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AHEYM-2013-105 · Baia Mare

Baia Mare (Baia Mare / Siget in the project's index) 2013-05-20 4 min · 1 stretches Yiddish 94% Hungarian 6%

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

Short camera file (under four minutes) from the 2013 Baia Mare / Siget session. Kerler talks with a man who understands only a little Yiddish, apparently in Budapest. He then discusses buying a copy of a book for his university library. The transcript is thin and partly garbled.

Stretches

00:00–03:51

Kerler speaks with a man who understands Yiddish only a little and replies in a German-like speech. Kerler asks where he is from (apparently Budapest, where Yiddish speaking is said to have begun again). The talk turns to a book that Kerler wants to buy one copy of with money for his university library, calling it an important book. It closes with thanks, good wishes and a name, possibly Chaim Eisenkovitch (?). The transcript is largely unclear.

Informal life today · Budapest

Series: 2013 Expedition
Recorded: 2013-05-20, Baia Mare
Kind: conversational · prompts in Yiddish
Transcript: draft class, 248 words

Speakers, as the transcript identifies them

Dov-Ber Kerlerinterviewer
Says he speaks Yiddish with the man, who answers in a German-like dialect; says his team works in Yiddish and that he wants to buy a copy of a book for his university library.
UNKother
A man who understands and speaks a little Yiddish, is asked where he is from, and is apparently connected with Budapest. A voice in the Kerler lines, probably his, says the book was already made there. Also a brief unassigned closing remark.

The interviewer's practice

Informal exchange about language ability and a book purchase; no elicitation.

Notes on the transcript

Index records no name. Very short file, mid-session; the transcript is poor and the content is a guess at the scene. A gap in timestamps between 01:08 and 03:00.

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