- Date:
- 1914
- Main contributors:
- Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967.
- Summary:
- The information presented here about each recording in this collection comes from original documentation by the collector(s). Access to the recordings in this collection has required permission from the American Museum of Natural History with a description of intended use. Patrons should contact atmusic@indiana.edu for assistance in getting further access to these recordings. These are acoustic recordings made on a cylinder phonograph and they are characterized by the relatively low fidelity and high surface noise typical of this format and recordings of this age. Correct playback speed is particularly difficult to ascertain with this format and it has been determined by a variety of factors, but may not be an accurate representation of the original source. Some recordings in this collection may not appear in this interface due to damage that makes them currently unplayable. For more information on damaged recordings, contact the Archives of Traditional Music. The recordings available here are derivatives from stylus-based transfers made in 2018 on the Endpoint Solutions playback machine. Minimal noise reduction and de-clicking have been applied to these derivatives to offer modest improvement to the listening experience without compromising the integrity of the source audio.
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- 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.
33. [Romania, Botoșani County, Mihăileni; Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2006, 2007] (2:56:52)
- Date:
- 2006
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include childhood memories, family, prewar life in Mihăileni, occupational structure among Jews, Jewish life in the region during World War II, prewar Jewish cultural life, particularly theater performances and synagogues, holiday celebrations, in particular Purim and Purim shpiels, local Jewish library, Passover and Sabbath celebrations, food customs, folk and healing customs; Jewish life after the war, life in Mihăileni today, cultural terminology, and responses to dialectological 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.
34. [Romania, Botoșani County, Săveni; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2003] (1:46:38)
- Date:
- 2003
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Date:
- 2006
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include biographical information, including childhood memories, family members, friends, education at a Talmud Torah school and Romanian school, prewar Jewish life in Botoșani, Sulița, and Chernivtsi, including synagogues and mikvas, bar mitzvahs, prewar Sabbath celebrations at home, food customs, in particular gefilte fish, holiday celebrations, including Purim Shavuot, Hanukkah, Passover, and Sukkoth, visiting the Ștefănești rebbe, prewar organizations, occupational structure, cultural life, sports clubs, and the Zionist youth group Drakh Habonim, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, and traditional weddings, Romanian Yiddish writers, artists, Yiddish songs, and Hasidic life; evacuation during World War II, life in a ghetto from 1941-1944, and forced labor in Tiraspol; life after the war, wedding celebrations, klezmer musicians, healing customs; Jewish life today, recitation of the Four Questions, and responses to cultural terminology and dialectological questions. Collection also includes footage of the Botoșani synagogue, Siret, and the Siret 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Date:
- 2006
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include childhood memories, family, prewar Jewish life in Podu Iloaiei, and Hîrlau, including Sabbath, Purim, and Passover celebrations, food customs, synagogues in Podu Iloaiei, occupational structure, visiting rebbes in Belcești, Pașcani, Satu Mare, and Ștefănești, prewar education at a cheder, Yiddish-language education, Yiddish literature, and prewar culture; life during World War II, forced labor in the Romanian army, forced labor in Edineț, Brînzeni, Rujnița, Bălți, Halahora de Sus, and Vyzhnytsya, Ukraine, life in a ghetto in the Transnistria region; life and work during the postwar Soviet period; family and life today, religious customs, and responses to questions about cultural terminology. Includes history and footage of the Hîrlău and Rădăuți synagogues, songs, and recitation of Kaddish. 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.
- Date:
- 2006
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include childhood memories, including family, education, prewar Jewish life in Iași, Odobești, Podu Iloaiei, Chernivtsi, Rădăuți, Transnistria, and Bîrlad, occupational structure and Zionist organizations, neighborhoods, market life, folk and healing customs, food customs, including gefilte fish, synagogues, prewar and postwar Jewish and Yiddish culture, particularly theater and musical performances, traditional weddings, holiday celebrations, including Passover, Shavuot, Simchat Torah, Sukkot, Purim, Sabbath celebrations with the local rebbe, prewar Hasidic life, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish; life during World War II, the Iași pogrom in 1941, forced labor in the Romanian army and Sharhorod, work in a quarry, life in the Iași, Ghernivtsi, Mohyliv-Podilskyy, Dzhurin, and Transnistria ghettos, the Red Army, fate of Jews in the region during the war; the postwar Soviet period, postwar Jewish life in Botoșani and Rădăuți, postwar Yiddish language and literature education in Rădăuți, contemporary Jewish life and visitors, cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Includes visits to memorials in Iași, including the Abraham Goldfaden memorial, singing of popular Yiddish songs, and a tour of the former Meransky Synagogue of Iași. 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.
- 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.