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Mid-session file from the 2013 expedition at Kloyzenburg (Cluj), 17 May 2013: Kerler talks with an elderly man, a retired university professor of social sciences. He describes the Jewish community of his native Arade (?), his Orthodox family, his career at the university and the Jews of Cluj today. Near the end he recalls Maramureș and a song about children sent away from home. The index gives no name.
The man describes the large Jewish centre of his native Arade (?), with many rebbes and two communities, Orthodox and Neolog. His father was a shamash in the Neolog community, though the shochtim and the shamash were Orthodox. His mother wore a sheitel, and the family kept an Orthodox home with a seat in the Orthodox synagogue. He says his parents spoke Hungarian at home and used Yiddish only to keep things from the children, and that he himself has forgotten much Yiddish.
He says he understands several foreign languages (French, German, English, some Russian). Kerler states the date and place, Cluj, and the informant's professorship, and asks his Jewish name; the answer is Moshe ben Niksil (?) Zalman, with the father's name unclear. The man says he is not a believer but can pray and has led prayers in Cluj for many years. He gives his age as 87, and Kerler asks about his work at the university.
He recounts his university career in Cluj after the war: he enrolled, became a preparator in his second year, and worked in social sciences. They discuss the Jewish community of Cluj today, about four hundred members by his count. Kerler says he is a professor of Yiddish in America. They talk about the informant's books on social science and sociolinguistics, and the authors he read (Merton, Mills, Marcuse).
Kerler asks about Yiddish life in Arade (?) before the war. The man says the Hasidim, Orthodox and Neolog Jews came mostly from Maramureș, with the Neologs more assimilated. He recalls a cousin from Maramureș who died, had a lovely voice and sang to him, and he recites the verses of a song about children sent away from home. He comments on Eliyahu Veidlinger's account of Maramureș, says he was there, and says the life was poor. Kerler and he discuss a man from a wealthy family who writes well.