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Camera-track recording made in Warsaw on 17 June 2018 with Jacob "Kobi" Weitzner and Alexandra Krol, who speak Yiddish together. Kerler opens with chat about the date and the scarcity of Yiddish speakers in Warsaw, then asks how they learned Yiddish. Weitzner then tells of his Israeli childhood, schooling abroad and how he came to Yiddish theater and folklore study.
Chat about today's date (17 June 2018) and the fact that hardly anyone is left to speak Yiddish with in Warsaw. Weitzner and Krol say they are almost the only people who speak it together. Kerler mentions a recent interview with Alina Lishchinski (?) from Lodz and the difficulty of finding other interviewees, including a former actress.
Krol says she learned Yiddish at the University of Warsaw while studying history, then at a summer course in Shrudborov (?), where they met. They say that was thirteen years ago, and Krol has three children. Kerler recalls Weitzner's first job with him, translating a film scenario from Russian, and Weitzner mentions his own book.
Kerler recalls meeting David Katz around 1981 (?), then asks Weitzner about his childhood. Weitzner says his mother came from Skalat (?) and his father from Lemberg. They would probably not have married had they stayed in Poland. In Tel Aviv the mother's main language was Yiddish while the father spoke Polish. The grandfather wrote in Hebrew. Weitzner attended a folk school until fourteen, then studied in Belgium and Vienna.
Weitzner describes five schools in four years in Europe, in French, German and finally an English-language exam. He then went to the Hebrew University in Israel and chose to study theater. His teacher Arie Sachs, a specialist in English literature and a poet, was criticized for the theater department's focus on non-Jewish drama.
Sachs offers Weitzner a scholarship to take a course in Yiddish theater, which no one else wanted, and this began his Yiddish career. He mentions the folklorist Dovid Noy (?), who lectured on folk and lullaby songs and is called an ethnopoetic scholar. He also discusses Shmeruk, who worked on Yiddish biblical drama, and compares the risks of the two fields.
Weitzner talks about a Yiddish-language poet and a trip to Paris, where he found a bookshop with theater books. He discovered a Yiddish-French theater book published in East Germany, from which he taught himself theater. He then speaks of working with Sachs on beginners' classes, and a mistake that led to trouble. The closing lines are thin.