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Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Yiddish songs, family anecdotes, life in the Bershad ghetto, prewar Jewish life, childhood memories, holiday celebrations, prewar Hasidic life, food customs, Jewish occupations, cultural terminology, Jewish weddings, Yiddish proverbs, military service, klezmer music. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include childhood memories of prewar Vadu-Rashkovo, Soroca, and Sguritzy, family members, school education, prewar religious life, occupations, food customs, cultural life, political organizations, Yiddish songs, folk customs, traditional weddings, and holiday celebrations, including Yom Kippur, Succoth, Simkhat Torah, Hanukkah, Purim and Passover, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish in Dumbraveno; life during the Great Hunger in 1932-1933, family life during World War II, deaths of family members, German occupation, forced marches and labor in Bershad, Rîbnita, Bershadskiy Rayon, Rîscani, Yampil, Cosǎuyi, Rublenita, and Vertiujeni; life after the war, postwar German compensation and life today, reponses to questions about cultural terminology and dialectological questions. Includes singing of Yiddish songs and footage of the Soroca 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Salaam performs music from the Middle East and Nothern Africa. Members of the ensemble discuss improvisation in Middle Eastern music, Turkish and Arabic scales, and the history of the clavichord. Musical selections are from Turkey, Tunisia, Iraq, and Andalucia.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include childhood memories, life and home before the war, religious education, family members, traditional weddings, occupational structure in Săveni, including prewar synagogues, Purim, Passover and Hanukkah celebrations, including food customs, the Ștefănești rebbe, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish; life during World War II, imprisonment in the Mohyliv-Podilskyy ghetto; life and customs during the postwar Soviet era, postwar Jewish life in Dorohoi and Săveni, postwar Yiddish culture, including theater performances, contemporary antisemitism, responses to questions about cultural terminology and dialectologial 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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include childhood memories, family, education, prewar Sabbath celebrations, zemirot, prewar holiday celebrations, including Passover, Purim, food customs, including gefilte and falshe fish, prewar and postwar weddings, Yiddish writers and prewar Yiddish performances; life during World War II, destruction of local synagogues, imprisonment in a ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, experiences at Auschwitz, including selections and forced labor, relations between Romanian and Polish Jews in the camp, liberation by the American army in the Mauthausen concentration camp; Jewish life in Sighetu Marației after the war, contemporary Jewish life in Sighetu Marației. Includes town footage and footage of the Sighetu Marației 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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include childhood memories, education at a cheder, prewar Jewish life in Ocna Șugatag, including occupational structure, prewar Yiddish cultural life, traditional weddings, theater performances, folk and healing customs, prewar religious life, holiday celebrations, including Yom Kippur, Purim, Passover, Hanukkah, and Sukkot, descriptions of a Purim shpiel and childhood game, prewar Sabbath celebrations, including food customs; life as a soldier in forced labor during World War II, family's life during the war, family members returning from Auschwitz; Jewish life and work after the war, cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Includes singing of Yiddish songs. 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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include life in prewar Fălticeni, childhood memories, family life and work as synagogue caretaker, Yiddish education at a Romanian school, Hasidic family in Israel, Jewish life in Fălticeni during and after the war, holiday celebrations, including Purim and Passover, relationships with non-Jewish neighbors, traditional weddings, mixed marriages and cultural life in prewar Rădăuți, food customs, healing customs; holiday celebrations at home during the postwar Soviet period, contemporary Jewish life in Rădăuți, Yiddish dialects, responses to questions about cultural terminology and dialectological questions. Includes a tour of the community center and footage of the Rădăuți 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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include childhood memories, family, religious customs and holidays, cultural performances, education, folk customs, the Ștefănești rebbe, prewar life in Iași and Vatra Dornei, Iași pogrom in June 1941, fate of family members and other Jews in the region, deportation to the Mohyliv-Podilskyy ghetto in 1941, life in the ghetto; postwar Jewish life in Vatra Dornei, the relationship between Jew and non-Jews, contemporary Jewish life, and responses to dialectological questions. Includes footage of the drive from Săveni to Vatra Dornei and Vatra Dornei 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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
