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Second of two consecutive audio files from a 2012 session in Siget with Golde Salamon, an elderly Yiddish speaker. It opens with talk about how Romanians are viewed and stereotyped, then moves to the language of a bicycle and to telephone calls with an acquaintance in America. Salamon then talks at length about her two husbands, the first from Remik (?) and his youth, and the file closes with practical talk about hotels, Siget as a Jewish town and a photograph.
Conversation about attitudes to Romanians, including Romanian workers going to Israel and the saying that Romanians steal. Salamon and Kerler discuss the point that not everyone is like that. Salamon mentions a story about Vienna and watches, and a remark attributed to Golda Meir about a country needing its own thieves and robbers.
Kerler says he came by car, and Salamon mentions a visitor who came on a bicycle. Kerler asks what a bicycle was called in Yiddish before the war. Salamon then recalls telephoning an acquaintance in America in Yiddish and Hungarian, and the talk turns to which languages Kerler knows, with a remark about Russian.
Salamon speaks of her first husband, who came from the village of Remik (?), a Russian village near Sepinke (?), and of his good Russian. She says he did business with the Russians and with a colonel at the barracks. She says she refused to marry a shoemaker or tailor and wanted a husband who earned a lot. She tells of the Sepinke rebbe, a great rebbe whose yahrzeit drew visitors from other villages, who blessed her husband. Kerler mentions a blessing from the Ribnitser (?) rebbe.
Salamon tells the story of her first husband's youth. His father died and his mother was left with five children. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker as a small boy but ran away. He then worked for a wagon driver who loved horses, and he later became a baker in Siget. He sent two challahs and large loaves home to his mother for the Sabbath. She says she lived with him thirty years.
Salamon compares her two husbands. The first was very correct, and she gives an example of his keeping his word in a wine sale. The second, she says, was unfaithful, and she remarks on this. She describes the fine gravestone of her first husband, visited by acquaintances from America who light candles, and reflects that a little luck makes a big difference. Kerler wishes her health to a hundred and twenty.
Practical talk about the team's trip to Cluj and about hotels in Baia Mare (?) and Siget. Kerler and the others say Siget was once a Jewish town with a Jewish street, and a photograph is taken with discussion of the flash. The session closes with Kerler saying the recorded material will be studied.