Baia Mare(Baia Mare / Siget in the project's index)2013-05-206 min · 3 stretches · 2 questions about wordsYiddish 100%
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Summary
Fragment of a longer 2013 session in Baia Mare / Siget, with an elderly man (not named in the index) and Kerler. It covers Gypsy and klezmer musicians at weddings, Ashkenazi versus Sephardic identity and prayer rite, and a request to say Kaddish. The transcript is noisy, with Kerler's lines blending interviewer and informant speech.
Stretches
00:02–03:07
Discussion of wedding music. Gypsy musicians and Jewish klezmer both played at weddings, sometimes two bands at the same wedding. The Gypsies played only instruments, while the Jewish musicians also sang and played Yiddish songs. Kerler asks who was hired and a place with over a thousand Jews is mentioned (name unclear).
Question whether music was played at the Kolomea (?) rebbe's court; the speaker says he never went, since they attended the Talmud Torah synagogue, where his father bought him a seat when he was thirteen. They were Ashkenazim, not Sephardim, and the conversation turns to the prayer rite (nusach) of their prayer book.
The rite was Ashkenazi, not Hasidic, and they did not know of the Sephardic rite. Kerler asks the man to say Kaddish for the camera. The man is hesitant, and the exchange ends with talk about the camera possibly having stopped.