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Camera file (10:40) from the Baia Mare session of 19 May 2013; the index names no interviewee. An older man (INF) talks with Kerler about Jewish communities abroad, his own cheder and bar mitzvah, a Yiddish-speaking actor-barber who died recently, rebbes and writers, and language learning and his later studies in Bucharest. The recording begins and ends mid-conversation, and speaker attribution is uncertain.
Kerler and the man discuss Jewish history and the Jewish population of America, many of whose Jews come from Eastern Europe. The man recalls seeing Jewish communities in Hong Kong and Singapore, including a Sephardic community with a synagogue founded in 1902 (?) and a few hundred rich Jews who run the local economy.
Kerler asks about prayer in the morning and cheder in the afternoon, and until what age the man attended cheder (a year after the bar mitzvah). They talk about the celebration of the bar mitzvah, which was made for every boy whatever his family, and about bat mitzvah, which was not held there and which the man calls a new custom from Israel.
The man speaks of Yankl (Yankele) Halter (?), a Jewish barber and gifted self-taught actor who lodged in his home and died within the past year. He saw him perform in Israel; a weekly paper has written about him and a thirtieth-day memorial (shloyshim) is being held. Kerler asks how a deceased person was spoken of.
They discuss the saying used of the dead, that he should be a good advocate or carry good merit, and the Beit Hashanah (?) rebbe, a great rabbi from Vatshe (?) who went to Israel; Burshtein (?) is named as a Hasidic dynasty. The man tells an anecdote of a dayan who ruled for both parties in a dispute, and Kerler asks whether his parents went to rebbes.
The man mentions Yiddish writers, including one from Sighet named Brukshtein (?), compared with Elie Wiesel, who began on Yiddish but wrote elsewhere in another language. Kerler and the man then talk about ages and about learning Romanian or Hungarian, and about Turkey, which the man has never visited, and Islamist politics.
Kerler remarks that the man recalled his melamedim and talked about cheder and school; the war then came. The man went to study in Bucharest in 1953 (?) and is asked what the Jewish life there was like.