Chernivtsi(Chernovits in the project's index)2015-05-223 min · 1 stretchesYiddish 15% Russian 85%
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Summary
Short camera-track file (2:38) from the 2015 Chernovits expedition, indexed to Rosa Sternberg. The speech is mostly a song sung in Russian, a version of 'Tum-balalaika' with Russian verses, with the refrain heard several times. No interview talk is heard, and the recording begins and ends mid-song.
Stretches
00:18–02:38
A song is sung in Russian, a version of 'Tum-balalaika' with Russian verses. The verses are a dialogue between a boy and a girl built on riddles about love, and the refrain 'tum-balalaika' recurs. The last verse is about a young man standing under a window who dreams of marrying. The opening lines at 00:18–00:27 are unclear. No spoken exchange with the interviewer is heard.