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nhr um, mnn salt si adm fi-l-niversit, bert l-otobs umst leeruzalm, mit
end i. uqbl-m-dak i uwlt le-ab dial hin f-l-niversit, ukellm qlu-l ba
ma-nm qablt kin hnk l-mrt le-koler. una tlat bef ukil a knt ta-nql
nem ulla ma-nm. , mni sfrt hink, uft bef, tlt f-l-otobs, uf-l-uwwl
ma-kns l-plas ba ngil. u-mn bdin nsfr, knt l-plas, ma-abt ngl al
qablt mni ta-ngl mu wd ar ta-ykn gal ita, ita ta-tkn una u-ta-ykn
el-arq. u-kl-dm kunt ta-nf kunt qdm le-bb, ma-bt nkn qdm en-ns,
uft bef mni mt and i el-dr, kl li auni mn akl ta-nwulNm wu
lha (sl-ha) ml; fn-ma mt uft le gisati () ba ta-tber, ta-tnaqqi
kl-i ml fl l-ra ule u-l-frt, ta-tnnom fi-l-kal u-d ta-talum ml
b-l-ma, u-ta-nf b kl-i naqi bef u-tibru nawaf bef ba s vealla (
) ma-yibr le-oler.
Tsipi Elkayam (Casablanca/Morocco) Personal Narrative
On Friday, when I finished some work at the university, I waited for the bus and went to
Jerusalem to my brother. Before that I'd asked my friends here at the university and
everybody said to me not to go, because there was there the cholera illness. And I was very
afraid and every hour I said (to myself) I'll go or I'll not go. But when I travelled there I was
very scared I went into the bus and at first there was no place for me to sit. And when we
began to travel there was a place, I did not want to sit because when I sat there would come
someone else who would take the seat and the seat would be hot and there will be sweat.
And whenever I looked I was in front of the door, I did not want to be in front of people,
I was afraid very much. When I went to my brother's home (flat) everything they gave me
to eat I would ask them if they had washed it well. Wherever I went I looked e my
sister-in-law (in Hebrew) that she would wait and clean everything well such as vegetables
and the fruits so that they would be in Kalium and that she'd wash them again well in
water and I'd look that everything was very clean and so they would wait, I would be afraid
very much that, Heaven forbid, they would not catch the cholera.
Judith Rosenhouse, Haifa (Israel)
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Published together with the original recording in the Semitic Language Archives SemArch
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