91. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Sharhorod, Bratslav, Shpykiv; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002] (4:35:55)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Jewish religious holidays, praying in synagogue, tsadikim, ghetto life, Ukrainians helping Jews, Hershele Ostropolyer story, memories of Passover, matzo kugels, bagels, dialectical questions, linguistical questions, life in Israel, Yiddish education, surviving the war years, prayer books, Bratslav cemetery, Pechera camp, Jews not killed during the war, celebrating Sabbath, traditional foods, yoykh, gefilte fish, cholent, Yiddish accents, Romanian Jews, post-Soviet society, Jewish emigration from the USSR, reading religious texts, non-Jews speaking Yiddish, praying in private homes, blessings before meals, Russian schools, telling jokes, Russian songs, local tsadiks, Yiddish theater songs. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

92. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Shpykiv; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2002] (2:01:53)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Yiddish songs, education, holiday celebrations, religious books, Yiddish writers, prewar Jewish culture in Shpykiv, imprisonment in the Pechera concentration camp, prewar antisemitism, dialectological discussion, food customs, contemporary life and antisemitism, Passover celebrations, tour of the historical Jewish neighborhood, burial rites, recipes (gefilte fish, vareniki). Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

93. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Teplyk; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002] (5:12:14)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include hat terminology, Yiddish school, appearance of electricity, klezmers, musicians, wedding customs, Jewish folk remedies, famine, synagogues, prewar religious life, closure of Yiddish schools and synagogues, food customs and recipes for buckwheat dumplings, gefilte fish, Sukkot, Jewish religious life, dialectological questions, food customs, family life, prewar childhood memories, social and work life at the kolhoz, American Jewish organization Agro-Joint, forced labor, help from non-Jews, youth in Crimea, Soviet Yiddish songs, Yiddish writers, Passover customs, latkes, Jewish foodways, Lunacharka kolhoz, Russian converts to Judaism, fluency of Yiddish, gefilte fish, Jewish funeral customs, intermarriage, establishment of ghettos, food and assistance obtained by rich Romanian Jews, survival tactics, eating practices of chicken, kosher meat, sickness and healing. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

94. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Tul'chyn; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002-2009] (21:03:54)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Pechera concentration camp and its memorialization and current state, Jewish food, Jewish holiday customs and celebrations, dialectological questions, Jewish community and life before World War II, cultural life, ghetto life during the Romanian and German occupation, religious practices after the war, Yiddish speakers, service in the Red Army, liberation of Berlin, Yiddish songs, concentration camp experiences, daily life in Pechera, war experiences during the German and Romanian occupation, agricultural life, pogroms, dialectological questions, practicing present-day Judaism, observing religious practices in Soviet postwar period, Jewish mysticism, Great Hunger of 1933, working conditions during Soviet times, gefilte fish recipes, special food for the Sabbath and Jewish holidays, Bershad' ghetto, escape from Bershad' ghetto, Jewish pre-war education, circumcision, chauffeur occupation during and after the war, Jews as Soviet party leaders, Jewish wedding customs, Jewish ritual slaughterer, Tomashpol' ghetto, war memories, student life before the war, Jewish anecdotes, making a mezuzah from tin, poverty before the war, soap making and candy making before the war, wartime shootings and murders, synagogues, pre-war barber and tailor occupations, childhood memories, wartime memories of Finland, family life today, Jewish recipes. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

95. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Zhmerynka; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002] (1:56:50)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include memories of Jewish holidays, the Sabbath, childhood years, Yiddish poetry, poverty, dialectological information, the town of Permovaysk, Jewish relations with non-Jews, speaking Yiddish regardless of ethnicity, gefilte fish, Hanukkah customs, Yiddish songs, Jewish homes of Sharhorod. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

96. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2002-2008] (16:54:11)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Yiddish songs, food preparation, childhood memories, Jewish education, service in the Red Army, life in the Kopayhorod ghetto, family anecdotes, the Great Famine of 1932-33, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, prayer traditions, drinking customs, religious practice in the late 1930s and under Romanian occupation, Jewish culture in Zhmerynka, choral performance, prewar Jewish life in Krasnoye, holiday celebrations, Jewish weddings, life in a ghetto, Yiddish books and press, Sabbath food customs, relations with non-Jews, contemporary life, tour of Jewish Shahorod, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, koshering meat, life during Romanian occupation, postwar religious life, kosher butchery, Jewish professions, antisemitism, folk customs. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

97. [Ukraine, Zhytomyr, Berdychiv, Pechera; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002-2009] (20:57:13)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include the Jewish town of Orhei in Moldova, Jewish education, Jewish religious and cultural life, Jewish weddings, childhood memories, food customs, celebrating Jewish holidays, dialectological and linguistic questions about the Yiddish language, discussion of prewar Jewish religious life, Yiddish theater songs, serving in the Red Army during World War II, Jewish religious schooling, slaughtering chickens in accordance with Jewish ritual, reciting prayers, imprisonment by Stalin in 1937, family life, long lines for seltzer water, the Great Famine of 1933, working for museums, work in photography, anti-Jewish school plays, Tzadik Levi Yitskhak, conversions to Judaism, liberation of Berlin in 1945, traditional Jewish recipes, synagogue construction, Hasidic anecdotes, Russian Hasidim, current events in the Jewish community, Yiddish theater, Yiddish songs, discussion of non-Jews participating in Jewish life, relations with non-Jews, non-Jews speaking Yiddish, Polish schools, refugees from Poland, evacuation to Uzbekistan, life in the Bershad ghetto, memorialization of the ghetto, anti-Semitism in the Red Army, escape from the Germans during World War II, making Matzos in the synagogue, working for the NKVD, history and conditions of the concentration camp at Pechera, collective farming during the Great Famine, tour of the town of Novosolets, serving in the Red Army in Latvia. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

98. [Ukraine, Zhytomyr; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2002-2009] (31:52:43)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Jewish weddings, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, prewar Jewish life, contemporary Jewish life, Yiddish press, religion in the Soviet era, Yiddish songs, military service, religious education, childhood memories, family anecdotes, the Great Famine and life in the 1930s, holiday traditions, food customs, Yiddish proverbs, prewar antisemitism, life before and during World War II, cultural terminology, childhood games, emigrating to Ukraine from Israel, wartime evacuation to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, wartime refugees, tour of Berdychiv synagogue, pogroms in the 1920s, Hasidism, Zionism, Yiddish literature, Purim shpiels, Polish songs, etymology of Jewish names, local geography, non-Jewish Yiddish and Hebrew speakers, life on a kolkhoz, underground yeshiva in Berdychiv, Sabbath celebration, postwar army service, Hershele Ostropoler stories. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

99. [United States, Indiana, Bloomington, 2002] (1:02:31)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Haas, Colleen M., 1961-
Summary:
Performances of traditional music derived from the cultural traditions of the Akan and Ga people within various regions in Ghana. Includes a Kete song that is a traditional part of the regalia of Akan royalty, and an example of an Otofo puberty song, Sa yo le, of the Ga-Adagme of Ghana. Songs in the latter style are often heard at graduation ceremonies, including those at boarding schools. Song presentations were based on Haas's work with her Ghanaian teacher, Sowah Mensah.

100. [United States, Indiana, Bloomington, 2002] (1:11:15)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Larsen, Grey.
Summary:
Audio and video recording of a roundtable discussion on music in Bloomington includes biographical and background information on Grey Larsen and Lee Williams, the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, WFHB radio station, the local Irish music scene, and local perceptions of world, folk, and traditional music. Audience members participate during the event through questions and discussion.