00:00–01:43
Kerler asks about the Yiddish word for clay and the expression for a golem made of clay, then about a word for a not very clever person, which he asks whether the informant knows. The informant says the word was not in their vocabulary.
Later expeditions, 2012–2018 › 2013 Expedition
AHEYM-2013-096 · Baia Mare
Baia Mare (Baia Mare / Siget in the project's index)
2013-05-20
5 min · 2 stretches · 1 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 camera-video file from the 2013 Baia Mare / Siget expedition, a continuation of a longer session. Kerler first asks about a Yiddish word for a not very clever person, and the informant says it was not in their vocabulary. They then speak about the informant's uncle, a composer named Max (patronymic Eyzikovitsh?), his fame among music students, his modest life, and whether he left children or musical manuscripts.
Stretches
01:15–05:18
Kerler turns to the informant's uncle, the composer Max (patronymic Eyzikovitsh?). The informant says his teaching system is still used in conservatories, and tells of a train journey where a student greeted him with the uncle's name. The composer is described as modest, living in a house with a piano and few belongings. He had a wife but no children and died around 1919(?) in Kloyzenburg (?). Kerler asks to see the notes of his music, and the informant says he has some material.
Questions about words
- 00:20Have you heard the word for a person who is not very clever, a 'shindelishl'? — whether the informant knows a word for a not very clever person