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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.