Brukhe Moisevna Feldman

Feldman talks about rabbis and about relatives who left for America, including a sister in Brooklyn. She recalls trips to synagogues in Uman', Vinnytsia and Kyiv, and a visit to a rebbe's grave. Lemster and Kerler ask what several words mean (dybbuk, golem, a good Jew, a person who is out of his mind).

The catalogue sentence does not mention the questions about the meanings of dybbuk and golem, or the visit to the rebbe's grave.

Kerler and Lemster ask about singing in the Bershad' ghetto and about a song, and Feldman recalls fragments of it. Other people in the room then ask what it means to be a Jew in Ukraine today. Feldman answers with her relations with a non-Jewish neighbor who brought her food when her arm was broken, and says that she herself eats matzo because she is Jewish.

Also covers a song or singing in the ghetto and matzo as a mark of Jewish identity.

Feldman recalls how matzo was baked in Bershad' in an oven, with women rolling the dough, and says that matzo also came from Israel. She describes the custom of bringing money to the synagogue before Yom Kippur and fasting, and says she did not go to work on Yom Kippur, including in the Soviet period. They discuss who blew the shofar after the old rabbi died and whether the synagogue stayed open.

Lemster explains that the interviewers want history, not the present, and Kerler then begins the dialectological questionnaire. Feldman is asked how to say thank you, please, ceiling, mouse, window glass, potatoes, colors, a house of one's own, cold, mountain, grandmother or midwife, cross, believe, honest and other items, some with Russian prompts. She often answers with Russian or Ukrainian-influenced forms and the interviewers correct her.

Most of the passage is questionnaire work, beginning at about 13:00.

Kerler thanks Feldman and closes the interview.