Lazar Eilovich Burshtein

born 1929 in Goworowo ("Goworowo (Poland; Yiddish: Govrove)" in the catalogue) two sources agree · recorded in Zhytomyr, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008

11 recordings · 579 minutes · 57 min of questionnaire · 91 min of singing

Also written: Burshtein

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Dovid Katz, Moisei Lemster, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Anatolii Kerzhner · recorded together with Veniamin Iakovlevich Geller, Shmilik Landsman, Yosel Shor, Grigorii Mikhailovich Shraibman, Mariia Moshkovna Groisburg, Khezkel Srulevich Shpitz

Conversations 6 ▶ play all in order

Each line is one conversation with Burshtein, 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.

• 2002-07-09
  ▶ Zhytomyr · 2.7 h

  MDV 781 · MDV 782 · MDV 783 · MDV 785 (4 tapes) · with Veniamin Iakovlevich Geller, an unidentified interviewee
• 2002-07-09
  ▶ Zhytomyr · 42 min

  MDV 784
• 2003-05-23
  ▶ Zhytomyr · 2.1 h

  MDV 622 · MDV 798 (2 tapes) · with Mariia Moshkovna Groisburg
• 2003-05-23
  ▶ Zhytomyr · 3.1 h uncertain

  MDV 795 · MDV 796 · MDV 797 (3 tapes) · with Grigorii Mikhailovich Shraibman
• 2007-06-11
  ▶ Zhytomyr · 1.8 h

  MDV 799 · MDV 800 (2 tapes) · with Veniamin Iakovlevich Geller, Khezkel Srulevich Shpitz
• 2008-05-28
  ▶ Zhytomyr · 62 min

  MDV 452

Topics

Questionnaire

92 questions put to Burshtein. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 622 1:25
  vodka (водка)
• MDV 622 1:34
  thank you (спасибо) — how to say 'thank you' in their Yiddish
• MDV 622 6:16
  greeting at night
• MDV 622 6:47
  thank you (спасибо)
• MDV 622 6:57
  mouse (мышь) — mouse (diminutive)
• MDV 622 7:16
  I have no luck (мне не везёт)
• MDV 622 7:26
  belly (живот) — stomach
• MDV 622 7:28
  house (дом)
• MDV 622 7:31
  another word for house
• MDV 622 8:12
  groats (крупа)
• MDV 622 8:32
  skin (кожа) — skin (of person, not leather)
• MDV 782 0:00
  thank you (спасибо) — how to say 'thank you'
• MDV 782 0:22
  such things (Такие вещи) — Yiddish for 'such things'
• MDV 782 1:22
  to breathe (дышать) — how to say 'breathe'
• MDV 782 3:09
  golem — how to say 'golem'
• MDV 782 3:33
  only Jews (одни евреи) — how to say 'only Jews'
• MDV 782 4:07
  sweet and sour (кислосладкий) — the Yiddish for 'sweet and sour'
• MDV 782 9:52
  plural form
• MDV 783 0:45
  flea — the word for 'flea'
• MDV 783 1:55
  deaf (глухой (deaf)) — word for 'deaf person'
• MDV 783 2:39
  deaf (глухой (deaf)) — how to say 'deaf'
• MDV 783 7:48
  sun (солнце) — the word for 'sun'
• MDV 795 1:51
  meaning of dibek — What 'dybbuk' means
• MDV 795 2:30
  meaning of goylem — What 'golem' means
• MDV 795 2:56
  little ladder (лесенка) — Yiddish for 'ladder, small stairs'
• MDV 795 4:06
  builds (строит) — Yiddish for 'builds'
• MDV 795 4:16
  lives (живёт) — Yiddish for 'lives'
• MDV 795 4:21
  house (дом) — Is there another word for 'house' besides 'shtub'
• MDV 795 4:57
  what hoyz means — What does 'hoyz' mean
• MDV 795 5:21
  groats (крупа) — Yiddish for 'groats'
• MDV 795 9:41
  near (близко) — Yiddish for 'near'
• MDV 795 10:55
  also (тоже) — Yiddish for 'also'
• MDV 795 11:20
  stone building (каменная постройка) — Yiddish for 'stone building'
• MDV 795 12:29
  kissel (кисель) — Yiddish for 'kissel' (a dish)
• MDV 795 12:35
  gray-haired (седой) — Yiddish for 'gray-haired'
• MDV 795 12:44
  pigeon (голубь) — Yiddish for 'dove'
• MDV 795 13:19
  by the way (Кстати) — Yiddish for 'by the way'
• MDV 796 0:05
  kiss (поцелуй) — Yiddish for 'kiss' (noun)
• MDV 796 7:10
  unclear — how to say something (unclear from transcript)
• MDV 796 7:56
  I like him very much (он мне очень нравится) — Yiddish rendering of 'I like him very much'
• MDV 796 8:29
  each/every (каждый) — Yiddish for 'each/every'
• MDV 796 8:59
  honest (честный) — Yiddish for 'honest'
• MDV 796 9:37
  he knows everything (Все он знает) — Yiddish for 'he knows everything'
• MDV 796 9:56
  my head hurts (голова болит) — Yiddish for 'my head aches'
• MDV 796 10:28
  from where (откуда) — Yiddish for 'from where are you?'
• MDV 796 10:56
  from there (оттуда) — Yiddish for 'from there'
• MDV 796 13:11
  midwife (акушерка) — Yiddish term for midwife
• MDV 796 13:58
  from where (откуда) — grammatical form (unclear)
• MDV 796 14:03
  unclear
• MDV 796 14:11
  you are young (ты молод) — Yiddish for 'you are young'
• MDV 796 14:18
  you are right (ты прав) — Yiddish for 'you are right'
• MDV 796 16:10
  thousand (тысяча) — Yiddish for 'thousand'
• MDV 796 16:46
  vodka (водка) — Yiddish for 'vodka'
• MDV 796 17:07
  I speak with mama (разговариваю с мамой) — Yiddish for 'I am talking with mother'
• MDV 796 17:47
  to ask/request (прошу) — Yiddish for 'I ask you / please'
• MDV 796 19:18
  tail (хвост) — Yiddish for 'tail'
• MDV 796 19:31
  beam (бревно) — Yiddish for 'log/beam'
• MDV 796 22:07
  flowers (цветы) — Yiddish for 'flowers'
• MDV 796 22:23
  potato (картошка) — Yiddish for 'potato'
• MDV 796 22:59
  all people (все люди) — Yiddish for 'all people'
• MDV 796 23:04
  I know everyone here (я знаю здесь всех) — Yiddish for 'I know everyone here' (form of אלעמען)
• MDV 796 23:26
  I sat at the table (я сидел за столом) — Yiddish for 'I was sitting at the table'
• MDV 796 24:15
  on this street live only Jews (на этой улице живут одни евреи) — Yiddish for 'On this street live only Jews'
• MDV 796 25:55
  one and a half (полтора) — Yiddish for 'one and a half'
• MDV 796 26:16
  attic (чердак) — Yiddish for 'attic'
• MDV 796 27:18
  I don't know whether he knows or not (не знаю, знает ли он или нет) — Yiddish for 'I don't know whether he knows or not'
• MDV 796 27:48
  ceiling (потолок) — Yiddish for 'ceiling'
• MDV 796 28:00
  floor (пол) — Yiddish for 'floor'
• MDV 796 31:40
  rich man — Yiddish for 'rich man'
• MDV 796 32:17
  fence (забор) — Yiddish for 'fence'
• MDV 796 34:50
  gender of ponem — gender of פנים
• MDV 796 34:56
  overgrown (зарос) — form of 'overgrown'
• MDV 796 35:30
  much/many (много) — Yiddish for 'much/many'
• MDV 796 35:46
  back (назад) — Yiddish for 'back/backwards'
• MDV 796 35:59
  room (комната) — Yiddish for 'room'
• MDV 796 36:13
  someone (кто-то) — Yiddish for 'someone'
• MDV 796 36:25
  suddenly (вдруг) — Yiddish for 'suddenly'
• MDV 797 0:47
  I liked him very much (он мне очень понравился) — translation of Russian sentence 'he pleases me very much'
• MDV 797 0:51
  barely walks (еле-еле ходит) — translation of 'barely walks'
• MDV 797 1:30
  honest (честный) — Yiddish for 'honest'
• MDV 797 1:38
  pious (набожный) — Yiddish for 'pious'
• MDV 797 2:08
  well (колодец) — Yiddish for 'well'
• MDV 797 2:21
  potato (картошка) — Yiddish for 'potato'
• MDV 797 2:38
  flowers (цветы) — Yiddish for 'flowers'
• MDV 797 2:52
  store (магазин) — Yiddish for 'store'
• MDV 798 0:04
  cross (крест) — Yiddish word for 'cross' (religious symbol worn by non-Jews)
• MDV 798 2:01
  unclear word — Yiddish word for 'word'
• MDV 798 2:13
  ladder (лестница) — Yiddish word for 'ladder/stairs'
• MDV 798 3:33
  cross (крест) — Yiddish word for 'cross' (repeated question)
• MDV 800 0:00
  whether heard goylem — whether the speaker has heard the word 'goylem'
• MDV 800 0:08
  meaning of goylem — what 'goylem' means
• MDV 800 0:08
  whether heard dibbuk — whether the speaker has heard the word 'dibek'