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AHEYM-2013-052 · Baia Mare

Baia Mare 2013-05-19 4 min · 2 stretches · 2 questions about words Yiddish 100%

Not online: the recording is held by the project and is not on Media Collections Online, YouTube or archive.org. Everything below is a paraphrase of a machine transcript, the weaker of this site's two transcript layers — see how it was made.

Summary

A short opening fragment (3:38) of a session recorded in Baia Mare on 19 May 2013, in which the interviewers explain the project to an elderly man who says he speaks little Yiddish now. The talk covers the project's aims, the man's move from his home region and his wife's origin, the date, and the start of a question about his name. The transcript is rough and the labels are unreliable.

Stretches

00:00–01:53

Kerler explains that the team collects Yiddish interviews about childhood memories from elderly people and mentions earlier visits to Moldova and Ukraine. The man says he has had little chance to speak Yiddish for a long time. He left home in 1953 (?), worked in several places and settled in the area. His birthplace is stated but unclear in the transcript.

Informal Personal information Yiddish language and dialect · Bukovina, Moldova, Ukraine

01:53–03:38

The man mentions that his wife is from Donetsk (?) and speaks a Hungarian-style Yiddish. A word for 'father' in Yiddish versus Romanian is discussed. The date is given as 19 May 2013. Kerler talks about the importance of recording memories before they are lost, then asks about the man's official name, which turns out to be Nachman (?).

Yiddish language and dialect Personal information Family history · Donetsk (?)

Questions about words

02:10
in Yiddish one said batsha, no? (batsha vs Romanian) — the Yiddish word for 'father' / term of address versus the Romanian one
03:15
and the official name is Avraham? No, Nachman — the man's official name

Series: 2013 Expedition
Recorded: 2013-05-19, Baia Mare
Kind: conversational · prompts in Yiddish
Transcript: draft class, 491 words

Speakers, as the transcript identifies them

Dov-Ber Kerlerinterviewer
Explains that the team collects interviews in Yiddish about childhood memories and mentions earlier trips to Moldova and Ukraine; he says he is from Bukovina. Some lines under this label are the informant's.
INFinformant
An elderly man. He says he has had no one to speak Yiddish with for a long time and left home in 1953 (?). He was born in a place whose name is unclear in the transcript. His wife is from Donetsk (?) and speaks Hungarian-style Yiddish. At the end he gives his official name, which Kerler asks about.

The interviewer's practice

Opening explanation of the project and rapport-building before the interview proper.

Notes on the transcript

The index gives no name. Speaker labels are unreliable, and much of the informant's speech is under the KERLER label. The recording begins mid-sentence.

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