41. [Romania, Maramureș, Ocna Șugatag ; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians ; Interviews, 2003] (2:00:00)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, education at a cheder, prewar Jewish life in Ocna Șugatag, including occupational structure, prewar Yiddish cultural life, traditional weddings, theater performances, folk and healing customs, prewar religious life, holiday celebrations, including Yom Kippur, Purim, Passover, Hanukkah, and Sukkot, descriptions of a Purim shpiel and childhood game, prewar Sabbath celebrations, including food customs; life as a soldier in forced labor during World War II, family's life during the war, family members returning from Auschwitz; Jewish life and work after the war, cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Includes singing of Yiddish songs. 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 Please note that collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

42. [Romania, Rădăuți; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2003] (2:37:33)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life in prewar Fălticeni, childhood memories, family life and work as synagogue caretaker, Yiddish education at a Romanian school, Hasidic family in Israel, Jewish life in Fălticeni during and after the war, holiday celebrations, including Purim and Passover, relationships with non-Jewish neighbors, traditional weddings, mixed marriages and cultural life in prewar Rădăuți, food customs, healing customs; holiday celebrations at home during the postwar Soviet period, contemporary Jewish life in Rădăuți, Yiddish dialects, responses to questions about cultural terminology and dialectological questions. Includes a tour of the community center and footage of the Rădăuți 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

43. [Romania, Suceava County, Suceava; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2002] (34:56)

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.

44. [Romania, Suceava County, Vatra Dornei; Jews, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003] (2:20:30)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, family, religious customs and holidays, cultural performances, education, folk customs, the Ștefănești rebbe, prewar life in Iași and Vatra Dornei, Iași pogrom in June 1941, fate of family members and other Jews in the region, deportation to the Mohyliv-Podilskyy ghetto in 1941, life in the ghetto; postwar Jewish life in Vatra Dornei, the relationship between Jew and non-Jews, contemporary Jewish life, and responses to dialectological questions. Includes footage of the drive from Săveni to Vatra Dornei and Vatra Dornei 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.

45. [Romania, Suceava, Siret; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2006] (2:32:04)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, education at a cheder and Romanian school, life before the war, family, work, family stories and anecdotes about Hershl Ostropoler, food and drinking customs at home, traditional weddings, folk and healing customs, Siret cemeteries, prewar Passover celebrations, Sabbath gatherings, and Purim performances with non-Jewish friends, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, Zionist organizations, and cultural life; life during World War II, imprisonment in the Bershad ghetto, occupations in the ghetto, daily life, including holiday celebration, particularly Passover, theater performances and prayer services, disease, forced labor, digging mass graves, and relationship between Jews and Ukrainians; contemporary Jewish life in Siret, including postwar Purim and Passover celebrations, food customs at home, religious customs today, particularly yahzeit and visiting the local cemetery.

46. [Slovakia, Košice; Hungary, Vaja; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Slovakians; Interviews, 2006] (7:00:20)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics from Hungary include childhood memories, family, prewar Jewish life in Vaja, in particular yeshivot in neighboring villages, prewar Jewish press, religious school (cheder) and yeshiva education, religious food customs, comparison between life today and before the war, Sabbath zemirot, holiday food customs, the Vaja synagogue; life and politics today, responses to questions about cultural terminology, life after liberation, and Yiddish dialects. Includes singing of Yiddish songs. Interview topics from Slovakia include childhood memories, family, education at a cheder, family, prewar life in Stropkov, Košice, Prešov, Hanušovce, Topl'ou and surrounding villages, including occupational structure, poverty, prewar holiday celebrations, including Purim, Hanukkah, and Sukkoth, Sabbath and food customs, including gefilte and falshe fish, prewar cultural performances; Jewish life in the region during the war, the Sered̕ ghetto, escape to Pest, Hungary, occupation of Hungary by Germany in 1944, return to Slovakia, forced labor in Zemianske Sady, liberation by the Red Army, escaping the Germans between September 1944 and April 1945; Jewish life today, memorialization ceremonies, contemporary antisemitism, cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Includes recitation of a Purim shpiel, chanting of a liturgical song, and footage of the synagogue in Košice. 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.

47. [Ukraine, Cherkas'ka, Uman'; Jews, Ukrainians; Interviews, 2002-2008] (7:20:31)

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.

48. [Ukraine, Cherkasy, Korsunʹ; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (7:48:46)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include a tour of the town of Bila Tserkva, the prewar Jewish population of Korsunʹ, contemporary Jewish life in the region, childhood memories, Sabbath customs, food customs, Passover and Purim celebrations, Jewish weddings, prewar Jewish life, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, life during and after World War II, childhood memories, tour of the town of Korsunʹ, factory work, transition of artisan occupations, contemporary use of the Yiddish language, contemporary relations with non-Jews, relations with non-Jews before and after World War II, recipes, Yiddish education, prewar Yiddish culture and cinema, working as a watchmaker, prewar Jewish occupations and literature. 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.

49. [Ukraine, Chernihiv, Nizhyn; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003] (1:57:57)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, religious education, work in a factory, holiday celebrations, Yiddish writers, artists, newspapers, and clubs, prewar Jewish life in Nizhyn, contemporary Jewish life, cultural terminology, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, food customs, Yiddish songs, life after World War II, Sabbath celebrations. 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.

50. [Ukraine, Chernihiv; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003] (4:45:15)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include prewar religious life in Chernihiv, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, cultural terminology, Yiddish education, postwar religious life, repression of Jewish life under Khrushchev, contemporary religious life, holiday traditions, food customs, holiday games, life on a kolkhoz, Yiddish theater, Jewish weddings, the Jewish cemetery of Chernihiv, Jewish sites and buildings. 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.