Veniamin Iakovlevich Geller

born 1923 in Velyka Piatyhirka ("Velyka P'yatyhirka" in the catalogue) proposed · recorded in Zhytomyr, Chudniv, Berdychiv, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008

12 recordings · 549 minutes · 78 min of questionnaire · 27 min of singing

Also written: Geller

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Dovid Katz, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Anatolii Kerzhner, Moisei Lemster · recorded together with Lazar Eilovich Burshtein, Rabbi Shloyme Wilgelm, an unidentified interviewee, Efim Grigoryevich Skobilitskii

Conversations 5 ▶ play all in order

Each line is one conversation with Geller, 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 an unidentified interviewee, Lazar Eilovich Burshtein
• 2002-07-09
  ▶ Zhytomyr · 62 min

  MDV 786
• 2007-06-11
  ▶ Zhytomyr · 1.8 h

  MDV 799 · MDV 800 (2 tapes) · with Lazar Eilovich Burshtein, Khezkel Srulevich Shpitz
• 2008-05-27
  ▶ Chudniv · 61 min proposed

  MDV 451
• 2008-05-28
  ▶ Zhytomyr · 62 min uncertain

  MDV 802

Topics

Questionnaire

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

• MDV 451 2:12
  sick (больной) — how do you say 'sick'
• 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 786 1:02
  unclear — how to say something (unclear reference)
• MDV 786 1:08
  thousand (тысяча) — word for 'thousand'
• MDV 786 1:46
  I liked him very much (он мне очень понравился) — how to say 'he pleases me very much / I like him very much'
• MDV 786 1:55
  vodka (водка) — word for 'vodka'
• MDV 786 2:05
  he ran away from the Germans (он убежал от немцев) — how to say 'he escaped from the Germans'
• MDV 786 2:14
  I speak with mama (разговариваю с мамой) — sentence translation
• MDV 786 2:23
  on this street live only Jews (на этой улице живут одни евреи) — sentence translation
• MDV 786 2:23
  preposition form — preposition form ('mit der' vs other)
• MDV 786 2:35
  each/every (каждый) — the word for 'each, every'
• MDV 786 2:51
  honest (честный) — the word for 'honest'
• MDV 786 2:54
  bed (кровать) — word for 'bed'
• MDV 786 3:16
  he said that you are sick (он сказал, что ты болен) — sentence translation
• MDV 786 3:26
  well (колодец) — word for 'well'
• MDV 786 3:47
  my head hurts (голова болит) — how to say 'head hurts'
• MDV 786 4:16
  from where (откуда) — how to say 'from where (are you)'
• MDV 786 4:25
  tail (хвост) — word for 'tail'
• MDV 786 4:36
  beam (бревно) — word for 'log' or 'beam'
• MDV 786 4:46
  from there (оттуда) — how to say 'from there'
• MDV 786 5:51
  I walk on the street (иду по улице) — how to say 'I walk along this street'
• MDV 786 6:16
  store (магазин) — word for 'store/shop'
• MDV 786 7:03
  midwife (акушерка) — the word for midwife
• MDV 786 7:14
  flowers (цветы) — word for 'flowers'
• MDV 786 7:14
  grandmother (бабушка) — the word for grandmother (mother's mother)
• MDV 786 7:30
  potato (картошка) — word for 'potato'
• MDV 786 7:51
  I was there (я был там) — how to say 'I was there'
• MDV 786 8:04
  then (тогда) — the word for 'then, at that time'
• MDV 786 8:07
  all people (все люди) — phrase for 'all people'
• MDV 786 8:20
  I was at father's (я был у отца) — sentence translation
• MDV 786 8:33
  I sat at the table (я сидел за столом) — sentence translation ('at the table')
• MDV 786 9:26
  on this street live only Jews (на этой улице живут одни евреи) — sentence translation
• MDV 786 10:26
  this is another story (это другая история) — phrase translation
• MDV 786 10:44
  you came from another city (ты прибыл из другого города) — sentence translation
• MDV 786 11:01
  one and a half (полтора) — word for 'one and a half'
• MDV 786 11:17
  unclear — unclear prompt
• MDV 786 11:23
  attic (чердак) — word for 'attic'
• MDV 786 12:25
  I don't know whether he knows or not (не знаю, знает ли он или нет) — sentence translation
• MDV 786 13:09
  floor (пол) — word for 'floor'
• MDV 786 16:24
  on the street (по этой улице) — meaning of 'אויפן גאס'
• MDV 786 17:20
  fence (забор) — word for 'fence'
• MDV 786 20:37
  much/many (много) — word for 'a lot'
• MDV 786 20:53
  back (назад) — word for 'back/backward'
• MDV 786 21:06
  room (комната) — word for 'room'
• MDV 786 21:20
  someone (кто-то) — word for 'someone'
• MDV 786 21:32
  suddenly (вдруг) — word for 'suddenly'
• MDV 786 21:48
  gender of kop — gender of 'קאפ' (head)
• MDV 802 0:03
  lives (живёт) — how to say 'he lives' (confirming form)