Reminiscences about My Father's House: Programs Recorded by Kol Yisrael

Born to Shabebu and Cohen families - who had both been in Tzfat for 500 years. Discusses: family background, and how they came to Israel; memories of Turkish rule; Sarah Aaronson; Dr. Hillel Yaffe; school in Zikhron Yaakov; bank; association with Romanian immigrants in Zikron Yaakov; different social positions of different ethnic groups; Arabs; death of sister; arrival of English in Zikhron; meeting Rothschild; appreciation and belief in British; anecdotes surrounding people encountered; 1929 riots in Tzfat. Born Eritrea. Father fled Yemen after freeing prisoners. According to legend mother's family was from lost tribes. Discusses: drive, inherited from father, to find lost tribes; leaders of Jewish communities of Yemen; his knowledge of history of Yemenite community; comparison between Yemen and Eritrea; contact with underground; Aliyah, 1930's; perception of Israel; difficulties of integration; fighting in British Army, WWII; meeting Pope; feeling, after Holocaust, that there is no God; meeting European Jews; father's death.