Kolomyya(Kolomya in the project's index)2013-05-2211 min · 5 stretches · 1 questions about wordsYiddish 96%
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Summary
Camera file from the 2013 Kolomya expedition, with no name in the index. An elderly informant, apparently a man, recites and sings humorous and religious pieces. Kerler comments, asks about the last words of one piece, orders coffee and chats. The informant also mentions team members Lemster and Katz.
Stretches
00:00–02:18
The informant begins with a remark about wartime hardship and Kerler's coffee order. He then performs a comic song or recitation about a drunk man leaving the tavern, the streets seeming drunk, and his failure to recognise his own house. Kerler praises it.
Kerler and the informant discuss a song to be looked up and written down. The informant asks about team member Lemster and then Katz, recalled as a professor, and Kerler says he is no longer in contact with Katz. The informant says something about sorrow and Jews since the war. The talk is fragmentary and partly unclear.
The informant recites or sings a religious piece mentioning the patriarch Jacob, a ladder and the heavens. It includes an orphan at the synagogue door asking to say Kaddish and a gravestone at the cemetery. Kerler praises it and asks what the last phrase means. The informant repeats the final words.
Kerler offers to order coffee. The informant wants coffee but without milk, and says he drinks tea at home. They chat about coffee, wine and the Russian word for a sausage.
Informal
09:17–10:40
The informant recites a humorous piece about people complaining of their lives. It counts seven good years, eighteen bottles of beer and twelve bottles of wine, and ends with a mention of Jews and a Shmuel from a place whose name is unclear. Kerler then asks something short that is unclear.