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Camera file of a visit in Herzliya on 12 June 2018 to the poet Rivke Basman, whom Kerler and Lemster visit in her home. It opens with greetings, coffee and talk about her health and recent book. Most of it is Basman reading aloud her own Yiddish poems and talking about their Hebrew translations and the translator Shlomo (Shalom) Luria. The file ends mid-conversation, continuing in the next file.
Arrival and greetings, with a phone call at the start. Basman is addressed as Rivke and a woman called Sara (Sore) who let the visitors in is mentioned. Coffee is offered, Basman says her health is not as it was, and her new little book is discussed. She says Misha already received a copy and that she wants to give Kerler one. Talk of rain at the sea and of being filmed follows.
Conversation about books and inscribing copies, with mention of Mule (her late husband) being remembered. Kerler and Lemster talk about spending the days together and drinking homemade brandy. Kerler thanks her. They discuss the Yiddish songs and the book she had published, and compare how writing improves with age.
Basman looks for poems and reads aloud one written for her husband Mule, about bringing him flowers and his painting. She says the poem has been printed in Hebrew translation. She then reads a poem about the Yiddish words and the spring they bring. She introduces a poem about the time her husband died in Safed (Tsfat).
She explains that she wrote a poem about a dog in her house after returning alone from the hospital, and reads it. She translated a poem into Hebrew for a relative who does not know Yiddish. She reads further poems about the palette of words and about not being lost through memory, then says one more poem is enough.
Basman and Kerler talk about the translator Shlomo (Shalom) Luria, who translated her poems into Hebrew. They recall his bitterness over the ghetto, and Kerler mentions Kovno, Vilna, Kolmanovitsh (?) and a visit to his kibbutz. She reads a poem written in his memory. Kerler describes meeting him in Oxford and her recalling untranslated texts in an archive. She says Luria translated well because he knew Yiddish.
Basman recites poems about a walking stick and a doctor, and about what a person does at ninety, then recalls her swimming. She reads a poem on drinking coffee with a good friend while still young, and mentions a poem written for a joker. She ends with a poem about being someone who begins with her and ends with a poem.