Camera-track recording made in Legnica on 2017-06-09 with a Yiddish-speaking woman, probably the wife of a Polish-speaking husband. A second woman (S2) also takes part, and Kerler is the interviewer. It is mostly informal conversation about children living far away, Yiddish jokes and singers, and the Yiddish seminar the woman attended, with some talk in Polish. It is not a life-history interview.
00:00–02:30
Conversation about children who live far away and about getting used to everything. The woman then retells a Hasidic joke told to her by a man named Ringer (?): a hasid tells his rebbe that a cow broke a leg on Sabbath, and the rebbe at first says nothing may be done.
02:30–05:25
Kerler remarks that Sabbath begins that evening and that they must reach Wrocław and find a hotel and food in time. The woman then says she loves Hasidic melodies and tries to recall the name of a singer she heard in Israel who has since died. Kerler suggests names including Yashe (?), Lin (?) and Shmariyalin (?), and asks whether the singer was a Romanian Jew.
05:24–06:49
Kerler and the woman try to recall more singers who have died. He mentions Theodore Bikel (?), born in Vienna and later an American, and the woman mentions someone who acted in Yiddish in an Israeli theatre. Kerler says it was not Trejstman (?).
06:49–10:02
Talk partly in Polish about exchanging contacts with the Yiddishists and students in Wrocław. The woman then tells how a group of students at a Yiddish seminar refused to attend lectures on religion given by a young rabbi from Ukraine. The organizer, Yushkovski (?), insisted that tradition, religion and culture belong together and threatened to dismiss the objectors, after which things settled. Kerler says he knows Yushkovski only slightly.
10:02–12:54
Mostly in Polish, with Yiddish asides. They joke that the professor is learning Polish and discuss the local rabbi, who is seen on television but speaks little Polish and prays in a way they dislike. The woman mentions a rabbi named Simcha Keller (?) in Łódź, and Kerler notes that he is not Jewish by birth.
12:55–15:02
Kerler comments that the man is a convert and that Jews like asking questions. Playing on Lithuanian pronunciation, he asks about forms of a word with a goat (?) and a cow. The woman recalls a teacher from Argentina, Abraham Lichtenbaum (?), who taught at their seminar. He lost sixty kilos, and he once asked them to identify two Polish-looking words, which nobody understood until he explained them.
15:02–17:34
Kerler says he will meet them in July in Vilnius, where they work together on a joint programme. The woman recalls other seminar participants, including an American woman named Chava (?) and a man named Hershl Glaza (?), and says the seminar was around 2009 (?). She notes that they no longer travel to such seminars, and S2 says the seminar is now in Warsaw rather than the place it used to be held (name unclear). At the seminar only Yiddish was spoken.
17:31–19:37
The woman says she speaks Polish with her husband and uses Yiddish only as a code when others should not understand. With her mother-in-law she spoke only Yiddish. They talk about language fading when it is not spoken, and the session ends with farewell chat about drinking and a trip.