Turkey - Mother Tongue

Adana

Ruthi Golov

Community, Shabbat and synagogue

Kurdish language and identity

Acquaintance of her parents and the relationship with her sisters

Dating and her wedding

Family

Foods

Holidays and teething ceremony

Ruthi's illness

Argentina

Prof. Liliana Benveniste

Bereavement customs

Cultural Center of Spain and Ladino teaching

Ḥad Gadya' in Ladino

Passover Haggada in Judeo-Spanish

The family and life story

Zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Aydın

Esther Cohen

Family, community, education and holidays

ʾEsther Cohen

Bereavement customs

Family and community customs

Jewish education and holidays

Ladino teaching

Passover and synagogues

Recipes

Shabbat and Yom Kippur

Weddings and family life

Buenos Aires

Esther Cohen

Family, community, education and holidays

Silvana Gabriela Vivas

La Tavla De Dulse (a poem)

The veal that turned into fish

ʾEsther Cohen

Bereavement customs

Family and community customs

Jewish education and holidays

Ladino teaching

Passover and synagogues

Recipes

Shabbat and Yom Kippur

Weddings and family life

Edirne

Ḥalab

Klara De Picciotto (of Balio)

At The Sunrise Café – En el Caffe de Almanecer

Five Years - Cinco Amiyos

From the High Seas – De Las Altas Marres

Hopes – Umitleri

I Want to Go, My Mother – Ir Me Quero La Mi Madre

Little Dark Lass - Morenica

Sleep My Darling – Durme Te Mi Alma

The First Beloved - El Primer Namorado

The Golden Pillar - El Pilar de Oro

The King's Son (Ijo del Rey)

The Tree - Arvolero

White Roses, Flower Bouquets – Blancas de Rosas Ramas de Flores

Israel

Ḥana Vaknin

Song for a bride at the bathhouse

Tamar Polack

Buying clothes for the holidays: story about aunt Sara

Dating and Victoria's husband

Family gatherings and going to the mikve

Laundry

Victoria finding Tamar's cigarettes, Tamar electrocuted

Victoria's concern for Tamar

Visit in America and life story

Istanbul

Clara Alfandari

Aliya, absorption and living conditions in Israel

Education, childhood and leisure

Family

Medicine

Meeting her husband and weddings

Relationship with the Muslims, Turkish Independence Day and death of Atatürk

Shabbat, Passover and further holidays

Joshua Bar David

Bar mitzva and bat mitzva and relationship with non-Jews

Dating and wedding

Foods and holidays

School, occupation and livelihood

Luna Bonan

Aliya, tradition and holidays

Family, community and language

Luna Shtobi

Language, Aliya and absorption

School, synagogue, community and World War II

Prof. Liliana Benveniste

Bereavement customs

Cultural Center of Spain and Ladino teaching

Ḥad Gadya' in Ladino

Passover Haggada in Judeo-Spanish

The family and life story

Zeved habat (naming the girl ceremony)

Rina Papo

Love song for ʿaraq (drink)

Shabbat and foods

Wedding and engagement

Robert Carlson

Holidays and foods

Ladino in childhood and synagogues

Shabbat and its foods

Sarah Tzarfati

Aliya and absorption

Authorities' attitude and forced labor

Family and life story

Silvana Gabriela Vivas

La Tavla De Dulse (a poem)

The veal that turned into fish

Sultana (Suzanne) Kimḥi

Aliya to Israel

Bereavement customs, other customs and folk beliefs

Birth and bar mitzva

Childhood and family

Dating and wedding

Nursery rhyme in Turkish

Schooling and education

Shabbat and holidays

Song about biblical Abraham

The city, the Jewish community and relationships with non-Jews

Tamar Polack

Buying clothes for the holidays: story about aunt Sara

Dating and Victoria's husband

Family gatherings and going to the mikve

Laundry

Victoria finding Tamar's cigarettes, Tamar electrocuted

Victoria's concern for Tamar

Visit in America and life story

Ventura Danino

A mother's song

Aliya, absorption and family

Day center

Female Muslim friends

Victoria Lavie

Children's song

Family, community and relationship with the Muslims

Holidays and foods

Love song for ʿArak

Shabbat and holidays

The urge to learn and knowing languages

Izmir

Ḥana Vaknin

Song for a bride at the bathhouse

Klara De Picciotto (of Balio)

At The Sunrise Café – En el Caffe de Almanecer

Five Years - Cinco Amiyos

From the High Seas – De Las Altas Marres

Hopes – Umitleri

I Want to Go, My Mother – Ir Me Quero La Mi Madre

Little Dark Lass - Morenica

Sleep My Darling – Durme Te Mi Alma

The First Beloved - El Primer Namorado

The Golden Pillar - El Pilar de Oro

The King's Son (Ijo del Rey)

The Tree - Arvolero

White Roses, Flower Bouquets – Blancas de Rosas Ramas de Flores

Nissim Sardes

Aliya and absorption

Eid al-Adha (Muslim holiday) and the kosher shechita

Excitement during the reading of The Binding of Isaac and Book of Esther

His grandmother's memory of the Armenian genocide

Music and leisure at the family home

Passover

Pogrom against the Jews of Izmir

Proverbs

Shabbat and its foods

Spices and folk remedies

Talmud Tora and the Jewish community

The family and work of the father

The synagogue, community and dating

Silvana Gabriela Vivas

La Tavla De Dulse (a poem)

The veal that turned into fish

ʾEster ben Tora-Ventura (Leon)

Aliya to Israel

Family and World War II

Jacob ben Tora- Ventura's life story

Proverbs

Los Angeles

Robert Carlson

Holidays and foods

Ladino in childhood and synagogues

Shabbat and its foods

Rhodes

Robert Carlson

Holidays and foods

Ladino in childhood and synagogues

Shabbat and its foods

Unknown

Ruthi Golov

Community, Shabbat and synagogue

Kurdish language and identity

Acquaintance of her parents and the relationship with her sisters

Dating and her wedding

Family

Foods

Holidays and teething ceremony

Ruthi's illness

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