Baia Mare2013-05-194 min · 2 stretchesYiddish 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, mid-conversation fragment (about four and a half minutes) of a 2013 Baia Mare session. Kerler and an elderly informant talk about the front of a building with a window and its colours, a synagogue or school and a date, and something from the war. The transcript is very garbled, so the details are uncertain.
Stretches
00:04–01:31
Kerler asks about a window at the very front of a building and describes the front as modern and checkered, in different colours. The informant speaks of something eighteen years ago and the Baia Mare synagogue of 1882 (the transcript's "two and eighteen"), and a machine is mentioned in connection with a war.
The conversation turns to the war and a visit to Siget (?), with the informant mentioning a library (?). Kerler returns to the different colours and the informant brings up something said to be from a Jewish context. Kerler then mentions a text printed in Budapest but wholly in Yiddish, and a weather saying (?). The passage is largely unclear.