The first part of the tape includes town footage of Chernivtsi on the way to the next interview with Iosif Kunovich Burg. The camera records town footage of Chernivtsi.
Town footage of Chernivtsi with music and fragmentary Yiddish and Russian speech, mostly unintelligible in the transcript. Kerler seems to say something about a small gift or book.
The speech is garbled; only Kerler's remarks are identifiable, and nothing is clear about the town itself.
The team arrives at Burg’s apartment and sets up the formal interview with him.
The team arrives at Burg's apartment and is let in by a woman who speaks Russian. Kerler greets the household, presents flowers and mentions the birthday. The talk, mostly Russian, is partly garbled, with repeated questions and a call to ring a relative.
Greetings, flowers and Russian talk with the woman of the house are shown, rather than the setting up of the interview.
Burg talks the official celebration with the mayor of Chernivtsi of Burg’s 95th birthday the day before. He then talks about contemporary Jewish life and recalls a phone conversation with another well-known Yiddish writer, Itche Goldberg. The conversation is briefly interrupted by a phone call Burg conducts in German.
Burg speaks of his health and the official visit the previous day by the governor, the mayor and others, which tired him. Kerler and Lemster talk with him about Yiddish writers and other contacts: an Austrian writer, Kerler's book of poems, Moyshe Leyb (?), Felix Mitterer (?) and the Vienna conference, and Kleiman (?) as the one person who reads to him. They discuss the death at 103 of an old writer, a phone call to Itche Goldberg in New York, and Burg's illness and the cost of medicine and doctors. A phone call in German interrupts, and Burg says he cannot give a long interview.
Adds the visit by officials, the Vienna conference plans and Burg's health and costs, and Lemster's questions about the community.
Burg addresses Yiddish-learning students and the team concludes the interview.
Asked by Kerler what he would say to students of Yiddish, Burg says he wants Yiddish to spread, with more readers and new Yiddish writers. He calls himself the last Yiddish writer in Chernivtsi and Ukraine. The talk turns to the verbs for 'trying' and to farewells, and the team takes photographs with him.
Adds a short discussion of Yiddish verbs for trying and photographs with Burg.