Warsaw(Varshe in the project's index)2018-06-162 min · 3 stretches · 1 questions about wordsYiddish 89% Polish 6% no words 6%
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Summary
Short camera-track fragment (about two and a half minutes) from a session recorded in Warsaw on 16 June 2018, the first of six consecutive files. An elderly Warsaw resident talks with Kerler about having known his own grandparents and about his son's trip to Spain and its heat. A short exchange about the word for a type of coat follows, and the end of the file has a Polish aside and talk between the two men about seating or moving.
Stretches
00:00–01:13
The man says he is perhaps the only person in Warsaw, or even in all Poland, who knew certain people's parents, grandmother and grandfather. He then speaks of his son, who phoned him from Spain, and of the heat there, which Poland has not had. He gives a temperature of twenty-two or twenty-one degrees (?).
The man says he had to travel somewhere specially and that he would put on a certain coat. Kerler asks about the word and the two discuss terms for kinds of coat, among them a fur coat and a jacket-like garment. The transcript is unclear on the exact items.
A Polish remark asks someone to sit elsewhere. Kerler then speaks in Yiddish about meat or not being able to go somewhere. The passage is mostly unclear.
Informal
Questions about words
01:13
Does one say 'kurtke' (?) for a coat — the word for a type of coat (kurtke (?)), with Kerler repeating and confirming it as a coat