Boris Abramovich Dorfman

Dorfman answers a long run of dialectological questions, with Kerler and Katz giving Russian words and sentences to render into Yiddish. The items cover colours of clothing, birds, adjectives, degrees of distance and height, a few words about the house and village, and translation of short sentences. Later he talks about his father, who prayed and put on tefillin at home on weekdays because of work and went to the big synagogue only on festivals. He explains that the synagogue burned down in 1936 or 1937 (the year is uncertain) in a fire that started when a non-Jew was singeing a pig, and the group discusses dialect words and local terms for Litvaks and for the Belarusian border area.

Besides the questionnaire, it includes his father's observance and the synagogue fire, and talk about Litvaks and the Belarusian border area.

After the interview with Dorfman, the team greets Feldman and sets up the recording in his home. He gives his name and birth year, and says he was born in the village of Yanova Rudnya, about 20 km from Ovruch. He talks about his father, who leased a mill and farm from a landowner and was killed in 1919, and about his mother, sisters and five brothers who went to America. He tells of his melamedim and the Velednik tsadik, whom his father followed. He recalls his father's Sabbath tunes, studying and teaching at cheder in Luhyny, and recites prayers (kabbalat shabbat, kaddish, kiddush); the transcript is garbled for most of this. He also remembers Christian farmers in his village and begins to speak about Rosh Hashanah.

The transcript adds Feldman's siblings and where they ended up, his mother's name, his later teaching of children in Luhyny, and a side note on his failing eyesight.