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Binyomin Miller

Cluj-Napoca 6 June 2008 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler 6 min · 1 part on 1 tape proposed
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  1. MDV 251 0:00–5:32 · 6 min · archive.org · a part of the tape
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They chat informally and talk about contemporary Jewish life.

Informal life today Life today MDV 251 · MCO
From the machine transcript

Informal chat among the participants, with practical arrangements about taking Yiddish booklets, addresses and a telephone number. Someone mentions travelling to a town (name unclear, possibly Dornavatra (?)) where the Vizhnitz rebbe used to come. Kerler relates meeting a German-speaking Jewish woman who dismissed his questions about folk customs such as quenching coals, and the others say they knew that custom too.

The transcript shows talk of the Vizhnitz rebbe, a folk custom with coals and a German-speaking woman, not only chat about contemporary Jewish life.

3:46

Miller chants hasidic nigunim.

From the machine transcript

A few words of chanting or nigun-like singing with Hebrew phrases are heard, but the transcript is too thin to say who sings or what is sung.

The words are mostly unclear, so the attribution to Miller is not confirmed.