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AHEYM-2015-017 · Eisikovits, Mihal

Baia Mare 2015-05-19 4 min · 2 stretches · 1 questions about words Yiddish 73% Hungarian 27%

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

A short audio-only recording (under four minutes) from the 2015 Baia Mare expedition, with the interviewee Eisikovits. Kerler asks him to talk about photographs, including a wedding picture and a Purim-play picture, and about his uncle the composer. The informant declines for now and mentions people coming tomorrow. The recording ends in logistics, with some Hungarian addressed to a woman called Ildiko.

Stretches

00:00–01:39

Kerler asks the informant to tell about photographs, recalling a picture of costumed children in a Purim play that he showed two years earlier. They look at a wedding picture, with men and women separate and a dance with small cloths. Kerler asks what such a dance was called, perhaps a mitsve dance (?), and the informant does not know. Kerler says he is writing the interview down in Yiddish.

01:39–03:47

Kerler asks about the informant's uncle, the composer. The informant says he has no opportunity now and must talk with people coming tomorrow, between five and six. Kerler explains that someone must phone to arrange this. Kerler then speaks Hungarian to Ildiko and asks her to sit beside him. There is a remark about a place or a card (?), and a Hungarian aside about English and Hebrew. The end is largely unclear.

Informal Family history

Questions about words

  • 01:00
    What was such a dance with a small cloth called? Was it called a mitsve dance? — name of the wedding dance performed with a small cloth