Chernivtsi(Chernovits in the project's index)2015-05-221 min · 1 stretchesYiddish 56% Russian 44%
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
Very short camera-track file from the session with Rosa Sternberg in Chernovits, 22 May 2015; it begins mid-conversation. The speech is mostly Russian: a joke is told about a telegram announcing a death, and at the end someone remarks on Yiddish versus Russian understanding and on telling jokes in Yiddish. The Yiddish transcript here is largely noise.
Stretches
00:00–01:06
In Russian, a joke is told about a man asked to watch a neighbor and to send a telegram if she is out gallivanting. He sends a telegram saying she has died, and the reply is about the funeral and the timing. The last lines are short remarks about telling more jokes in Yiddish and about understanding Yiddish better than Russian; the Yiddish line is mostly unclear.