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Part of a long session recorded in Baia Mare on 19 May 2013, with an unnamed elderly man (the index gives no name). The file begins and ends mid-conversation. He talks with Kerler about Jewish prayer and minyan, saying Kaddish for his parents, and about Jews leaving Romania. He then explains why he stayed, and the talk moves to Romanian corruption and American politics (taxes, Obama).
The man discusses people who cannot read Hebrew and Romanian letters. He says he reads the prayers from the siddur himself, and the conversation touches on tefillin. He remarks that Auschwitz changed Jewry there, that few Jews stayed, and that his own wife is Jewish. The opening lines on dates and a school are unclear.
He recalls saying Kaddish after his parents, who died within two months of each other. His father died in 1988(?) and his mother in January 1989(?). He tells of attending a minyan in a place between Pașcani(?) and Iași, where there was almost nobody who knew the Shabbat kiddush, and of an old man of about ninety or a hundred.
The speakers describe the old man as not very religious under the Soviet and communist regime. They say that in Russia now nobody knows Yiddish. Many Jews have emigrated, and there is a comparison of the Jewish population of Botoșani(?) and another town after the war.
Kerler asks whether he never thought of leaving for Israel or America. The man says his work did not allow him to leave. He had a wife, a son and elders at home, and his family had troubles. They discuss how Israel developed, with Kerler mentioning geology and technology, and the man saying that people can stay anywhere if they want to.
The man says Romanians have a bad name because of large-scale theft by the powerful, which nobody punishes. Kerler asks why Romanians have such a reputation. The man then talks about the rich in America and the share of tax they pay.
They discuss American politics: Republicans, Obama and the banks, and the requirement that a president be born in the US, with a reference to Hawaii. The final lines are fragmentary.