51. [Ukraine, Zakarpatsʹka, Uzhhorod; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (7:07:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, family anecdotes, life before World War II, contemporary religious life, prewar religious life, life under Hungarian and German occupation, military service, Jewish weddings, imprisonment in a labor camp, prewar life in Mukacheve, prewar Hasidic life, religious education, holiday celebrations, life during World War II, tour of the former Great Synagogue and Jewish neighborhood, imprisonment in labor and concentration camps including Auschwitz III (Monowitz-Buna), Gleiwitz, and Mittelbau-Dora, escape from a mass execution, prewar antisemitism, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, food shortages, relations with non-Jews. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

52. [Ukraine, Zakarpatsʹka, Vynohradiv; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (2:04:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life during World War II, imprisonment in Auschwitz, life in a DP camp, prewar Jewish life, contemporary Jewish life in Vynohradiv, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, female magicians, cultural terminology, Yiddish songs, life under Hungarian occupation, tour of Jewish cemetary in Vynohradiv. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

53. [United States, Indiana, Bloomington, 2005] (54:35)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Salaam (Musical group)
Summary:
Salaam performs music from the Middle East and Nothern Africa. Members of the ensemble discuss improvisation in Middle Eastern music, Turkish and Arabic scales, and the history of the clavichord. Musical selections are from Turkey, Tunisia, Iraq, and Andalucia.

54. [Ukraine, Odesa, Kotovsk; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2005] (2:34:47)

Date:
2004
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include service in the Red Army, prewar religious life, private religious gatherings, holiday celebration, food customs, Jewish weddings, cultural terminology, relations with non-Jews, education, postwar religious life in Kotovsk, life during World War II, Yiddish songs, the contemporary Yiddish press, contemporary Jewish life, childhood memories. 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.

55. [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.

56. [Romania, Maramures County, Sighetu Marației; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2003] (1:56:51)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, family, education, prewar Sabbath celebrations, zemirot, prewar holiday celebrations, including Passover, Purim, food customs, including gefilte and falshe fish, prewar and postwar weddings, Yiddish writers and prewar Yiddish performances; life during World War II, destruction of local synagogues, imprisonment in a ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, experiences at Auschwitz, including selections and forced labor, relations between Romanian and Polish Jews in the camp, liberation by the American army in the Mauthausen concentration camp; Jewish life in Sighetu Marației after the war, contemporary Jewish life in Sighetu Marației. Includes town footage and footage of the Sighetu Marației 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.

57. [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.

58. [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.

59. [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.

60. [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.