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

Derbent

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

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

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

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

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