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Second of two consecutive files from a session with Grunfeld in Kloyzenburg (Cluj), 6 June 2012, recorded on audio only. Grunfeld talks about the rivers of the town and a song about living by the Szamos, then about his reading in Yiddish, Hungarian, Romanian and Russian. He and Kerler move on to Jewish newspapers and the chief rabbi Rosen under the Communists, and the recording ends with talk of Grunfeld's pension and Kerler's travel plans and farewell.
Grunfeld names the rivers of Cluj, the Szamos and the smaller Nadas (?), and explains that Szamos flows all year. He recalls a Hungarian song about the beautiful city of Kolozsvár and living by the Szamos, and gives a Yiddish rendering of its meaning.
Kerler discusses microphone equipment and cables with a team member. Grunfeld then says a woman at home and her child have not slept, because the child was born with an illness whose diagnosis is unclear.
Grunfeld says he read Yiddish authors such as Sholem Aleichem and Peretz when 14 or 15 years old, up to about age 20. He also read Jewish themes in other languages, Shakespeare in Hungarian, and Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in Romanian.
Grunfeld describes friends in towns across Transylvania (including Oradea (?)). He explains the multilingual setting under the Austro-Hungarian Empire before 1920, with Romanian, Hungarian and German spoken. He dates the Communist period from 1948/49 to the 1989 revolution and says books of many kinds remained available.
Kerler asks whether Yiddish newspapers appeared in Communist Romania. Grunfeld says the Jewish community press was in Romanian and Hebrew, not Yiddish, and was published centrally in Bucharest. They discuss chief rabbi Moses Rosen, who travelled the country each Hanukkah and arranged for Jews to emigrate to Israel against payment, and mention Ceaușescu's end.
Kerler recalls a pyramid scheme in which people deposited money, and Grunfeld agrees. Grunfeld says he worked through the 1970s and was pensioned about nine years before the revolution. A newspaper article in the Romanian Cluj paper reported his retirement. He mentions the two Cluj papers of the time, one in Romanian and one in Hungarian.
Kerler asks about the water in Romania and about whom to visit in a nearby town. Grunfeld has no acquaintances there, as they have emigrated or died. They talk about coffee, the two-hour taxi trip to Oradea (?) with the driver waiting, and the sleeping daughter and sick grandchild. Kerler sends greetings, hopes to come again, and wishes Grunfeld good health.