Cluj-Napoca(Kloyzenburg in the project's index)2013-05-177 min · 3 stretches · 5 questions about wordsYiddish 82% Hungarian 18%
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Summary
Camera file (about 7 minutes) from the 2013 expedition session in Kloyzenburg (Cluj), dated 2013-05-17; the index gives no name. An elderly speaker answers Kerler's questions about food, Shavuot dairy dishes, dogs kept in Jewish courtyards and the names of dishes in Hungarian. The file begins mid-conversation and ends with a short farewell exchange.
Stretches
00:00–03:17
The informant mentions a table in the synagogue community with about twenty families, and the foods eaten there. Kerler asks about dishes made with horseradish, a dish whose names are given in Hungarian (?), and bread served at the river. They then discuss what was eaten on Shavuot. The informant says that dairy dishes and greens were eaten then because there was a lot of milk, and adds that she cannot remember everything from ninety years back.
Kerler asks whether Jews kept dogs, and the informant says they did, but only in the courtyard. They discuss the word for dog (?) and whether there was a charm against biting. The speakers then talk about a word they heard for something that was taken.
The informant switches to Hungarian remarks about the city of Kolozsvár and the Szamos river, and speaks of visitors and of being unable to walk. Kerler asks her to repeat a word, kilents (?), and says it is not so in his Yiddish. The recording ends with Russian-sounding closing words and a farewell. Names of places and persons are unclear in the transcript.