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AHEYM-2013-099 · Baia Mare

Baia Mare (Baia Mare / Siget in the project's index) 2013-05-20 10 min · 5 stretches · 1 questions about words Yiddish 93% Hungarian 7%

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

Camera file of 09:29, one of a long consecutive session recorded in Baia Mare / Siget in May 2013; the index gives no interviewee. The transcript is very garbled. It begins with talk of plums and a possible Hallel, then moves to a greeting for Siget and a gathering of Jews at the festivals. It ends with a song about the Messiah's coming and a question about a man who paints (a project).

Stretches

00:03–01:53

Talk about kinds of plums, including smaller ones called Bistritz plums (?), and a phrase about a mager plum (?). It then moves into a passage that sounds sung or recited, which is mostly unclear.

FoodCultural terminology · Bistritz (?)

01:53–04:21

A largely garbled stretch with some singing or chanting, in which a Hebrew-sounding text about seas and rivers is heard. It ends with a mention of Hallel and a question whether a piece of it is remembered.

Singing Songs and musicSynagogue and prayer

03:53–05:35

A speaker says he does not go to a synagogue except on Rosh Hashanah. He asks that greetings be passed to the president of the community in Siget. He recalls Jews who came to the holidays from Israel and America. The group discusses where people met, with Desh (?) named as the speaker's origin.

before the war Other holidaysSynagogue and prayerEmigration and relatives abroadCommunity institutions · Siget, Desh (?), Baia (?)

05:35–08:33

The interviewer asks about a Hungarian song on what will be eaten and drunk when the Messiah comes. The informant does not remember it. A song or recitation about the Messiah's coming to a good synagogue is then heard, and a Hungarian aside says that the old tale has not come true.

Singing Songs and musicStories, humor and sayings

07:43–09:29

Kerler asks Reb Chaim in which year he began to paint, whether in childhood or only the project itself. An answer mentions 2007 (?). The file ends in unclear closing talk.

Personal information

Questions about words

  • 07:43
    In which year did you begin to paint? — year the project of painting was begun