Elena (Leyke) Haimovna Akkerman

recorded in Edineț, 2005

2 recordings · 119 minutes · 34 min of questionnaire · 13 min of singing

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Dovid Katz, Moisei Lemster · recorded together with Raisa Aizekovna Shvartzman, Iosif (Yosel) Matveyevich Shvartzman

Conversations 1

Each line is one conversation with Akkerman, whichever tapes carry it; ▶ opens it with its own player, which runs through its parts in sequence. The tape links play from that point on the tape's page.

• 2005-12-14
  ▶ Edineț · 1.7 h two sources agree

  MDV 189 18:12–1:01:28 · MDV 190 (2 tapes)

Topics

Questionnaire

58 questions put to Akkerman. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 190 0:17
  hello (здравствуйте) — Yiddish for 'hello'
• MDV 190 0:37
  response to a gut morgn — response to 'a gut morgn'
• MDV 190 0:58
  response to a gut morgn — response to 'gut morgn'
• MDV 190 1:07
  give me please this book (дайте мне пожалуйста эту книгу) — Yiddish sentence: 'give me this book please'
• MDV 190 1:38
  thank you (спасибо) — Yiddish for 'thank you'
• MDV 190 1:55
  lives (живёт) — Yiddish for 'lives'
• MDV 190 2:01
  groats (крупа) — Yiddish for 'groats/cereal'
• MDV 190 2:24
  skin (кожа) — Yiddish for 'skin'
• MDV 190 2:59
  mouse (мышь) — Yiddish for 'mouse'
• MDV 190 3:41
  window pane (стекло окна) — Yiddish for 'window pane'
• MDV 190 3:46
  blue (синий) — Yiddish for 'blue'
• MDV 190 4:13
  pigeon (голубь) — Yiddish for 'dove/pigeon'
• MDV 190 4:44
  gray-haired (седой) — Yiddish for 'gray-haired'
• MDV 190 5:07
  builds (строит) — Yiddish for 'builds'
• MDV 190 5:39
  sour (кислый) — Yiddish for 'sour'
• MDV 190 5:52
  ear (ухо) — Yiddish for 'ear'
• MDV 190 5:59
  deaf (глухой (deaf)) — Yiddish for 'deaf'
• MDV 190 6:03
  kiss (поцелуй) — Yiddish for 'kiss'
• MDV 190 6:09
  he came (пришёл) — Yiddish for 'he came'
• MDV 190 6:48
  late (поздно) — Yiddish for 'late'
• MDV 190 6:55
  later (позже) — Yiddish for 'later'
• MDV 190 7:04
  earlier (раньше) — Yiddish for 'earlier'
• MDV 190 7:26
  cold (холодно) — Yiddish for 'cold'
• MDV 190 7:28
  colder (холоднее) — Yiddish for 'colder'
• MDV 190 7:35
  high (высоко) — Yiddish for 'high'
• MDV 190 7:53
  higher (выше) — Yiddish for 'higher'
• MDV 190 7:59
  quickly (быстро) — Yiddish for 'quickly'
• MDV 190 8:05
  near (близко) — Yiddish for 'close/near'
• MDV 190 8:21
  he will also come (он тоже придет) — Yiddish for 'he will also come'
• MDV 190 8:31
  where does he live (где он живет? (where does he live?)) — Yiddish for 'where does he live'
• MDV 190 8:51
  how did you say (как ты сказал?) — Yiddish for 'how did you say'
• MDV 190 9:19
  she knows everything (она знает всё) — Yiddish for 'she knows everything'
• MDV 190 9:33
  listen to me (слушай меня) — Yiddish for 'listen to me'
• MDV 190 9:58
  roof (крыша) — Yiddish for 'roof'
• MDV 190 10:04
  how (как) — how to say 'kak' in Yiddish
• MDV 190 10:28
  he is pleasing (он нравится) — Yiddish for 'he/she is pleasing'
• MDV 190 10:48
  I like him (он мне нравится) — Yiddish for 'he pleases me'
• MDV 190 11:00
  I don't like him (он мне не нравится) — Yiddish for 'he doesn't please me'
• MDV 190 11:06
  I don't like him at all (он мне очень не нравится) — Yiddish for 'he really doesn't please me'
• MDV 190 13:47
  barely (еле-еле) — Yiddish for 'barely'
• MDV 190 14:12
  to run away (убежать) — Yiddish for 'to run away'
• MDV 190 15:49
  he ran away from the Germans (он убежал от немцев) — Yiddish for 'he ran away from the Germans'
• MDV 190 16:08
  honest (честный) — Yiddish for 'honest'
• MDV 190 16:20
  pious (набожный) — Yiddish for 'pious'
• MDV 190 16:48
  believer (верующий) — Yiddish for 'believer'
• MDV 190 16:51
  very pious (очень набожен) — Yiddish for 'very pious'
• MDV 190 17:17
  cross (крест) — Yiddish for 'cross'
• MDV 190 18:11
  peasant (крестьянин) — Yiddish for 'peasant/farmer'
• MDV 190 18:24
  Christian (христианин) — Yiddish for 'Christian'
• MDV 190 20:01
  where are you from (откуда вы?) — Yiddish for 'where are you from'
• MDV 190 20:35
  bed (кровать) — Yiddish for 'bed'
• MDV 190 20:39
  I ask you / please (я вас прошу) — Yiddish for 'I ask you / please'
• MDV 190 21:55
  vodka (водка) — Yiddish for 'vodka'
• MDV 190 22:33
  thousand (тысяча) — Yiddish for 'thousand'
• MDV 190 22:42
  grandmother (бабушка) — Yiddish for 'grandmother'
• MDV 190 23:08
  I speak with mama (разговариваю с мамой) — Yiddish for 'talking with mother'
• MDV 190 23:17
  I walk on the street (иду по улице) — Yiddish for 'I walk on the street'
• MDV 190 23:35
  river (река) — Yiddish for 'river'