00:00–01:35
Kerler asks about the word 'tishtiker' (a decent person) and whether it comes from German in the speaker's area. They then discuss a name, apparently Benyomen or Matyes (?), and whose son he was.
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AHEYM-2013-041 · Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca (Kloyzenburg in the project's index)
2013-05-17
11 min · 5 stretches · 3 questions about words
Yiddish 100%
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Summary
Camera file from the 2013 expedition in Kloyzenburg (Cluj), a mid-session file of an interview with an elderly man (the index names no one). Kerler asks about the word 'tishtiker' and the man's own name, then the man talks about his work in a cooperative factory and for the Jewish community. After a discussion of regional words for money and the regions of Romania, the talk turns to Purim and a Purim play he once performed in.
Stretches
01:31–05:50
The man recounts working about twenty years at a cooperative factory making electrical insulation parts (bakelite), then retiring on a pension. He then worked another twenty years for the Jewish community in Kloyzenburg, serving at the shop, at burials and elsewhere. He describes how the Joint and the federation support the community's old people with meals, parcels and Passover matzo, and says he lives with his daughter.
05:30–07:13
He talks about his grandson, an electronics engineer who worked in Switzerland and earns a monthly stipend. This leads to a discussion with Kerler of the word for money, with 'pares' said to be used in Maramureș and Moldavia (?).
07:09–08:41
The man names the regions of Romania: Transylvania, Wallachia, Muntenia, Banat, Crișana and Maramureș. Kerler asks about the 'seven mountains' (Siebenbürgen), and they discuss the origin of the name Kloyzenburg as a fortified town.
08:34–10:40
Kerler asks about Purim in cheder days and the Purim play. The man describes Purim as a merry holiday with a bearded costume, and recalls playing once in a Purim play at the Jewish community, at the request of a man named Muler (?), who had since died.
Questions about words
- 00:09Was the word tishtiker said in your place in Yiddish? — whether the word 'tishtiker' (decent person) was used and from what source
- 06:21What did you say for 'money' — pares? — the local word for money
- 09:35How do you say 'grammen' (Purim rhymes) in your Yiddish? — the local word for Purim rhymes