Marina Mikhailovna Shraybman

At Shraybman's home the group discusses the date and her husband Yekhiel Shraybman's study with his books and portraits. She says she hopes the room will become a small museum. She speaks of his love of Soviet Yiddish writers and his dream, while still in Romania, of becoming a Soviet Yiddish writer. The question of where his papers and archive should go is raised, and she mentions letters sent to the Holocaust museum in Washington.

Beyond the clippings and the husband's work, the passage covers the study as a future museum and the fate of his archive.

Shraybman recounts how she met her husband, apparently in Hungary, and that she, a Russian from near Chelyabinsk, had never heard Yiddish before. She says he was much older and lived to ninety-six, working almost to the end, and mentions the number of books he published and translations of them. She describes learning Yiddish from him and from his relatives, and the discussion touches on another woman's Yiddish studied with teachers.

The catalogue gives 1969 for the meeting, which is not clearly heard in the transcript.

Shraybman shows manuscripts and items connected with the writer Moyshe Altman, including miniatures he wrote and a piece on Y. L. Peretz. She also mentions that he wrote at the end of his life and spoke about other writers at the Yiddish center. The interviewers ask questions and there is a short exchange about the dog.

The transcript also shows the Yiddish center's meetings and the Sandler seminar.

Shraybman talks about the pictures on the wall and exhibitions. The interviewers mention a phone number and photographs of writers and ask about America. The passage is brief and fragmentary.