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81. [Ukraine, Rivne; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003, 2007] (14:12:29)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, military service, relations with converts, Yiddish songs, Jewish holidays, childhood memories, education, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, childhood games, socialist youth group Shomer Akiva, tour of the local synagogue, contemporary religious services, postwar Jewish life in Rivne, Yiddish theater, Yiddish and Polish-language Jewish newspapers, gefilte fish, Jewish weddings, Jewish drinking practices, saying kadish, Yiddish authors, Soviet Yiddish press, life on a kolkhoz, recipes, food customs, Passover seder, pre-war life in Novohrad-Volyns'kyy, contemporary Yiddish speakers, family anecdotes, life in and escape from Pechera concentration camp, pre-war synagogues in Rivne, service in the Red Army, the 1938 "Makabiade" soccer games, Hebrew press. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

82. [Ukraine, Ternopil', Chortkiv; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2005] (2:04:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

83. [Ukraine, Vinnytisa, Ternopil', Bar, Ternopil', Kremenets; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2005] (3:52:09)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
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.

84. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Bar, Lityn; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003, 2006, 2007] (14:24:15)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Jewish life before, during, and after World War II, memorialization of prewar Jewish life in Vyzhnytsya and postwar Jewish life in Chernivtsi, Yiddish journalism, Yiddish education and language classes, Jewish intellectual life in postwar Chernivtsi, encounters with Yiddish writers, destruction of Yiddish cultural life by Hitler and Stalin, contemporary Yiddish life, persecution of Viennese Jews during the German occupation, childhood memories, Jewish education, family experiences during World War I, contemporary antisemitic press, relations with non-Jews, bar mitzvahs, the Torah, food customs, holiday customs, Yiddish culture after Perestroika, working as a Yiddish writer under Soviet rule, encounters with Jewish intellectuals, life in the Chernivtsi ghetto, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Jewish weddings, life in the Slidy ghetto, folk remedies, Yiddish songs, childhood games, political organizations, religious customs on the Sabbath, life in the Tulchyn ghetto, prewar Jewish life in Khotyn, kosher butchery, Purim shpiels, life in the Kopayhorod ghetto. 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.

85. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Bar, Lityn; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (3:03:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
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.

86. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Bershadʹ, Odesa, Teplyk; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians; Interviews, 200... (15:00:54)

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.

87. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Bratslav, Uman', Kopayhorod; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews,... (8:14:19)

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.

88. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Gaysin, Teplyk; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002] (2:37:11)

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.

89. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Hnivan'; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2008] (2:16:24)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include family celebrations of Jewish holidays, family life before the war, childhood memories from Tyvrov, Stalinist terror of 1932, religious life and customs in Hnivan' after World War II, family escape during the war, escape from the ghetto, dialectological questions, Jewish weddings after the war, Yiddish speakers in the region. 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.

90. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Khmilʹnyk; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2008-2009] (4:40:05)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include family life before World War II in Yanoshpol, life in Khmilʹnyk after the war, childhood memories, learning Yiddish as a child, food customs, religious customs, Jewish weddings, dialectology, celebrating Jewish holidays, evacuation during the war, the Petlurists, education and Yiddish literature, Yiddish poetry, Jewish partisans, life in the ghetto during World War II, synagogues in Khmilʹnyk, visiting Israel, family and prewar celebration of Shabbat. 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, Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2003, 2... (8:00:14)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include post-Soviet Jews in the Ukraine, Jewish emigration from their birth country, Jewish Sunday School, service in the Soviet army, learning Yiddish, Yiddish songs, anti-Semitism in the army, Yiddish sociolinguistics and dialectology, Pechera camp, war refugees, discrimination against women in Jewish religious tradition, Jewish wedding customs, traditional Jewish foods, Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy Jewish cemetery, emigration to the US during Tsarist regime, Soviet Yiddish education, traditional religious life, Jewish recipes, making gefilte fish, synagogues, prewar Jewish entertainment, holiday customs, circumcision, Sabbath customs, contemporary war memorials and ceremonies, post-war Jewish life, pre-war traditional Jewish foodways, Yiddish theater, folk remedies, escape from Pechera. 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.

92. [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.

93. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Shpykiv; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2002] (2:01:53)

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.

94. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Teplyk; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002] (5:12:14)

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.

95. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Tomashpolʹ; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005-2008] (11:36:06)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life before World War II, family anecdotes, childhood memories, prewar religious life, education, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, food customs, Yiddish proverbs and idioms, folk customs, Sabbath celebrations, Jewish weddings, holiday traditions, the Tomashpolʹ ghetto, views on contemporary issues in Ukraine, folk remedies, Yiddish songs, Yiddish theater, the Great Famine of 1932-33. 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.

96. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Tul'chyn; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002-2009] (21:03:54)

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.

97. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya, Zhmerynka; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002] (1:56:50)

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.

98. [Ukraine, Vinnytsya; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2002-2008] (16:54:11)

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.

99. [Ukraine, Volhyn, Kovelʹ; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003] (3:59:00)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, childhood memories, religious education, evacuation during World War II, prewar Jewish life in Holoby, prewar Jewish life, holiday traditions, Yiddish songs, cultural terminology, prewar conversion of non-Jews, cultural organizations, Yiddish writers, food 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.

100. [Ukraine, Volhyn, Luts'k; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2003, 2007] (5:58:14)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life during World War II, escape from the Pechera concentration camp, religious life before the war, matzoh factory, Jewish recipes, gefilte fish, family life, childhood memories, Jewish food customs, learning Yiddish, bath houses, holiday celebrations, youth movements, religious education, Jewish professions before the war, dialectology and terminology, Jewish weddings, Jewish medical habits, life during the Nazi occupation, hiding from the Nazis, Russian partisans, serving as an Army nurse, ambitions to live in Israel, Jewish funerals, Polish schools, Sabbath celebrations, Purim celebrations, childhood memories, origins of Yiddish names, prewar political organizations, memorialization of Jewish mass graves, Drokhenbroyt, Jewish circumcisions, Jewish buildings in Luts'k, 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.