Mihai Freundlich (Avrum-Khayim)

born 1921 in Baia Mare ("Baia Mare (Yiddish: Banye)" in the catalogue) · recorded in Oradea, Cluj-Napoca, 2007, 2008

5 recordings · 262 minutes · 28 min of questionnaire · 7 min of singing

Also written: Mihai (Avrum-Khayim) Freundlich

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Moisei Lemster · recorded together with Elizabeta Freundlich, Lazar (Moshe-Leyzer) Freund

Conversations 3 ▶ play all in order

Each line is one conversation with Freundlich, 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.

• 2007-06-04 – 2007-06-05
  ▶ Cluj-Napoca or Oradea · 4.5 h uncertain

  MDV 239 47:44–58:40 · MDV 240 · MDV 241 · MDV 287 · MDV 288 · MDV 289 0:00–9:26 (6 tapes) · with Elizabeta Freundlich
• 2008-07-03
  ▶ Oradea · 59 min uncertain

  MDV 291
• 2008-07-08
  ▶ Oradea · 45 min

  MDV 296

Topics

Questionnaire

40 questions put to Freundlich. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 288 0:31
  meaning of goylem — what 'golem' means
• MDV 288 0:56
  cemetery (кладбище) — the Yiddish term for cemetery
• MDV 288 1:51
  good day greeting (bună ziua) — good day (greeting)
• MDV 288 1:57
  morning greeting — greeting in the morning
• MDV 288 2:08
  please (polite) — please (how to ask politely)
• MDV 288 2:34
  thank you (спасибо)
• MDV 288 2:42
  mouse (мышь)
• MDV 288 3:30
  belly (живот) — belly (unclear garbled question)
• MDV 288 4:22
  room (комната)
• MDV 288 4:26
  window (окно)
• MDV 288 4:31
  deaf (глухой (deaf))
• MDV 288 4:45
  blue (синий)
• MDV 288 4:54
  to build (a construi (RO))
• MDV 288 5:01
  sour (кислый)
• MDV 288 5:39
  ear (ухо)
• MDV 288 6:16
  what did you say (что ты сказал)
• MDV 288 7:25
  near (близко) — near, close
• MDV 288 8:04
  he knows everything (Все он знает)
• MDV 288 8:14
  where do you live — where does he live
• MDV 288 8:21
  he is very sick (он очень болен)
• MDV 288 9:06
  honest person (честный человек (honest person))
• MDV 288 10:15
  cross (крест)
• MDV 288 14:39
  peasant/farmer (țăran) — peasant, farmer (one who works the land)
• MDV 288 16:00
  peasant (крестьянин) — peasant (mentions someone else said 'tserener')
• MDV 288 16:16
  Christian (female) — Christian (non-Jew)
• MDV 288 20:28
  grandmother (бабушка)
• MDV 288 20:40
  table (mașă) — table (or aunt)
• MDV 288 21:31
  tastes good — tasty (phrase: it tastes good)
• MDV 288 21:42
  street (улица) — street (preposition: auf vs. in)
• MDV 288 22:22
  potato (картошка)
• MDV 288 23:06
  flower (цветок)
• MDV 288 24:12
  floor (пол)
• MDV 288 24:46
  floor (пол) — floor (whether heard 'shtile')
• MDV 288 24:49
  floor (пол) — floor (unclear, garbled)
• MDV 288 24:54
  bridge (pod (bridge))
• MDV 288 25:53
  to use (использовать) — to use (phonological form: oysnutsn vs. oysNitsn)
• MDV 288 26:08
  to pray (молиться) — to pray (phonological form)
• MDV 289 0:22
  Yiddish name of the city — the Yiddish name of the city
• MDV 289 1:11
  meaning of goylem — what 'goylem' means
• MDV 289 1:11
  whether knows goylem — whether the speaker knows the word 'goylem' (golem)