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AHEYM-2013-103 · Baia Mare

Baia Mare (Baia Mare / Siget in the project's index) 2013-05-20 4 min · 1 stretches · 1 questions about words Yiddish 87% Hungarian 13%

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 fragment from a longer session in Baia Mare / Siget (index date 2013-05-20), with no interviewee named. A man looks through a book or album of pictures with the interviewer. He explains who is shown, including figures from his childhood, a cheder friend and an itinerant peddler. The file begins and ends mid-conversation.

Stretches

00:00–04:18

The interviewee shows and explains pictures from a book or album, and the interviewer remarks that every picture shows real people. He recalls childhood hardship: going barefoot and walking in snow, and shoes that were expensive and were spared on the way to cheder, being put on only when it rained. He identifies two brothers and a friend named Berl from cheder. He also describes a travelling fiddler or glazier (?) who went on foot between villages, some kind of itinerant peddler (the exact term is unclear), who earned money to support his family. The recording ends with a remark about not knowing something in Romanian.

before the war Childhood Religious education Poverty and economic conditions Work and trades Photographs and documents Personal information

Questions about words

02:09
ווי האט דאס געהייסן? — the name of the occupation of the itinerant man who went on foot between villages

Series: 2013 Expedition
Recorded: 2013-05-20, Baia Mare
Kind: conversational · prompts in Yiddish
Transcript: draft class, 386 words

Speakers, as the transcript identifies them

KERLERinterviewer
Dov-Ber Kerler. Labels are mixed in this file, and many of the long turns under this label are probably the informant's own speech, since they are first-person memories. Kerler asks who is in the pictures and what the man was called.
INFinformant
An elderly man who looks at pictures and explains them. He recalls his childhood: going barefoot in the snow, cheder, and a friend named Berl from cheder. He says he could make a whole book and that he is now poor. His speech is largely under the KERLER label.
UNKother
A brief unassigned voice.

The interviewer's practice

Kerler asks who is in the pictures and what a person was called, following the informant's explanations of the book.

Notes on the transcript

A 4-minute fragment, the 15th of 31 consecutive files. The speaker labels are unreliable, and most long turns under KERLER appear to be the informant's speech. No Yiddish dialect questionnaire is in progress.

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