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AHEYM-2018-026 · Golyanovskiy, Arkadiy Petrovich; Golyanovska (daughter)

Bender 2018-06-27 16 min · 4 stretches · 2 questions about words Yiddish 82% Russian 17%

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Summary

Camera-track file (15:41) from a session in Bender with Arkadiy Petrovich Golyanovskiy, a compiler of Yiddish proverbs and sayings, with a daughter also named in the index. Kerler and Golyanovskiy look through his multi-volume typescript collection of Yiddish proverbs and sayings, with Russian transliteration and translation, and the family photos and notes kept with it. The talk covers how the volumes are printed and classified, copyright and the transfer of publishing rights, and a few proverbs.

Stretches

00:00–04:28

Golyanovskiy and Kerler discuss his collection of Yiddish proverbs and sayings, which are transliterated into Latin and Russian letters and printed in Bender. He says he printed a very small run himself and had it bound. Kerler asks whether anything survived from his grandmother's notebooks. Golyanovskiy says it is with his sister in Krasnodar and shows photographs of his grandson from America, the grandson's father and brother, and his children. The paintings are by friends.

04:28–07:55

Golyanovskiy recites and explains several Yiddish proverbs and sayings, such as sayings about wealth and the world, about a lazy person (a "fuler" (?)), and about a wooden head. Kerler asks how one says a certain proverb in Yiddish and comments on the meanings.

07:24–10:42

Golyanovskiy talks in Russian and Yiddish about his book: the introductory essay, the collected Jewish proverbs, and sayings that are his own. He explains that he wanted to pass the copyright to his grandson but could not by law, and so transferred the right of publication to him. The grandson Ilya Zozin (?) lives in Moscow and can be found at the synagogue on Saturdays. He studies at a financial academy.

10:42–15:41

Kerler browses the second and third volumes. He reads aloud sayings and asks about a family name (Weinshelbaum (?)) and about a man who lost a leg in the war. Golyanovskiy explains the classification: six hundred and ten (?) items, volume two in four parts with numbered tones, and the card index, which he shows. Kerler praises the work.

Questions about words

  • 05:09
    How do you say it in Yiddish — 'hands on the straw'? — Yiddish form of a saying about a roof over one's head
  • 06:06
    Do you say 'a fuler' (a full one, a lazy person)? — Whether the word is used for a lazy person