Baia Mare(Baia Mare / Siget in the project's index)2013-05-2011 min · 4 stretches · 2 questions about wordsYiddish 96%
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Summary
Camera file from the 2013 Baia Mare / Siget session, with no informant named in the index. The transcript is mostly talk between Kerler and an older man about contacting a woman musician (Baruch/Barush Konrad (?)) who works at the opera in Cluj, with her address and telephone number, followed by a question about a folklore text written by an uncle. Kerler then asks about a Hungarian-language song about the Messiah, and the talk moves to palinka and plums, ending on the word for a kind of plum.
Stretches
00:00–04:28
Kerler and the man discuss a woman musician in Cluj whom the man knows or wants to reach (name given as Baruch/Barush Konrad (?)). They note her address (Strada Fundurilor (?)) and phone number, and agree she works at the Hungarian opera in Cluj. They discuss how letters should be addressed to her.
Informallife today· Oradea (?), Cluj
03:52–06:36
Kerler asks about a piece of work written by the man's uncle, apparently a folklore text from 1938 about Maramureș Jewish songs. The man says that letters to the woman mention Hungarian and Romanian texts.
Kerler asks whether the man remembers a song, sung at rebbes' homes or by parents or grandfather, in Hungarian about the Messiah coming. The man recalls hearing something like it from his grandfather at home, about waiting for the Messiah.
Talk about palinka: Kerler is offered some and declines because it is too early in the day. Palinka is said to be made from natural fruit, plain or mixed, such as plums or pears, unlike vodka. Kerler then asks about a word for a small dark blue plum with a single stone, and learns that it is called shvetshkes (?) in Yiddish.