Camera file from a session with Arkadiy Petrovich Golyanovskiy and his daughter at Bender (Bendery), 27 June 2018, in a mix of Yiddish and Russian. It opens with chat about acquaintances, a Moscow professor's family and the interviewer's own background, then Kerler asks permission to record, and Golyanovskiy begins his life story: his Yiddish name, his grandmothers, wartime evacuation and Krizhopol. The file may begin and end mid-conversation, and much of the transcript is noisy.
00:00–02:43
Opening chat in Yiddish. They speak of whether to write in Yiddish and of a Yiddish writer, Yishkovski (?) Mordkhe, whose parents were from Krasne, and of his songs. Then a short exchange about Yiddish forms (sleeping, a cat scratching) and Bessarabian speech.
02:30–07:00
Kerler notes the date and that they travelled from Rybnitsa to Bender. Conversation about where each comes from (Podolia, Bessarabia, Moldavia), Kerler's birth in Moscow and move to Israel at thirteen, and about a Moscow professor's family (grandmother Sara Abramovna, a professor; a non-Jewish mother) known to the speakers. The daughter tells in Russian of a Moscow visit and a friend's son playing a Jewish anthem on the piano.
07:00–08:30
Kerler asks permission to videorecord, saying they document Yiddish speakers across Moldova and elsewhere. The informants agree to academic, cultural-historical and educational use, without sale.
· Moldova
08:26–12:34
Golyanovskiy begins his life story. His grandmother was a teacher in a Jewish school in Krizhopol (Vinnitsa region). He recalls being evacuated during the war, living with his grandmother, speaking several languages as a child, and returning to Krizhopol in 1944. He describes the Jewish street, Bud gas (?), where the synagogue stood. Kerler also notes meeting a last Jew in Kleshaberge (?) on earlier expeditions. Kerler confirms his Yiddish name Avrom and Russian name Arkadiy.
12:01–15:23
He describes a Polish neighbour woman, Manya Chekovska (?), who counted as a second grandmother and sewed clothes for him; she was not Jewish. Kerler asks his Yiddish-speaking grandmother's name (Brane Basvol (?)) and the father's origin (Geysen, ?). His grandmother taught him Jewish life and kept notebooks of Yiddish proverbs and sayings. He recalls speaking Yiddish with a Jew he met.
15:13–17:31
The daughter says in Russian her mother lived with them and spoke only Yiddish, and speaks of her mother's family from the Krasne district and a brother who was a doctor through the war. They name a Shvartsman family (Miron Vladimirovich, father Meir Shlomovich). Golyanovskiy recalls meeting Yiddish-speaking Jews in Lviv and Odessa. Kerler then asks for more about both grandmothers.
17:21–19:31
Golyanovskiy recalls the Polish grandmother giving him money for the cinema, and her house on Bud gas (?). He says he drew on his grandmother's notebooks for his own collections of about four thousand proverbs and sayings, made into four books with thematic classification. His daughter offers to fetch something; the file ends here.