Kaplan answers a series of dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish linguistic questionnaire.
Answers questions from Katz in the dialect questionnaire about Yiddish forms. The items include 'tired', 'Jew' versus 'Hebrew', and the plural 'poor people' with its ending. Katz then closes the questionnaire and asks what the speaker wants to tell American Jews.
Kaplan talks about Jewish life today and émigrés in America.
Talks about Jews from Mohyliv who emigrated to America over many years, how they live there, and that many long for home and visit for weeks at a time. He keeps up letters with former colleagues in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Miami. A few emigrants came back because they could not find work, and two returned from Israel. Katz then asks whether he remembers songs from Mohyliv.
Adds that he keeps in touch with former colleagues in America and that two people returned from Israel.
The team speaks with Moysh Bludoy and discusses Yiddish songs. Kaplan then sings a Yiddish song about a tailor.
Katz asks the men present for their names and tries to get a song specifically from Mohyliv in Yiddish. They answer that they do not remember such songs. One man names himself Moyshe, with the surname Bludoy (?). The group then sing a Yiddish song about a tailor, and Katz asks Moyshe to say something about himself.
Adds that the song comes out of the group after repeated requests for a Mohyliv song and that it is a shared song.
Bludoy talks about his family. The team then talks to Moyshe Roznshteyn, Shaya Bortnik, and Leyb Brekhman. Brekhman talks about contemporary Jewish life and his family. Bortnik talks about Hasidism before the war.
The man from Mohyliv talks about his parents and the saying of his mother that a Jew has two things, Torah and wall. Katz then asks several other men their names, which are given as Roznshteyn, Bortnik and Brekhman (?), and asks whether they know Yiddish songs. A man answers about 'poor people' with Russian explanations. Another says Jewish life is better now and there is no hunger; those who were in the ghetto get compensation from Germany while the younger ones suffer. Bortnik tells how Hitler was said to be a Jew's son and about a Moscow paper.
Adds that several other men are introduced one after the other and that the talk covers compensation money and a story about Hitler's descent.
Bortnik talks about life today.
Katz explains the interest of the researchers in folklore. A man talks about the current situation of Jews, with antisemitism, religion and a destroyed cemetery. Kerler and Katz question him; the Yiddish is hard to follow. At the end the interview closes and Kerler addresses an interviewee in Russian.