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

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

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

Yvette Eliyahu (Levi)

The Jewish school in Baghdad

Zamira Sasson

Life story

Zmira Sasson

Fighting for Zionism

ʾAvraham ʾAshuri

Ha Laḥma ʿAnya from Iraq

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

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

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)

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

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)

Family and livelihood

Family, life in Iraq and school

Holidays

Life in Israel and foods

Purchasing property, Aliya and absorption in Israel

Relationship with the neighbour and her family

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

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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