Warsaw(Varshe in the project's index)2017-06-123 min · 2 stretchesYiddish 73% Russian 24%
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Summary
Short camera-track file from a session in Warsaw on 12 June 2017 with Józef Hen. Kerler asks about Yiddish writers in Warsaw after the war and mutual acquaintances, then the talk moves to food and drink, with Polish and Russian remarks. The recording starts and ends mid-conversation.
Stretches
00:00–02:27
Kerler asks whether Hen knew Yiddish writers in Warsaw after the war. They discuss people they both knew, among them Kalman Segal (?) and David (?) Sfard (?), who worked at a Yiddish book publisher. Kerler says he met some in Jerusalem and in Poland. The talk touches on a Polish-language writer and a book of poems published in Jerusalem, which Hen says he has and that someone sent. Some Russian remarks on a radio broadcast and on 'Vygotsky' are mixed in, and the names are partly unclear in the transcript.
The talk turns to food and drink: a Polish dish (pierogi) is called good, and the speakers mention what is served with dumplings (?) and vodka. Kerler and Hen exchange short remarks, partly in Polish and Russian. The transcript is thin here.