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Minuca (Mishke) Grinberg

Rădăuți 29 May 2006 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Moisei Lemster 24 min · 1 part on 1 tape proposed
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  1. MDV 230 0:00–23:51 · 24 min · archive.org · a part of the tape
Passages

0:00

Grinberg talks about life today, while they are headed to her mother's, Minuca Grinberg, apartment.

life today Life today MDV 230 · MCO
From the machine transcript

Informal talk on the street and on the way to Minuca Grinberg's flat. The speakers tell an anecdote about parking a car at a bank, talk about the date and the microphone, and compare Romania and Jerusalem. They touch on God and on Purim balls. Much of the talk is hard to follow in the transcript.

Mostly chat about parking, the microphone and the team, not Grinberg's life today.

7:36

The formal part of the interview with Minuca Grinberg begins. She provides personal information.

From the machine transcript

Kerler begins the formal interview and asks Grinberg for her name and how it is spelled.

9:21

Grinberg chats with the team.

Informal MDV 230 · MCO
From the machine transcript

Informal chat with the team about languages, Romanian and Yiddish, and who came with the group. They ask the speaker's family name.

11:09

The camera collects town footage of Rădăuţi. Tania Grinberg takes the team to the community center and gives a tour of the museum.

FootageTour MDV 230 · MCO
From the machine transcript

Footage in Rădăuți and a visit to the community museum. Grinberg shows items from her parents' home, including a megillah, her father's tallis, shofars and Hanukkah lamps. She says her parents were pious and that this made the museum possible.

The tour is led by Grinberg and the objects come from her parents' home.

15:24

Grinberg recites poetry Yiddish and Romanian. She then addresses dialectological matters.

From the machine transcript

Grinberg recites a Romanian poem and part of its Yiddish version, about a young woman waiting for her husband from the war and a son at his mother's door. She then answers questions on words she used as a code so non-Jews could not understand, naming a few such words.

Recited in Romanian and Yiddish, followed by words of code speech.

19:04

The camera collects town footage of Rădăuţi.

Footage MDV 230 · MCO
From the machine transcript

Short footage and chat, with a remark on how Yiddish speakers refer to the town's Jews and to non-Jews so that outsiders do not understand, followed by thanks.

19:47

The team arranges the formal interview with Meir Solomon. They chat informally.

Informal MDV 230 · MCO
From the machine transcript

Informal chat with a man, probably Solomon Meir, about his age, Russian at school and Romanian and about relatives in Israel and Canada. The team talks about setting up further interviews.

Mostly chat about languages and age rather than arrangements with Meir only.

Questions put in this conversation

Items of the dialect questionnaire asked here; each link plays the moment.