101. [Ukraine, Volhyn, Luts'k; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2003, 2007] (5:58:14)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life during World War II, escape from the Pechera concentration camp, religious life before the war, matzoh factory, Jewish recipes, gefilte fish, family life, childhood memories, Jewish food customs, learning Yiddish, bath houses, holiday celebrations, youth movements, religious education, Jewish professions before the war, dialectology and terminology, Jewish weddings, Jewish medical habits, life during the Nazi occupation, hiding from the Nazis, Russian partisans, serving as an Army nurse, ambitions to live in Israel, Jewish funerals, Polish schools, Sabbath celebrations, Purim celebrations, childhood memories, origins of Yiddish names, prewar political organizations, memorialization of Jewish mass graves, Drokhenbroyt, Jewish circumcisions, Jewish buildings in Luts'k, synagogues. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

102. [Ukraine, Zakarpats'ka, Berehove, Khust; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2007] (3:23:18)

Date:
2007
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life during and after World War II, imprisonment in Auschwitz concentration camp, military service, prewar Jewish life in Vynohradiv, Purim shpiels, education in Vynohradiv, contemporary Jewish weddings and religious life, Yiddish songs, antisemitism, religious and holiday customs, Yiddish blessings, wedding entertainers, relations with non-Jews, food customs, imprisonment in Buchenwald and Mauthausen concentration camps, linguistic and dialectological questions about the Yiddish language, prewar Jewish life in Berehove, family anecdotes, cultural terminology, life on a kolkhoz. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

103. [Ukraine, Zakarpatsʹka, Khust, Uzhhorod; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (6:10:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, religious education, holiday food customs, Sabbath songs, life after World War II, Jewish prayers, prewar Jewish life, military service, imprisonment in Auschwitz, Monowitz, and Buchenwald concentration camps, death march from Monowitz camp, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Yiddish songs, contemporary religious life, demonstrations against the closure of the synagogue in Khust, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood in Khust. 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.

104. [Ukraine, Zakarpatsʹka, Mukacheve; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (8:09:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include religious life before and after World War II, Jewish prayers, Hungarian occupation during World War II, relations with non-Jews, deportation and imprisonment during World War II, Purim celebrations and shpiels, religious education, contemporary religious life, photographs of prewar religious events, the wedding and funeral of Eluzer Spira, the wedding of Eluzer Spira's daughter Frume, food customs, imprisonment in the Vorkuta gulag, prewar Sabbath celebrations, Zionist organizations, tour of the Jewish cemetery, folk remedies, Hasidic anecdotes and jokes, Yiddish literature, Yiddish songs, service in the Hungarian military, imprisonment in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and Gunskirchen labor camp, prewar occupations and political organizations, cultural terminology, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, reparation payments. 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.

105. [Ukraine, Zakarpatsʹka, Svalyava; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (2:02:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include tour of the prewar Jewish neighborhood in Svalyava, prayers, Yiddish songs, holiday celebration, prewar religious life, food customs, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, prewar Sabbath celebrations, folk customs, Jewish weddings, contemporary religious life. 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.

106. [Ukraine, Zakarpatsʹka, Uzhhorod; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (7:07:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, family anecdotes, life before World War II, contemporary religious life, prewar religious life, life under Hungarian and German occupation, military service, Jewish weddings, imprisonment in a labor camp, prewar life in Mukacheve, prewar Hasidic life, religious education, holiday celebrations, life during World War II, tour of the former Great Synagogue and Jewish neighborhood, imprisonment in labor and concentration camps including Auschwitz III (Monowitz-Buna), Gleiwitz, and Mittelbau-Dora, escape from a mass execution, prewar antisemitism, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, food shortages, relations with non-Jews. 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.

107. [Ukraine, Zakarpatsʹka, Vynohradiv; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (2:04:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life during World War II, imprisonment in Auschwitz, life in a DP camp, prewar Jewish life, contemporary Jewish life in Vynohradiv, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, female magicians, cultural terminology, Yiddish songs, life under Hungarian occupation, tour of Jewish cemetary in Vynohradiv. 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.

108. [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.

109. [Ukraine, Zhytomyr, Korosten'; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2003] (3:55:28)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include learning Yiddish, Yiddish schooling, Jews from Polesskoye, music at traditional weddings, conversion to Judaism, life during evacuation, linguistic data, Yeshiva today, Voleniker Tsaddik, family life, music profession, Jewish anecdotes, Jewish life today, Yiddish songs, work as a military doctor, childhood memories, Bar Mitzvah, reciting the Torah, synagogues, Sabbath celebrations before the war, Passover celebrations, life during military service, Jewish holidays, food customs, Sukkoth, Purim, Simchat Torah, escaping from the ghetto in Minsk, Yiddish literary figures, theatrical plays, military service, Russian schools, baking matzos, Lubavicher Hasidim, and Yiddish spoken by Litvakes. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note that collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

110. [Ukraine, Zhytomyr, Ovruch; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003, 2007] (10:38:13)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, childhood memories, Yiddish school, Sabbath celebrations, food customs, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, prewar Passover celebrations, postwar religious life, the Volednicker tzaddik, religious songs, religious education, Jewish prayers, relations with non-Jews, religious services, prewar Hasidim, life during World War II, prewar antisemitism, Yiddish theater, Yiddish writers and books, cultural terminology, evacuation during World War II, proverbs, cemetary customs, saying Kaddish, kosher 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.