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Camera file (about ten and a half minutes, mid-session) of an interview in Baia Mare on 19 May 2013 with an elderly man who is not named in the index. He and Kerler talk about Jews who changed their names, the Jewish State Theatre in Bucharest and an actress, Jewish writers and composers from Botoșani, the man's Romanian schooling and military service, and how little Yiddish he has spoken since 1959. The file ends with a question about the word for money.
Talk about Jews in the Romanian government who hid their Jewish origin or changed their names, with a few examples. They then turn to the Jewish theatre, where an actress who is now rector or director is mentioned, and to a man connected with it who has died.
Discussion of the Jewish State Theatre in Bucharest, where the actors play in Yiddish, including non-Jewish ones. Kerler recalls seeing them in Montreal. A famous actress lives in Bucharest and played in a film as the mother of Christ, and the Romanians love her though they do not love Jews.
Kerler asks whether the man read Yiddish papers and booklets before the war. He says he was five or six at the time. He then recalls Jewish libraries in Botoșani and Jewish writers and artists from the town: a Jewish writer in Yiddish and Romanian, a composer and conductor named Wiechert Stein (?) who wrote a well-known sleigh-bell song, and the poet Yankev Botoshanski. Kerler also mentions Khayim Varshavski and Jewish politicians in America.
After Kerler asks about writers in Iași, the man describes his schooling after cheder, which was in Romanian only, and his demanding technical subject with a lot of practical work. He was away at the army, at practical training and at exams and got home only a few days a year. After finishing the faculty he was called up five times for military reserve service.
Kerler asks whom he has spoken Yiddish with over the years. He says rarely, mostly with his parents and relatives, including cousins from Israel and Bucharest, and not in the campus setting. He mentions the fear among Jews of the communist regime after fleeing Romania and says his trade was not a Jewish one. The segment closes with Kerler asking for the word for money in the Botoșani dialect, and the answer is given.