilgrimage on Shavuot

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Jal’aa (Qal’at salih)

Najia Dalumi

The Life Story of Najia Dalumi

Khanaqin

Malka Mizraḥi

Antisemitism in school in Khanaqin

Blessing to the family

Life in the maʿabara (absorption camp) ‘Shaʿar Haʿaliya’ and settlement in ‘Mekor Ḥaim’ in Jerusalem

The Farhud and making Aliya

Kirkuk

Leʾa Menashe

Aliya, absorption and passages throughout Israel

Dream interpretation and Rabbi Eliyahu Kanush

Holidays and foods

Relationship with the Muslims

The family's occupation and livelihood in Iraq and in Israel

Wedding and women's activities

ʾIlana Brina

Foods

Holidays

Proverbs

Song recitation

The house in Kirkuk and the wedding that took place there

Work, school and relationship with the Muslims

ʾIlana's parents life story

Koy Sanjak

Rabbi Nissim Eliyahu

Biblical Translation (Genesis 1)

Koy Sanjak's Jews

Mosul

Doris Naqqash

Aliya, settlement and life story

Child abduction in the hospital

Relationships with 'non-Jews'

Najat Mesassa Rhoda

Congratulations and wishes for the holidays

Friend helps in times of trouble

Tuz Khurmatu

Carmella ʾOḥayun (Nazima Sasson)

Aliya to Israel with the family and arrival to the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Blowing the shofar at the end of Yom Kippur, Seliḥoth (Jewish penitential prayers) and Tishʿa BeʾAv fasting

Building the Sukka at the end of Yom Kippur and school holiday on Chol HaMoed

Engagement and wedding

Family and livelihood

Family stories: the family's relationship with the Muslims

Family, life in Iraq and school

Her school experience of studying together with the Muslims

Holidays

Integration difficulties and living in a tent at the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Life in Iraq: relationship with the Muslims, family life and speaking Turkish

Life in Israel and foods

Lighting Shabbat and Hanukka candles, women and reading the Megilla

Passover Eve at her grandparents', reading the Haggada and first Passover in Israel

Purchasing property, Aliya and absorption in Israel

Relationship with the neighbour and her family

Shabbat cooking preparations, the frog story and Shabbat songs

Sickness and health

Wedding and living in Tirat Hacarmel

Zakho

ʿAziz Shemo-Cohen

The language in which the couple spoke between themselves

ʿAna

Neḥama Muʿalem

Ruḥama Raḥamim

Aliya to Israel

Birth, brit and girl's birth celebration

Colloquial language

Education

Farhud

Holidays and festivals

Immersion in the mikve

Meeting her husband

Reciting for children

Relationship with the Muslims

Shabbat in ʿAna

Synagogues and cemeteries

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Yaʿacov Muʿalem

Holidays

Jewish education and Muslim schools

Life story of the Muʿalem family

Livelihood

Wedding

Zionism, Aliya and settlement

ʿAna community

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