Cluj-Napoca(Kloyzenburg in the project's index)2013-05-174 min · 2 stretches · 1 questions about wordsYiddish 78% Hungarian 22%
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Summary
Short camera-file fragment (3½ minutes) from a longer 2013 session in Kloyzenburg (Cluj), dated 17 May 2013. It opens mid-conversation with remarks about languages, followed by Hungarian-language talk and greetings among people in the room. Kerler then discusses with an older speaker how Shavuot is kept (one day in Israel, two days in the diaspora) and why dairy food is eaten on Shavuot, and the file ends with a question about news in Cluj.
Stretches
00:00–01:51
Fragment beginning mid-conversation: the informant says something about languages, with an anecdote (partly unclear) about someone who had to learn two languages. Kerler greets people who come in, and there are Hungarian exchanges in the room about being placed in the picture and being filmed. The talk is largely garbled.
Informal
01:51–03:32
Kerler gives the date, 17 May 2013, and asks about Shavuot. The informant explains that in Israel the holiday is kept for one day and elsewhere for two, and gives the reason for dairy food on Shavuot (no meat; the reasoning involves the forty-nine (?) days and recovery). Kerler then asks for news in Cluj and the informant answers about Romanian and Hungarian Shavuot.