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Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Rabbi Naḥmias

Rabbi Naḥmias who saved a baby from death on the day of brit mila

Rabbi Naḥmias' righteousness

Caucasus

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Gulbohor Davydova

Mishi Bachshayev and Ḥizgil Avshalomov

Mordechai ʾAvshalom's story

Egypt

Cairo

The Karaites and story of believing in Eliyahu HaNavi

Europe: Western

Endingen

Ingwiller (France)

Naming celebration and the beggar from Alsace

Lucerne

Zurich (Switzerland)

Naming celebration and the beggar from Alsace

Greece

Aigio

Rabbi Yedidya HaCohen and his daughters

Iran

Tuyserkan

Story of her doctor grandmother and the king of Persia

Iraq

Baghdad

Abd al-Karim Qasim and treatment to Jews

The Story of Rimon

Basra

The Rabbis of Iraq and their roles

Kirkuk

Dream interpretation and Rabbi Eliyahu Kanush

Israel

Jerusalem

History of the family and Benjamin Samuel Leon

Tiberias

The history of family Toledano

Kurdistan

Amadiya

Rabbi Shimʿon: her mother in law's brother

Diana

The Jewish community, the rabbi and establishing the synagogue

Israel

Spiritual leadership and Rabbis' daughters

Mergasor

The Jewish community, the rabbi and establishing the synagogue

Zakho

Aliya to Israel and stories about her father

Educators, education and punishments

History of Zakho and hospitality of King Zakho’s son

King David

Life of mother: Debora Da'de Baruch

Spiritual leadership and Rabbis' daughters

Lebanon

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

The communities' Ḥachamim

Libya

Al-Khums

School and Rabbi Frija

Benghazi

Bereavement customs and the name of the community's Rabbi

Israel

Rabbi Shakir and brit mila

Msallata

Bar mitzva, rabbis, wedding and brit mila

Her mother's livelihood and Rabbi Frija Zuares

Rabbi Mordechai Buskila and school

Tripoli

Rabbi Shakir and brit mila

Zliten

Rabbi Shakir and brit mila

Morocco

Aït Bouguemmaz

Blessings through the righteous

Asammer

Couple’s introduction, wedding and Rabbi Yitsḥak Malka

Asilah

Holidays, synagogues and Rabbis

Kashrut , Shabbat and Rabbi roles

Aїt Taguella

Rabbis and mohelim

Beni-Mellal

Expulsion from the hammam, building a mikve and first immersion of the Baba Sali

Casablanca

Life in Morocco

School, Rabbi Baruch Toledano and Aliya to Israel

The Rabbis

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Brit, birth, Rabbis and mikve

Er-Rich

Education and learning Hebrew

Goulmima

Baba Sali's blessing and marriage

Marrakesh

Rabbinic stories from Marrakesh

Tomb pilgrimage

Worshiping the holy, folk remedies and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Meknes

Holidays, Rabbi Meʾir Baʿal HaNes and Rabbi Toledano

School, Rabbi Baruch Toledano and Aliya to Israel

Ouarzazate

The town Skoura and its Rabbis

Ouled Mansour

Salé

Pilgrimige to Rabbi Raphael Ankawa's tomb

Writing Tora book and bringing Rabbi Shaul Biton's remains to Israel

Skoura

The town Skoura and its Rabbis

Taroudant

Rabbi Dawid ibn baruch

Syria

Aleppo

Mediation of community sages in bail release

Visitng the great synagogue in Aleppo

Damascus

Rabbi Nissim Indibo HaCohen and the Ḥacham of Damascus

Rabbis

Rabbis of Damascus community

Qamishli

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

Tunisia

Djerba

Marani's figure

Rabbi Nisim Cohen ZT”L, his family and connections to moshav (village) Sharsheret

Gabes

Celebration at the sacred tombs of Rabbi Meʾir and Rabbi Shimʿon

Rabbi Ḥaim Ḥuri

Rabbis

La Goulette

Grandfather the painter and dream

Nabeul

Community life in Nabeul

Tozeur

Song of Queen Esther

Zarzis

Rabbi Shalom the miracle maker

Rabbis, oaths and celebration customs

Yemen

Al Bayda

Shabbat, the synagogue and Rabbis

Al Hajar

The journey from ʿAden to Israel

Bashar

Pnina's father, the local rabbi

Daga

Holiday dates, rabbis, Passover and Sukkot

Ḥumar

Israel

Nabat

Life in Nabat and Nabat's Rabbi

Sharʿab

Rabbi Shalom Shabazi

Tanˁam

Schooling and central figures at ‘Beit Zeirot Mizrachi’

ʿAden

Folk remedies and blessings

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