ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS

here you can access abbreviated transcripts of the interviews conducted for the Discovering and Documenting England’s Lost Jews: Oral History programme.

NAME	1.WHEN AND WHERE BORN 2.Date of interview if known + interviewer	HEADINGS IN THE TRANSCRIPTS	KEYWORDS
ABDULEZER, ANDREW	Born Manchester, England Interviewed 20 Jan 2020 by Stephane Goldstein	BACKGROUND FAMILY LANGUAGES EARLY MEMORIES OF LIFE IN EGPYT JEWISH IDENTITIES EXPELLED FROM EGYPT JOURNEY TO SWITZERLAND ANOTHER MOVE – TO ENGLAND (and Russia) MARRIED AND FAMILY LIFE SEPHARDI VOICES	Manchester, Iraq, Holland Park Synagogue, Lauderdale Road Synagogue, Iraqi Jews, Syria, Israel, Baghdad, Arabic language, Food, Novo Cemetery, Queen Mary University, architecture, Velho Cemetery
ALGRANATI, HAIM	Born 1954, Israel Interviewed 19 Aug 2019 by Gabrielle Levy, Polly Rogers	TURKISH SEPHARDI HERITAGE FIGHTER TO CREATOR FAMILY AND COMMUNITY FAMILY HISTORY	Israel, Turkey, Spanish Inquisition, Ladino, French, food, Yom Kippur War, music, violins, jewellery, Masorti synagogue, Granada, Spain, Auschwitz, America, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy Argentina
ANTICONI, GEORGE	Born 1933 London, England Interviewed 3 Oct 2019 by Moses Seitler	PATERNAL FAMILY HISTORY MATERNAL FAMILY HISTORY FAMILY LANGUAGES SYNAGOUGE STORIES BAR MITZVAH IMPORTANCE OF FOOD	Constantinople, Paris, Ladino, Holland Park Synagogue, France, Food, Bar Mitzvah
ANTICONI, ROS	Born 1937 London Interviewed 3 Oct 2019 by Moses Seitler	FAMILY ROOTS LOSING LADINO VISITING TURKEY MIGRATION TO ENGLAND RELIGIOUS LIFE FAMILY MEMORIES SEPHARDI IDENTITY	Ladino, Food, Turkey, Hellenisation, Carpets, Holland Park Synagogue, Salonika, Spain
ARDITTI, NADIA	Born 1948, Istanbul Interviewed 11 May 2020 by Yaron Lapid	SEPHARDI ROOTS MOVING TO SWITZERLAND LIVING IN ENGLAND BECOMING AN ARTIST JEWISH IDENTITY SEPHARDI IDENTITY	Turkey, Istanbul, French, Greek language, Crete, Venice, Spain, Bar Mitzvah, Portugal, Ottoman, Empire, Marranos, Izmir, Switzerland, art, Ladino
ARDITTI, RALF	Born 1945, Istanbul Interviewed 11 May 2020 by Yaron Lapid	FAMILY HISTORY SEPHARDI HERITAGE SCHOOL DAYS AND WORKING LIFE ISRAELI ISSUES PRAGMATIC APPROACH JEWS IN TURKEY	Turkey, Istanbul, Ladino, Wealth Tax, Izmir, Ottoman Empire, Bevis Marks Synagogue, French language, antisemitism, Israel, hudna
BRODY, RAYA	Born 1963 Israel Interviewed 15 Oct 2019 by Eli Keren	IT ALL STARTED IN SPAIN FAMILY HISTORY LADINO PARENTS ‘MIXED MARRIAGE’ GRANDMOTHERS INFLUENCE ITS NOT WHAT YOU SAY MY JEWISH IDENTITY THE SEPHARDI-ASHKENAZI DIVIDE SPANISH RESTITUTION	Spanish Inquisition, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Izmir, Bulgaria, Spain, France, Israel, Vienna, Argentina, Ladino, Hebrew, Spanish, Yiddish, Ashkenazi, food, synagogue, Northern Africa, Arabic, Spanish passports
COHEN, ELIOTT	Born 1949 Alexandria, Egypt Interviewed 10 Nov 2019 by Young people at Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue	EARLY LIFE IN EGYPT SEPHARDI TRADITIONS LEAVING EGYPT ARRIVING IN BRITAIN FAMILY DIASPORA	Egypt, Aden, Turkey, Syria, Alexandria, French, Music, Food, Passover, Suez, Nasser, Bar Mitzvah, Israel
JENSHIL, ENID    (nee Da Costa)	Written submission spring 2019	FATHERS EARLY LIFE PORTUGUESE ROOTS LIFE IN LONDON UNCLES STORY PARENTS’ DEMISE	London, Da Costa, Portugal, Ashkenazi, Bevis Marks synagogue, Yiddish, Bournemouth, Hebrew, Hoop Lane Cemetery (Golder’s Green)
JEUDA, BASIL	Born 1936 Manchester, England Interviewed 4 June 2020 by Julia Pascal	ROMANIOTE TRADITION FAMILY MOVES TO MANCHESTER LAST LADINO SPEAKERS IN MANCHESTER MY WORKING LIFE SEPHARDIM IN MANCHESTER CLASS AND RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES	Manchester, Salonika, Romaniote, Ottoman Empire, Ioannina (Greece), New York City, Turkey, Cairo, Ladino, French, Ashkenazi, Manchester Jewish Museum, Belisha, Manchester Synagogues – Masorti, Bevis Marks, Whittington, Greater, class, Habonim, JNF-UK
KANN, RAY	Born London, England Interviewed 10 Nov 2019 by Young members of Edgeware and Hendon Reform Synagogue	WHERE SEPHARDIM COME FROM THE SPAINISH INQUISITION SEPHARDI ANCESTORS IN AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM’S ‘POTUGUESE SYNAGOGUE’ PATERNAL FAMILY HISTORY TRACING SEPHARDI HISTORY THE HISTORY OF JEWS IN ISRAEL	Amsterdam, Sephardi heritage, Spanish Inquisition, Catholics, Portugal, Spain, Rabat (Morocco), Belgrade, Dutch language, food, Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, Dutch Jewish Historical Museum, Germany, Kristallnacht, Babylon, Jewish slaves, Iraq, North Africa, Tunis, Israel, Canaan, Romans, Jerusalem
KOZOKARO, RONEN	Born Be’er Sheva, Israel Interviewed by Lisa Thompson	FAMILY HISTORY MIZRAHI TRADITIONS FAMILY MOVES TO ISRAEL MUSIC MUSIC COLLEGE MOVING TO LONDON MY BAND SHIR	Israel, Mizrahi, Passover, Purim, Songs, Music, Romania, Bar Mitzvah, Wedding, Army, London
MANNASEH, SYLVIA	Born 1918 Calcutta, India Interviewed by Melvin Altwarg	WARTIME IN CALCUTTA POST-WAR EXPERIENCES IN ENGLAND AND SINGAPORE	Calcutta, India, Singapore, Jewish women, Art teacher,
MEYER, MAISIE	Born 1940 Calcutta, India Interviewed 27 Nov 2019 by Eli Keren	BAGHDADI JEWS IN INDIA BAGHDADIS AND THE ENE ISRAEL FAMILY MEMORIES MOVING TO ENGLAND FAMILY RELIGION AND INDENTITY FOOD CULTURE LEARNING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST	Baghdadi Jews, Iraq, Aleppo, Syria, Calcutta, Dawud Pasha, David Sassoon, East India Company, Judo-Arabic, Rangoon, Burma, Bene Israel, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Ashkenazi, Orthodox, Food, Holocaust
NACAMULI, ALEC	Born 1943 Alexandria, Egypt Interviewed 16 June 2020 by Julia Pascal	FAMILY LANGUAGES EARLY MEMORIES OF LIFE IN EGYPT JEWISH IDENTITIES EXPELLED FROM EGYPT JOURNEY TO SWITZERLAND ANOTHER MOVE- TO ENGLAND (AND RUSSIA) MARRIED AND FAMILY LIFE SEPHARDI VOICES UK	Greece, Syria (Aleppo), Egypt (Cairo, Alexandria, expulsion of Jews, Eliahu Hanavi synagogue), Battle of El Alamein, Manchester, Arabic, French, Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, Masorti Synagogue, Lauderdale Road synagogue, Israel, Switzerland, Russia, Belgium, Jewish youth movements, Sephardi Voices UK
SASSON, GUY	Born Egypt Interviewed 27 Nov 2019 by Jess Hatton and Carey Armstrong	LIFE IN EGYPT EXPULSION OF THE JEWS COMING TO ENGLAND ASHKEFARDI TRADITIONS PASSOVER TRADITIONS AND FOODS LOVE OF MUSIC	Syria, Egypt, Marriage rituals, Lauderdale Road Synagogue, Masorti, Bar Mitzvah, Passover, Rosy Hashana, Food, Music
TACHAUER, DAVID	Born 1949 Interviewed 5 Aug 2019 by Anne Krisman Goldstein	EARLY FAMILY HISTORY A FAMILY DIVIDED MEETING MY WIFE YEMENITE CONNECTIONS MIMI’S FAMILY HISTORY DEADLY OPPORTUNITY	Bohemia, France, Holland, London, Barbados, Canada, Israel, Yemenites, Mizrahi, Marlborough Road Synagogue, Food, Magic Carpet evacuation, mesothelioma

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