11. [Romania, Luduș, Dej; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2008] (2:29:55)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include prewar Jewish life in Luduș and Dej, including occupational structure, family members and family life before and during the war, cheder education, Romanian Jewish school, Talmud Torah school, prewar cultural life in Luduș, including performances by Sidi Tal in Luduș in the early 1930s, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, prewar holiday celebrations, including Passover, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah and Purim, food customs, including gefilte fish, Tisha B'Av; family's life in the region and Jewish life in general during World War II, life in the Turda ghetto and in forced labor at a stone quarry; postwar religious life in Dej during the Soviet period, contemporary Jewish life in Dej, and responses to questions about cultural terminology. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

12. [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 Please note that collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

13. [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.

14. [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.

15. [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.

16. [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.

17. [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.

18. [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.

19. [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.

20. [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.