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Bakmayev; Mendel Idlovich Trachtenberg

Novoselytsya 7 June 2009 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Margot Valles 24 min · 1 part on 1 tape
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  1. MDV 362 0:00–24:15 · 24 min · not online — MCO
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Walking tour of Novoselytsya in which a local man points out former Jewish houses, a street once lived on, and a building that was a synagogue and later a sports hall, with Kerler asking when Jews settled in the town. There is talk about a non-Jew who keeps the Sabbath and considers himself a Jew, and about a Jewish school and soup kitchen. The group enters the building and discusses its decay and what restoration would cost, with figures for the town's Jewish families and students. The informant recalls the tailors' synagogue, the shoemakers' prayer rooms and small klayzlekh, and his father attending synagogue, before talk of the team's onward route by van.