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

Fergana

Passover and Purim, making matzot and holiday customs

Margilan

Passover and Purim, making matzot and holiday customs

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

Quba

Holiday foods and smells

Making alcoholic beverages at home

Qusar

Synagogue, rabbis, Shabbat and kashrut

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

Izmir

Shabbat customs and foods and the Jewish community

Milan (Italy)

Shabbat customs and foods and the Jewish community

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

Volos

Family, Shabbat foods and education

India

Mumbai

Meat consumption during the holidays

Iran

Bukan

Baking matzot for Passover

Cooking and preparations for Shabbat

Local food in Kurdistan: An abundance of fruits and homemade cured meat

Shabbat and holiday foods

Shabbat and holiday foods

Golpayegan

Bread and cheese and making

Homsar

Foods and Passover

Isfahan

Baking matzot, Passover and Kashrut (dietary laws)

Foods, preparing wine and a special dish when a vow is fulfilled

Holidays and foods

Nutrition, folk medicine, foods and sweets

Nutrition, folk medicine, foods and sweets

Israel

Holidays and a soldier's song for his mother

Life in Mashhad

Istanbul

Foods

Kermanshah

Persian cuisine

Welcoming guests into the Sukka and Sukkot foods

Khorasan

Foods, foraging and the use of clay pots (Dizi)

Passover cleaning, baking matzot and holiday foods

The custom of commemorating the deceased on Purim and Mishloach Manot (Purim gifts)

Tu BiShvat and carob deliveries from the Land of Israel

Khorramshahr

Jewish holidays

Shabbat and foods

Mahabad

Her mother's foods

Kashrut of meat, shechita and refrigeration of food

Mashhad

Life in Mashhad

Qasr-e Shirin

Foods

Salmas

Foods

Sanandaj

Shabbat: foods and customs

Saqqez

Persian cuisine

Welcoming guests into the Sukka and Sukkot foods

Shiraz

Memories from Iran

Teheran

Baking matzot, Passover and Kashrut (dietary laws)

Communal assistance and kosher meat

Foods, preparing wine and a special dish when a vow is fulfilled

Tehran

Food and showers

Urmia

Children's games, holidays and sweets

Holidays and a soldier's song for his mother

Iraq

Baghdad

Baking matzot during Passover and distributing them to neighbors

Aliya to Israel, absorption, spending Shabbat at the spring, livelihood and gathering food in the mountains

Cooking

Foods

Holiday dishes and customs

Making tbit at a Muslim bakery and relationship with the Muslims

Shabbat customs and foods

Shabbat foods and various dishes from the Iraqi cuisine

Sweet and Sour Turnip Soup

Traditional foods: Shabbat and holidays

Baqubah

Basra

Scroll reading and sweet pastries for Purim

Erbil

Foods

Kitchen work, bread and mea

Kirkuk

Foods

Holidays and foods

Tuz Khurmatu

Life in Israel and foods

ʿAna

Holidays and festivals

Shabbat in ʿAna

Israel

Jerusalem

Foods

Passover, Rosh Hashana and Sukkot foods

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

Her father's profession as a healer, passing the tradition to the next generation and making alcoholic beverages

Koshering meat, the shochet (ritual butcher) and donating food to the poor

Making and earning from ʿaraq (drink)

Showers near the river, bathing the babies and buying raw materials

Batas

Foods, her husband and his family

Bukan

Relationships with the Muslims and sharing food

Diana

Holidays, kashrut and Shabbat

Duhok

Her father's profession as a healer, passing the tradition to the next generation and making alcoholic beverages

Koshering meat, the shochet (ritual butcher) and donating food to the poor

Showers near the river, bathing the babies and buying raw materials

Erbil

Foods

Kubbe recipe and memories from father

Hasnaka

Shechita, preserving the meat and preparing foods

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

Sanandaj

Preparing wine and matzot for Passover, and sleeping together in the Sukkah

Sandor

Shechita, preserving the meat and preparing foods

Sulaymaniya

Foods

Foods

Local foods and gathering mushrooms and weeds

Shabbat dinner, going to synagogue and special Shabbat foods

Zakho

Cooking with Israeli arum (plant)

Daily life in Zakho

Fasting and the festive meal after the fast

Food distribution for the poor and Chevra Kadisha

Foods

Fruit, ʿaraq (drink) and wine

Making and earning from ʿaraq (drink)

Preparation of challah, shechita, food preservation and making ʿaraq (drink)

Shabbat

Shabbat preparation and Shabbat dinner

Lebanon

Beirut

Entertainment and Lebanese cuisine

Foods

Making ḥaroset and cookies for Passover

Yom Kippur and Shavuot and Rosh Hashana foods

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Jewish holidays

Libya

Aïn Zaouia

Preparation of couscous and brik

Amrus

Cooking meatballs and foods according to the days of the week

Az-Zawiya

Bsisa

Foods and song about tea

Benghazi

Foods

Foods and preparations for Passover and Rosh Hashana

Garyan

Foods and holidays

Holidays and their foods

Janzur

Rosh Hashana and Passover foods

Msallata

Food and Drink: couscous, ʿasida (traditional porridge), tea with peanuts and various types of pastries

Holidays and their foods

Tripoli

Date drink 'lagmi' and the occupations of Jews and non-Jews

Food at school, sweets and recipes for various dishes

Foods and holidays

Lamb slaughter during Passover and making matzot in a special oven

Passover foods, baking matzot and cleaning the house

Preparing and cooking for the holidays

Recipes for Rosh Hashana blessings

School and making couscous

Shabbat and holiday foods

Shavuot foods: bazin and shkak

Tora studies during the night and holiday foods

Zawiya

Foods

Morocco

Agadir

Kashrut (dietary laws), preparing meat and drawing water from the well

Making ḥamin and walking to synagogue on Shabbat eve

Making mofletta and other foods

Asammer

Folk remedies and foods

Asilah

Foods and proverbs

Aїt Hakim

Ḥenna, foods, bride's clothing, prayers and Shabbat Kallah (Shabbat before the brides' wedding)

Aїt Taguella

Authentic Mimouna in Morocco: unlike in Israel

Shabbat, making ḥamin and bread

Beni Mellal

Shabbat: foods, going to the synagogue and meals

The richness of the Moroccan cuisine

Casablanca

Passover Seder plate, 'Bibhilu' ritual and holiday foods

Community, cooking and hospitality

Eating dairy during Shavuot

Foods, Passover, meat and fish

Grandmother and mother's Moroccan cuisine and mitzva celebration

Life in Morocco

Passover

Purim

Shabbat and foods

Sukkot, Purim and holidays' foods

Debdou

Making ʿaraq (drink), wine and matzot for Passover

Demnate

Semolina soup with fat

El Kelaa des Sraghna

Shabbat and its foods

Yom Kippur: kapparot (atonement ritual), clothing and last meal before fasting

El-Qsar el Kebir

Holidays and foods

Er-Rich

Home-made bread making

Fedala (Mohammedia)

Shabbat, righteous and story of Shabbat foods

Fes

Appreciation of Passover and its foods

Foods

Ighil Noro

Baking matzot during Passover

Israel

Preparing the "Mahia" drink (a traditional alcoholic beverage)

Kenitra

Men and women's professions

Preparing 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)

Preparing foods

Seven day wedding: entertainment, song, presents and hosting

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

Sweets and games

Meknes

Preparing foods

Cultural life in Meknes

Drinking alcoholic beverages

Folk medicine and healing foods

Foods, shechita and kashrut

Her mother's simple kitchen

Shechita

Shechita in Morocco

Midelt

Women and preparing foods

Mogador (Essaouira)

Her mother's couscous

Language, foods and holidays

Slaughter customs in Mogador (Essaouira)

Ouarzazate

Passover Seder plate, 'Bibhilu' ritual and holiday foods

Community meals

Eating dairy during Shavuot

Grandmother and mother's Moroccan cuisine and mitzva celebration

Homemade ʿaraq (drink)

Preparing meat, bread and fish

Shabbat preparations

The third Shabbat meal and King David's feast

Ouled Mansour

Passover and flour grinding

Rabat

Preparing foods

Safi

Preparations for the mikve while singing, preparing couscous after the mikve

Salé

Winter Ḥarira Soup

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

Tirsal

Preparing the "Mahia" drink (a traditional alcoholic beverage)

Tiznit

Preparing the "Mahia" drink (a traditional alcoholic beverage)

Unknown

Life and community

Zerkten

Food in the village and frena bread in Marrakesh

Syria

Aleppo

His mother, food delivery for their neighbors and eating plenty of meat

Sukkot celebrations, fruit liquor preparation and ha-qafot (encirclement)

Damascus

Cooking

Fear of the Palestinians and neighbours during the holidays

Folk remedies: baking soda, black coffee, ʿakub and chatmia

Foods and beverages

Foods, beverages and medicine

Koshering meat and poultry

Names of holidays and special foods

Passover foods and their significance

Shavuot, Rosh Hashana, Sukkot and Hanukka

Israel

His mother, food delivery for their neighbors and eating plenty of meat

Sukkot celebrations, fruit liquor preparation and ha-qafot (encirclement)

Nusaybin

His mother, food delivery for their neighbors and eating plenty of meat

Sukkot celebrations, fruit liquor preparation and ha-qafot (encirclement)

Tunisia

Ariana

Good neighbourliness with Muslims and Italians, avoiding eating at their houses

Daily and holiday foods

Shabbat: foods, synagogue and leisure

Djerba

Foods

The community's atmosphere and foods

Gabes

Asida

Bsisa

Foods

Passover and delivering meat to the poor

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

La Goulette

A tale of the lagmi drink

Mahdia

Foods

Moknine

Foods

Recipe for lemonade

Nabeul

Avoiding dairy products and solutions

Foods: appetisers, daily and Shabbat foods

Fricassee

Making bsisa and its meaning

Preparing Rosh Hashana and Sukkot foods

Purim

Shabbat and Shabbat foods

Sousse

Foods

Sulayman

Holidays and foods

Tunis

Shabbat, holidays and foods

Zarzis

Foods and medicinal herbs

Turkey

Adana

Foods

Aydın

Recipes

Buenos Aires

Recipes

Edirne

Recipe book of the community and the blessing of the mayor of Edirne in the introduction to the book

Recipes and foods

Israel

Recipe book of the community and the blessing of the mayor of Edirne in the introduction to the book

Recipes and foods

Istanbul

Foods

Foods and holidays

Foods and songs

Holidays and foods

Holidays and foods

Jewish community, Passover holiday and foods

Keeping kosher inside vs. outside and relationships with the Muslim neighbours

Shabbat and foods

Shabbat and its foods

Singing on Shabbat eve, Shabbat and Passover 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 Hajar

My grandfather's decision to make aliya and the use of water bottles

Al Maḥwit

Boys' schooling, housework, Shabbat and Passover

Poverty and medicinal plants, perfumes and ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Preparing Ḥilbeh

Way of eating, sugar cubes, tea

Al Qif

Baking pita bread and preparations for baking Passover matzot

Al-Ashur

Passover and matzot making

Al-Gades

Her father's illness, starvation and poverty

The house in Al-Gades and cooking

Al-Ḥabal

Foods and celebrations

Al-Ḥada

Shechita, foods and singing while preparing food

Arhab

Childhood, foods and home

Bani Hajaj

Dishes, foods and Shechita

Songs while grinding and preparing food

Bashar

Mother's work, culinary and learning to read

Bayt an Nasīm (Yarim area)

Recitation when making milk and butter

Bayt Baws

Foods and ʿaraq (drink)

Daga

Foods

Dhamar

Shechita

Wine and ʿaraq (drink) making

Gharir

Yemenite cuisine

Ghazieh

Men's occupations and spice cultivation

Ḥabban

Making laḥuḥ and a song about diligence

Spices, shechita and soup recipe

Ḥaima

Preparation of challah, wine and ʿaraq (drink)

Ḥawlan

Rosh Hashana and foods

Ḥaydan as-Sham

Drying meat in the oven

Making laḥuḥ for Passover, Passover and reading the Haggada

Yom Kippur and breaking the fast

Ibb

Passover Haggada and making ḥaroset

Shavuot and Yom Kippur

Israel

Drying meat in the oven

Making laḥuḥ for Passover, Passover and reading the Haggada

Yom Kippur and breaking the fast

Jahran

Foods and growing tobacco

Muqlayteh

Making sabayah and laḥuḥ

Nabat

Women and matzot preparation

Najran (Saudi Arabia)

Preparing foods for Shabbat: hummus, harees, maḥshoush, ḥalva, zḥug

Preparing laḥuḥ for Shabbat

Radaʿa

Shabbat foods and customs

Radʿa

Famine in Yemen

Rusaba

Sanaʽa

Foods amongst the Jews of Sanaʽa

Kinds of tahini

Shechita training

Women, folk remedies, foods, and songs

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

ʿAnaka

Foods and ʿaraq (drink)

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