The team speaks with community members and then the camera collects footage of the synagogue.
From the machine transcript
Opening talk before and around a meal. Kerler and a man, probably a community member, discuss who the president is and whether he should lead the team in. The exchange is fragmentary, and the transcript is largely unclear. The catalogue's synagogue footage is not identifiable from the words.
The transcript shows conversation about a president of the community and about eating, but no footage.
The team chats with community members.
From the machine transcript
Kerler explains to the man that the team is on an expedition to describe older Jews and asks for advice on where to find them, perhaps from the Carpathians or other towns. The informant mentions Carpathian places and Hasidic or yeshiva-related older people, and names a possible contact (Khaim Hersh Feldman (?)) with a phone number and a place such as Soylish (?). Kerler then thanks him and the conversation closes.
The talk is a search for elderly Jews to interview, with leads in the Carpathians, rather than general chat.
The camerca collects footage of the synagogue outside.
From the machine transcript
Short, mostly unintelligible speech in the background while the camera is said to film the synagogue outside. Kerler mentions an age of fifty and an amount of money, but the context is unclear.
The team chats with Moyshe Bergman outside, while the camera collects footage of the building. They also discuss the contemporary community and yeshiva system.
From the machine transcript
Outdoors, the team chats with several men of the community about Yiddish. They discuss who speaks it, among Hasidim and Lithuanian-style Orthodox, in Israel and in Hungary. A speaker mentions someone from Mukachevo who now prays here, and the talk turns to Yiddish in the yeshiva system and shiurim given in Yiddish.
The talk is mainly about Yiddish use in the community and in yeshiva teaching.
The camera records footage of the synagogue and yeshiva inside and continues to chat with Bergman about the contemporary community.
From the machine transcript
The conversation inside the synagogue continues in a loose, fragmentary way. It touches on the American-funded project and the interviews being made, and on a man who speaks good Yiddish and whose name is given as Palen (?). Contacts, phone numbers and the community are discussed.
Names the project funding and the contact with a Yiddish-speaking man.
The team chats with Bergman about community members.
From the machine transcript
Chat with community members about particular men, some of whom pray here daily, and about who speaks Yiddish. The talk also covers young Orthodox people and who is or is not observant. Much of the passage is too garbled to follow in detail.
The team chats with Eliezer Imber about his family. He also shows family photographs. The team then chats with community members.
From the machine transcript
The team talks with Imber about his family, in particular the Imber name and two writers of that name, one possibly a Galician poet. Mentions of Lemberg and the ghetto occur, along with exchanging addresses and sending material. Photographs may be shown, but this is not clear in the transcript.
Mentions two writers named Imber and Lemberg.
Bergman speaks about the history of this synagogue, as well as other local synagogues.
From the machine transcript
A discussion of local synagogues, with several speakers naming congregations and a statuska (?) synagogue. The talk also covers a rabbi named Levi (?) and Shabbat prayer, with garbled mentions of the building and its history. Details are unclear.
The camera collects footage of the synagogue.
From the machine transcript
Footage of the synagogue with only fragmentary speech, much of it garbled and looping.
The team speaks to Eduard Deblinger, born in postwar Vienna.
From the machine transcript
The team talks with Eduard Deblinger, born in postwar Vienna, about how he knows Yiddish and about Yiddish and Orthodox Jews in Vienna. Kerler explains the project of interviewing older Yiddish speakers, mentioning Ukrainian shtetls visited. There is an exchange of contact details and of his name.
Gives Deblinger's account of Yiddish in Vienna and explains the project.
The camera collects footage of the synagogue.
From the machine transcript
Camera footage of the synagogue with sparse, mostly garbled speech.
The camera records a prayer service.
From the machine transcript
A prayer service is filmed in the synagogue. The speech is mostly garbled or repetitive, with a Hungarian-language explanation of the project and its archive by one participant.
