Shveibish discusses the contemporary community and living situation. She then addresses activities of the community.
Shveibish talks about her current living situation, including a flat and a room in Tul'chyn, and the cost of medicines and prices. She mentions how people on small pensions are helped by the community and by money and clothing sent from Vinnytsia.
adds the high price of medicines and aid for pensioners
Shveibish talks about visitors from abroad. She then addresses the cleaning of the Tulchyn Jewish cemetery for which she received help from Uman. Shveibish then talks about the activities of the community and the commemoration of the victims, imprisoned in the Pechera concentration camp.
Shveibish speaks about visitors, including a group from Petersburg who talked with her husband, and about restoring the Jewish cemetery with help from Uman. She describes the sites near Pechera and the memorial there, and the difficulty of visiting them in rain. She also discusses people who left, an American landsman, and the local name for Bila Tserkva.
adds the Petersburg visitors and the talk about emigrants and sites
Shveibish discusses contemporary communities of the region, as well as the relationship between the Tulchyn community and other communities.
Shveibish talks about the synagogue gabbai and about the Tul'chyn community's relations with Zhytomyr and with Vinnytsia. She discusses what the larger communities send, such as help at Purim and Passover, and the money collected for the Tul'chyn community. Lemster then asks who the Yiddish speakers in the area are, and she begins to name some.
adds the dealings with the Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia communities
Shveibish speaks about the Tulchyn community and provides short biographical information.
Shveibish gives biographical details about local Yiddish speakers, including a woman who was in the camp at Bratslav and then at Pechera and lost her family there. Kerler asks about researchers who wrote about Pechera and about the Petersburg group's Yiddish programme. She notes how few Jews remain compared with the thousands before.
adds the Pechera survivor and the Petersburg Yiddish programme
Shveibish talks about postwar and contemporary Jewish life in Tulchyn. She also addresses her traditional wedding in 1958, as well as postwar religious life in Tulchyn. Shveibish states that families would travel to Bratslav for their sons' circumcision. She then returns to postwar traditional wedding celebrations, including food customs.
Shveibish says how many Jews remained in Tul'chyn after the war and describes her own wedding in 1958, which had music, a shochet and a rabbi but no huppah. Kerler and Lemster ask about wedding customs. She answers about the gifts called makhes (money-giving, with dancing), the in-law sides, the person who led the celebration, and the plain wedding gift.
adds the makhes custom and the questions about how the wedding was run
Shveibish speaks about her life after the war and wedding celebration. She then speaks about her work in the community, as well as communal life.
Shveibish speaks about the early years after the war, including a neighbour who came in, and about showing visitors around and her work for the community. Kerler discusses the word makhes (and makke) with her. They then compare how thanks and amen were said in Tul'chyn.
adds the discussion of the words makhes, thanks and amen
Shveibish answers dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish linguistic questionnaire. The team then concludes the formal part of the interview with Shveibish.
Kerler and Lemster ask Shveibish how she says words such as 'sick' and 'sleep'. She replies that in her speech the word for 'sick' was used, and Kerler contrasts this with Podolian usage. The team then thank her and close the formal interview.
adds the contrast with Podolian usage
The team discusses outside the restaurant.
Kerler and Lemster talk with each other, apparently outside the restaurant. They discuss earlier interviews, a woman who survived the Tul'chyn ghetto, and the Yiddish greeting 'gut elef' (?).
The team bids farewell to Shveibish, while she speaks about the contemporary community.
Shveibish says she loves Yiddish and that it was spoken in the camp, and Kerler and Lemster thank her warmly. There is a farewell, partly in Russian, with arranging a lift and wishes for health.