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AHEYM-2018-012 · Weitzner, Jacob "Kobi"; Krol, Alexandra

Warsaw (Varshe in the project's index) 2018-06-17 2 min · 1 stretches Yiddish 71% English 29%

Not online: the recording is held by the project and is not on Media Collections Online, YouTube or archive.org. Everything below is a paraphrase of a machine transcript, the weaker of this site's two transcript layers — see how it was made.

Summary

A very short camera-track file (about 1.5 minutes) from the Warsaw 2018 session with Weitzner and Krol, the last of five consecutive files. It is in English: an anecdote about a Jewish German girl with a Volkswagen who studied for a year at a university in Israel, followed by a brief remark from a second voice about her German mentality.

Stretches

00:00–01:29

In English, a speaker tells of a Jewish German girl who spoke Hebrew with a German accent and came to the university for one year. She was popular because she had a Volkswagen, which the others used to get around, until it broke down. Another voice asks whether this was in Jerusalem and remarks that she was Jewish but had a German mentality.

Stories, humor and sayings Emigration and relatives abroad · Jerusalem

Series: Warsaw 2018
Recorded: 2018-06-17, Warsaw
Interviewees: Weitzner, Jacob "Kobi"
Krol, Alexandra
Kind: conversational · prompts in English
Transcript: poor class, 213 words

Speakers, as the transcript identifies them

INT?other
Tells the anecdote in English about a German-Jewish girl who came to a university for a year and had a Volkswagen; may be one of the interviewees, since the label is a guess (00:00-00:29).
INFinformant
Asks whether the events took place in Jerusalem, and comments that the girl was Jewish but had a German mentality (00:57).

The interviewer's practice

No word questions; the file contains only an anecdote and a brief reaction to it.

Notes on the transcript

The Yiddish lines are recogniser noise; the content comes from the English lines. The file may begin and end mid-conversation. The labels INT? and INF are uncertain, and whether the anecdote-teller is Weitzner or Krol is not clear.

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