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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.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