51. [Spain, Andalusia, Cadiz, 1973] (11:11:03)

Date:
1973
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
The information presented here about each recording in this collection comes from original documentation by the collector/depositor Jerome Mintz. Additions by archival staff for clarity are framed in brackets [ ]. These recordings sometimes addressed politically sensitive topics and to protect the safety of the individuals in these recordings, Jerome Mintz did not document their full identities. The Archives of Traditional Music makes these recordings available for research and users should be aware that any archival collection may contain material that users find offensive.

53. [Ukraine, Cherkas'ka, Uman'; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002-2008] (7:20:31)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include ghetto Bershad', Jewish food customs, gefilte fish recipes, Yiddish literature, Yiddish songs, Jewish life today, World War II military service, family, childhood memories, Jewish schools in the Ukraine, Jewish prewar cultural life, Klezmer musicians, Great Hunger of 1933, town of Buki, Passover celebrations, Jewish holiday customs, Yiddish dialectological questions, writing Yiddish, food customs, in hiding during the war in Ternovka, memorialization, Tsadik Nahman of Bratslav, religious life after the war, life under German occupation, Yiddish proverbs, Jewish-Ukrainian relations today, Jewish emigration, Jewish life in America, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, Hebrew songs, Jewish praying, Jewish buildings, Jewish education, travel to Israel, mixed marriages, Odessa, Yiddish theater, synagogues, and Soviet times. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

54. [Ukraine, Cherkasy, Korsunʹ; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (7:48:46)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include a tour of the town of Bila Tserkva, the prewar Jewish population of Korsunʹ, contemporary Jewish life in the region, childhood memories, Sabbath customs, food customs, Passover and Purim celebrations, Jewish weddings, prewar Jewish life, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, life during and after World War II, childhood memories, tour of the town of Korsunʹ, factory work, transition of artisan occupations, contemporary use of the Yiddish language, contemporary relations with non-Jews, relations with non-Jews before and after World War II, recipes, Yiddish education, prewar Yiddish culture and cinema, working as a watchmaker, prewar Jewish occupations and literature. 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.

55. [Ukraine, Chernihiv, Nizhyn; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003] (1:57:57)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, religious education, work in a factory, holiday celebrations, Yiddish writers, artists, newspapers, and clubs, prewar Jewish life in Nizhyn, contemporary Jewish life, cultural terminology, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, food customs, Yiddish songs, life after World War II, Sabbath celebrations. 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.

56. [Ukraine, Chernihiv; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003] (4:45:15)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include prewar religious life in Chernihiv, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, cultural terminology, Yiddish education, postwar religious life, repression of Jewish life under Khrushchev, contemporary religious life, holiday traditions, food customs, holiday games, life on a kolkhoz, Yiddish theater, Jewish weddings, the Jewish cemetery of Chernihiv, Jewish sites and buildings. 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.

57. [Ukraine, Chernivtsi, Novoselʹtsy; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2009] (2:00:00)

Date:
2009
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include imprisonment in the Mykolayiv ghetto, prewar Jewish life in Novoselʹtsy, contemporary Jewish life, life during World War II, religious education, imprisonment in the Kosharyntsi ghetto, service in the Red Army, childhood memories, holiday celebrations, prewar Yiddish culture, cultural terminology, traditional weddings, food customs, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood. 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.

58. [Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivs'k; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003] (7:02:44)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, Jewish weddings, postwar Yiddish culture, holiday celebrations, religious education, contemporary religious life, prewar Jewish life in Novoselitsa, Zionist organizations, Sovietization of Ivano-Frankivs'k, life during World War II, Yiddish songs, imprisonment in the Stanislav and Bershad ghettoes, service in the Red Army, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, contemporary Jewish life and food customs, life in the 1930s under Romanian occupation, Sabbath celebrations, interviews with congregants at the local synagogue, Yiddish books and newspapers in the Soviet period. 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.

59. [Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsʹk, Kolomyya; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003, 2005,... (24:24:45)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include the contemporary Jewish community in Kolomyya, education in a yeshiva, Sabbath and Passover celebrations, kosher recipes, Yiddish, Romanian, and Russian songs, cultural terminology, religious pilgrimages, Jewish blessings, sociolinguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, holiday traditions, relations with non-Jews, Yiddish theater troupes, Yiddish literature, Yiddish idioms, Jewish politics in America, Israel, and post-Soviet Ukraine, geography of the Kolomyya region and shift of political borders in Bukovina, prewar Jewish life in Kolomyya, parts of the traditional liturgy, day-to-day operations of Kolomyya's current synagogue, folk legends, prewar Jewish life in a shtetl, Zionist activity in Kolomyya, folk medicine, conversion to Judaism, prewar interethnic relations, service in the Red Army, Jewish life during Soviet rule in 1939-41, Hebrew songs and dances, work in the Turkmenistan oil fields during World War II, Jewish weddings, postwar religious life in Kolomyya, local antisemitism, imprisonment in a ghetto in 1941-42, prewar organizations and politicians, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, postwar weddings in Kolomyya, the Soviet Yiddish press. 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.

60. [Ukraine, Khmel'nyts'kyy, Izyaslav; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2003, 2007] (5:44:06)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include family life, work as a typesetter, prewar education, attending religious school, religious life in Izyaslav before World War II, Passover celebrations, dialectological questions, Bar-Mitzvah, evacuation to Uzbekistan during the war, Yiddish language, synagogues in the 1930s, attending Russian school after the war, circumcision ceremony in Samarkand, religious life after the war and today, Yiddish songs, making curtains out of paper, military service during World War I, Criminal Investigation Department (CID), life during evacuation, Sabbath celebrations, Great Hunger of 1932, school years, speaking and reading Yiddish, working for the police force, Kotovsky partisan brigade, Russian Jewish poetry. 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.

61. [Ukraine, Khmel'nyts'kyy, Kam''yanets'-Podil's'kyy; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2003] (4:51:41)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include war medals, Jewish school in Smotrich, Jewish theaters, celebrating Jewish holidays, non-Jews speaking Yiddish, general life in Smotrich, Soviet campaigns against Jewish religion, Red weddings, Jewish court, Jewish cultural life, Yiddish songs, service in the Red Army, Jewish food customs, dialectological and linguistic questions about the Yiddish language, childhood memories, Great Hunger of 1933, Sabbath celebrations, cattle dealing, non-Jews converting to Judaism, Jewish religious customs, history of synagogue, life after World War II, museum of Jewish victims of Nazism, Jewish communal life today. 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.

62. [Ukraine, Khmel'nyts'kyy, Polonne; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2003] (2:47:28)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include school education in prewar Polonne, evacuation of Kazakhstan, orphanages, memorialization of mass graves, life in prewar Ukraine, learning Yiddish language and grammar, non-Jews speaking Yiddish, Jewish religious and cultural life in prewar Polonne, Yiddish theater, Yiddish choir, Yiddish songs, celebration of Jewish holidays, Sabbath celebrations, libraries, food customs, Russian songs, Yiddish club, wedding customs, Yiddish dialectology, Peretz Markish museum, life of Peretz Markish. 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.

63. [Ukraine, Khmel'nyts'kyy, Shepetivka; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2003] (2:52:03)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include prewar education, life in evacuation, kolhoz life, prewar homes for the aged, Novosibirsk, prewar synagogues, schools, cultural activities in school, Sabbath celebrations, holiday celebrations, food customs, childhood memories, Jewish life in prewar Shepetivka, Jewish teachers, secretly baking matzos, komsomols, wedding celebrations, dialectological questions, Jewish medicine, serving in the Red Army, working in the post office, pre- and postwar Jewish cultural 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.

64. [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.

65. [Ukraine, Khmelʹnytsʹkyy, Slavuta; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003, 2007] (5:31:37)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Hebrew printing in Russia, religious life in Slavuta, education, life during and after World War II, family anecdotes, cultural terminology, the Yiddish press, childhood memories, postwar religious life, relations with non-Jews, Sabbath celebration, Hasidim, holiday traditions, alcohol, contemporary religious life, food customs, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Passover celebration, Yiddish theater, tour of the former Slavuta ghetto site, Jewish weddings, service in the Red Army. 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.

66. [Ukraine, Khmelʹnytsʹkyy, Starokostyantyniv; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2008... (4:46:52)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Jewish education, conversion, prayers, childhood memories, Yiddish writers, Yiddish plays, prewar Jewish life in Olt-Konstantin, kosher butchery, cultural terminology, food customs, gefilte fish, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, prewar Sabbath and Sukkot celebrations, Jewish weddings, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, postwar religious life, Yiddish literature, holiday celebrations, evacuation during World War II, postwar Yiddish press, Yiddish poets, Ba'al Shem Tov, Passover celebration, discussion of the AHEYM project. 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.

67. [Ukraine, Kyiv, Bila Tserkva; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2005] (4:51:15)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, work on a kolkhoz, life during and after World War II, the Great Famine of 1933, Yiddish education, Yiddish theater, Yiddish books, prewar religious life, holiday celebration, food customs, Jewish weddings, folk customs, burial customs, linguistic and dialectological questions about the Yiddish language, the Sholem Aleichem Cultural Society, encounters with Sholem Asch, Ben Gurion, and other famous people, Yiddish newspapers, general education, postwar religious life, cultural and food terminology, Yiddish songs, the Stalinist show trials of the 1930s, prewar cultural life in Rivne, Jewish buildings and streets, contemporary religious issues. 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.

68. [Ukraine, Kyiv, Fastiv; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2008] (3:59:38)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, life during World War II, military service, bar mitzvahs, prewar Jewish life, Jewish education, Yiddish theater, antisemitism, cultural terminology, sports clubs, linguistic and dialectological discussion of Yiddish language, dreidl making, life in the Fastiv ghetto, holiday celebration, food customs, Yiddish songs, Jewish weddings, the Great Famine of 1932-33, contemporary newspapers. 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.

69. [Ukraine, Kyiv, Skvyra; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2008] (57:30)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include the contemporary Jewish community, prewar Jewish life in Skvyra, tour of the local synagogue, visit to the burial site of Rebbe Itsik Twersky, memorialization after World War II, Hasidic life to 1917, religious life in the Soviet period. 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.

70. [Ukraine, Kyiv; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2002, 2003, 2005] (18:04:52)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life before and after World War II, service in the Red Army, prewar cultural and religious life, Jewish weddings, synagogues, Klezmer musicians, relations with non-Jews, childhood memories, holiday and religious customs, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, food customs, Yiddish education, synagogues in Vinnytsya, Yiddish books and articles, Yiddish writer Itsik Kipnis, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, cultural terminology, Yiddish poems, imprisonment in the Pechera concentration camp, working as a school librarian, the Great Famine of 1933, the German occupation of Ozarintsy, Yiddish authors, prewar cultural life in Berdychiv, prewar cinemas and Yiddish films, evacuation to Central Asia during World War II, work on a kolkhoz, Jewish weddings, contemporary Yiddish teaching. 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.

71. [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.

72. [Ukraine, L'viv, Drogobych; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003, 2007] (6:55:42)

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, life during World War I, education, life during World War II, execution of Jews during World War II, military service, life after World War II, Jewish life after the fall of the Soviet Union, contemporary Jewish life, antisemitism, childhood memories, food customs, Yiddish theater, Jewish blessings, relations with non-Jews, religious customs, Yiddish songs, folk remedies, Polish language, deportation of Jews during World War II, working as a forced laborer in Drogobych, imprisonment at Plaszow, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald concentration camps, death march from the Taucha forced labor camp, life at a Soviet prison camp, life as a DP after World War II, bar mitzvahs, work as a musician, the Choral Synagogue in Dragobych. 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.

73. [Ukraine, Lʹviv, Zhovkva; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003] (2:02:00)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include tour of Jewish historical sites in Lʹviv, contemporary Jewish community in Zhovka, family anecdotes, holiday celebrations, prewar Jewish cinema and theater, customs of the High Holidays, education, food customs, relations with non-Jews, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Jewish weddings, burial customs, prayer customs, Sabbath celebrations. 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.

74. [Ukraine, Lʹviv; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003, 2005] (17:41:29)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include education, prewar Jewish life in Odesa, relations with non-Jews, childhood memories, religious education, service in the Red Army, holiday celebrations, holiday food customs, Yiddish theater, the prewar Yiddish press, life before, during, and after World War II, Passover songs, prewar Hasidic life, local intellectuals, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Yiddish literature, cultural terminology, Yiddish songs, contemporary writers and religious figures, prewar religious life, charity organizations, destruction of the Lʹviv cemetery, Jewish weddings, tour of a Jewish cemetery, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood, tour of the community cultural center, prewar youth organizations. 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.

75. [Ukraine, Mykolaïv; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2008] (4:11:02)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life during and after World War II, childhood memories, life in the Efingar Jewish agricultural colony, Jewish holidays and food customs, life on a kolkhoz, prewar cultural life, cinema and theater, prewar religious life, farming life, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, Jewish weddings on the kolkhoz, cultural terminology, antisemitism, service in the Red Army. 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.

76. [Ukraine, Odesa, Balta; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2008] (8:37:27)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, life in Balta during World War II, life in the Balta ghetto, Jewish holidays, life after World War II, food customs,Yiddish songs, Jewish weddings, relations with non-Jews, Purim celebrations, folk customs and anecdotes, Yiddish education, Yiddish journals, Yiddish language acquisition, discussions of cultural terminology and prewar religious customs,Yiddish theater, the Great Famine of 1933, circumcision customs, evacuation during World War II, life on a kolkhoz, cleaning work, working in confectionery, accounting, and export, kosher butchery, work in a coal factory, antisemitism in the army, contemporary Jewish life in Balta. 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.

77. [Ukraine, Odesa, Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2008] (1:44:56)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, Yiddish language, Yiddish songs, life during and after World War II, holiday traditions, antisemitism. 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.

78. [Ukraine, Odesa, Kotovsk; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (2:34:47)

Date:
2004
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include service in the Red Army, prewar religious life, private religious gatherings, holiday celebration, food customs, Jewish weddings, cultural terminology, relations with non-Jews, education, postwar religious life in Kotovsk, life during World War II, Yiddish songs, the contemporary Yiddish press, contemporary Jewish life, childhood memories. 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.

79. [Ukraine, Odesa; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2008] (11:19:52)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life during World War II, childhood memories, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood, prewar Jewish life in Odesa, post-World War II politics, prewar Jewish life in Crimea, postwar Jewish politics regarding Crimea, Stalin's politics, education, Yiddish and Jewish literature, contemporary Jewish life and music, Yiddish culture after World War II, work as a klezmer musician, Jewish weddings, Jewish agricultural colonies, Jewish communists, Yiddish dialects, cultural terminology, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, the Great Famine of 1932-33, holiday celebrations, Yiddish theater, food customs, gefilte fish, Jewish slaughter customs, tour of an Odesa orphanage, contemporary Yiddish press, life under Soviet occupation, tour of the Odesa yeshiva, working on a kolkhoz, postwar antisemitism, Jews in the Red Army, 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.

80. [Ukraine, Rivne, Ostroh, Slavuta; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003] (1:02:00)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Jewish life in Ostroh, childhood memories, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, holiday celebration, food customs, Jewish weddings, Yiddish school, prewar cultural and 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.

81. [Ukraine, Rivne; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003, 2007] (14:12:29)

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, military service, relations with converts, Yiddish songs, Jewish holidays, childhood memories, education, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, childhood games, socialist youth group Shomer Akiva, tour of the local synagogue, contemporary religious services, postwar Jewish life in Rivne, Yiddish theater, Yiddish and Polish-language Jewish newspapers, gefilte fish, Jewish weddings, Jewish drinking practices, saying kadish, Yiddish authors, Soviet Yiddish press, life on a kolkhoz, recipes, food customs, Passover seder, pre-war life in Novohrad-Volyns'kyy, contemporary Yiddish speakers, family anecdotes, life in and escape from Pechera concentration camp, pre-war synagogues in Rivne, service in the Red Army, the 1938 "Makabiade" soccer games, Hebrew press. 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.

82. [Ukraine, Ternopil', Chortkiv; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2005] (2:04:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include saying Kadish, family history, family life, childhood memories, memories before, during, and after World War II, Jewish life in Novohrad-Volyns'kyy, non-Jews speaking Yiddish, mass gravesites, Jewish religious life, poverty experienced during childhood, school life, Russian and Yiddish poetry, Passover customs, Jewish holiday customs, gefilte fish, anti-Semitism in Soviet Union, Holocaust memorial, Sabbath celebrations, Communist Yiddish newspapers, prewar Jewish wedding customs, dialectological and sociolinguistic questions, Jewish foodways, local 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.

83. [Ukraine, Vinnytisa, Ternopil', Bar, Ternopil', Kremenets; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2005] (3:52:09)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include sociolinguistcal and dialectological questions, speaking Yiddish and Ukrainian languages, education in traditional khayder religious school for boys, childhood memories of synagogues, childhood memories, prewar literary tastes, prewar Jewish libraries, local intelectuals and writers, local Hasidic groups, Rebbes, local Nazi collaborators, Polish-language school, Jewish theater groups, Purim observances, mikve ritual baths, Passover celebrations, Podgaytse, Krements' ghetto uprising, memorial in Skalat, military service radio operator, development of political anti-Semitism, Soviets coming to power, Soviet Yiddish newspaper Eynikayt, life in contemporary Ukraine, cemeteries, gravestones used to build roads, kadish, Holocaust memorials, murdered intelligentsia, town history anecdotes, khayder traditional Jewish religious school for young boys, Purim observations, Subbotniki, synagogues, Jewish religious life during the Soviet occupation, Jewish views of Nazi Germany, role of Jews in the Red Army, Ilya Ehrenburg, Shloyme Mikhoels, anti-Semitism in the military, Yiddish songs, Yiddish theater, Simchat Torah, Jewish fire brigade, place of sports in Jewish life, prewar newspapers, traveling peddlers selling Jewish religious books and ritual items, contemporary world Jewry, importance of State of Israel, American Yiddish newspaper Forverts. 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.

84. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Bar, Lityn; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003, 2006, 2007] (14:24:15)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Jewish life before, during, and after World War II, memorialization of prewar Jewish life in Vyzhnytsya and postwar Jewish life in Chernivtsi, Yiddish journalism, Yiddish education and language classes, Jewish intellectual life in postwar Chernivtsi, encounters with Yiddish writers, destruction of Yiddish cultural life by Hitler and Stalin, contemporary Yiddish life, persecution of Viennese Jews during the German occupation, childhood memories, Jewish education, family experiences during World War I, contemporary antisemitic press, relations with non-Jews, bar mitzvahs, the Torah, food customs, holiday customs, Yiddish culture after Perestroika, working as a Yiddish writer under Soviet rule, encounters with Jewish intellectuals, life in the Chernivtsi ghetto, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Jewish weddings, life in the Slidy ghetto, folk remedies, Yiddish songs, childhood games, political organizations, religious customs on the Sabbath, life in the Tulchyn ghetto, prewar Jewish life in Khotyn, kosher butchery, Purim shpiels, life in the Kopayhorod ghetto. 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.

85. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Bar, Lityn; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (3:03:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include the invasion of the Germans during World War II, life in a labor camp, escape from labor camp, working in a labor battalion, evacuation, life in the Jewish ghetto, observation of the Jewish holidays, life after the war, religious life in Bar, serving in the Red Army, working in a factory, various religious customs, childhood memories, relationships with non-Jews before and during the war, dialectological and linguistic questions about the Yiddish language. 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.

86. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Bershadʹ, Odesa, Teplyk; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians; Interviews, 200... (15:00:54)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Topics discussed include childhood memories, school life, fleeing during World War II, Jewish food customs and recipes, occupations for Jews, celebrating Jewish holidays and weddings, synagogue customs, Yiddish songs, making gefilte fish, Jewish food dishes, Hasidic rebbes, contemporary Jewish life, history of Bershadʹ, evacuation during World War II, Bershadʹ ghetto, hardships of war, Yiddish language dialectology, Jewish religious practices, candle lighting, Passover customs, family life, kosher meat, Sabbath practices, liberation of the ghetto, praying techniques, songs from the cheder, Passover Haggadah, history of the Bershadʹ synagogue, return to post-war life in the villlages, Pechera concentration camp, mass shootings, massacres, potato pancakes, carpenter occupation, Hasidic life, Jewish occupations, Jewish klezmer musicians, folk remedies, World War II survival, town of Zhornysche, hiding from the Germans, joining the partisans, life as a bookkeeper, fate of Jews in Odesa, charity in the local community, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, heating during winter. 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.

87. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Bratslav, Uman', Kopayhorod; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews,... (8:14:19)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life during and after World War II, imprisonment of Jews, forced labor groups, imprisonment in Pechera camp and Bratslav and Nemyriv ghettos, imprisonment in the Mohyliv-Podilskyy ghetto, service in the Red Army, Yiddish education, holiday celebrations, prewar religious life, Ukrainian school, Yiddish prayers, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, postwar religious customs, evacuation during World War II, life on a kolkhoz, postwar antisemitism, contemporary Jewish press, Jewish weddings, Yiddish songs, Sabbath food customs, circumcision ritual, imprisonment in the Rivne and Zhytomyr ghettos, imprisonment in the Uman' ghetto, the fate of Bratslav Jewish orphans after the German invasion, the Great Famine of 1932, Passover celebrations, prewar religious life, Hebrew terminology, Jewish wedding music, postwar antisemitism. 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.

88. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Gaysin, Teplyk; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002] (2:37:11)

Date:
2002
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Jewish cooking, gefilte fish, family relations, observation of Jewish holidays, communism, condition of Jewish life today in Gaysin, evacuation of Jews to Central Asia during World War II, Ukrainian schools, the speaking of Yiddish, the town of Sobolivke, food customs, matzo balls, synagogues, Jewish-Christian relations before the war, dialectological questions, jokes and anecdotes from the town of Sobolivke, Jewish musicians from Bershad, surviving in labor camps in Raygorod, Bratsla, and Mykolaivska, pogrom of Gaysin and Sobolivke, Yiddish literature and theatre, town of Teplik. 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.

89. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Hnivan'; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2008] (2:16:24)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include family celebrations of Jewish holidays, family life before the war, childhood memories from Tyvrov, Stalinist terror of 1932, religious life and customs in Hnivan' after World War II, family escape during the war, escape from the ghetto, dialectological questions, Jewish weddings after the war, Yiddish speakers in the region. 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.

90. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Khmilʹnyk; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2008-2009] (4:40:05)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include family life before World War II in Yanoshpol, life in Khmilʹnyk after the war, childhood memories, learning Yiddish as a child, food customs, religious customs, Jewish weddings, dialectology, celebrating Jewish holidays, evacuation during the war, the Petlurists, education and Yiddish literature, Yiddish poetry, Jewish partisans, life in the ghetto during World War II, synagogues in Khmilʹnyk, visiting Israel, family and prewar celebration of Shabbat. 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.

91. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2003, 2... (8:00:14)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include post-Soviet Jews in the Ukraine, Jewish emigration from their birth country, Jewish Sunday School, service in the Soviet army, learning Yiddish, Yiddish songs, anti-Semitism in the army, Yiddish sociolinguistics and dialectology, Pechera camp, war refugees, discrimination against women in Jewish religious tradition, Jewish wedding customs, traditional Jewish foods, Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy Jewish cemetery, emigration to the US during Tsarist regime, Soviet Yiddish education, traditional religious life, Jewish recipes, making gefilte fish, synagogues, prewar Jewish entertainment, holiday customs, circumcision, Sabbath customs, contemporary war memorials and ceremonies, post-war Jewish life, pre-war traditional Jewish foodways, Yiddish theater, folk remedies, escape from Pechera. 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, 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.

93. [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.

94. [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.

95. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Tomashpolʹ; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005-2008] (11:36:06)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life before World War II, family anecdotes, childhood memories, prewar religious life, education, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, food customs, Yiddish proverbs and idioms, folk customs, Sabbath celebrations, Jewish weddings, holiday traditions, the Tomashpolʹ ghetto, views on contemporary issues in Ukraine, folk remedies, Yiddish songs, Yiddish theater, the Great Famine of 1932-33. 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, 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.

97. [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.

98. [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.

99. [Ukraine, Volhyn, Kovelʹ; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003] (3:59:00)

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, religious education, evacuation during World War II, prewar Jewish life in Holoby, prewar Jewish life, holiday traditions, Yiddish songs, cultural terminology, prewar conversion of non-Jews, cultural organizations, Yiddish writers, food 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.

100. [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.