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AHEYM-2012-211 · "Arie" (in the synagogue)

Oradea (Nagyvarad in the project's index) 2012-06-07 7 min · 1 stretches Yiddish 16% Hungarian 10% Romanian 74%

Not online: the recording is held by the project and is not on Media Collections Online, YouTube or archive.org. Everything below is a paraphrase of a machine transcript, the weaker of this site's two transcript layers — see how it was made.

Summary

Camera video track from the synagogue in Nagyvarad, 7 June 2012, listed under the name Arie. The recording is mostly a heated conversation in Romanian, with some Hungarian and a little Yiddish, about a dispute over a post (apparently a rabbi's or an official's), a resignation, notice periods and a salary. It is not a life-history interview.

Stretches

00:00–06:58

Overlapping conversation, mostly in Romanian, with some Hungarian and brief Yiddish, among several men in the synagogue. It concerns a dispute over someone's position, apparently a rabbi or community official: a response and resignation, a 30-day notice, payment of a few hundred dollars a month, and the role of a president and a rabbi. Yiddish fragments mention a guest (?) and the president, and the closing lines mention a rabbi and the first of June. The content is unclear because of the noisy transcript and the many speakers.

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Series: 2012 Expedition
Recorded: 2012-06-07, Oradea
Interviewee: "Arie" (in the synagogue)
Kind: conversational
Transcript: non-Yiddish (Romanian) class, 1,101 words

Speakers, as the transcript identifies them

Arieinformant
Main voice, speaking mostly Romanian with some Hungarian and Yiddish; he appears to be arguing about a dispute over a post and a resignation (00:02–06:50).
INT?other
Voice guessed to be an interviewer or a participant in the discussion; speaks Romanian and some Yiddish fragments. Possibly a member of the team (00:02–06:23).
S2other
Speaks Hungarian and some Yiddish in the argument (03:28, 06:07).
S3other
Another participant, speaking Romanian and some Yiddish; mentions a rabbi (03:45, 04:37).

The interviewer's practice

No interview questions are put in this file; it is a discussion among several people.

Notes on the transcript

The transcript is mostly Romanian (the recogniser reported 74%) with Hungarian and Yiddish fragments. The index calls the interviewee Arie in the synagogue. Parts of the Yiddish lines are noise. This is the second of four consecutive files from the same session.

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