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Third and last file of a session with Krotsch (index: Krotsch, Shloyme) in Kolomya, 30 May 2012, audio only. It opens with Krotsch singing a Yiddish drinking song, which Kerler asks him to repeat. They then discuss a word in its text and compare Jews from Lithuania, Poland, the Carpathians and Bessarabia, with Chișinău songs. Krotsch recalls Kolomya after the war, the many synagogues and a prayer house marked 'Jerusalem', and the file closes with a minyan and farewells.
Krotsch sings a Yiddish drinking song about being together and drinking wine until the white day. Kerler praises it and asks for a Hungarian-water song, and the talk turns to the populations of Hungary and Romania and how many of them are Jews or Hungarians.
Kerler says he does not know this song and that he has never heard the variant combined this way, and asks Krotsch to sing it again. Krotsch sings the drinking song twice more.
Kerler asks how the second couplet of the song goes. They discuss a word in the line (given as 'eyln') and how it is written and pronounced. Krotsch links it to drinking, dancing and getting drunk, and Kerler suggests a verb for hurrying and a Slavic origin. They also compare the word 'batelekh' (bottles) with the Lithuanian-Jewish form 'baytelekh'.
Krotsch and Kerler compare Jews of different regions. Krotsch speaks of Litvaks, Belarusian and Polish Jews, who were learned and knew several languages, and of Carpathian Jews, who were learned but not always honest. He recalls an acquaintance said to be a rebbe, with a wife Merele and a son Mendl, and the talk touches on Bessarabians. Greetings are sent to someone.
Krotsch tries to recall a Hebrew expression and then speaks of Chișinău, naming two songs about the city and describing how he sang entering it. His son studied there and he visited with his wife. He mentions a brother from Belz and says the Bessarabian Jews, though skilled at drinking, were unlearned and knew no Hebrew.
Krotsch says he came to Kolomya in 1949. Kerler notes that the town's Jews were shot, about thirty thousand (?), and that some returned. Krotsch describes an entirely Jewish street, thirty-three synagogues in the town, and a building with 'Jerusalem' written on its door, which survived the Germans and the Russians in 1941 (?).
Krotsch recalls how he and others took over the building for a synagogue and signed for it, still afraid at the time. The building had been a sports hall, and the change is dated to Gorbachev's perestroika. Kerler compares sports halls in Rovne and Stanislav, and Krotsch speaks of repair work on the synagogue there, costing a large sum.
Talk about visiting another town's small community, praying with a minyan and the next day's minyan. Krotsch mentions a yahrzeit he must observe and the brandy he will need for saying Kaddish.
Krotsch asks what else might be sung. Someone is asked to start a melody, and S2 recalls a woman, Lile (?), who learned Yiddish and said that dance, song and Torah are 'our life'. The recording ends with farewells.