Baia Mare(Baia Mare / Siget in the project's index)2013-05-206 min · 3 stretches · 6 questions about wordsYiddish 90% Hungarian 10%
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Summary
A six-minute camera file from the 2013 Baia Mare / Siget session, recorded 2013-05-20, with an elderly woman and Kerler; the index gives no name. It opens with questions about the names for Gypsies, Romanians, Russians, Hungarians and non-Jews, and sayings about gentiles. It then moves to her childhood courtyard and family, and ends with photographs lost when the family was deported.
Stretches
00:00–03:03
Kerler asks what Jews called Gypsies, Romanians, Russians and Hungarians. The woman and Kerler discuss various Yiddish words for Gypsies, including one meaning 'black ones' (?), and another term used for the Vorafn (?), who were seen as uneducated. They also cover words for non-Jews, one of them a word beginning 'Arilem' (?), and a saying about a gentile taking a seat. A short Hungarian remark by Kerler on Gypsies speaking several languages is also transcribed.
Kerler asks about the children's sayings of the period, such as what was said to a dog, with a rhymed reply naming Esau and Jacob. The woman then describes the courtyard of her childhood home, which had a summer kitchen, a room, a pantry and a cellar beneath.
She says her aunt lived in the courtyard with six children and that she herself was one of seven. Kerler asks whether she has photographs from those years. She says the family photographs were destroyed when they were taken away, and she has only enlarged pictures of her parents and herself and a bride-and-groom portrait; she has no pictures of her husband. The last lines are unclear.