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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.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