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AHEYM-2013-051 · Cluj-Napoca

Cluj-Napoca (Kloyzenburg in the project's index) 2013-05-17 2 min · 1 stretches Yiddish 100%

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Summary

Final two-minute file of a long 2013 session in Kloyzenburg (Cluj). An older speaker talks about Yiddish among Jews and non-Jews, including an anecdote from a summer trip with his father near Sighet. The interviewer's turns are mixed up with the informant's in the transcript; the file ends with expressions of thanks and of honour at the meeting.

Stretches

00:03–02:01

The speaker recalls a summer spent with his father near Sighet, in a salt-mining place (?), where a woman spoke Yiddish with his father; this is an anecdote about who spoke Yiddish. A speaker then mentions a sister in Brashov (?) who spoke more German than Yiddish, though she believed she was speaking Yiddish, and says the family all spoke Yiddish at home with their mother. The file ends with thanks and a statement that meeting the team was a great honour.

Yiddish language and dialect Family history Jewish–non-Jewish relations · Sighet, Brashov (?)

Series: 2013 Expedition
Recorded: 2013-05-17, Cluj-Napoca
Kind: conversational · prompts in Yiddish
Transcript: draft class, 283 words

Speakers, as the transcript identifies them

INFinformant
Speaker who says he spent a summer with his father near Sighet, in a salt-mining place (?), and tells the anecdote about a woman who spoke Yiddish with his father (00:03-00:44).
Dov-Ber Kerlerinterviewer
Recognised by voice; he reacts briefly early on. The long later turns (00:55-01:33) are probably the informant or another speaker, with labels slipping. They mention a sister in Brashov (?) who spoke more German than Yiddish, and end with thanks for the meeting.
UNKother
Unassigned voice repeating or echoing a few words about Yiddish.

The interviewer's practice

Only brief reactions from the interviewer in this short file; no questions about words.

Notes on the transcript

Last file of a consecutive session, beginning and ending mid-conversation. The speaker labels are unreliable, and the identity of the informant is not given in the index or the transcript.

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