8. [China, Shanghai and Peking, 1901-1902] (19:29:42)

Date:
1901
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
The information presented here about each recording in this collection comes from minimal original documentation by the collector and from additional research by ATM staff. Use of the recordings in this collection requires permission from the American Museum of Natural History with a description of intended use. Patrons should contact atmusic@indiana.edu for assistance in getting further access to these recordings. These are acoustic recordings made on a cylinder phonograph and they are characterized by the relatively low fidelity and high surface noise typical of this format and recordings of this age. Some recordings in this collection may not appear in the MCO application due to damage that makes them currently unplayable. For more information on damaged recordings, contact the Archives of Traditional Music. The recordings available here are derivatives from stylus-based transfers made in 2017 on the Endpoint Solutions playback machine. Minimal noise reduction and de-clicking have been applied to these derivatives to offer modest improvement to the listening experience without compromising the integrity of the source audio. Some of these recordings are matched pairs made simultaneously by Berthold Laufer in an effort to capture a clear recording of the voice on one cylinder while capturing a clear recording of the instruments on another cylinder.

9. [Colombia, Dept. Bolívar, 1968] (4:21:41)

Date:
1968
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

11. [Dahomey and Brazil, 1942-1950] (1:38:30)

Date:
1942
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
Brazilian folk music from Brazil and Dahomey. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.

12. [Hungary, Budapest, 2007 - 2009] (29:51:47)

Date:
2009
Main contributors:
Dov-ber Kerler and Jeff Veidlinger
Summary:
The collection consists of linguistic and oral history interviews conducted in Yiddish in Budapest in 2006-2009 as part of the Archive of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memory (AHEYM) Project.

13. [Hungary, Hadju-Bihar, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Debrecen, Vaja; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Hungarians... (9:37:54)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include family anecdotes, religious education, Hasidic songs, prewar life in Rohod, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, Passover celebrations, food customs, Purim spiels, life during World War II, forced labor, imprisonment in Mauthausen, Jewish weddings, birth customs, cultural terminology, gefilte fish, Hungarian songs, memorialization, relations with non-Jews, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood in Debrecen, liberation by the Brtitish Army, tour of the Nyíregyháza synagogue, prewar religious life at the Debrecen synagogue, blessings and prayers, contemporary 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.

14. [Hungary, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Vaja; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Hungarians; Interviews, 2006, 2008] (2:50:41)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childood memories, including memories of family members and family life, yeshiva education, daily study routine, prewar religious life in Vaja, life in Vaja after graduation, prewar praying customs, purim celebrations, Passover celebrations, traditional weddings, cooking, Rosh Hashanah, healing customs, and prewar Sukkot celebrations; experiences as a forced laborer during World War II, Jewish life after the war, life today, regional geography, and a visit to Auschwitz. Includes responses to questions about cultural terminology, singing of Yiddish songs, chanted prayers, recitation of the beginning of the Four Questions, and Purim shpiels. 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.

15. [Liberia, Bong County, Kpelle, 1970] (10:06:35)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
This collection consists of music, oral data, and interviews among the Kpelle of Liberia and includes popular zither, lamellphone, musical bow, lute, slit-drum and xylophone music; Kpelle script interviews; children's songs, work-songs, drum signals, tales, cante-fables and music associated with rites and ceremonies. 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.

19. [Moldova, Bălți; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2005] (9:16:27)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include prewar Jewish life in Pervomaiscoe, family anecdotes, childhood memories, life during World War II, poetry translation, holiday celebrations, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, relations with non-Jews, life in the Soviet period, Jewish occupations, childhood games, evacuation during World War II, food customs, Yiddish theater, Yiddish songs, folk remedies, postwar Jewish life, prewar antisemitism, koshering meat, Purim celebrations, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood in Bălți, imprisonment in the Vertiujeni concentration camp, cultural terminology, Jewish weddings, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, Yiddish sayings. 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.

20. [Moldova, Briceni; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2005] (3:51:00)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include life during World War II, imprisonment in Transnistria ghettos, family anecdotes, postwar religious life, service in the Red Army, holiday traditions, religious education, childhood memories, food customs, family gatherings, Purim celebrations, wartime antisemitism, Jewish occupations, recipes, contemporary Jewish life, childhood games, Yiddish songs, Jewish weddings, cultural terminology, folk customs, proverbs, poetry recitation. 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.

21. [Moldova, Călărași, Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2006] (1:02:00)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include family anecdotes, prewar Jewish life in Călărași, Yiddish education, holiday traditions, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, life during World War II, evacuation to the Stalingrad region, cultural terminology, religious life during Soviet times, food customs, folk and healing customs, postwar 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.

22. [Moldova, Chișinău, Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2005-2006] (42:51:23)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include contemporary Jewish life, life in the Obodivka ghetto, family anecdotes, life under Romanian occupation, life in the Dubyna forced labor camp, Yiddish songs, religious education, prewar Jewish life, Yiddish writers, childhood memories, life on a kolkhoz, prewar prayer customs, holiday traditions, food customs, cultural terminology, regional Yiddish dialects, Jewish weddings, memorialization, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Passover celebrations, recipes, folk customs, evacuation to Uzbekistan, prewar sports organizations, Yiddish press, prewar ethnic Jewish geography in Chișinău, childhood games, Hanukkah celebrations, prewar drinking customs, imprisonment in the Vertiujeni and Berlivka camps, postwar Klezmer music, Yiddish theater, Stalinist terror of the 1930s and 1940s, seeking advice from a rebbe, poetry recitation, service in the Red Army, Purim celebrations, Jewish funerals, observance of Yom Kippur, life in a Siberian gulag, Hershl Ostropoler stories, Jewish schools, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, relations with non-Jews, prewar organizations including Hashomer Hatzair and Poale Zion, Jewish cinema, Hasidic life in Moscow during the postwar Soviet period, differences between Polish and Russian Hasidism, folk customs, the Great Famine of 1932-33, evacuation to Rostov. 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.

23. [Moldova, Dubăsari; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2002] (2:04:00)

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.

24. [Moldova, Florești, Peresecina; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2006] (1:02:00)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include anecdotes from work as a teacher, family anecdotes, evacuation to Kazakhstan, life during World War II, childhood memories, prewar Jewish life in Kobylna, life after World War II, life today. 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.

25. [Moldova, Lipcani; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2005] (6:03:52)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Yiddish songs, family anecdotes, life in the Bershad ghetto, prewar Jewish life, childhood memories, holiday celebrations, prewar Hasidic life, food customs, Jewish occupations, cultural terminology, Jewish weddings, Yiddish proverbs, military service, klezmer music. 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.

26. [Moldova, Orhei; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2006] (2:20:11)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include family anecdotes, prewar Jewish life in Susleny, holiday celebrations, food customs, life in a communal apartment, relations with non-Jews, life on a kolkhoz, Jewish weddings, cultural terminology, life during World War II, childhood memories, Yiddish songs, Purim shpiels, imprisonment in the Domanyovka concentration camp, religious life in post-Soviet Moldova, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood. 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.

27. [Moldova, Ribnița; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2002] (4:35:28)

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.

28. [Moldova, Soroca; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2005, 2006] (11:20:13)

Date:
2005
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories of prewar Vadu-Rashkovo, Soroca, and Sguritzy, family members, school education, prewar religious life, occupations, food customs, cultural life, political organizations, Yiddish songs, folk customs, traditional weddings, and holiday celebrations, including Yom Kippur, Succoth, Simkhat Torah, Hanukkah, Purim and Passover, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish in Dumbraveno; life during the Great Hunger in 1932-1933, family life during World War II, deaths of family members, German occupation, forced marches and labor in Bershad, Rîbnita, Bershadskiy Rayon, Rîscani, Yampil, Cosǎuyi, Rublenita, and Vertiujeni; life after the war, postwar German compensation and life today, reponses to questions about cultural terminology and dialectological questions. Includes singing of Yiddish songs and footage of the Soroca 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.

29. [Moldova, Tighina; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Moldovans; Interviews, 2002] (7:05:26)

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.

30. [Nigeria, Ole, Isoko, 1970-1971] (72:52:13)

Date:
1970
Main contributors:
Peek, Philip M.
Summary:
This collection primarily consists of religious oral traditions and interviews; also a trial, a masquerade, festivals, prayers, praise songs, divination sessions; several interviews with carvers, musicians, and a potter. Other musical items include funeral music, war-songs, bawdy songs, women's songs and folk dance music.

31. [Puerto Rico, Utuado, 1914-1915] (11:38:41)

Date:
1914
Main contributors:
Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967.
Summary:
The information presented here about each recording in this collection comes from original documentation by the collector(s). Access to the recordings in this collection has required permission from the American Museum of Natural History with a description of intended use. Patrons should contact atmusic@indiana.edu for assistance in getting further access to these recordings. These are acoustic recordings made on a cylinder phonograph and they are characterized by the relatively low fidelity and high surface noise typical of this format and recordings of this age. Correct playback speed is particularly difficult to ascertain with this format and it has been determined by a variety of factors, but may not be an accurate representation of the original source. Some recordings in this collection may not appear in this interface due to damage that makes them currently unplayable. For more information on damaged recordings, contact the Archives of Traditional Music. The recordings available here are derivatives from stylus-based transfers made in 2018 on the Endpoint Solutions playback machine. Minimal noise reduction and de-clicking have been applied to these derivatives to offer modest improvement to the listening experience without compromising the integrity of the source audio.

32. [Romania, Bihor/Crisana, Oradea; Clug, Cluj-Napoca; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews... (9:10:42)

Date:
2007
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, family, cheder and yeshiva education, prewar religious life in Valumihei, Baia Mare, Cardo, and Sighetu Marmației, prayer houses and occupational structure, prewar Sabbath celebrations, Perim, Passover, and Hanukkah celebrations, childhood games, traditional weddings, Yiddish dialects, prewar cultural life, Yiddish theater, food customs, including gefilte fish, Zionist organizations, life as a communist; life during World War II, fate of family members and friends, Auschwitz, Birkenau c-sector, forced labor in the Mauthausen concentration camp, forced labor as a soldier, life as a POW; life after the war, contemporary Jewish life, history of the region, cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Includes footage of the Oradea synagogue, examples of Purim shpiels, zemirot and jokes. 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.

33. [Romania, Botoșani County, Mihăileni; Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2006, 2007] (2:56:52)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, family, prewar life in Mihăileni, occupational structure among Jews, Jewish life in the region during World War II, prewar Jewish cultural life, particularly theater performances and synagogues, holiday celebrations, in particular Purim and Purim shpiels, local Jewish library, Passover and Sabbath celebrations, food customs, folk and healing customs; Jewish life after the war, life in Mihăileni today, cultural terminology, and responses to dialectological 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.

34. [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.

35. [Romania, Botoșani, Rădăuți; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2006] (7:50:03)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include biographical information, including childhood memories, family members, friends, education at a Talmud Torah school and Romanian school, prewar Jewish life in Botoșani, Sulița, and Chernivtsi, including synagogues and mikvas, bar mitzvahs, prewar Sabbath celebrations at home, food customs, in particular gefilte fish, holiday celebrations, including Purim Shavuot, Hanukkah, Passover, and Sukkoth, visiting the Ștefănești rebbe, prewar organizations, occupational structure, cultural life, sports clubs, and the Zionist youth group Drakh Habonim, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, and traditional weddings, Romanian Yiddish writers, artists, Yiddish songs, and Hasidic life; evacuation during World War II, life in a ghetto from 1941-1944, and forced labor in Tiraspol; life after the war, wedding celebrations, klezmer musicians, healing customs; Jewish life today, recitation of the Four Questions, and responses to cultural terminology and dialectological questions. Collection also includes footage of the Botoșani synagogue, Siret, and the Siret 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.

36. [Romania, Cluj-Napoca; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2007, 2008] (16:11:04)

Date:
2007
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include biographical information, including childhood memories, memories of family members and family life before the war, education in religious schools (cheder), prewar Jewish life in Bogota de Sus, Zorein, Cîmpia Turzii, Cluj-Napoca, Dej, and Satu Mare, prewar cultural life, reading in the Yiddish language, Yiddish dialects, and Yiddish songs, Sabbath zemirot, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, prewar Sabbath celebrations, prayer customs, food customs, in particular gefilte fish, folk and healing customs, holiday celebrations, Purim, Passover, and Hanukkah, traditional weddings; Jewish life in the region during World War II, imprisonment in Nazi camps, including Auschwitz and Geislingen, family member's fate during the war, service in the army, life as forced laborers in various places, including Tighina, Chernivtsi, Orhei, Balti, Balta, Tiraspol, and quarries, Romanian attitudes during the war; life after the war, return to prewar political organizations, including Mizrahi, Hashomer Hatzair, Hasidism and contemporary Jewish life in Hungary and Germany; cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Includes recollections of Purim shpiels and 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.

37. [Romania, Dorohoi; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2007] (7:05:35)

Date:
2007
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories of Dorohoi and Burdușani, family members and family life before the war, education in religious schools, prewar Jewish life in Dorohoi, including synagogues, the Ștefăvești rebbe, role as firzogerin, prewar cultural life, in particular Yiddish theater, Yiddish songs, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, prewar Sabbath celebrations, folk and healing customs, food customs, in particular gefilte fish, burial customs, wedding customs, holiday celebrations, prewar and postwar Purim celebrations, the Dorohoi pogrom of 1940; life during World War II, life in the Mohyliv-Podilskyy and Sharhorod ghettos, family member's fate during the war, forced labor in Tulchyn; contemporary Jewish life in Dorohoi; cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Also includes recollections Yiddish songs and footage of the drive from Mihăileni to Dorohoi, Dorohoi synagogue, and the drive from Dorohoi to Saveni. 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.

38. [Romania, Hîrlău; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2006] (4:16:44)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, family, prewar Jewish life in Podu Iloaiei, and Hîrlau, including Sabbath, Purim, and Passover celebrations, food customs, synagogues in Podu Iloaiei, occupational structure, visiting rebbes in Belcești, Pașcani, Satu Mare, and Ștefănești, prewar education at a cheder, Yiddish-language education, Yiddish literature, and prewar culture; life during World War II, forced labor in the Romanian army, forced labor in Edineț, Brînzeni, Rujnița, Bălți, Halahora de Sus, and Vyzhnytsya, Ukraine, life in a ghetto in the Transnistria region; life and work during the postwar Soviet period; family and life today, religious customs, and responses to questions about cultural terminology. Includes history and footage of the Hîrlău and Rădăuți synagogues, songs, and recitation of Kaddish. 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.

39. [Romania, Iași; Jews, Yiddish-speakers; Romanians, Interviews, 2006] (10:03:48)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include childhood memories, including family, education, prewar Jewish life in Iași, Odobești, Podu Iloaiei, Chernivtsi, Rădăuți, Transnistria, and Bîrlad, occupational structure and Zionist organizations, neighborhoods, market life, folk and healing customs, food customs, including gefilte fish, synagogues, prewar and postwar Jewish and Yiddish culture, particularly theater and musical performances, traditional weddings, holiday celebrations, including Passover, Shavuot, Simchat Torah, Sukkot, Purim, Sabbath celebrations with the local rebbe, prewar Hasidic life, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish; life during World War II, the Iași pogrom in 1941, forced labor in the Romanian army and Sharhorod, work in a quarry, life in the Iași, Ghernivtsi, Mohyliv-Podilskyy, Dzhurin, and Transnistria ghettos, the Red Army, fate of Jews in the region during the war; the postwar Soviet period, postwar Jewish life in Botoșani and Rădăuți, postwar Yiddish language and literature education in Rădăuți, contemporary Jewish life and visitors, cultural terminology and responses to dialectological questions. Includes visits to memorials in Iași, including the Abraham Goldfaden memorial, singing of popular Yiddish songs, and a tour of the former Meransky Synagogue of Iași. 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.

40. [Romania, Luduș, Dej; Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Romanians; Interviews, 2008] (2:29:55)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
Summary:
Interview topics include prewar Jewish life in Luduș and Dej, including occupational structure, family members and family life before and during the war, cheder education, Romanian Jewish school, Talmud Torah school, prewar cultural life in Luduș, including performances by Sidi Tal in Luduș in the early 1930s, non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, prewar holiday celebrations, including Passover, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah and Purim, food customs, including gefilte fish, Tisha B'Av; family's life in the region and Jewish life in general during World War II, life in the Turda ghetto and in forced labor at a stone quarry; postwar religious life in Dej during the Soviet period, contemporary Jewish life in Dej, and responses to questions about cultural terminology. 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.

41. [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.

42. [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.

43. [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.

44. [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.

45. [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.

46. [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.

47. [Senegal, Futa Toro and Dakar, Fulahs, 1968-1969] (73:18:32)

Date:
1968
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
These tapes examine mainly the 19th century history of the Futa Toro. The recordings include more formal traditions, as in discussions with members of the hereditary classes of historians (awlube, ma bube, and wambabe) and more formal memoirs, as in interviews with members of the noble clases (to rodbr, sebbe, jawambe, subalbe). 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. As of April 27, 2022, the following original tapes in this collection have not yet been digitized and will be added to this record at that time: EC 3862, EC 3863, and OT 1863.

48. [Senegal, Kajor, Wolof, 1969] (2:12:24)

Date:
1969
Main contributors:
See Other Contributors
Summary:
This collection is excerpted from a larger one on the oral history of Kajor in the last 100 years of its independence, and "ranges over every political event in 18th and 19th century Kajor," concentrating "on the royal family and families of Marabouts"... "prominent in the late 18th and early 19th centuries." 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. [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.

50. [Somalia, Muqdisho, Afgooye, and elsewhere, 1987] (74:27:23)

Date:
1987
Main contributors:
Johnson, John William, 1942-
Summary:
This collection of Somali poetry includes recitations of a multitude of genre including religious music associated with Ramadan and recreational poetry and songs including churning, pounding, mat-weaving, sheep, goat and cattle-watering, welcoming and children's songs.