Bukhara - Mother Tongue

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

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

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

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

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