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- Date:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include family anecdotes, childhood memories, Jewish life in Libshen, education at a Romanian school, Passover celebrations, life during World War II, imprisonment in the Obodovka ghetto, relations with non-Jews, prewar political and cultural life in Rezina, Romanian, Russian, and Yiddish songs, prewar Yiddish culture and theater, life in the Bershad ghetto, cultural terminology and folktales, linguistic and dialectological discussion of 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
- Date:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include contemporary Jewish life, family anecdotes, childhood memories, education at a Russian school, life in the Ribnița ghetto, prewar Jewish life, holiday traditions, postwar religious life, the Ribnița rebbe, relations with non-Jews, childhood games, Romanian occupation during World War II, service in the Red Army, Yiddish theater, Jewish weddings, life on a Kolkhoz, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, the Great Famine of 1932-33, koshering meat, folk customs, local cemeteries, life in the Vastavka ghetto, Yiddish literature, occupational structures, recipes, cultural terminology. 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 Please note that collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
- Date:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include childhood memories, memories of family members, Romanian Jewish school in prewar Stefănesti, Jewish life in prewar Talmaz and Tighina, history of the town of Tighina, including the period under Soviet occupation, occupational structure in Tighina, Jewish press before the war, prewar political, cultural and social life, including libraries and Yiddish theater, social interactions between Jews and non-Jews, prewar religious life, holiday celebrations, including Sukkoth, Hanukkah, Purim celebrations and snippets from Purim shpiels, Sabbath celebrations at home, including food customs, particularly gefilte fish, traditional weddings, folk customs, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, Zionist groups; life during the war, family evacuation, fighting in the Red Army, fighting near Stalingrad and the march toward Caucasus, military service as a nurse; life after the war, postwar religious life; answers to questions about cultural terminology and dialectological questions. Includes singing of 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include childhood memories, family, education at a cheder and Romanian school, healing customs, prewar religious life, history of the Suceava synagogues; confinement to the Murafa ghetto during World War II, fate of family members after the war, Jewish life in Dorohoi, contemporary Jewish life in Suceava, and responses to questions about cultural terminology. Includes footage of the Suceava 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include ghetto Bershad', Jewish food customs, gefilte fish recipes, Yiddish literature, Yiddish songs, Jewish life today, World War II military service, family, childhood memories, Jewish schools in the Ukraine, Jewish prewar cultural life, Klezmer musicians, Great Hunger of 1933, town of Buki, Passover celebrations, Jewish holiday customs, Yiddish dialectological questions, writing Yiddish, food customs, in hiding during the war in Ternovka, memorialization, Tsadik Nahman of Bratslav, religious life after the war, life under German occupation, Yiddish proverbs, Jewish-Ukrainian relations today, Jewish emigration, Jewish life in America, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, Hebrew songs, Jewish praying, Jewish buildings, Jewish education, travel to Israel, mixed marriages, Odessa, Yiddish theater, synagogues, and Soviet times. 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include life before and after World War II, service in the Red Army, prewar cultural and religious life, Jewish weddings, synagogues, Klezmer musicians, relations with non-Jews, childhood memories, holiday and religious customs, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, food customs, Yiddish education, synagogues in Vinnytsya, Yiddish books and articles, Yiddish writer Itsik Kipnis, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, cultural terminology, Yiddish poems, imprisonment in the Pechera concentration camp, working as a school librarian, the Great Famine of 1933, the German occupation of Ozarintsy, Yiddish authors, prewar cultural life in Berdychiv, prewar cinemas and Yiddish films, evacuation to Central Asia during World War II, work on a kolkhoz, Jewish weddings, contemporary Yiddish teaching. 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Topics discussed include childhood memories, school life, fleeing during World War II, Jewish food customs and recipes, occupations for Jews, celebrating Jewish holidays and weddings, synagogue customs, Yiddish songs, making gefilte fish, Jewish food dishes, Hasidic rebbes, contemporary Jewish life, history of Bershadʹ, evacuation during World War II, Bershadʹ ghetto, hardships of war, Yiddish language dialectology, Jewish religious practices, candle lighting, Passover customs, family life, kosher meat, Sabbath practices, liberation of the ghetto, praying techniques, songs from the cheder, Passover Haggadah, history of the Bershadʹ synagogue, return to post-war life in the villlages, Pechera concentration camp, mass shootings, massacres, potato pancakes, carpenter occupation, Hasidic life, Jewish occupations, Jewish klezmer musicians, folk remedies, World War II survival, town of Zhornysche, hiding from the Germans, joining the partisans, life as a bookkeeper, fate of Jews in Odesa, charity in the local community, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, heating during winter. 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include life during and after World War II, imprisonment of Jews, forced labor groups, imprisonment in Pechera camp and Bratslav and Nemyriv ghettos, imprisonment in the Mohyliv-Podilskyy ghetto, service in the Red Army, Yiddish education, holiday celebrations, prewar religious life, Ukrainian school, Yiddish prayers, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, postwar religious customs, evacuation during World War II, life on a kolkhoz, postwar antisemitism, contemporary Jewish press, Jewish weddings, Yiddish songs, Sabbath food customs, circumcision ritual, imprisonment in the Rivne and Zhytomyr ghettos, imprisonment in the Uman' ghetto, the fate of Bratslav Jewish orphans after the German invasion, the Great Famine of 1932, Passover celebrations, prewar religious life, Hebrew terminology, Jewish wedding music, postwar 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.
- Date:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include Jewish cooking, gefilte fish, family relations, observation of Jewish holidays, communism, condition of Jewish life today in Gaysin, evacuation of Jews to Central Asia during World War II, Ukrainian schools, the speaking of Yiddish, the town of Sobolivke, food customs, matzo balls, synagogues, Jewish-Christian relations before the war, dialectological questions, jokes and anecdotes from the town of Sobolivke, Jewish musicians from Bershad, surviving in labor camps in Raygorod, Bratsla, and Mykolaivska, pogrom of Gaysin and Sobolivke, Yiddish literature and theatre, town of Teplik. 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.
91. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Sharhorod, Bratslav, Shpykiv; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002] (4:35:55)
- Date:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include Jewish religious holidays, praying in synagogue, tsadikim, ghetto life, Ukrainians helping Jews, Hershele Ostropolyer story, memories of Passover, matzo kugels, bagels, dialectical questions, linguistical questions, life in Israel, Yiddish education, surviving the war years, prayer books, Bratslav cemetery, Pechera camp, Jews not killed during the war, celebrating Sabbath, traditional foods, yoykh, gefilte fish, cholent, Yiddish accents, Romanian Jews, post-Soviet society, Jewish emigration from the USSR, reading religious texts, non-Jews speaking Yiddish, praying in private homes, blessings before meals, Russian schools, telling jokes, Russian songs, local tsadiks, Yiddish theater 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include Yiddish songs, education, holiday celebrations, religious books, Yiddish writers, prewar Jewish culture in Shpykiv, imprisonment in the Pechera concentration camp, prewar antisemitism, dialectological discussion, food customs, contemporary life and antisemitism, Passover celebrations, tour of the historical Jewish neighborhood, burial rites, recipes (gefilte fish, vareniki). 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include hat terminology, Yiddish school, appearance of electricity, klezmers, musicians, wedding customs, Jewish folk remedies, famine, synagogues, prewar religious life, closure of Yiddish schools and synagogues, food customs and recipes for buckwheat dumplings, gefilte fish, Sukkot, Jewish religious life, dialectological questions, food customs, family life, prewar childhood memories, social and work life at the kolhoz, American Jewish organization Agro-Joint, forced labor, help from non-Jews, youth in Crimea, Soviet Yiddish songs, Yiddish writers, Passover customs, latkes, Jewish foodways, Lunacharka kolhoz, Russian converts to Judaism, fluency of Yiddish, gefilte fish, Jewish funeral customs, intermarriage, establishment of ghettos, food and assistance obtained by rich Romanian Jews, survival tactics, eating practices of chicken, kosher meat, sickness and healing. 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include Pechera concentration camp and its memorialization and current state, Jewish food, Jewish holiday customs and celebrations, dialectological questions, Jewish community and life before World War II, cultural life, ghetto life during the Romanian and German occupation, religious practices after the war, Yiddish speakers, service in the Red Army, liberation of Berlin, Yiddish songs, concentration camp experiences, daily life in Pechera, war experiences during the German and Romanian occupation, agricultural life, pogroms, dialectological questions, practicing present-day Judaism, observing religious practices in Soviet postwar period, Jewish mysticism, Great Hunger of 1933, working conditions during Soviet times, gefilte fish recipes, special food for the Sabbath and Jewish holidays, Bershad' ghetto, escape from Bershad' ghetto, Jewish pre-war education, circumcision, chauffeur occupation during and after the war, Jews as Soviet party leaders, Jewish wedding customs, Jewish ritual slaughterer, Tomashpol' ghetto, war memories, student life before the war, Jewish anecdotes, making a mezuzah from tin, poverty before the war, soap making and candy making before the war, wartime shootings and murders, synagogues, pre-war barber and tailor occupations, childhood memories, wartime memories of Finland, family life today, Jewish recipes. 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include memories of Jewish holidays, the Sabbath, childhood years, Yiddish poetry, poverty, dialectological information, the town of Permovaysk, Jewish relations with non-Jews, speaking Yiddish regardless of ethnicity, gefilte fish, Hanukkah customs, Yiddish songs, Jewish homes of Sharhorod. 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include Yiddish songs, food preparation, childhood memories, Jewish education, service in the Red Army, life in the Kopayhorod ghetto, family anecdotes, the Great Famine of 1932-33, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, prayer traditions, drinking customs, religious practice in the late 1930s and under Romanian occupation, Jewish culture in Zhmerynka, choral performance, prewar Jewish life in Krasnoye, holiday celebrations, Jewish weddings, life in a ghetto, Yiddish books and press, Sabbath food customs, relations with non-Jews, contemporary life, tour of Jewish Shahorod, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, koshering meat, life during Romanian occupation, postwar religious life, kosher butchery, Jewish professions, antisemitism, folk customs. 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include the Jewish town of Orhei in Moldova, Jewish education, Jewish religious and cultural life, Jewish weddings, childhood memories, food customs, celebrating Jewish holidays, dialectological and linguistic questions about the Yiddish language, discussion of prewar Jewish religious life, Yiddish theater songs, serving in the Red Army during World War II, Jewish religious schooling, slaughtering chickens in accordance with Jewish ritual, reciting prayers, imprisonment by Stalin in 1937, family life, long lines for seltzer water, the Great Famine of 1933, working for museums, work in photography, anti-Jewish school plays, Tzadik Levi Yitskhak, conversions to Judaism, liberation of Berlin in 1945, traditional Jewish recipes, synagogue construction, Hasidic anecdotes, Russian Hasidim, current events in the Jewish community, Yiddish theater, Yiddish songs, discussion of non-Jews participating in Jewish life, relations with non-Jews, non-Jews speaking Yiddish, Polish schools, refugees from Poland, evacuation to Uzbekistan, life in the Bershad ghetto, memorialization of the ghetto, anti-Semitism in the Red Army, escape from the Germans during World War II, making Matzos in the synagogue, working for the NKVD, history and conditions of the concentration camp at Pechera, collective farming during the Great Famine, tour of the town of Novosolets, serving in the Red Army in Latvia. 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
- Summary:
- Interview topics include Jewish weddings, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, prewar Jewish life, contemporary Jewish life, Yiddish press, religion in the Soviet era, Yiddish songs, military service, religious education, childhood memories, family anecdotes, the Great Famine and life in the 1930s, holiday traditions, food customs, Yiddish proverbs, prewar antisemitism, life before and during World War II, cultural terminology, childhood games, emigrating to Ukraine from Israel, wartime evacuation to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, wartime refugees, tour of Berdychiv synagogue, pogroms in the 1920s, Hasidism, Zionism, Yiddish literature, Purim shpiels, Polish songs, etymology of Jewish names, local geography, non-Jewish Yiddish and Hebrew speakers, life on a kolkhoz, underground yeshiva in Berdychiv, Sabbath celebration, postwar army service, Hershele Ostropoler stories. 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:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Haas, Colleen M., 1961-
- Summary:
- Performances of traditional music derived from the cultural traditions of the Akan and Ga people within various regions in Ghana. Includes a Kete song that is a traditional part of the regalia of Akan royalty, and an example of an Otofo puberty song, Sa yo le, of the Ga-Adagme of Ghana. Songs in the latter style are often heard at graduation ceremonies, including those at boarding schools. Song presentations were based on Haas's work with her Ghanaian teacher, Sowah Mensah.
- Date:
- 2002
- Main contributors:
- Larsen, Grey.
- Summary:
- Audio and video recording of a roundtable discussion on music in Bloomington includes biographical and background information on Grey Larsen and Lee Williams, the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, WFHB radio station, the local Irish music scene, and local perceptions of world, folk, and traditional music. Audience members participate during the event through questions and discussion.