Betti (Brane) Cojocaru

The interviewers greet Cojocaru in front of her home and say they come with greetings from Tuva and Yankl. Kerler explains that they are collecting Yiddish interviews about Jewish life in earlier times. She says that she has forgotten much, but that a little can be recorded, and that she was born in Dorohoi.

The formal interview with Cojocaru begins. She says there are few Jews left, mentions a grandchild in Warsaw who does not know Yiddish, and says she has lived in Săveni for thirty-four years. The interviewers ask her year of birth, and she says she was born in Dorohoi (the year is unclear in the transcript).

Cojocaru answers dialectological questions. The items include phrases for 'very sick', words for 'honest' and 'ladder', the Yiddish for a peasant, and the question 'where are you from'. They also cover 'come here' and 'go there', numerals, and a paradigm of 'to be right' with the pronouns.

Cojocaru addresses the evil eye, saying she does not believe in it but remembers that children were treated for it and that old women knew how to charm it away. Kerler and Lemster then continue the questionnaire with words for potatoes and flowers, the word 'anderthalb' (one and a half), 'other' and 'three persons', and the answers 'yes' and 'no'. She also says that only Jews lived on the street.

adds her remarks on the street where only Jews lived and on the evil-eye remedies