Tag #125461 - Interview #78561 (Sofi Eshua Danon-Moshe)

I don’t know exactly what the origin of my kin on my mother’s side is, but I can draw some conclusions from the things my mother told me when I was a child. My grandmother, Dudu Nissim Assa, was a very bright and energetic woman. When they wanted to marry her she said that she would get married only on the condition that she had the chance to visit Brusa: a town in Southern Turkey [Editor’s note: the city’s name is actually Bursa]. And she set off with her father. They got on some caravans and went to the town. Only after that did she marry Grandfather Nissim Assa. I think that her strong desire to visit Brusa didn’t happen by chance; it probably was dictated by some childhood memories or something.

Grandmother Dudu wasn’t only a bright, energetic and curious woman, but she also took the conditions into account and knew well that when a Jewish woman got married she had to settle down into the house, because she had to be a housewife first of all, who’d take care of the home and the children and wouldn’t have the chance to travel so much.