Tag #125538 - Interview #97938 (Moiz Isman)

My grandmother and grandfather spoke Judeo-Spanish amongst themselves like in all the Jewish homes.  They only knew this language.  The heating of the houses was less than perfect. The only stove would be in the living room, and the rest of the house would be cold. After he came home at night, my grandfather would wear a kind of long robe called “Kurdi”. This was a thin coat, with fur lining. He had his own corner in the living room, where he would drink his glass of uziko [raki]. [1]

According to what I used to hear from my mother, my grandfather sold glassware items.  I don’t know where and how he sold them. Did he have a shop? I don’t know.  Like all Turkish men, my grandfather threw away his fes [2], and wore a hat, after the Hat Law was passed. My grandmother used to wear a dress like today’s ladies. She didn’t have a “sheet” [garment covering a woman, from head to foot, which is what the Moslem women used to wear], nor did she wear a wig like very religious ladies did.