Elizaveta Konstantinovna Bershadskaya

recorded in Bershad', 1903

2 recordings · 77 minutes · 22 min of questionnaire

Also written: Elizaveta Bershad'skaya

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger · recorded together with Anatolii (Naftole) Petrovich Shor

Also interviewed in Russian by the USC Shoah Foundation (Visual History Archive interview 37797).

Conversations 1

Each line is one conversation with Bershadskaya, 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.

• 1903-05-06 – 1903-05-07
  ▶ Bershad' · 58 min proposed

  MDV 371 · MDV 372 0:00–19:04 (2 tapes)

Topics

Questionnaire

48 questions put to Bershadskaya. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 371 0:13
  to ask/request (прошу) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'я прошу' (I ask/request)
• MDV 371 0:21
  bed (кровать) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'кровать' (bed)
• MDV 371 0:26
  my head hurts (голова болит) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'голова болит' (head aches)
• MDV 371 0:33
  I was (я был) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'я был' (I was)
• MDV 371 0:39
  crying (плач ребёнка) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'плач' (crying)
• MDV 371 3:09
  far (далеко) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'далеко' (far)
• MDV 371 3:40
  cross (крест) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'крест' (cross)
• MDV 371 3:48
  to cross oneself (крестится) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'крестится' (to cross oneself)
• MDV 371 4:15
  he doesn't listen to me (не слушает меня) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'не слушает меня' (doesn't listen to me)
• MDV 371 4:24
  vodka (водка) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'водка' (vodka)
• MDV 371 4:30
  cold (холодно) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'холодно' (cold)
• MDV 371 4:36
  colder (холоднее) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian comparative 'холоднее' (colder)
• MDV 371 4:40
  high (высоко) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'высоко' (high)
• MDV 371 4:54
  higher (выше) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'выше' (higher)
• MDV 371 5:06
  also (тоже) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'тоже' (also, the same)
• MDV 371 5:59
  three people (три человека) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'три человека' (three people)
• MDV 371 6:12
  can one say dray ire — can one say דריי אירע (three people)
• MDV 371 6:19
  mouse (мышь) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'мышка' (little mouse, diminutive)
• MDV 371 7:18
  happiness/luck (счастье) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'счастье' (happiness, luck)
• MDV 371 7:27
  late (поздно) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'поздно' (late)
• MDV 371 7:32
  later (позже) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'позже' (later)
• MDV 371 8:07
  greeting during the day (здравствуй) — Yiddish greeting during the day
• MDV 371 8:28
  non-Jew (не еврей) — Yiddish word for a non-Jew
• MDV 371 9:18
  tasty (вкусно) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'вкусно' (tasty)
• MDV 371 10:05
  grapes (виноград) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'виноград' (grapes)
• MDV 371 10:27
  thousand (тысяча) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'тысяча' (thousand)
• MDV 371 10:29
  builds (строит) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'строит' (builds)
• MDV 371 11:36
  sour (кислый) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'кислое' (sour)
• MDV 372 1:23
  attic (чердак) — the word for 'attic'
• MDV 372 2:59
  attic (чердак) — the word for 'attic' (repeated)
• MDV 372 3:53
  pigeon (голубь) — the word for 'dove' or 'pigeon'
• MDV 372 3:53
  broth (бульон) — whether mother cooked broth on Sabbath
• MDV 372 4:34
  deaf person — the word for 'one who cannot hear'
• MDV 372 5:29
  rich person — the word for 'a rich person'
• MDV 372 6:03
  plural of gvir — plural of 'גוויר'
• MDV 372 6:15
  unclear — unclear (likely plural of 'צאדיק')
• MDV 372 6:21
  plural of tsadik — plural of 'צאדיק'
• MDV 372 8:19
  right (correct) (правый) — the word for 'right' (correct)
• MDV 372 8:32
  mistake (ошибка) — the expression for 'I made a mistake'
• MDV 372 8:55
  probably (наверное) — the word for 'probably'
• MDV 372 9:28
  near (близко) — the word for 'close, near'
• MDV 372 10:18
  between (между) — the word for 'between'
• MDV 372 12:03
  someone told me (кто-то мне сказал) — how to say 'someone told me'
• MDV 372 12:08
  suddenly (вдруг) — the word for 'suddenly'
• MDV 372 12:32
  teeth (зубы) — the word for 'teeth'
• MDV 372 12:41
  ten (десять) — the word for 'ten'
• MDV 372 12:45
  difference between rov and rebe — the difference between 'רב' and 'רבי'
• MDV 372 13:40
  plural of rebe — plural of 'רבי'