Conversation about how many Jews in Cluj and Dej still speak Yiddish, and plans for the team's drive to Dej, Bistrița and Gura Vadului(?). A bar mitzvah attended by a visitor from America whose grandfather came from Dej is mentioned, with the synagogue there and the former Jewish population of Dej.
mostly planning the team's route and Yiddish in Dej, with little on the bar mitzvah itself
Talk about Luduș and the Jewish villages around it, and which languages were spoken at home. Some of Kerler's questions are about terms: the Yiddish name of Luduș, a word for cemetery and the names for non-Jews. The speakers explain that Hungarians and Romanians were distinguished in speech.
terminology and language questions, and the Jewish villages near Luduș
Describes Sabbath meals before the war: cholent, kugel and Friday fish, including carp from the river by his birthplace and sweet gefilte fish. Kerler also asks about the tashlikh custom on Rosh Hashanah.
Talks about his family and the Jewish families in the village, with a mother of the Levite line. He explains a custom of a firstborn washing the hands in the absence of a Levite and mentions counting families by tallitot. Kerler also asks about stories told at weddings, involving a wedding jester.
Recalls his sister's wedding in 1946, two years after the war, attended by guests from Cluj and Maramureș. Kerler asks about the wedding jester and a word for him.
Questions put in this conversation
Items of the dialect questionnaire asked here; each link plays the moment.
