Bukhara - Mother Tongue

: Samarkand

Rivka Ḥavasov (Itzḥakov)

Handicrafts teaching for girls and Tora study for boys

Bishkek

Boris Isakov

Against the "evil eye" custom

Custom against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Foods

Foods

Godspeed custom

Godspeed custom

Proverbs

Proverbs

Dushanbe

Polina Kalantarova

Bukharan song (original melody of 'Pomegranate Tree')

Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Efraim

Passover Seder (part A)

Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)

Birth

Couple's life and women's status

Foods and food related traditions

School's atmosphere

Shabbat and holidays

Wedding and its customs

Fergana

Rina Kaziev (Musheyev)

Her mother Rachel, meeting her husband and wedding

Passover and Purim, making matzot and holiday customs

Shabbat, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur

Israel

Menuḥa Tova Dahan

A love song from Psalms

Love songs, matchmaking and wedding

Karaki

Menuḥa Tova Dahan

A love song from Psalms

Love songs, matchmaking and wedding

Margilan

Rina Kaziev (Musheyev)

Her mother Rachel, meeting her husband and wedding

Passover and Purim, making matzot and holiday customs

Shabbat, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur

Samarkand

Bella (Bracha) Ḥefets (Mulokandov)

Aliya to Israel

Keeping kosher and mikve

Nursing family story

Passover at her father's

Passover Haggada songs

Boris Isakov

Against the "evil eye" custom

Custom against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Foods

Foods

Godspeed custom

Godspeed custom

Proverbs

Proverbs

Ḥana ʾAlayev

Grandparents and their work

Polina Kalantarova

Bukharan song (original melody of 'Pomegranate Tree')

Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Efraim

Passover Seder (part B)

Raḥel Alibayov (Saʿidov)

Birth

Couple's life and women's status

Foods and food related traditions

School's atmosphere

Shabbat and holidays

Wedding and its customs

Rivka Ḥavasov (Itzḥakov)

Bereavement customs among the Bukharan Jewish community

Covenant of the lips: spiritual enlightenment following her husband’s near-death experience

D'ror Yikra (Jewish religious song)

Dating for the purpose of marriage

Engagement, the bride's customs according to the wedding and Sheva Brachot (the seven blessings)

Every day I praise You

Hear, ye children

Jewish life under Communist rule

Keeping kosher as the only Jewish student

Kiddush on Shabbat eve

Longing for making aliya

Making a decision about the children’s education following the daughter’s bat mitzva

Natural remedies and patient care

Oh Lord, awaken those who sleep

Prayer at the lighting of the Shabbat candles

Prayer of redemption and the rebuilding of the temple

Rock of my redeemer

Secretly slaughtering kosher meat

Where there is a will, there is assistance from Heaven: on Yom Kippur in Israel

Why do we rest on Shabbat

ʾAharon Saʿidov

Belief in the Messiah and Aliya to Israel

Brit, wedding and dating

Making vodka and additional women's jobs

Synagogues, making matzot, Sukkot and shechita

Shahrisabz

Boris Isakov

Against the "evil eye" custom

Custom against ʿAyin Haraʿ (the evil eye)

Foods

Foods

Godspeed custom

Godspeed custom

Proverbs

Proverbs

Tashkent

Bella (Bracha) Ḥefets (Mulokandov)

Aliya to Israel

Keeping kosher and mikve

Nursing family story

Passover at her father's

Passover Haggada songs

Berta (Batya) Mulokandov

Dating, mikve and wedding

Help with raising children, birth and folk beliefs about birth

Her father's draft evasion and her parents' relationship

Life at the parents' house, honoring parents and Shabbat

Proverbs and folktales

Tora words

Ḥana ʾAlayev

Grandparents and their work

Sara Sasnov (Mulokandov)

Bereavement customs

Meeting her husband

ʾUriel Kaziev

Bar mitzva and school

Brit mila, family and names

Dating, wedding and children

Pogroms and his brother's death during World War II

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