Tag #125464 - Interview #78561 (Sofi Eshua Danon-Moshe)

There was a patriarchal order in my kin’s home in Plovdiv. I remember that there were two families living in the house: Grandfather Nissim’s and his brother Yako’s. They were ‘dzhamdzhii’ [glaziers]: they delivered the ‘dzhams’ [window-glass] but didn’t have their own shop. I remember that they lived in one enormous living room. I can’t describe how big it was: in one part of it slept Grandfather Nissim’s family, in another Yako’s. The families followed a particular order depending on superiority: my grandfather was first, then my grandmother, their children and so on. There wasn’t a screen of any kind in the living room. There were some rather big closets in which the mattresses, the quilts and the pillows were put. They were hidden there during the day and in the evenings they were arranged on the floor.