Korsun' community members

The group meets community members at Korsun'. They describe it as a large, beautiful Jewish town where about five thousand Jews lived before the war. Today about 130 remain, and many left for Israel, America and Germany.

The transcript gives the prewar and present figures but does not name Rashkovsky as the speaker.

Inside the community center the group is greeted ahead of the Shabbat gathering, with much garbled talk. A gift from Mark/Martin Horowitz (?) is mentioned, and community members say how much they have heard about the visitors and discuss whom to interview, with a wish to hear singing. One member says he does not understand Yiddish. Another asks about family in Israel and America.

The transcript shows a gift from Horowitz (?) and talk of whom to interview; it does not clearly show a conversation in Hebrew.

A man named Groysman, from Tarashcha, is introduced and speaks some Yiddish about his move to Korsun' in the 1950s (?) and later departure. The rest is a tour of the museum of the association of Jewish shtetls. A Russian-speaking guide explains exhibits: old family photographs, famous natives such as the Tverskys of the Chernobyl dynasty, writers including Ivan Kulyk, Shimen Dobin and Itsik Fefer, descendants of Mendel Beilis, and the 1919 Jewish self-defense unit of Korsun' with a saber from Kotovsky's cavalry. Other exhibits are pogrom committee papers, a 1926 Berdychiv prayer book, Yiddish-Russian documents from Jewish village soviets, a Jewish school open from 1924 to 1938, family silver, a gefilte fish mold, a clockmaker's tools, a mezuzah and handwritten calendars. The guide also describes how the museum was assembled with American help after the association was founded in 1993. Kerler asks about scanning and clock terminology, and at the end the guide shows books by Poroshenko and Malka Pen.

Beyond Groysman and the museum, the transcript shows the guide's detailed account of named exhibits (writers, Beilis, self-defense, documents, ritual objects), the 1993 founding of the association, and Kerler's questions on scanning and clock terminology.