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Recording of Rezmovics at his home in Budapest on 3 June 2014 (the transcript itself speaks of 3 June 2015 as the last interview of the expedition), a follow-up to an interview some years earlier. After opening chat about the recording and his writings, he recounts how he left Israel and returned to Hungary, his Hungarian army service, and his years in Israel in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including a violent incident with Sephardi soldiers. He then talks about working in Israel and after his return, and ends by retelling in detail a humorous story from his own writing about a Carpathian trickster known as Efrem or Fruyem the 'Gracious', his tricks on a restaurant owner and a priest. Second half of an interview with Rezmovics, an elderly man in Budapest recorded on 2014-06-03. He first finishes a long folktale about a thieving priest, then talks about his mother and her Sabbath reading, a saying about salting meat and a wagon deportation episode. He then describes his father's family from Sziget and Debrecen, a family photograph, Purim in Debrecen, a sister who writes novels, and his time in Israel, closing with talk about his health and his Hebrew circle.
Opening talk: chat about the journey and the recording equipment, then Kerler announces the date and that this is the last interview of the expedition, held with Rezmovics in Budapest. Rezmovics discusses when they last met, a contract and dates, and Kerler recalls his earlier account of prewar Debrecen.
Rezmovics speaks of his own Yiddish writings: a short piece about cheder boys of Debrecen and stories about a famous Carpathian thief, which he promises to give Kerler. He explains that the Yiddish club has died out and he has therefore turned to Hebrew activities.
Rezmovics explains why he left Israel and returned to Hungary: his father's cancer, his marriage in Budapest and the children. He recounts an incident in the Hungarian army, when he was mocked as a Jew in the bath and confronted the commander about discrimination, and says he is proud of it.
Answering Kerler's questions, Rezmovics says he served two years, later extended, in a tank division at the end of the 1940s until 1951 (the divisional place is unclear), and was freed in 1951. He recalls the war conditions and a Passover 1950 leave by truck, when Sephardi soldiers from Africa and Turkey tried to throw him off.
Rezmovics continues the story of the truck: an officer intervened and offered a place in a command car to Safed, but he stayed. Two days later he saw the soldiers who had gone ahead had been slaughtered in an attack. He says he is stubborn and kept his place on the truck.
Rezmovics talks of his time in Safed and a Sabra nicknamed Frank by Polish Jews, of his survival of the Holocaust and near deportation to Auschwitz, and of a short story he wrote. He tells an anecdote about his brother and a Turkish merchant at the market who smeared blood on his nose and shouted about murder.
Answering Kerler's question, Rezmovics describes his work in Israel as a plasterer and his wish to learn the machine trade, then his work and technical training in Hungary. He mentions the frost of 1953, protesting, the 1956 revolution and the loss of records of his earlier Israeli stay.
Kerler asks when he served in the Hungarian army; Rezmovics says in 1953, on his return from Israel, for two months in the reserve, trained with cannons, as one of three brothers returned home.
At Kerler's request Rezmovics retells orally a story from his writing about Efrem (Fruyem) the 'Gracious', a famed trickster in the Carpathians. He blindfolds a restaurant owner and has her pay the bill, leaving a mess; her husband chases them. A guard of a rare bird was tricked, and then a Romanian priest named Mikhail is approached to be robbed.
The informant finishes a long folktale about a boastful priest named Mihaly (Michael) and a thief. The priest has nine wolfhounds, and the thief makes a pact with him and then drugs the dogs with liquor-soaked meat. He robs the priest, who is humiliated. The informant says he heard the story from his father (and mother).
Asked about his mother, he describes her as pious. She read a Yiddish book on Sabbath afternoons and he wrote a short story about her plum tree. He recalls a deportation train episode in which she refused non-kosher food, and gives her origin in Sziget. He also mentions her Sabbath challah, a saying used when salting meat, and buying a goose for Passover and having a dayan rule it kosher. The segment ends with a reflection on how long-term memory serves better than short-term memory.
The informant recalls his mother's plum tree story and a Yiddish song translated from Hungarian about having no father or mother. Kerler asks about Jewish weddings in Debrecen and the badkhn. He speaks of his grandfather, a melamed and his namesake who died before he was born, with an anecdote about a tax collector and the grandmother's pacifying of him. He also tells how his father nearly drowned in the Tisza as a child. He then starts showing a photograph.
The informant shows a family photograph that was reproduced in a cultural centre (Balint House, ?). Kerler asks about the names of his siblings. The parents are Menachem Mendl and Tojbe. The grandmother's name is Gitl and the grandfather is Avrom Reyznovits (?). The informant says his father was religious but not a Hasid.
The informant explains that he took part in a Yiddish club and a Hebrew club at the Balint House. He and S2 talk about a figure called Paludi who sang songs, was learned and married a non-Jewish woman, later also a Yemenite woman. Kerler then asks about Purim in Debrecen, and the informant recites rhymed Purim mock verses. He talks about his sister, a writer of Hungarian novels who translated for the Red Army. They discuss her Yiddish. A Hungarian writer called Felder (?) is mentioned. He describes a bar mitzvah visit to Debrecen's Chabad centre.
Asked about Purim plays, the informant mentions Purim lottery slips. He then describes his time as a young religious man joining the Israeli army, and the Polish Jews he met there, whose dialect he loved. He wanted to shake hands with Warsaw uprising veterans and visited a kibbutz near Nahariya (?). He gave them a Hebrew poem he wrote, 'The Eternal Masada', and speaks of an interview with Leon Jaris (?). Kerler says this is not the last interview, and they briefly discuss his health and his regular Hebrew circle.