81. [Ukraine, Rivne, Ostroh, Slavuta; Jews, Ukrainians, Yiddish-speakers; Interviews, 2003] (1:02:00)

Date:
2003
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include Jewish life in Ostroh, childhood memories, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, holiday celebration, food customs, Jewish weddings, Yiddish school, prewar cultural and religious life. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.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, 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

83. [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.

84. [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.

85. [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.

86. [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.

87. [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.

88. [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.

89. [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.

90. [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.