Caucasus - Mother Tongue

Baku

Anton ʿEzri Agronov

Anton Agronov's books

Bereavement customs

Holidays

Humorous singing

Judaism during Communism and relationship with non-Jews

Schooling and education

Zionist song "Beautiful Israel"

Ḥivit (Yocheved) Baʾazov

Bereavement customs

Birth, adolescence and adulthood

Community life and women's status

Engagement, marriage and family life

Holidyas, festivals and fasting

Life story and Aliya to Israel

Secret language and unique expressions

Miriam ʾIsakov

Birth, name giving, family and brit mila

Education and higher education

Matchmaking, engagement, wedding and ḥenna

Me and the community

Shabbat and holidays

Sara ʾAbramov

Community life, synagogues and holidays

Life story

Making aliya and life in Israel

Shabbat and family

Wedding, bar mitzva and brit mila

Working as a cook

Cuba

Ra῾ya Shuminov

Holidays

Lifa story and family

Derbent

Roza (Danilov) Mordechaev

Holidays and customs

Nursery rhyme: Na Noy Na Nam

Books in Juhuri (Jodeo-Tat)

Childhood, school and community

Folk poet Yirmiya Davidov

Juhuri language and literature

Lament for the attack of October 7 2023

May 9th celebrations: victory day over nazi Germany

Memories from the neighborhood and home

Message and song for the Juhuri language

Neighborliness and relationship with the Muslims

Shabbat at Derbent

Synagogue

Wedding customs

World War II song

Galina Anisimova

Childhood play and occupation and livelihood

Foods and blessings

Holidays

Jewish tradition and the connection to Israel

Jews' occupations and relations with non-Jews

Matchmaking, engagement and wedding

Secret language

Tension within the family concerning religion and communism

Tishʿa BeʾAv and bereavement costumes

Women's customs, women in the arts and culture

Shoshana Natanov

Community life in Derbent

Life story

Relations with Christians and Muslims

Simandov Digilov

Brit mila

Shabbat and holidays

Synagogue and kashrut (dietary laws)

The community in Nalchik and the attitude towards the locals

Wedding and bar mitzva

Tamara Novakhov

Education and relations with the Muslims

Family, dating and wedding

Holidays

Life story, making aliya and family

Work and life in Krasnodar

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Don Yegudayev

Brit mila and bar mitzva

Childhood

Counting of the Omer, Shavuot and Tishʿa BeʾAv

Languages in Caucasus: Juhuri, Russian and Hebrew

Military service during World War II

Mishi Bachshayev and Ḥizgil Avshalomov

Mordechai ʾAvshalom's story

Occupations and livelihood

Shabbat

Tishrei holidays

Way of life within the Jewish community

Wedding customs and life as a married couple

Mirburi Ḥizgilov

Bar mitzva

Bereavement customs and her mother's death

Birth, naming and children's care

Childhood memories from the village

Childhood songs and secret language

Daday Ul: story of a witch

Education and employment

Engagement and wedding

Family and life story

Gulbohor Davydova

Holidays

Matchmaking and introduction with the spouse

Shabbat

Tree fairy tale

Nalchik

Simandov Digilov

Brit mila

Shabbat and holidays

Synagogue and kashrut (dietary laws)

The community in Nalchik and the attitude towards the locals

Wedding and bar mitzva

Quba

Sara (Lazarov) Raḥmani (Shariah)

Passover and govgil (isru chag)

Women and men's roles and education

Birth, caring for babies and a nursery rhyme

Divorce

Folk songs and reciting a poem she wrote

Holiday foods and smells

Lament for the attack of October 7 2023

Life story, childhood and play

Making alcoholic beverages at home

Matchmaking and wedding

Neighborliness and mutual aid

The arrest of her grandfather, ʾElʿazar by the KGB

Tishʿa BeʾAv and Rosh Hashana

Neighborliness and relationship with Muslims

Proverbs

Anton ʿEzri Agronov

Anton Agronov's books

Bereavement customs

Holidays

Humorous singing

Judaism during Communism and relationship with non-Jews

Schooling and education

Zionist song "Beautiful Israel"

Ḥivit (Yocheved) Baʾazov

Bereavement customs

Birth, adolescence and adulthood

Community life and women's status

Engagement, marriage and family life

Holidyas, festivals and fasting

Life story and Aliya to Israel

Secret language and unique expressions

Mazal Binyaminov ʾAbramov

Birth and brit mila

Engagement and wedding

Passover preparations and celebrations, and mimouna (gov gil)

Shavuot

Miriam ʾIsakov

Birth, name giving, family and brit mila

Education and higher education

Matchmaking, engagement, wedding and ḥenna

Me and the community

Shabbat and holidays

Poet, seamstress, designer and Matav employee

Song in memory of the bride and groom's relatives

Sara ʾAbramov

Community life, synagogues and holidays

Life story

Making aliya and life in Israel

Shabbat and family

Wedding, bar mitzva and brit mila

Working as a cook

Sarah (Lazarov) Rahmani (Shariah)

Bereavement customs and rabbis

Qusar

Mania Rubinov

A tale about honoring parents

Engagement, wedding, brit mila and naming the newborn

Synagogue, rabbis, Shabbat and kashrut

Yom Kippur, Passover and Purim

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