Cluj-Napoca(Kloyzenburg in the project's index)2013-05-178 min · 3 stretches · 1 questions about wordsYiddish 96%
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Summary
Last ten minutes of a long 2013 session in Kloyzenburg (Cluj): Kerler and an informant, whose name the index does not give, discuss a Jewish professor at the Cluj conservatory who collected Maramureș Yiddish folk songs. They try to work out his name and where his collection might be kept, then Kerler arranges to stay in contact by email.
Stretches
00:00–03:40
Kerler asks whether the informant knows of someone who collected Yiddish folk songs. The informant says a Jewish professor at the Cluj conservatory, now dead, collected Yiddish folk songs from Maramureș, and that the conservatory holds the collection, which dates from about fifty-five years ago. They are unsure of his first name; the surname Eizikovitsh (?) is given and Kerler offers several first names (Max is among them). They also doubt whether the present staff know of it, and mention his two children.
Kerler and the informant discuss how to find out whether the collection still exists, for example through the conservatory or by writing in Hungarian. They touch on Romanian and other local languages. The name is reconsidered: Meyerovitsh (?) versus Eizikovitsh, with a possible colleague relationship or rivalry between two professors in Cluj.
Kerler asks where the professor came from; Maramureș is suggested, but he is not certain. The informant is sure that the professor made the collections and deposited them at the conservatory. Kerler proposes to follow it up, and they exchange email addresses to stay in touch before the recording ends.