Living Life (?)

TO BE ADDED

Voices and Interviews

Black and white photograph of a large family group of over one hundred people.

Yaniv with hazan Avraham Eliyav at the Kurdish Synagogue in Lifta ©An Invitation to Piyut

Rakhma Cohen: Kurds, Assyrins Aramit Sehranei ©LISHANA, Assyrian Aramit

Culinary Heritage

Black and white photograph, indoors, a group of people sitting at a low table filled with food.
Colour photographs, recipes.

From the cookbook Tamar’s Kitchen on kubbeh fillings “During days of austerity (tsena), grandmother Shoshana would fill the kubbeh with potatoes when there was no money to buy meat.”

From the cookbook Tamar’s Kitchen on kubbeh fillings “During days of austerity (tsena), grandmother Shoshana would fill the kubbeh with potatoes when there was no money to buy meat.”

Two men stand in a casual patio seating area of a restaurant in front of a large painted mural of a bald man.

Owners of the Azura Restaurant in Mahne Yehuda market

Owners of the Azura Restaurant in Mahne Yehuda market

Colour photograph, indoors, man looking at camera with half-cooked food, grill behind him.

Owner of the Ishtabach restaurant, which specializes in Syrian Kurdish dishes in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market, posing with the restaurant’s specialty, shamburak © Guliz Vural

Owner of the Ishtabach restaurant, which specializes in Syrian Kurdish dishes in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market, posing with the restaurant’s specialty, shamburak ©Guliz Vural

Colour photograph, indoors, Kurdish pie broken in half on a dinner plate with three plates of small dishes and sauces on the side.

Shamburak

Shamburak

Colour photograph, indoors, two types of food in a pan, one yellow and one black.

Azura, Kurdish restaurant since 1930 © Moayed Assaf

Azura, Kurdish restaurant since 1930 ©Moayed Assaf

Colour photograph, indoors, dining table and stove, woman cooking.

Osnat cooking at the restaurant in her home in Agur, central Israel © Mesut Alp

Osnat cooking at the restaurant in her home in Agur, central Israel © Mesut Alp

Colour photograph, outdoors, man hands bag of dates to camera, dates and pomegranates in close up, green door, various posters and clutter in background.

Mahne Yehuda market date seller in Jerusalem © Moayed Assaf

The Yehuda market date seller in Jerusalem ©Moayed Assaf

Colour photograph, indoors, man with toothpick handing food out of kitchen window, various spices in close up, various cutlery in kitchen in the background.
Colour photograph, indoors, man holding spoon looking towards camera, behind him are various kitchen utensils.

Music and Dance

Black and white photograph of man playing an instrument.
Colour photograph, outdoors, of men playing a large drum in the street and a child standing on cases playing a small drum.

Dance instructor and dahol player Liron with a young student © Mesut Alp

Dance instructor and dahol player Liron with a young student © Mesut Alp

Colour photograph, outdoors, of men playing musical instruments in the street.

Musician Yaniv Ovadia playing the zurna during a street performance © Mesut Alp

Musician Yaniv Ovadia playing the zurna during a street performance © Mesut Alp

Colour photograph, indoors, of four people holding hands and dancing.

Kurdish folk dance transmission by Liron Dalala-Israel © Moayed Assaf

Kurdish folk dance transmission by Liron Dalala-Israel © Moayed Assaf

Colour photograph, indoors, some paper with writing on it, two hands pressed to read.

Mordechay's hands, photographed while reading Kurdish songs translated into Hebrew by his wife Yafa, at his home in Nahariya in northern Israel © Moayed Assaf

Mordechay's hands, photographed while reading Kurdish songs translated into Hebrew by his wife Yafa, at his home in Nahariya in northern Israel © Moayed Assaf

Kurdistani Jews traditional dance ©Jerusalem Cinematheque

Kurdistani Jews traditional dance ©Jerusalem Cinematheque

Hadassa Yeshurun and the Jerusalem Andalusian Orchestra.

Dancing with "GONENIM" band Jerusalem.

Ilana Eliya “Ez Kevok Im”

Kurdistani Jewish Heritage in Arbil

Colour photograph, outdoors, collapsed stone house with a staircase-like structure and some doorways.
Colour photograph, outdoors, collapsed stone house with openwork decoration.

In front of the synagogue of Arbil © Moayed Assaf

In front of the synagogue of Arbil © Moayed Assaf

Colour photograph, outdoors, collapsed stone house with a staircase-like structure and some doorways.

Another ruined house at Taajeel, Arbil © Moayed Assaf

Another ruined house at Taajeel -Arbil © Moayed Assaf

Colour photograph, outdoors, collapsed stone house with scrap on the floor.

Taajeel, an abandoned Jewish quarter in Arbil © Moayed Assaf

Taajeel, an abandoned Jewish quarter in Arbil © Moayed Assaf

Colour photograph showing sunlight streaming into a field with small, crumbling gravestones. The landscape of a city is visible in the background.

"Reunited at last" - joint cemetery for Muslims and Jews in Ruwanduz. © Moayed Assaf

"Reunited at last" - joint cemetery for Muslims and Jews in Ruwanduz. © Moayed Assaf

Our research with Kurdistani Jewish communities is ongoing.

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