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A ten-minute file from a longer session, recorded in Kloyzenburg (Cluj) on 17 May 2013. An elderly man from Transylvania talks with Kerler about the Yiddish speakers and scholars he knows in the city, his own religious upbringing and the rebbes his relatives followed, differences among Yiddish dialects, and Hanukkah and Purim customs and terms. The index gives no name.
Kerler and the man discuss how few people in Kloyzenburg still speak Yiddish. They mention a professor who knows some Yiddish and speaks German, and a Romanian woman at the university who studies Yiddish (named as Avgusta (?) or similar).
The man describes Jewish education in his youth. He studied Chumash with his grandfather, including the weekly Torah portions, for seven or eight years. Kerler asks whether he remembers the Mother Rachel passage. He also names Cluj and Turda (?) as places where young men from his town studied, and says some went to yeshivas.
The man talks about Hasidic rebbes. His mother's brother studied in Satmar, and a great rebbe, Reb Yoyl(ish) Teitelbaum, is mentioned. Some relatives were followers of Reb Yoyl and others opposed him. His father traveled to rebbes, including one in Moldavia and the Bohush (?) rebbe. A passing remark concerns the Vizhnitz Hasidim and their origin, which is unclear.
Kerler notes that Bessarabian Jews have a word for going to a rebbe. The man says Yiddish differed between Transylvania, Iași and Chișinău. He says Chișinău was called Keshenev, which Kerler agrees nobody says any more, and he adds that he rarely had occasion to talk with Moldavians or Bessarabians.
Kerler asks about holiday foods and games. The man mentions foods for Hanukkah and Purim, including a triangular Purim pastry, and the dreidel game. He says latkes were known, but he did not use the Moldavian and Bessarabian word for them. He then returns to dialect differences between Moldavia, Bessarabia and Transylvania, mentioning an uncle in Bukovina or a nearby place, and says he grew up in Nitsh (?) in Transylvania. Kerler closes by asking about a fried or roasted dish.