Debrecen(Debretsin in the project's index)2015-05-177 min · 4 stretchesYiddish 98%
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Summary
Final ten-minute-or-less file of a session in Debrecen (index: Réti, 2015-05-17), audio only. The conversation is a farewell: greetings to Jews in America, a parcel sent earlier, the renovated Orthodox synagogue and its daily prayers, Chabad's presence, visiting Jews and the Tash (?) Hasidim, Purim and Passover gatherings, and closing good wishes.
Stretches
00:00–01:34
Farewell exchange: greetings are sent to Jews in America and to a woman named Perl (?). The interviewee says a parcel with kosher salami was sent. Kerler asks whether he received the package sent two or three years before, and the interviewee says yes, from Pest. A Hungarian address (Mester utca) is given, and Kerler promises to try to send another.
Kerler asks for a little song, but the talk turns to the renovated synagogue, repair work done in the old Orthodox synagogue and the beit midrash, and daily morning prayer there. A donor named Vruser (?) gave money, a sum of six hundred thousand (?) is mentioned. The interviewee asks whether the Tash (?) Hasidim still come and mentions the rebbe, and says he was in a ghetto and in Auschwitz (?).
Kerler and the interviewee discuss visitors from abroad, fewer each year, who come for yahrzeits and to cemeteries. They pray separately and bring their own Torah scroll; the interviewee mentions a new Torah scroll given by Chabad. They talk about the Chabad rebbe who travels the world, and a house bought here.
Kerler asks who is in the yellow building by the Status Quo synagogue, formerly a yeshiva. The interviewee names a man, Ernfeld (?), who comes from Eretz Israel. Gatherings there for Purim fish and Passover seder are mentioned. After a passing remark about a weekday air (?), Kerler closes with thanks and wishes of health, and the interviewee mentions the Messiah.