Sara Yankelevna Gvinter
2 recordings · 121 minutes · 59 min of questionnaire · 4 min of singing
Also written: Sara Gvinter
Also interviewed in Russian by the USC Shoah Foundation (Visual History Archive interview 33216).

Conversations 1
Each line is one conversation with Gvinter, 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.
- 1903-05-11 – 1904-06-08
The tapes (2)
Topics
Family history5Other holidays3Yiddish language and dialect3Food2Cultural terminology2Passover1Home and housing1Marriage and weddings1
Questionnaire
96 questions put to Gvinter. Each link opens the recording at that moment.
- MDV 376 1:06meaning of dibek — meaning of דיביק
- MDV 376 1:37meaning of goylem — meaning of גולם
- MDV 376 1:55
- MDV 376 2:07
- MDV 376 4:00
- MDV 376 4:51thank you (спасибо)
- MDV 376 5:17mouse (мышь)
- MDV 376 5:25I have no luck (у меня нет счастья)
- MDV 376 5:35
- MDV 376 5:40house (дом)
- MDV 376 5:47
- MDV 376 6:15
- MDV 376 6:44
- MDV 376 6:50skin (кожа)
- MDV 376 6:57
- MDV 376 7:34
- MDV 376 8:02blue (синий)
- MDV 376 8:29pigeon (голубь)
- MDV 376 8:57gray-haired (седой)
- MDV 376 9:07builds (строит)
- MDV 376 9:52sour (кислый)
- MDV 376 10:05ear (ухо)
- MDV 376 10:10
- MDV 376 10:30pigeon (голубь)
- MDV 376 10:38kiss (поцелуй)
- MDV 376 10:59yesterday pronunciation — yesterday (pronunciation)
- MDV 376 11:09
- MDV 376 11:25later (позже)
- MDV 376 11:40earlier (раньше)
- MDV 376 11:45
- MDV 376 12:01meaning of kop — meaning of קאפ
- MDV 376 12:15higher (выше)
- MDV 376 12:26faster (быстрее)
- MDV 376 12:38
- MDV 376 12:53he will also come (он тоже придет)
- MDV 376 13:17she knows (она знает)
- MDV 376 13:36where does he live (где он живет? (where does he live?))
- MDV 376 13:44how did you say (как ты сказал?)
- MDV 376 14:06to breathe (дышать)
- MDV 376 14:42
- MDV 376 15:54
- MDV 376 16:02pleases very much (очень нравится)
- MDV 376 16:16barely walks (еле-еле ходит)
- MDV 376 17:21honest (честный)
- MDV 376 18:02
- MDV 376 19:53cross (крест)
- MDV 376 20:41to cross oneself (перекреститься)
- MDV 376 21:03
- MDV 376 21:28apostate (выкрест)
- MDV 376 21:36
- MDV 376 22:40mountain (гора)
- MDV 376 22:54
- MDV 376 23:07
- MDV 376 23:26where are you from (откуда ты?)
- MDV 376 24:07bed (кровать)
- MDV 376 24:12I ask you (я прошу вас)
- MDV 376 24:19flowerbed (клумба с цветами)
- MDV 376 25:05ten (десять)
- MDV 376 25:18vodka (водка)
- MDV 376 25:25thousand (тысяча)
- MDV 376 26:52
- MDV 376 27:03twenty (двадцать)
- MDV 376 27:38you are right (ты прав)
- MDV 376 28:19you (pl.) are right (вы правы)
- MDV 376 28:56don't cry (не плачь)
- MDV 376 29:16to pray (молиться)
- MDV 376 29:20grandmother (бабушка)
- MDV 376 29:29midwife (акушерка)
- MDV 376 29:48
- MDV 376 29:54very tasty (очень вкусно)
- MDV 376 30:19
- MDV 376 31:21
- MDV 376 32:43well (колодец)
- MDV 376 33:04store (магазин)
- MDV 376 34:30
- MDV 376 34:44to dig the earth (рыть землю)
- MDV 376 35:27defeated the Germans (разбили немцев, разбили врага)
- MDV 376 37:05
- MDV 376 37:21otherwise I cannot (иначе не могу)
- MDV 376 37:35attic (чердак)
- MDV 376 37:42I don't know whether he knows or not (не знаю, знает ли он или нет)
- MDV 376 38:02will you come or not (ты придешь или нет)
- MDV 376 38:35
- MDV 376 38:42such (things) — such (form)
- MDV 376 38:59
- MDV 602 0:03unclear — how to say something in Yiddish (context: son warming in the sun)
- MDV 602 0:43plural of gvir — plural form of גוויר
- MDV 602 0:57Hanukkah spinning top — the spinning Hanukkah toy (dreidel)
- MDV 602 3:45
- MDV 602 4:39
- MDV 602 4:50
- MDV 602 5:44
- MDV 602 9:16
- MDV 602 10:27
- MDV 602 10:42
- MDV 602 11:50