Cuisine - Mother Tongue

Algeria

El Oued (Souf)

Customs and holiday foods

Life in Algeria the night of arriving in Israel

Life in El Oued Souf: foods, relationship with the Arab neighbours and family trades

Sukkot, Shabbat and relationship with the Arab neighbours

The nutrition menu

Ghardaia

Passover, foods and kapparot (atonement ritual)

Balkans

Israel

Jerusalem during Israel's austerity period and The 1948 War of Independence

Monastir

Jerusalem during Israel's austerity period and The 1948 War of Independence

Bukhara

Bishkek

Foods

Foods

Dushanbe

Foods and food related traditions

Samarkand

Foods

Foods

Foods and food related traditions

Keeping kosher and mikve

Making vodka and additional women's jobs

Shahrisabz

Foods

Foods

Tashkent

Keeping kosher and mikve

Caucasus

Derbent

Foods and blessings

Egypt

Cairo

Community, relationship with the Muslims and foods

Egyptian Dukkah recipe

Foods

Foods and making pita bread

Shabbat and its food

Europe: Eastern

Iași (Romania)

Passover and kosher

Warsaw

Europe: Western

Endingen

Cooking and preparation for the holiday

Strolling around Baden, wedding and birth customs, Shabbat cooking, Sukkot and lullabies

Zurich (Switzerland)

Cooking and preparation for the holiday

Strolling around Baden, wedding and birth customs, Shabbat cooking, Sukkot and lullabies

Greece

Aigio

Confection

Ioannina

Foods, customs and holidays

The community's customs and way of life: clothing, food, drink, mikve and natural remedies

India

Mumbai

Meat consumption during the holidays

Iran

Homsar

Foods and Passover

Isfahan

Holidays and foods

Israel

Life in Mashhad

Istanbul

Foods

Khorramshahr

Shabbat and foods

Mashhad

Life in Mashhad

Qasr-e Shirin

Foods

Salmas

Foods

Sanandaj

Shabbat: foods and customs

Shiraz

Memories from Iran

Tehran

Food and showers

Iraq

Baghdad

Cooking

Foods

Holiday dishes and customs

Shabbat customs and foods

Sweet and Sour Turnip Soup

Traditional foods: Shabbat and holidays

Baqubah

Basra

Scroll reading and sweet pastries for Purim

Erbil

Foods

Kirkuk

Foods

Holidays and foods

Tuz Khurmatu

Life in Israel and foods

ʿAna

Holidays and festivals

Shabbat in ʿAna

Israel

Tiberias

Community life and foods

Foods, bakery, gardening and foraging

Passover at family Toledano

Visiting Samakh

Kurdistan

Amadiya

Foods

Kurdish Jews' foods

Recipes

Awena

ʿAraq (drink) making and folk medicine

Baghdad

Making and earning from ʿaraq (drink)

Batas

Foods, her husband and his family

Bukan

Relationships with the Muslims and sharing food

Diana

Holidays, kashrut and Shabbat

Erbil

Foods

Kubbe recipe and memories from father

Israel

Kurdish Jews' foods

Recipes

Mergasor

Holidays, kashrut and Shabbat

Mosul

Making and earning from ʿaraq (drink)

Shabbat

Rustaqa

Bringing flour from Megiddo

Foods, gathering and grinding flour

Sulaymaniya

Foods

Foods

Zakho

Cooking with Israeli arum (plant)

Daily life in Zakho

Foods

Fruit, ʿaraq (drink) and wine

Making and earning from ʿaraq (drink)

Shabbat

Shabbat preparation and Shabbat dinner

Lebanon

Beirut

Entertainment and Lebanese cuisine

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Jewish holidays

Libya

Az-Zawiya

Bsisa

Foods and song about tea

Benghazi

Foods

Garyan

Foods and holidays

Holidays and their foods

Janzur

Rosh Hashana and Passover foods

Msallata

Holidays and their foods

Tripoli

Foods and holidays

School and making couscous

Shabbat and holiday foods

Morocco

Agadir

Making mofletta and other foods

Asammer

Folk remedies and foods

Asilah

Foods and proverbs

Aїt Taguella

Authentic Mimouna in Morocco: unlike in Israel

Shabbat, making ḥamin and bread

Casablanca

Life in Morocco

Sukkot, Purim and holidays' foods

Demnate

Semolina soup with fat

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Shabbat and its foods

El-Qsar el Kebir

Holidays and foods

Er-Rich

Home-made bread making

Fes

Foods

Marrakesh

Berkoksh: semolina with milk dish

Cooking raisins, 'Bibhilu' ritual, and the Messiah's pie

Decorating the house and feasting on Rosh Ḥodesh (first of the month)

Dish for Yom Kippur Eve

Family meals and ḥenna

Foods and holidays

Her Tunisian husband and her Moroccan cuisine

Homemade ʿaraq (drink)

Seven day wedding: entertainment, song, presents and hosting

Shabbat foods, hosting Muslim neighbours and women's visit to synagogue

Sweets and games

Meknes

Cultural life in Meknes

Mogador (Essaouira)

Language, foods and holidays

Ouarzazate

Ouled Mansour

Passover and flour grinding

Settat

Community life in Settat

Skoura

Talilit

Taroudant

Tassort

Berber song and a description of making couscous

Telouet

Life in Telouet, Aliya to Israel and foods

Timztot

Couscous making, walking to the mikve and singing

Shabbat

Wedding and complementary ceremonies

Unknown

Life and community

Syria

Damascus

Cooking

Fear of the Palestinians and neighbours during the holidays

Foods and beverages

Foods, beverages and medicine

Koshering meat and poultry

Names of holidays and special foods

Passover foods and their significance

Tunisia

Djerba (the large quarter)

The community's atmosphere and foods

Gabes

Asida

Bsisa

Foods

The Jewish circle of life: brit mila, bar mitzva, wedding

La Goulette

A tale of the lagmi drink

Moknine

Foods

Recipe for lemonade

Nabeul

Foods: appetisers, daily and Shabbat foods

Sulayman

Holidays and foods

Tunis

Shabbat, holidays and foods

Zarzis

Foods and medicinal herbs

Turkey

Adana

Foods

Aydın

Recipes

Buenos Aires

Recipes

Istanbul

Foods and holidays

Holidays and foods

Holidays and foods

Shabbat and foods

Shabbat and its foods

Izmir

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

Shabbat and its foods

Spices and folk remedies

Los Angeles

Holidays and foods

Shabbat and its foods

Rhodes

Holidays and foods

Shabbat and its foods

Unknown

Foods

Yemen

Al-Gades

Her father's illness, starvation and poverty

The house in Al-Gades and cooking

Al-Ḥabal

Foods and celebrations

Bashar

Mother's work, culinary and learning to read

Daga

Foods

Dhamar

Shechita

Wine and ʿaraq (drink) making

Ḥabban

Making laḥuḥ and a song about diligence

Spices, shechita and soup recipe

Ḥawlan

Rosh Hashana and foods

Ibb

Passover Haggada and making ḥaroset

Shavuot and Yom Kippur

Israel

Jahran

Foods and growing tobacco

Nabat

Women and matzot preparation

Radaʿa

Shabbat foods and customs

Radʿa

Famine in Yemen

Sanaʽa

Foods amongst the Jews of Sanaʽa

Sawraq

Shabbat and its food

Sayan

Childhood, friendship and foods

Foods

Sharʿab

Cooking for Shabbat

Pita and bread making

Sir

Story about figs and the Yemenite woman's character

Tanˁam

Childhood, friendship and foods

Foods

Passover and its foods

ʿAden

Bread and pastry in ʿAden

Foods, beverages and spices

Jewish holidays

Making laḥuḥ

Recipes and Passover customs

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