24.09.2026
A Song Sung by Rehan Ben-Shlomo
A song in Lishan Didan. It was recorded around 1970 in Herzliya on a reel-to-reel tape that was sent to…
24.09.2026
Urmia / Videos on YouTube
As they appear on the Diarna website, these videos are presented here as a service only (the videos are hosted…
24.09.2026
Jerusalem of Gold – Nissan Aviv
“Jerusalem of Gold” in Lishan Didan. Performed by Nissan Aviv, who translated the song with the blessing of Naomi Shemer.…
24.09.2026
A Casual Conversation
A conversation between a Jewish man from Sanandaj and a Nash Didan man who immigrated to Israel from Bashkale. Who…
24.09.2026
Chef Yagil Yitzhakov and Mr. Yerachmiel Nataniel
An interview on Reshet Bet, on the program “Od Me’at Shabbat” with Liat Regev, May 21, 2010. In the program,…
24.09.2026
On the Aramaic of the Jews of Kurdistan
On the Aramaic of the Jews of Kurdistan, from the program “The Jewish Home,” broadcast on Channel 1 on May…
24.09.2026
We Came to Israel / Menachem Perry Hosts Nissan Aviv
In the program “We Came to Israel – Israelis Tell Their Stories of Immigration and Absorption,” broadcast on Reshet Aleph,…
24.09.2026
Shabo Speaks Aramaic in the Challa Dialect
These are recorded conversations with Shabo Amrani. The transcripts appear in Steven E. Fassberg, The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Challa…
24.09.2026
Mordechai Abes’ Journey from Naqadeh to Israel
Mordechai Abes, of blessed memory, tells the story of his immigration from Naqadeh to Jerusalem, via Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut and…
23.09.2026
ACIS Program for the Study of Iranian Jews in Israel – Oral Documentation Project: Interview with Michael Demirel
This is a video interview conducted with me as part of the research program, on the subject of the community.
26.11.2019
The raising of the dead / Lishan Didan (Naq’da)
A story told in Lishan Didan by Avraham Misrahi, 23.5.1985. Test and transcript can be found in Simon Hopkins, A…
01.09.2019
The Princess who refused to talk
This is a sound file taken from The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Database Project in which Nissan Aviv-Zfoni tells a story in…