21. [Romania, Bihor/Crisana, Oradea; Clug, Cluj-Napoca; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews... (9:10:42)

Date:
2007
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, family, cheder and yeshiva education, prewar religious life in Valumihei, Baia Mare, Cardo, and Sighetu Marmației, prayer houses and occupational structure, prewar Sabbath celebrations, Perim, Passover, and Hanukkah celebrations, childhood games, traditional weddings, Yiddish dialects, prewar cultural life, Yiddish theater, food customs, including gefilte fish, Zionist organizations, life as a communist; life during World War II, fate of family members and friends, Auschwitz, Birkenau c-sector, forced labor in the Mauthausen concentration camp, forced labor as a soldier, life as a POW; life after the war, contemporary Jewish life, history of the region, cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Includes footage of the Oradea synagogue, examples of Purim shpiels, zemirot and jokes. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

22. [Romania, Cluj-Napoca; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2007, 2008] (16:11:04)

Date:
2007
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include biographical information, including childhood memories, memories of family members and family life before the war, education in religious schools (cheder), prewar Jewish life in Bogota de Sus, Zorein, Cîmpia Turzii, Cluj-Napoca, Dej, and Satu Mare, prewar cultural life, reading in the Yiddish language, Yiddish dialects, and Yiddish songs, Sabbath zemirot, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, prewar Sabbath celebrations, prayer customs, food customs, in particular gefilte fish, folk and healing customs, holiday celebrations, Purim, Passover, and Hanukkah, traditional weddings; Jewish life in the region during World War II, imprisonment in Nazi camps, including Auschwitz and Geislingen, family member's fate during the war, service in the army, life as forced laborers in various places, including Tighina, Chernivtsi, Orhei, Balti, Balta, Tiraspol, and quarries, Romanian attitudes during the war; life after the war, return to prewar political organizations, including Mizrahi, Hashomer Hatzair, Hasidism and contemporary Jewish life in Hungary and Germany; cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Includes recollections of Purim shpiels and Yiddish 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.

23. [Romania, Dorohoi; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2007] (7:05:35)

Date:
2007
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories of Dorohoi and Burdușani, family members and family life before the war, education in religious schools, prewar Jewish life in Dorohoi, including synagogues, the Ștefăvești rebbe, role as firzogerin, prewar cultural life, in particular Yiddish theater, Yiddish songs, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, prewar Sabbath celebrations, folk and healing customs, food customs, in particular gefilte fish, burial customs, wedding customs, holiday celebrations, prewar and postwar Purim celebrations, the Dorohoi pogrom of 1940; life during World War II, life in the Mohyliv-Podilskyy and Sharhorod ghettos, family member's fate during the war, forced labor in Tulchyn; contemporary Jewish life in Dorohoi; cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Also includes recollections Yiddish songs and footage of the drive from Mihăileni to Dorohoi, Dorohoi synagogue, and the drive from Dorohoi to Saveni. 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.

24. [Ukraine, Khmel'nyts'kyy; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2007-2009] (16:23:16)

Date:
2007
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Yiddish educaton, childhood memories, life during and after World War II, Yiddish dialects, working as an accountant, Yiddish translation, Yiddish books and libraries, Yiddish theater, anti-religious propaganda, Yiddish newspapers, financial and health problems, military service, Moscow in the 1930s, antisemitism, Jewish holidays, preparations for Passover, recipes, Jewish professions, pogrom of 1919, contemporary political instability in Ukraine, Jewish theaters and cinemas, Yiddish songs, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, pre-war Khmel'nyts'kyy, Jewish life after World War II, observance of Yom Kippur, evacuation to Uzbekistan, food customs, the towns of Bila Tserkva and Medzhibozh, attending yeshiva in Derazhnya, pilgrimages to various rebbes, folktales (including specific tales about the Baal Shem Tov), circumcision rituals, Jewish weddings, Yiddish writers, the burning of Yiddish books and Torah scrolls, intermarriage among Jews, development of Yiddish literature, poetry recitation, Yiddish writers outside the Soviet Union, relations with non-Jews, expressions of Jewish identity, nicknames for local Jews, antisemitism in the Soviet Army, the German occupation of Chemerivtsi, life in the Kamʺyanetsʹ-Podil's'kyy ghetto, aid from Jews and non-Jews during World War II, views on Israel, life on a Jewish kolkhoz, the decline of Yiddish language, family anecdotes. 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.

25. [Ukraine, L'viv, Boryslav; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2007] (3:47:23)

Date:
2007
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life during and after World War II, Polish songs, the Stalinist purges of 1937, circumcision ritual, education, prewar Jewish life, Jewish weddings, Jewish literature, food customs, Yiddish theater, Jewish occupations, recipes, postwar Jewish life, cultural terminology, linguistic and dialectological discussion about the Yiddish language, prayer customs, imprisonment in Pechera concentration camp, Ukrainian school, life on a kolkhoz, Yiddish songs, folk customs, winemaking, life in the Dzegovka ghetto.

26. [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.

27. [Hungary, Hadju-Bihar, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Debrecen, Vaja; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Hungarians... (9:37:54)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include family anecdotes, religious education, Hasidic songs, prewar life in Rohod, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, Passover celebrations, food customs, Purim spiels, life during World War II, forced labor, imprisonment in Mauthausen, Jewish weddings, birth customs, cultural terminology, gefilte fish, Hungarian songs, memorialization, relations with non-Jews, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood in Debrecen, liberation by the Brtitish Army, tour of the Nyíregyháza synagogue, prewar religious life at the Debrecen synagogue, blessings and prayers, 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.

28. [Hungary, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Vaja; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Hungarians; Interviews, 2006, 2008] (2:50:41)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childood memories, including memories of family members and family life, yeshiva education, daily study routine, prewar religious life in Vaja, life in Vaja after graduation, prewar praying customs, purim celebrations, Passover celebrations, traditional weddings, cooking, Rosh Hashanah, healing customs, and prewar Sukkot celebrations; experiences as a forced laborer during World War II, Jewish life after the war, life today, regional geography, and a visit to Auschwitz. Includes responses to questions about cultural terminology, singing of Yiddish songs, chanted prayers, recitation of the beginning of the Four Questions, and Purim shpiels. 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.

29. [Moldova, Călărași, Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2006] (1:02:00)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include family anecdotes, prewar Jewish life in Călărași, Yiddish education, holiday traditions, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, life during World War II, evacuation to the Stalingrad region, cultural terminology, religious life during Soviet times, food customs, folk and healing customs, postwar 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.

30. [Moldova, Florești, Peresecina; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2006] (1:02:00)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include anecdotes from work as a teacher, family anecdotes, evacuation to Kazakhstan, life during World War II, childhood memories, prewar Jewish life in Kobylna, life after World War II, life today. 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.

31. [Moldova, Orhei; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2006] (2:20:11)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include family anecdotes, prewar Jewish life in Susleny, holiday celebrations, food customs, life in a communal apartment, relations with non-Jews, life on a kolkhoz, Jewish weddings, cultural terminology, life during World War II, childhood memories, Yiddish songs, Purim shpiels, imprisonment in the Domanyovka concentration camp, religious life in post-Soviet Moldova, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood. 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.

32. [Romania, Botoșani County, Mihăileni; Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2006, 2007] (2:56:52)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, family, prewar life in Mihăileni, occupational structure among Jews, Jewish life in the region during World War II, prewar Jewish cultural life, particularly theater performances and synagogues, holiday celebrations, in particular Purim and Purim shpiels, local Jewish library, Passover and Sabbath celebrations, food customs, folk and healing customs; Jewish life after the war, life in Mihăileni today, cultural terminology, and responses to dialectological questions. 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.

33. [Romania, Botoșani, Rădăuți; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2006] (7:50:03)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include biographical information, including childhood memories, family members, friends, education at a Talmud Torah school and Romanian school, prewar Jewish life in Botoșani, Sulița, and Chernivtsi, including synagogues and mikvas, bar mitzvahs, prewar Sabbath celebrations at home, food customs, in particular gefilte fish, holiday celebrations, including Purim Shavuot, Hanukkah, Passover, and Sukkoth, visiting the Ștefănești rebbe, prewar organizations, occupational structure, cultural life, sports clubs, and the Zionist youth group Drakh Habonim, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, and traditional weddings, Romanian Yiddish writers, artists, Yiddish songs, and Hasidic life; evacuation during World War II, life in a ghetto from 1941-1944, and forced labor in Tiraspol; life after the war, wedding celebrations, klezmer musicians, healing customs; Jewish life today, recitation of the Four Questions, and responses to cultural terminology and dialectological questions. Collection also includes footage of the Botoșani synagogue, Siret, and the Siret synagogue. 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.

34. [Romania, Hîrlău; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2006] (4:16:44)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, family, prewar Jewish life in Podu Iloaiei, and Hîrlau, including Sabbath, Purim, and Passover celebrations, food customs, synagogues in Podu Iloaiei, occupational structure, visiting rebbes in Belcești, Pașcani, Satu Mare, and Ștefănești, prewar education at a cheder, Yiddish-language education, Yiddish literature, and prewar culture; life during World War II, forced labor in the Romanian army, forced labor in Edineț, Brînzeni, Rujnița, Bălți, Halahora de Sus, and Vyzhnytsya, Ukraine, life in a ghetto in the Transnistria region; life and work during the postwar Soviet period; family and life today, religious customs, and responses to questions about cultural terminology. Includes history and footage of the Hîrlău and Rădăuți synagogues, songs, and recitation of Kaddish. 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.

35. [Romania, Iași; Jews, Yiddish-speakers; Romanians, Interviews, 2006] (10:03:48)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, including family, education, prewar Jewish life in Iași, Odobești, Podu Iloaiei, Chernivtsi, Rădăuți, Transnistria, and Bîrlad, occupational structure and Zionist organizations, neighborhoods, market life, folk and healing customs, food customs, including gefilte fish, synagogues, prewar and postwar Jewish and Yiddish culture, particularly theater and musical performances, traditional weddings, holiday celebrations, including Passover, Shavuot, Simchat Torah, Sukkot, Purim, Sabbath celebrations with the local rebbe, prewar Hasidic life, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish; life during World War II, the Iași pogrom in 1941, forced labor in the Romanian army and Sharhorod, work in a quarry, life in the Iași, Ghernivtsi, Mohyliv-Podilskyy, Dzhurin, and Transnistria ghettos, the Red Army, fate of Jews in the region during the war; the postwar Soviet period, postwar Jewish life in Botoșani and Rădăuți, postwar Yiddish language and literature education in Rădăuți, contemporary Jewish life and visitors, cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Includes visits to memorials in Iași, including the Abraham Goldfaden memorial, singing of popular Yiddish songs, and a tour of the former Meransky Synagogue of Iași. 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.

36. [Romania, Suceava, Siret; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2006] (2:32:04)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, education at a cheder and Romanian school, life before the war, family, work, family stories and anecdotes about Hershl Ostropoler, food and drinking customs at home, traditional weddings, folk and healing customs, Siret cemeteries, prewar Passover celebrations, Sabbath gatherings, and Purim performances with non-Jewish friends, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, Zionist organizations, and cultural life; life during World War II, imprisonment in the Bershad ghetto, occupations in the ghetto, daily life, including holiday celebration, particularly Passover, theater performances and prayer services, disease, forced labor, digging mass graves, and relationship between Jews and Ukrainians; contemporary Jewish life in Siret, including postwar Purim and Passover celebrations, food customs at home, religious customs today, particularly yahzeit and visiting the local cemetery.

37. [Slovakia, Košice; Hungary, Vaja; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Slovakians; Interviews, 2006] (7:00:20)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics from Hungary include childhood memories, family, prewar Jewish life in Vaja, in particular yeshivot in neighboring villages, prewar Jewish press, religious school (cheder) and yeshiva education, religious food customs, comparison between life today and before the war, Sabbath zemirot, holiday food customs, the Vaja synagogue; life and politics today, responses to questions about cultural terminology, life after liberation, and Yiddish dialects. Includes singing of Yiddish songs. Interview topics from Slovakia include childhood memories, family, education at a cheder, family, prewar life in Stropkov, Košice, Prešov, Hanušovce, Topl'ou and surrounding villages, including occupational structure, poverty, prewar holiday celebrations, including Purim, Hanukkah, and Sukkoth, Sabbath and food customs, including gefilte and falshe fish, prewar cultural performances; Jewish life in the region during the war, the Sered̕ ghetto, escape to Pest, Hungary, occupation of Hungary by Germany in 1944, return to Slovakia, forced labor in Zemianske Sady, liberation by the Red Army, escaping the Germans between September 1944 and April 1945; Jewish life today, memorialization ceremonies, contemporary antisemitism, cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Includes recitation of a Purim shpiel, chanting of a liturgical song, and footage of the synagogue in Košice. 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.

38. [Moldova, Bălți; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2005] (9:16:27)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include prewar Jewish life in Pervomaiscoe, family anecdotes, childhood memories, life during World War II, poetry translation, holiday celebrations, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, relations with non-Jews, life in the Soviet period, Jewish occupations, childhood games, evacuation during World War II, food customs, Yiddish theater, Yiddish songs, folk remedies, postwar Jewish life, prewar antisemitism, koshering meat, Purim celebrations, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood in Bălți, imprisonment in the Vertiujeni concentration camp, cultural terminology, Jewish weddings, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, Yiddish sayings. 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.

39. [Moldova, Briceni; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2005] (3:51:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life during World War II, imprisonment in Transnistria ghettos, family anecdotes, postwar religious life, service in the Red Army, holiday traditions, religious education, childhood memories, food customs, family gatherings, Purim celebrations, wartime antisemitism, Jewish occupations, recipes, contemporary Jewish life, childhood games, Yiddish songs, Jewish weddings, cultural terminology, folk customs, proverbs, poetry recitation. 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.

40. [Moldova, Chișinău, Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2005-2006] (42:51:23)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include contemporary Jewish life, life in the Obodivka ghetto, family anecdotes, life under Romanian occupation, life in the Dubyna forced labor camp, Yiddish songs, religious education, prewar Jewish life, Yiddish writers, childhood memories, life on a kolkhoz, prewar prayer customs, holiday traditions, food customs, cultural terminology, regional Yiddish dialects, Jewish weddings, memorialization, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Passover celebrations, recipes, folk customs, evacuation to Uzbekistan, prewar sports organizations, Yiddish press, prewar ethnic Jewish geography in Chișinău, childhood games, Hanukkah celebrations, prewar drinking customs, imprisonment in the Vertiujeni and Berlivka camps, postwar Klezmer music, Yiddish theater, Stalinist terror of the 1930s and 1940s, seeking advice from a rebbe, poetry recitation, service in the Red Army, Purim celebrations, Jewish funerals, observance of Yom Kippur, life in a Siberian gulag, Hershl Ostropoler stories, Jewish schools, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, relations with non-Jews, prewar organizations including Hashomer Hatzair and Poale Zion, Jewish cinema, Hasidic life in Moscow during the postwar Soviet period, differences between Polish and Russian Hasidism, folk customs, the Great Famine of 1932-33, evacuation to Rostov. 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.