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AHEYM-2018-029 · Golyanovskiy, Arkadiy Petrovich; Golyanovska (daughter)

Bender 2018-06-27 4 min · 2 stretches · 1 questions about words Yiddish 97%

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 four-minute camera file from the AHEYM session with Golyanovskiy (Bender, 27 June 2018), one of eight consecutive files. Kerler and the interviewee talk about how Yiddish was written and which towns had a strong Yiddish-speaking population. The interviewee then names places along the Southern Bug and a family who lived on one street. The transcript is rough throughout.

Stretches

00:00–02:10

The interviewee and Kerler discuss Yiddish speech and how Yiddish was written in earlier years. The interviewee mentions travelling around to nearby places and learning from his grandmother (?). Kerler asks whether he wrote in Russian or Yiddish letters. The interviewee answers that he wrote in Yiddish letters, but that over the long Soviet years he did not write and partly forgot. They also note the difference between handwritten and printed letters.

02:10–04:10

Kerler asks which places had the most Yiddish speakers. The interviewee names Zhabokech (?) and Berdichev, and Kerler adds Tyvrov (?) and Vinnitsa, which he says had a large Jewish population. They also discuss Jews living in Yerusalimka after the war. The interviewee describes a street along the river Yuzhny Bug where a family lived and says one man's real surname was Nirenberg, not the name he used. The file ends mid-sentence.

before the warafter the war Local Jewish historyYiddish language and dialectFamily history · Zhabokech (?), Krizhakl (?), Berdichev, Tyvrov (?), Vinnitsa, Yerusalimka, Yuzhny Bug

Questions about words

  • 00:52
    How did you write – with Russian letters? — which script the interviewee used for writing