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HARROSH, Simone

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78036
Collection
Sephardic Oral History Project interviews by Marie Berdugo-Cohen.
Description Level
Item
Material Type
sound recording
Physical Description
Audio cassette, 43 minutes recorded. Digital copy available.
Fonds No.
CJC001-S-A; SC 1063-M23-28
Date
August 15, 1988
Collection
Sephardic Oral History Project interviews by Marie Berdugo-Cohen.
Description Level
Item
Material Type
sound recording
Physical Description
Audio cassette, 43 minutes recorded. Digital copy available.
Date
August 15, 1988
Fonds No.
CJC001-S-A
Item No.
SC 1063-M23-28
Creator
Marie Berdugo-Cohen
Notes
Sephardic Oral History Project interview by Marie Berdugo Cohen. Digitized in WAV format in March 2015. Biography: Simone Harrosh a vécu en Algérie dans une maison qui abritait 12 voisins. Ils se réunissaient tous chez ses parents pour le kiddoush du shabbat, pour célébrer la Soucca, et pour manger la dinde au couscous, à l'occasion de Rosh Hodesh. Son père, Eliahou Sakoun, policier en Algérie, arrivait à la synagogue avec son fusil. Sa mère, Simha Séban, s'occupait de la Hévra Kadisha et du Mikvé à Tlemcen. Simone a immigré en France à 11 ans, ensuite elle alla en Suisse, en Belgique, et à Londres où elle habita avec son mari, et où elle travailla au Central office of Informations. Actuellement, Simone est responsable du Mikvé Young Israel à Chomedey, qui réunit Ashkénazes et Sépharades. Elle nous décrit ici avec détails et précisions, l'éxigence de la Thora concernant Taharat Hamispaha, (la pureté familiale), qui fait partie des mitzvot à accomplir par la femme juive, tels que: les nérot, (bougies du Shabbat), hala (pain),etc. Simone nous parle des menstruations de la femme juive, des vérifications rigoureuses à faire pour savoir si elles ont pris fin, et finalement des préparatifs pour le bain rituel dans le Mikvé, qui représente dit Simone, l'espoir, la vie, une coopération avec Dieu, pour la création.
Subjects
Mikvah, Ritual bath, Chomedey, seder, role of Jewish women, family purity, Algeria, immigration from Algeria to France, Rosh Hodesh
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
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HAYES, Saul - interview by David Rome (Side A) - Role of Saul Hayes at the beginning of UJRA (United Jewish Relief Agencies).

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn89592
Collection
Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
Description Level
File
Material Type
sound recording
Fonds No.
CJC0001; SC 0033
Date
[ca. 1978]
Collection
Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
Description Level
File
Material Type
sound recording
Date
[ca. 1978]
Fonds No.
CJC0001
Item No.
SC 0033
Notes
Oral history. In a 9 minute excerpt from this 47 minute interview, Saul Hayes talks about his background and his work for UJRA and CJC. Digitized as WAV and WMA.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube

HAYES, Saul - interview by David Rome (Side A) - Role of Saul Hayes at the beginning of UJRA (United Jewish Relief Agencies).

https://www.youtube.com/embed/jhl0grS5U14
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MEYER, Benhaim

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78010
Collection
Sephardic Oral History Project interviews by Marie Berdugo-Cohen.
Description Level
Item
Material Type
sound recording
Physical Description
Audio cassette, 89 minutes recorded. Digital copy available.
Fonds No.
CJC001-S-A; SC 1037-M2-28
Date
July 13, 1988
Collection
Sephardic Oral History Project interviews by Marie Berdugo-Cohen.
Description Level
Item
Material Type
sound recording
Physical Description
Audio cassette, 89 minutes recorded. Digital copy available.
Date
July 13, 1988
Fonds No.
CJC001-S-A
Item No.
SC 1037-M2-28
Creator
Marie Berdugo-Cohen
Notes
Sephardic Oral History Project interview by Marie Berdugo Cohen. Digitized in WAV format in March 2015. Biography: Michel raconte son enfance et sa vie à Méknès avec ses parents et une famille nombreuse, tous vivant dans la même maison. Il se souvient de la charité de son père Salomon Bénhaim et de son beau père Pinhas Azogui qui s'est dévoué toute sa vie à la réconciliation des couples en désacord. Sa femme, Esther, décrit la tragique histoire de sa famille de dix enfants, dont sept d'entre eux ont été emportés par la tuberculose. Michel décrit les difficultés pour quitter le Maroc, malgré les 'bonnes connaissances' son séjour à Paris 'infernal' et son immigration au Canada en Novembre 1976 avec sa femme et ses 3 enfants. Il éxerce son métier de tailleur à la même place, depuis 11 ans à Montréal. Son fils Maxim est graphiste, Pat est dans l'informatique, sa fille s'est mariée et a eu 2 enfants. Ils aiment ce pays, malgré la neige et le frimas. Ils s'y sont complètement adaptés.
Subjects
Meknes, Azrou, Morocco, family life, Jewish cooking, Alliance Israelite, Jewish-Arab relations in Morocco, Immigration to Canada, immigrant adaptation
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube
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Sephardic Oral History Project interviews by Marie Berdugo-Cohen

https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78008
Collection
Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
Description Level
SubSeries
Material Type
sound recording
textual record
Physical Description
28 sound elements. - Env. 0.01 metres of textual records.
Fonds No.
CJC0001; SA
Date
1988.
Scope and Content
This fonds is composed of 23 interviews on 28 audio cassette tapes, accompanied by a thematic index. The Sephardic Jews interviewed for the project came from several different places: Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Romania, and Israel. The interviews cover the subjec…
Collection
Canadian Jewish Congress organizational records
Description Level
SubSeries
Material Type
sound recording
textual record
Physical Description
28 sound elements. - Env. 0.01 metres of textual records.
Scope and Content
This fonds is composed of 23 interviews on 28 audio cassette tapes, accompanied by a thematic index. The Sephardic Jews interviewed for the project came from several different places: Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Romania, and Israel. The interviews cover the subjects' early lives in North Africa and the Middle East and the difficulties the interviewees met with in their home country. They also speak of their adaptation experiences following immigration to Quebec. They discuss the importance of holding on to their religion in their community and in their lives, and also the ways in which they preserved their traditions.
Date
1988.
Fonds No.
CJC0001
Series No.
SA
History / Biographical
The National Archives of the Canadian Jewish Congress (now called the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives) aims to acquire and preserve documentation on the myriad facets of the Jewish presence in Canada and Quebec. It is in this light that the Archives of the Canadian Jewish Congress set up the project Oral History of the Sephardic community in February 1988. Marie Berdugo-Cohen was engaged to interview various people of the Sephardic Jewish community settled in Montreal and its surroundings. Mrs. Berdugo-Cohen was born in Morocco. After settling in Quebec, she co-wrote, with her daughter Yolande Cohen and with Yossi Levy, the book Juifs Marocains: Témoignages d'une immigration moderne, published in 1987. Mrs. Berdugo-Cohen passed away in Montreal in 1991.
Custodial History
This collection of interviews was created with the assistance of a grant from Employent and Immigration Canada in 1988.
Notes
Availability of other formats: As of February 2016 all of the interviews have been digitized as WAV and WMA files. Video clips have been made containing excerpts from some of the recordings (eg. Simone Harrosh, Meyer Benhaim).General note: After completing the digitization of this collection, a six minute audio montage was created featuring several of the interviewees speaking about their adaptation to life in Canada.
Archival / Genealogical
Archival Descriptions
Repository
Canadian Jewish Archives
YouTube

Sephardic Oral History Project interviews by Marie Berdugo-Cohen

https://www.youtube.com/embed/9wVcpSam_Hs
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