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Shloyme Levkovich

Budapest 22 December 2006 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger 10 min · 1 part on 1 tape two sources agree
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  1. MDV 75 42:12–51:44 · 10 min · archive.org · a part of the tape
Passages

42:12

The team meets Shloyme Levkovich. He was born in a village, fifty kilometers from Debrecen. Levkovich then speaks about life today, before touching upon his life before the war and holiday celebration.

From the machine transcript

Kerler meets Shloyme Levkovich, who comes from a village near Debrecen. They talk about whether he speaks Yiddish and about Hungarian being a hard language. Kerler explains that Levkovich is nicknamed Tsures-bachi because he is always complaining, and that he is the best Debrecen speaker he has met. Levkovich says Purim was celebrated with baking and recalls a bit of the Purim play. Kerler then talks with a colleague, partly in English, about the meeting and his age, and they leave to see the synagogue, where they see Yiddish-speaking children with sidelocks from Vienna.

Includes the nickname Tsures-bachi and the aside with a colleague and the Yiddish-speaking children from Vienna.

49:04

The camera collects town footage of Budapest.

Footage life today MDV 75 · MCO
From the machine transcript

The camera records town footage of Budapest while Kerler and a second man talk off-camera, mostly in English, about the dialect boundary and having found two Yiddish speakers from the Carpathian–Debrecen area. The Yiddish is largely garbled.