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Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include life during and after World War II, childhood memories, life in the Efingar Jewish agricultural colony, Jewish holidays and food customs, life on a kolkhoz, prewar cultural life, cinema and theater, prewar religious life, farming life, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, Jewish weddings on the kolkhoz, cultural terminology, antisemitism, service in the Red Army. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.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 childhood memories, life in Balta during World War II, life in the Balta ghetto, Jewish holidays, life after World War II, food customs,Yiddish songs, Jewish weddings, relations with non-Jews, Purim celebrations, folk customs and anecdotes, Yiddish education, Yiddish journals, Yiddish language acquisition, discussions of cultural terminology and prewar religious customs,Yiddish theater, the Great Famine of 1933, circumcision customs, evacuation during World War II, life on a kolkhoz, cleaning work, working in confectionery, accounting, and export, kosher butchery, work in a coal factory, antisemitism in the army, contemporary Jewish life in Balta. 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.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 childhood memories, Yiddish language, Yiddish songs, life during and after World War II, holiday traditions, 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 Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include life during World War II, childhood memories, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood, prewar Jewish life in Odesa, post-World War II politics, prewar Jewish life in Crimea, postwar Jewish politics regarding Crimea, Stalin's politics, education, Yiddish and Jewish literature, contemporary Jewish life and music, Yiddish culture after World War II, work as a klezmer musician, Jewish weddings, Jewish agricultural colonies, Jewish communists, Yiddish dialects, cultural terminology, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, the Great Famine of 1932-33, holiday celebrations, Yiddish theater, food customs, gefilte fish, Jewish slaughter customs, tour of an Odesa orphanage, contemporary Yiddish press, life under Soviet occupation, tour of the Odesa yeshiva, working on a kolkhoz, postwar antisemitism, Jews in the Red Army, 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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include family life before World War II in Yanoshpol, life in Khmilʹnyk after the war, childhood memories, learning Yiddish as a child, food customs, religious customs, Jewish weddings, dialectology, celebrating Jewish holidays, evacuation during the war, the Petlurists, education and Yiddish literature, Yiddish poetry, Jewish partisans, life in the ghetto during World War II, synagogues in Khmilʹnyk, visiting Israel, family and prewar celebration of Shabbat. 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 post-Soviet Jews in the Ukraine, Jewish emigration from their birth country, Jewish Sunday School, service in the Soviet army, learning Yiddish, Yiddish songs, anti-Semitism in the army, Yiddish sociolinguistics and dialectology, Pechera camp, war refugees, discrimination against women in Jewish religious tradition, Jewish wedding customs, traditional Jewish foods, Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy Jewish cemetery, emigration to the US during Tsarist regime, Soviet Yiddish education, traditional religious life, Jewish recipes, making gefilte fish, synagogues, prewar Jewish entertainment, holiday customs, circumcision, Sabbath customs, contemporary war memorials and ceremonies, post-war Jewish life, pre-war traditional Jewish foodways, Yiddish theater, folk remedies, escape from Pechera. 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 Jewish religious holidays, praying in synagogue, tsadikim, ghetto life, Ukrainians helping Jews, Hershele Ostropolyer story, memories of Passover, matzo kugels, bagels, dialectical questions, linguistical questions, life in Israel, Yiddish education, surviving the war years, prayer books, Bratslav cemetery, Pechera camp, Jews not killed during the war, celebrating Sabbath, traditional foods, yoykh, gefilte fish, cholent, Yiddish accents, Romanian Jews, post-Soviet society, Jewish emigration from the USSR, reading religious texts, non-Jews speaking Yiddish, praying in private homes, blessings before meals, Russian schools, telling jokes, Russian songs, local tsadiks, Yiddish theater 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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include Yiddish songs, education, holiday celebrations, religious books, Yiddish writers, prewar Jewish culture in Shpykiv, imprisonment in the Pechera concentration camp, prewar antisemitism, dialectological discussion, food customs, contemporary life and antisemitism, Passover celebrations, tour of the historical Jewish neighborhood, burial rites, recipes (gefilte fish, vareniki). 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 hat terminology, Yiddish school, appearance of electricity, klezmers, musicians, wedding customs, Jewish folk remedies, famine, synagogues, prewar religious life, closure of Yiddish schools and synagogues, food customs and recipes for buckwheat dumplings, gefilte fish, Sukkot, Jewish religious life, dialectological questions, food customs, family life, prewar childhood memories, social and work life at the kolhoz, American Jewish organization Agro-Joint, forced labor, help from non-Jews, youth in Crimea, Soviet Yiddish songs, Yiddish writers, Passover customs, latkes, Jewish foodways, Lunacharka kolhoz, Russian converts to Judaism, fluency of Yiddish, gefilte fish, Jewish funeral customs, intermarriage, establishment of ghettos, food and assistance obtained by rich Romanian Jews, survival tactics, eating practices of chicken, kosher meat, sickness and healing. 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 life before World War II, family anecdotes, childhood memories, prewar religious life, education, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, food customs, Yiddish proverbs and idioms, folk customs, Sabbath celebrations, Jewish weddings, holiday traditions, the Tomashpolʹ ghetto, views on contemporary issues in Ukraine, folk remedies, Yiddish songs, Yiddish theater, the Great Famine of 1932-33. 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 Pechera concentration camp and its memorialization and current state, Jewish food, Jewish holiday customs and celebrations, dialectological questions, Jewish community and life before World War II, cultural life, ghetto life during the Romanian and German occupation, religious practices after the war, Yiddish speakers, service in the Red Army, liberation of Berlin, Yiddish songs, concentration camp experiences, daily life in Pechera, war experiences during the German and Romanian occupation, agricultural life, pogroms, dialectological questions, practicing present-day Judaism, observing religious practices in Soviet postwar period, Jewish mysticism, Great Hunger of 1933, working conditions during Soviet times, gefilte fish recipes, special food for the Sabbath and Jewish holidays, Bershad' ghetto, escape from Bershad' ghetto, Jewish pre-war education, circumcision, chauffeur occupation during and after the war, Jews as Soviet party leaders, Jewish wedding customs, Jewish ritual slaughterer, Tomashpol' ghetto, war memories, student life before the war, Jewish anecdotes, making a mezuzah from tin, poverty before the war, soap making and candy making before the war, wartime shootings and murders, synagogues, pre-war barber and tailor occupations, childhood memories, wartime memories of Finland, family life today, Jewish recipes. 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 memories of Jewish holidays, the Sabbath, childhood years, Yiddish poetry, poverty, dialectological information, the town of Permovaysk, Jewish relations with non-Jews, speaking Yiddish regardless of ethnicity, gefilte fish, Hanukkah customs, Yiddish songs, Jewish homes of Sharhorod. 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 Yiddish songs, food preparation, childhood memories, Jewish education, service in the Red Army, life in the Kopayhorod ghetto, family anecdotes, the Great Famine of 1932-33, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, prayer traditions, drinking customs, religious practice in the late 1930s and under Romanian occupation, Jewish culture in Zhmerynka, choral performance, prewar Jewish life in Krasnoye, holiday celebrations, Jewish weddings, life in a ghetto, Yiddish books and press, Sabbath food customs, relations with non-Jews, contemporary life, tour of Jewish Shahorod, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, koshering meat, life during Romanian occupation, postwar religious life, kosher butchery, Jewish professions, antisemitism, folk customs. 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 linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, childhood memories, religious education, evacuation during World War II, prewar Jewish life in Holoby, prewar Jewish life, holiday traditions, Yiddish songs, cultural terminology, prewar conversion of non-Jews, cultural organizations, Yiddish writers, food customs. 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 life during World War II, escape from the Pechera concentration camp, religious life before the war, matzoh factory, Jewish recipes, gefilte fish, family life, childhood memories, Jewish food customs, learning Yiddish, bath houses, holiday celebrations, youth movements, religious education, Jewish professions before the war, dialectology and terminology, Jewish weddings, Jewish medical habits, life during the Nazi occupation, hiding from the Nazis, Russian partisans, serving as an Army nurse, ambitions to live in Israel, Jewish funerals, Polish schools, Sabbath celebrations, Purim celebrations, childhood memories, origins of Yiddish names, prewar political organizations, memorialization of Jewish mass graves, Drokhenbroyt, Jewish circumcisions, Jewish buildings in Luts'k, 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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include life during and after World War II, imprisonment in Auschwitz concentration camp, military service, prewar Jewish life in Vynohradiv, Purim shpiels, education in Vynohradiv, contemporary Jewish weddings and religious life, Yiddish songs, antisemitism, religious and holiday customs, Yiddish blessings, wedding entertainers, relations with non-Jews, food customs, imprisonment in Buchenwald and Mauthausen concentration camps, linguistic and dialectological questions about the Yiddish language, prewar Jewish life in Berehove, family anecdotes, cultural terminology, life on a kolkhoz. 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 childhood memories, religious education, holiday food customs, Sabbath songs, life after World War II, Jewish prayers, prewar Jewish life, military service, imprisonment in Auschwitz, Monowitz, and Buchenwald concentration camps, death march from Monowitz camp, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, Yiddish songs, contemporary religious life, demonstrations against the closure of the synagogue in Khust, tour of the former Jewish neighborhood in Khust. 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 religious life before and after World War II, Jewish prayers, Hungarian occupation during World War II, relations with non-Jews, deportation and imprisonment during World War II, Purim celebrations and shpiels, religious education, contemporary religious life, photographs of prewar religious events, the wedding and funeral of Eluzer Spira, the wedding of Eluzer Spira's daughter Frume, food customs, imprisonment in the Vorkuta gulag, prewar Sabbath celebrations, Zionist organizations, tour of the Jewish cemetery, folk remedies, Hasidic anecdotes and jokes, Yiddish literature, Yiddish songs, service in the Hungarian military, imprisonment in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and Gunskirchen labor camp, prewar occupations and political organizations, cultural terminology, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, reparation payments. 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 tour of the prewar Jewish neighborhood in Svalyava, prayers, Yiddish songs, holiday celebration, prewar religious life, food customs, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, prewar Sabbath celebrations, folk customs, Jewish weddings, 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.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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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.
Indiana University. Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.
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Interview topics include the Jewish town of Orhei in Moldova, Jewish education, Jewish religious and cultural life, Jewish weddings, childhood memories, food customs, celebrating Jewish holidays, dialectological and linguistic questions about the Yiddish language, discussion of prewar Jewish religious life, Yiddish theater songs, serving in the Red Army during World War II, Jewish religious schooling, slaughtering chickens in accordance with Jewish ritual, reciting prayers, imprisonment by Stalin in 1937, family life, long lines for seltzer water, the Great Famine of 1933, working for museums, work in photography, anti-Jewish school plays, Tzadik Levi Yitskhak, conversions to Judaism, liberation of Berlin in 1945, traditional Jewish recipes, synagogue construction, Hasidic anecdotes, Russian Hasidim, current events in the Jewish community, Yiddish theater, Yiddish songs, discussion of non-Jews participating in Jewish life, relations with non-Jews, non-Jews speaking Yiddish, Polish schools, refugees from Poland, evacuation to Uzbekistan, life in the Bershad ghetto, memorialization of the ghetto, anti-Semitism in the Red Army, escape from the Germans during World War II, making Matzos in the synagogue, working for the NKVD, history and conditions of the concentration camp at Pechera, collective farming during the Great Famine, tour of the town of Novosolets, serving in the Red Army in Latvia. 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 learning Yiddish, Yiddish schooling, Jews from Polesskoye, music at traditional weddings, conversion to Judaism, life during evacuation, linguistic data, Yeshiva today, Voleniker Tsaddik, family life, music profession, Jewish anecdotes, Jewish life today, Yiddish songs, work as a military doctor, childhood memories, Bar Mitzvah, reciting the Torah, synagogues, Sabbath celebrations before the war, Passover celebrations, life during military service, Jewish holidays, food customs, Sukkoth, Purim, Simchat Torah, escaping from the ghetto in Minsk, Yiddish literary figures, theatrical plays, military service, Russian schools, baking matzos, Lubavicher Hasidim, and Yiddish spoken by Litvakes. 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.
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Interview topics include linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, childhood memories, Yiddish school, Sabbath celebrations, food customs, non-Jewish Yiddish speakers, prewar Passover celebrations, postwar religious life, the Volednicker tzaddik, religious songs, religious education, Jewish prayers, relations with non-Jews, religious services, prewar Hasidim, life during World War II, prewar antisemitism, Yiddish theater, Yiddish writers and books, cultural terminology, evacuation during World War II, proverbs, cemetary customs, saying Kaddish, kosher customs. 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 Jewish weddings, linguistic and dialectological discussion of the Yiddish language, prewar Jewish life, contemporary Jewish life, Yiddish press, religion in the Soviet era, Yiddish songs, military service, religious education, childhood memories, family anecdotes, the Great Famine and life in the 1930s, holiday traditions, food customs, Yiddish proverbs, prewar antisemitism, life before and during World War II, cultural terminology, childhood games, emigrating to Ukraine from Israel, wartime evacuation to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, wartime refugees, tour of Berdychiv synagogue, pogroms in the 1920s, Hasidism, Zionism, Yiddish literature, Purim shpiels, Polish songs, etymology of Jewish names, local geography, non-Jewish Yiddish and Hebrew speakers, life on a kolkhoz, underground yeshiva in Berdychiv, Sabbath celebration, postwar army service, Hershele Ostropoler stories. 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.
Discussion of the George Herzog collections at the Archives of Traditional Music, of early ethnomusicologists and the development of the field, and biographical information on Herzog. 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.
Two lectures given by Nigerian composer and ethnomusicologist Akin Euba on traditional and modern Nigerian music. 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.
Performances of traditional music derived from the cultural traditions of the Akan and Ga people within various regions in Ghana. Includes a Kete song that is a traditional part of the regalia of Akan royalty, and an example of an Otofo puberty song, Sa yo le, of the Ga-Adagme of Ghana. Songs in the latter style are often heard at graduation ceremonies, including those at boarding schools. Song presentations were based on Haas's work with her Ghanaian teacher, Sowah Mensah.
Audio and video recording of a roundtable discussion on music in Bloomington includes biographical and background information on Grey Larsen and Lee Williams, the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, WFHB radio station, the local Irish music scene, and local perceptions of world, folk, and traditional music. Audience members participate during the event through questions and discussion.
Vocal and instrumental performances of Kalevalan and Karelian folk music. Instrumentation includes kantele (harp), jouhikko (bowed string instrument), pilli (birch bark flute), tuohi (wooden trumpet), Russian horse bells, two-button accordian, mandalin, Estonian bagpipe, and bass. 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.
This is a performance of erhu music and Kun-Wu sword dancing. It includes discussions about the erhu and other Chinese stringed instruments, Chinese musical scores, the five-tone scale, and composer Liu Tien-Hua, as well as questions from audience members.. 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.
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.
Presentation about the İlhan Başgöz collection (ATM accession number 93-114-F) which contains Turkish folk music, Alevi music, riddles, and folk stories. The moderated discussion is focused on Başgöz's fieldwork experiences and memories with his interlocutors, and Başgöz discusses interesting examples that shows how he navigated fieldwork projects during the early years of his career.
"Future Directions in Ethnomusicology" panel discussion. 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.
Sones de México performs traditional Mexican music. 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.
"Corridos from the Mexican Revolution" (presented by Juan Díes). 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.
The information presented in this online record about each recording in this collection comes from original documentation by the collector. This collection of historical material may contain material that will be offensive to some listeners. Patrons should contact atmusic@indiana.edu for assistance in getting further access to these recordings and its documentation. Due to the nature of the original source recordings, audio fidelity is low. Information about each recording comes from the original documentation unless the information is in brackets which means it was supplied by Archives of Traditional Music staff for the sake of clarification.
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. The original recordings in this collection are held at the Archive of American Folklife in the Library of Congress.
The information presented here about each recording in this collection comes from original documentation by the collector. This collection of historical material may contain material that will be offensive to some listeners. Patrons should contact atmusic@indiana.edu for assistance in getting further access to these recordings.
A large collection of Anglo-American songs including ballads, Child ballads, children's game songs, play-party songs, bawdy songs, sea shanties, sailor's songs, local songs, historical songs, Civil and Revolutionary war songs, raftman's songs, lumbering and hauling songs, railroad songs, wainwright's songs, and white spirituals.
The information presented here about each recording in this collection comes from original documentation by the collector/depositor, Herbert Halpert. Additions by archival staff for clarity are framed in brackets [ ]. The Archives of Traditional Music makes these recordings available for historical and cultural research and users should be aware that any archival collection may contain material that they find offensive.
Gullah speech and song from the Sea Islands. 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.
Begins with a footage taken on the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride. Shows Liberty Square in the Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World. Briefly shows people in colonial dress, including a man playing a drum, and inside the Hall of Presidents.
Edward R. Feil, George Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Harold S. Feil, Nellie Feil
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Home movie of the Feil family outdoors posing for the camera. Ed is in his army uniform. Nellie picks tomatoes from the garden and Mary tries to juggle them. George, Mary, and friends then drive away. Ends with a brief shot taken from an airplane window.
Edward R. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, Herman Hellerstein, George Feil
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Begins in Columbus, Ohio, showing Gilbert's Shoes and LeVeque Tower. A group of people, including Herman and Mary, picnic alongside an unknown body of water before canoeing. The film then shows Ed and George on a trip to Madison, showing Bascom Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin State Capitol building. The brothers take a bike ride down US Route 18.
Footage shows brief shots of an airplane runway and filming from inside of a moving train as it passes through a desert landscape. Exact location unknown.
Footage of the Feil family at Greenfield Village, Michigan. Shows shaky footage of trains and families outside the Smith's Creek depot. The family then rides a train through Greenfield Village.
Edward R. Feil, George Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein
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Film documents a car trip out West with visuals showing the car's location on a map. Destinations include Yosemite National Park, Mission San Juan, Hoover Dam, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, the Grand Canyon, and the Painted Desert.
Exterior of Cleveland airport. Shows aerial footage taken inside the plane. Two men in suits and glasses - one older, with a hat and cigar and one younger. Cut to a wedding (?) and footage taken in Mexico, including an outdoor market, parade, and a waterway with canoes where people are transporting goods. Brief shots of the landscape, cacti, and parrots. Ends with more footage taken over plane wings.
Home movie showing brief shots of the exterior of the Harold Feil home and dark footage of flowers and a wedding cake (possibly from Mary's wedding to Herman). The camera then shows off the interior of a house, including a collection of silver and items in the living room and dining room. Shows of men lounging and sunbathing by a pool. Ends with scenes of a Columbia-Yale football game and shots of the Yale campus.
Home movie footage of France during Ed Feil's military service circa 1946. Shows men in uniform walking in the street with the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel visible in the background. Also has footage of the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and Unknown Soldier memorial.
Travelogue showing a visit to Los Angeles. Shows a sign for La Casita Del Arroyo in Pasadena as well as a Wilshire Pl street sign. There is also footage of a boat in the water and people on board the boat.
Begins with scenes of a garden, a large evergreen tree, and flowers in a front yard. Child's handwriting on a sign reading "The End", some illegible writing, then "Joe". Shots of an unknown boy and Tiger.
Edward R. Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, George Feil, Nellie Feil, Harold S. Feil
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Travelogue compilation that begins in Belen, New Mexico. Shows footage of a desert landscape with mountains in the distance taken from a moving train. Back in Cleveland, Mary walks with friends in the garden at the Harold Feil home. Ends with the family visiting Hunting Valley, Ohio. Harold and Nellie visit with another couple, Ed and a friend ride bikes.
Footage is very dark (nearly opaque) and shaky. Shows Eddie and a friend (possibly Robbie Cohen) playing Twister in the living room of the Feil home. Also shows a film being projected on the wall.
Home movie of Ed and George in New York. Extensive footage taken while riding the New York Central Railroad. Scenes of a park and the Chrysler building.
Edward R. Feil, Herman Hellerstein, Harold S. Feil, Nellie Feil, Mary Feil Hellerstein, George Feil
Summary:
Home movie of two football games (one is the Yale Bowl, Yale vs. Dartmouth) taken from the stands. Students tear down the goalposts at the end of the first game. Shows Ed's friends walking in a park and along the water. Back in Cleveland, Mary and Nellie cook a meal for the family at the Harold Feil home.
Edward R. Feil, Edward G. Feil, Ken Feil, Naomi Feil
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Ed and Naomi filming the boys watching TV and eating candy. It looks like a rehearsed scene, with the same actions being repeated: Kenny puts sour lemon juice on Eddie's candy and then they roughhouse. In each take, the scene is shot from different angles. The boys then play in the living room and the family dog, Tiger, joins in.
