Baia Mare(Baia Mare / Siget in the project's index)2013-05-209 min · 3 stretches · 1 questions about wordsYiddish 83% Hungarian 17%
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Summary
A short, mostly informal stretch of a longer session in Baia Mare / Siget, 20 May 2013. Kerler and an older informant look at a printed work, apparently by a woman professor, about a man named Max Eisikovitsh (Eyzikovitsh) who died in 1983 (?), and at a booklet in Hungarian. They discuss how to trace the author and get her address, and Kerler mentions Yiddish songs. The transcript is largely garbled, so the details are uncertain.
Stretches
00:07–03:00
Kerler and the informant look at a printed work about Max Eisikovitsh (Eyzikovitsh) (?), who died in 1983 (?). It is a hundred-page work in Hungarian by a woman professor, and a booklet in Romanian is also shown. Kerler says he would show Yiddish songs and mentions that a photo of the first page carries the author's name.
They discuss finding out more from the author, a professor, since questions can be put to her directly in Hungarian. Other booklets and a necrology-type item (?) are looked at, and a connection to a professor from Arade (?) comes up. A letter is examined, and Kerler says its language is not Yiddish but a non-Jewish language.
Kerler explains that they would need to ask the woman professor what she knows, and that Yiddish songs are of interest. He says they will come back in a year and asks for her address so copies can be made. The last lines contain a few unclear remarks about a word (?) and about the woman's work on Max Eisikovitsh. A Hungarian passage from the multilingual recogniser appears but does not seem to belong to the Yiddish conversation.