Hershel Ylyevich Vider

Vider shows photographs and documents. They include a picture connected to the ghetto in Mukacheve, a wedding, a Jewish school class in the 1930s, and a rabbi's funeral. He then shows newspapers and a certificate of merit from a Hasidic or Jewish communal fund. He mentions a person with a telephone number to contact, who knows several languages. The speech is partly garbled.

The transcript shows newspapers and a certificate, and a telephone contact he suggests for the interviewers.

Vider tells of his return from Vorkuta. He was at first refused entry to Mukacheve and sent to Nadvirna, where he had earlier been in prison. On reaching home he found no parents or relatives and stayed with an acquaintance who had fought in Spain. He took various jobs and worked for twenty-three years at the mineral water factory, but could not become director without a party card. He mentions marrying in 1949 and his late wife. Kerler then asks about words for Romanians and Gypsies.

Besides the return, the transcript shows his marriage and a closing questionnaire detour about ethnic terms.

Kerler puts Russian questionnaire items and Vider gives Yiddish equivalents. They cover thanks, the cat and mouse, the belly, stone buildings and masons, sour cabbage, hearing and deafness, kissing, comparatives, near and far, being ill, sleepy, honest and observant, and words for Christians and non-Jews. Vider says a non-Jewish girl carried the Sabbath cholent to the bakery and brought it home. He also gives numbers and the pronoun forms in "you are right", with a story of a rabbi.

The transcript adds a rabbi's anecdote, birth year and numbers.

Continuation of the dialectological questionnaire with Vider, with Kerler asking and Katz adding. The items include words for praying, painting oneself and a midwife, the taste of an apple, going on the street, potatoes, flowers and shops, the difference between a shop and a business, and verbs for digging. Other items cover words for people (rich man, strong man), the dreidel and Purim noisemaker, a prepositional phrase to translate, and expressions for 'probably' and 'return'. Vider says he has not spoken Yiddish for sixty years.

Many items covered, including lexical choice, grammatical forms and his own comments on how he has used Yiddish.

Vider tells a joke at the expense of the Jews of Berehove, whom the Mukacheve Jews considered foolish, about carrying stones up and down a hill. He explains the difference between a shul and a besmedresh and the small kloyz and shtibl prayer houses of Mukacheve. He talks about Hasidic groups, Zionists and the Jewish street today, saying he is an honest Zionist and works for the Hesed and the community. Kerler then asks about people in Berehove and more stories, and Vider reads out items from the internet. The segment ends with talk about wild blueberries, coffee and Russian-language anecdotes about Mussolini and the 1944 front.

Beyond the Berehove anecdote and synagogue distinction, it covers Hasidim, Zionism, his community work, internet reading and a wartime coffee story.

Camera footage in Mukacheve showing the building where Vider's cheder was and the house where he was born, on the former Jewish street. Vider and Kerler talk about the age of the building and its inscription.