Continued relation of various dreams;Discussion about dreams;Belief: You must do what Rabbi tells you or it's a sin;Discussion of custom of Mitzvah and its meaning;Yiddish Curse: Cartracks should grow on your stomach;Curse: A Chinaman should take you;Discussion of Kaddish;Expression: He's My Kaddish;Custom of Tearing Chricken in mourning;Custom of sitting Shiva and various mourning customs;Discussion about old song(s).
Yiddish Expression used after curses if you want to make them ineffective;Yiddish Curse: Haben A Schlock;Yiddish Curse: Gae En Drerd;Yiddish Curse: Mis A Mishena;Discussion of how various words are pronounced, etc.;Yiddish Curse: Gae Cocken Af De Am and variant;Yiddish expression: Don't Funfen Me;Discussion of meaning of Yiddish word "trend"Expression: You Don't know ... from "Hinten" to a hole in the ground;Expression: You Don't know from Borscht;Discussion about stories and songs about Rabbi and Rabbitzen;Discussion about the Shamas;Joke: Shamas catches woman stealing talis;Discussion about various members (official) of Jewish community - moile, chasan, mulamed;Custom: On Purim (Informant later corrected himself and sais this was done on Yom Kippur) A chicken is sacrificed;Custom: Donation of charity and the #18;Expression: Mema Caporra;Discussion about loaning money, then about Gentiles;Expression: Pu, Pu, Pus A Goy's Cop;Believe: Barial next to the fence;Custom: Tearing Chricken;Expression: Just like a goyisha cop;Interviewer's story about Jew who converted;Discussion about families with the name Cain (Cohen) and their position in Jewish Community;Belief: Not looking in mirror when menstruating;Custom: Slapping a girl when she first menstruates;Custom: Sending a girl to Mikveh before she marries;Description of ceremony performed at sisters wedding;More discussion about family of Cohen;Discussion of Bar Mitzvah and participating in Minyan;Relation of dreams.
Yacoob Rajabally (also known as Yacoob Qawwal and Yacoob Premragi), and Patricia O’Shea Jairazbhoy, wife of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, stand next to Yacoob’s taxi on beach with buildings under construction and Bombay skyline in background.
Digitization of the field recordings was made possible by a generous grant from the Grammy Foundation. The D.K. Wilgus Folksong Collection consists of approximately 8,000 commercially recorded albums of traditional music, song, and narrative as well as 1,000 field-recorded tapes.