Yemen - Mother Tongue

Al Bayda

Bracha Cohen

Birth

Brides' mother longing song to daughter

Childhood story of the relationship with the Muslims

Clothing and customs

Food preparation and grinding spices women's song

Giving away the bride song

Ḥenna

Muslims' mockery song about Jews

Parents' occupation

Shabbat, the synagogue and Rabbis

Shechita

Singing as a profession

Song from mother to son

Song when kneading ḥenna

Teaching boys and bar mitzva

Wedding

Ḥanna Cohen (Ḥalima Fadal)

Al Hajar

Teshura Reizer

Childhood memories and secret language

Song about an abandoned pregnant woman who committed suicide

Teshura's mother and a song she composed

The journey from ʿAden to Israel

Al-Amluk

Hadassa Shamaʿ

Education, Aliya and absorption

Yeḥiel Shimʿi

Israeli Declaration of Independence and pogroms against Jews in the community

Al-Darb

Leah David

Bridal entrance song

Al-Gades

Kamar (Bat Saʿid Mantsur) Gadasi

Engagement, wedding and sharing life together

Miriam Gadasi

Shthara (Bat Harun) ʿOziri

Relationships with non-Jews

Yona Ben-David

Aliya and relationship with the Muslims

Her father's illness, starvation and poverty

Matchmaking, wedding and girl's request not to be sold

Prayer and reading the Tora

Synagogues and studying at the Yeshiva

The house in Al-Gades and cooking

Al-Ḥabal

Shulamit (Salameh) Salem

Foods and celebrations

Passover

Pregnancy and birth

The mikve and song for the bride

Wedding at a young age

Al-Ḥada

Shoshana Berland

If I observe the Shabbat

Reading the Tora

Reconciling song to mother

Al-Rawda

Yosef Chubani

"Time for the Gates of Heaven to Open" - piyyut for Rosh Hashana

'Shabbat Menuḥa': in Hebrew and Arabic

Piyyutim for Shabbat

Prayer for the Royal Family for the sake of Imam Yiḥya

Tora: reading and translation

Bab al-Ḥyder

ʾAvraham Yadʿi

Baking matzot and making ḥaroset

Education and Tora studies

Piyyut for Shabbat by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi

Piyyut for Shabbat by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi (2)

Relationships with the Arabs

Bane Bada

Bane ḥakem (Arḥab)

Avraham Ben-Yaḥya Tsabari

Brit mila

Wedding

Bashar

Israel Bashari

Agriculture, weapon manufacturing and trade relations with the Muslims

Commuting in Israel and Yemen

Livelihood in the moshav (village), language and rhyming story

Mother's work, culinary and learning to read

Moving from city to country and communal assistance in agriculture

Occupations of Yemenite Jews in Yemen

Reading the Tora

Shabbat and synagogues

The shepherd who lost a sheep

Pnina Bashari

Absorption, settlement and guarding the locality

Agriculture and mikve attendance

Family, house work and life in Yemen

Jewellery

Livelihood, community life and communal work in the moshav (village)

Living in moshav Yishʿi (village), childhood and education

Pnina's father, the local rabbi

Stories from school

Wedding and celebration

Baydha

Daga

Shalom Salem

Absorption in Israel and carpentry studies

Bereavement customs

Clothing and folk medicine

Education and livelihood

Foods

Games and Shabbat

Holiday dates, rabbis, Passover and Sukkot

Yom Kippur and haftara prayers

Dar Hayd

Mazzal Salem

Aliya and absorption

Matchmaking, wedding and birth

Pottery and jewellery making

Relationship with the Muslims

Women's song to the bride

Dawran

Naʿama Ḥaddad

Childhood and the kidnapping of Yemenite children

Songs about the women of Yemen

Dhamar

Bracha Klaf

Aliya, family and livelihood

Naʿama Malʾachi

Bar mitzva

Even if the gates of the rich are closed (piyyut)

Father's livelihood

Grandfather and grandmother

Ḥenna ceremony

Humorous recitation for Purim

Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good (Piyyut for Brith Mila)

Shechita

Songs in different rhythms

Tora learning at the Mori's

Wine and ʿaraq (drink) making

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

ʾAviva Qesar

Childbirth, children and children's songs

Family and life in Shfeya

Orphanhood and the journey to ʿAden

Passover

Dweḥa

Menashe Shimʿon

Passover Haggada

Rabbi Shalom Shabazi song

Reading the Zohar

Song of Songs including an intro prayer

Ḥabban

Jamila Hillel

Family and life story

Kamer Maʿatuf

Proverbs and song

Naʿama Ḥubera

Raḥel Hillel

Holidays and Yom Kippur

Purim

Shamʿa Hillel

The uncle who was suspected of witchcraft

Shemesh ʾEfrati

"ˁAlenu le-shabeaḥ" from Ḥabban

Aliya to Israel

Birth

Birth customs, death and clothing

Folk beliefs and story of a demon

Ḥabban legacy museum

Ḥabbani Jews' arrival to Ḥabban

Holidays and Purim dance

Jews arrival to Ḥabban and relationship with the Arabs

Matchmaking, wedding and ḥenna - songs and customs

Matchmaking, wedding and woman after birth

Perfume and folk medicine

Perfume and incense

Purim, Hanukka and Passover

Shechita training, nikkur and certification

Spices, shechita and soup recipe

Women's status and children's schooling

Yom Kippur and Tishʿa BeʾAv

Simḥa Madaʿi

Childhood story

Tamar Ben Moshe

Passover

Wedding and its customs

Tamar Hillel

Birth

Making laḥuḥ and a song about diligence

Ḥaima

Naʿama David

Aliya, absorption and the Yemenite children affair

Birth and brit mila

Celebrations: customs and humility

Livelihood and relationships with 'non-Jews'

Songs of wedding and ḥenna

Wedding customs

Yemenite women's songs

Sara Nisim

Matchmaking, wedding and marriage life

Yosef Yosef

Aliya to Israel

Encounters with demons

Jewish prayers for rain

Manners of payment amongst Jews

Occupation and livelihood

Relationships with 'non-Jews'

The non-Jew and the orchard

Ḥajba

Shlomo Sliman Ḥajbi

'So I Keep Shabbat'

Aliya and absorption

Engagement

Family life and circle of life in Ḥajba

Relationships between Jews and Muslims

Ḥawlan

Mazzal (Saʿida) Samin (Uzi)

Brit mila, zeved habat, bar and bat mitzva, ḥenna and wedding

Life story and livelihood of handicraft professions

Rosh Hashana and foods

Synagogue and Tora studies

Sara Vaʿalani

Birkat Hamazon (blessing the food)

Childhood and helping at home

Conceding inheritance for marital harmony

Eye makeup

Kiddush

Life in Yemen and Aliya and settlement in Israel

Natural medicine

Passover preparations

Protection from ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Song in Ḥawlan Jews dialect

Songs for a bride who leaves home

The work of the father and mother

Shoshana (Shamʿa) Ladani

Introduction with her future husband and wedding

Leaving Yemen and making Aliya to Israel

Moving to moshav (village) 'Tnuvot' and agricultural theft

The meaning of the name 'Shamʿa'

Transit camps: Ḥashed, Aden and ʿEin Shemer

Tsiona Halevi

Aliya and settlement

Life in Rosh Haʿayin

Marital problems in Yemen

Matchmaking and wedding story

Medicine, folk remedies and dealing with ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Natural medicine

Tales and proverbs

Wedding customs

Women's wisdom stories

Yisrael Halevi

Talmud Tora studies

Bride, groom and the Sheikh

Ruta chalepensis (plant) against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Shavuot

Song about caring for women

Songs about Imam Yaḥya

Story about the Arab and the prayer

Ḥaydan

Dalya Levi

Birth

Everyday life and leisure

Fleas and locust in Yemen

Folk beliefs and medicine

Occupation and livelihood

Passover

School

Shabbat

Wedding

Salḥa Faiez

Bride leaving her father's house song

Polygamy

Song that accompanies a bride to the Mikve

Wedding and marriage

Salha Faiez

Brit mila and pidyon haben (redemption of the first-born son)

Ḥaydan as-Sham

Margalit Mevorach

"Mother and father, please do not sell me"

Dating and wedding

Life story, Aliya and absorption

Haz

Naʿama Ben ʿAmi

Life and customs in Israel

Mother's proverbs

Relationship with the parents

ʾIlana Kahalani

Parents, Aliya and absorption

Ḥumar

Alice Madmoni

Children's games

Funny stories from living in the moshav (village)

Lice in the moshav (village)

Medicine and products

Modesty, hospitality and relationship with the parents

Relationships with the Muslim neighbours

Stories from home

The different Yemenite dialects

Mazzal Shimʿi

Absorption and livelihood

Aliya to Israel

Aliya to Israel and its arduous journey

Dating, wedding and sharing life together

Ibb

Ḥaim Cohen

Aliya to Israel

Education, women, community and child tax

Passover Haggada and making ḥaroset

Shavuot and Yom Kippur

ʾIm ninʿalu (Even if the gates of the rich are closed) and Explanation on rhythm

Leah David

Bridal entrance song

Israel

Alice Madmoni

Children's games

Funny stories from living in the moshav (village)

Lice in the moshav (village)

Medicine and products

Modesty, hospitality and relationship with the parents

Relationships with the Muslim neighbours

Stories from home

The different Yemenite dialects

Ḥanina Pedahel

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

Miriam Levi

Childhood

Dialect differences between ʿAden and Sharʿab

Dowry and wedding gifts

How to turn to Hakadosh Baruch Hu (Almighty)

Love song

Medicine and folk remedies

My mother's life story

Passover and Shabbat

Protection against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Shlomo Tovy

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

ʾAviva Ḥabora

Health and beauty

ʾAviva Ḥabora

Family life story

Song of songs for Shabbat

ʾIlana Kahalani

Parents, Aliya and absorption

Jahran

Shalom (Salem) Wajima

Aliya to Israel

Relationship with the Arabs and his wife Yona

Tora reading studies

Yona (Ḥamama) Wajima

Foods and growing tobacco

Yona Daniʾel

Aliya to Israel

Kaukaban

Yeḥiʾel Ḥetsroni

Hear My Prayer, O Lord

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

Khaw

Yona Yiḥya

Relationships between Arabs and Jews, Aliya and absorption

Mingide

Sara Nahari

Folk song

Aliya, absorption, livelihood and community

Education, family and childhood memories

Nabat

Naomi Tsuberi

Life in Nabat and Nabat's Rabbi

Men and women relationship and wedding

Women and matzot preparation

Naʿab

Naʿomi Bausi

Childhood memory of domestic violence

Dress and jewellery

Song from wife to husband who's away

The keeners and bereavement songs

Widowhood and marriage

Radaʿa

Nurit Shimʿon

Aliya and settlement

Engagement, marriage and birth

Father's illness and his care

Folk tale

Jewish prayer for rain during drought on Muslims' request

Proverbs

Removal of ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Removal of ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye) with spit

Shabbat foods and customs

Story of a Jew and his Arab neighbour

Radda

Yeḥiel Shimʿi

Israeli Declaration of Independence and pogroms against Jews in the community

Radʿa

David Shamaʿ

Jewish-Arab relations, Aliya and absorption

Story and short song about the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Famine in Yemen

Love for poetry and folk songs

Raymah

Naomi Dahari

Matchmaking in Yemen

Ruba

Yehudit Bashari

Aliya

Dream, travel and incident

Her work as a teen

Infiltration of the Palestinian fedayeen

Meeting her husband and marriage

Returned and unreturned babies at the maʿabara (absorption camp)

Sa'dah

Zecharya Yehud

Absorption in Israel

Matchmaking and wedding

Saada

Zecharya ʾElḥil

Tora reading and translation

Reading Bereshit

Expressions, proverbs and jokes

Sanaʽa

Avraham Levi

The abduction of Yemenite children

Bat Sheva Ḥatuka

Bereavement customs

Foods amongst the Jews of Sanaʽa

Life in Yemen and Aliya to Israel

Men and women's education

Story of different dialects

Traditional medicine

Ḥanina Pedahel

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

׳Shabbat rest is for all of us׳

Israʾel Qesar

Reading the Tora in Sanaʽa and Dhamar tradition

Mordechai Yitshari

Passover Haggada in Arabic from Sanaʽa

Rabbi Shalom Cohen (Salem Ibn Sliman el Cohen)

Seal of the Tora (Deuteronomy 34)

Song of the Sea

The Ten Commandments

Shlomo Tovy

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

Yona Koraḥ

Humility and matchmaking amongst women

Lag La'omer and Passover

Life story and the status of women

Nursery rhymes for children

The establishment of The Conservation of Heritage Museum

The father figure and way of education

The structure of the house in Sanaʽa

The use of different plants

Women's clothing in celebrations and holidays

Women's songs at weddings

ʾIlana Kahalani

Parents, Aliya and absorption

Sanaʿa

Bat Sheva Ḥatuka

ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Sawraq

Tamar ʾAharon

Aliya to Israel

Children's names

Girls' teaching in Yemen

Hebrew alphabet song

Identity card and age

Jolt during Aliya

Livelihood in Israel

Shabbat and its food

Sick children and medication

Treatment of puerpera

Sayan

Bracha Levi Masʿud

Bereavement customs

Birth folk beliefs

Childhood, friendship and foods

Foods

Lament for girl abducted by Muslims

Life in Tanˁam

Relationship between Arabs and Jews

Singing and blessing differences between men and women

Women's mikve purification

Shaghadirah

Sara ʾAqoʿa

Co-living and orphan marriage for fear of converting

Aliya to Israel

Burial and mourning

Children's games

Clothing

Description of the house and occupations of Jews

Family story about ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Jewish holidyas

Marriage

Mikve and immersion

Relationships between Jews and Muslims

Sara's life story

Sharʿab

Ḥana Shmuʾel

Brit and pidyon haben (redemption of the first-born son)

Cooking for Shabbat

House chores by women

Judaica and Talmud Tora

Livestock names

Pita and bread making

Rabbi Shalom Shabazi

Struggles with Aliya and absorption

Wedding songs and customs

Wedding: bride celebration followed by groom's

Shoshana Shkuri

Aliya to Israel and children's abduction

Family

Holidays

Life in Yemen and in Israel

Relationship with the Muslim neighbours

Shibam

Yeḥiʾel Ḥetsroni

Hear My Prayer, O Lord

On Shabbat I will Praise (song)

Sir

Yehudit Tsabari

Absorption and first birth in the Land of Israel

Family and the Yemenite way of living

Story about figs and the Yemenite woman's character

Yemenite way of life

Sodom (Ḥawlan)

Yona Levi

Alphabet teaching and song memorising

Celebratory songs

Love songs

Proverbs

Songs from mother to daughter

Tanˁam

Naʿomi (Naʿama) Tanˁami

Dating and engagement

Personal story and community life

Shabbat in Yemen

Bracha Levi Masʿud

Bereavement customs

Birth folk beliefs

Childhood, friendship and foods

Foods

Lament for girl abducted by Muslims

Life in Tanˁam

Relationship between Arabs and Jews

Singing and blessing differences between men and women

Women's mikve purification

Naʿama Ratsaby

Absorption in Gedera, fear of brother’s abduction and locals’ attitude

Aliya and journey's hardships

Childhood in Rosh HaʿAyin and Gedera

Naʿama's parents

Parents-children relationship

Passover and its foods

Proverbs

Relationship between Jews and Arabs

Schooling and central figures at ‘Beit Zeirot Mizrachi’

Traditional clothing

Women's social status and education

Yarim

Shoshana Ben Shim'on

Bereavement customs

The thwarted son's abduction

Shoshana Ben Shimʿon

Yona Yiḥya

Relationships between Arabs and Jews, Aliya and absorption

Yemen - Center

Zohara Mevorakh

Conversation with Zohara Mevorakh

ʿAden

Braḥa Kehati

Bread and pastry in ʿAden

Disease, plagues and their prevention

Making laḥuḥ

Recipes and Passover customs

Israʾel Qesar

Reading the Tora in Sanaʽa and Dhamar tradition

Mazzal Djibli

Bride's song to her father

Journey to and settlement in Israel

Story about distrust in non-Jews

Miriam Levi

Childhood

Dialect differences between ʿAden and Sharʿab

Dowry and wedding gifts

How to turn to Hakadosh Baruch Hu (Almighty)

Love song

Medicine and folk remedies

My mother's life story

Passover and Shabbat

Protection against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Shalom Ḥai Jacob

Aliya, settlement and life story

Arabic of ʿAden: description, proverbs and blessings

Family and childhood story of Shalom Ḥai Jacob

Folk remedies and blessings

Foods, beverages and spices

Jewish holidays

Occupations in ʿAden

Relationship with non-Jews in ʿAden

School and education

Structure and atmosphere of the home in ʿAden

Tora Aliya at 10 and 13 years of age

Way of life and community in ʿAden

ʾAviva Ḥabora

Health and beauty

ʾAviva Ḥabora

Family life story

Song of songs for Shabbat

ʿAfar (Sanaʿa)

Yosef ʿOfri

Aliya and settlement

Life story and Aliya preparations

Purim

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