Solomon Hershkovich (Shloyme Layb)

born 1922 in Bogata de Sus two sources agree · recorded in Cluj-Napoca, Onești, Bistrița, 2007, 2008

6 recordings · 251 minutes · 52 min of questionnaire

Also written: Hershkovich; Solomon (Shloyme Layb) Hershkovich

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Moisei Lemster · recorded together with Eugen Kraus, Binyomin Miller, Eugen Grunfeld

Conversations 3 ▶ play all in order

Each line is one conversation with Hershkovich, 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
  ▶ Cluj-Napoca · 4.6 h uncertain

  MDV 235 · MDV 236 · MDV 237 · MDV 238 · MDV 239 0:00–47:37 (5 tapes) · with Eugen Kraus
• 2008-07-04
  ▶ Cluj-Napoca · 68 min

  MDV 242 · MDV 243 (2 tapes)
• 2008-07-06
  ▶ Onești or Bistrița · 5 min · place unresolved uncertain

  MDV 248 9:50–14:25

Topics

Questionnaire

64 questions put to Hershkovich. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 236 1:20
  what dibek means — what the word 'dibek' (dybbuk) means
• MDV 236 1:43
  meaning of dibek — whether informant has heard the word 'dibek'
• MDV 236 1:52
  meaning of dibek — what 'dibek' means
• MDV 236 2:34
  please (polite) — the Yiddish equivalent of Romanian 'vă rog' (please)
• MDV 236 2:36
  plural of rov — plural of רב
• MDV 236 2:51
  plural of rebe — plural of רבי
• MDV 236 3:28
  mouse (мышь) — the Yiddish word for Romanian 'șoarece' (mouse)
• MDV 236 4:27
  honest (честный) — what 'erlikher' means
• MDV 236 7:21
  ten (десять) — how to say 'ten' in Yiddish
• MDV 236 7:40
  whether non-Jews spoke Yiddish — whether there were non-Jews who spoke Yiddish
• MDV 236 10:00
  one and a half (полтора) — how to say one and a half
• MDV 236 12:17
  today three people came (сегодня пришло три человека) — translation of 'today three people arrived'
• MDV 236 13:49
  whose child (чей ребёнок) — whose child is it
• MDV 236 22:40
  ceiling (потолок) — the Yiddish word for ceiling (Hebrew tikra)
• MDV 236 24:10
  suddenly (вдруг) — how to say 'suddenly' in Yiddish
• MDV 237 0:13
  whether it was sweet — whether it was a bit sweet
• MDV 237 0:50
  perhaps — how to say 'perhaps' (פיל לייכט)
• MDV 237 3:55
  I don't see him (я его не вижу)
• MDV 237 4:22
  in three days they will come (через три дня они приедут)
• MDV 237 5:07
  peasant/farmer (țăran) — peasant, farmer (עקר)
• MDV 237 6:58
  I like him (он мне нравится) — I like him / he pleases me
• MDV 237 8:45
  also (также) — how do you say 'also'
• MDV 237 10:02
  he will also come (он тоже придет)
• MDV 238 0:04
  whether heard dibbuk — whether the speaker has heard the word 'dibek' (dybbuk)
• MDV 238 0:16
  whether heard goylem — whether the speaker has heard the word 'goylem'
• MDV 238 0:22
  meaning of goylem — what 'goylem' means
• MDV 238 1:23
  what mame loshn means — what 'mame loshn' means
• MDV 238 3:05
  whether heard a gut ort — whether the speaker has heard 'a gut ort' (euphemism for cemetery)
• MDV 238 3:09
  meaning of a gut ort — what 'a gut ort' means
• MDV 239 0:00
  good day greeting (bună ziua) — how to say 'good day' (Romanian: bună ziua)
• MDV 239 0:17
  good evening (bună seara) — how to say 'good evening'
• MDV 239 1:00
  thank you (спасибо) — how to say 'thank you'
• MDV 239 2:09
  room (комната) — Yiddish for room
• MDV 239 2:14
  window (окно) — Yiddish for window
• MDV 239 2:34
  windowpane — the windowpane
• MDV 239 2:56
  house (дом) — Yiddish for house
• MDV 239 3:21
  floor (пол) — Yiddish for floor
• MDV 239 4:38
  to build (a construi (RO))
• MDV 239 5:46
  sour (кислый)
• MDV 239 6:06
  deaf (глухой (deaf)) — deaf person
• MDV 239 6:18
  later (позже)
• MDV 239 6:33
  earlier (раньше) — earlier, before
• MDV 239 8:06
  earlier (раньше) — earlier (form: friert or frier)
• MDV 239 10:06
  he knows everything (Все он знает)
• MDV 239 10:24
  he knows everything (Все он знает)
• MDV 239 10:30
  he is very sick (он очень болен)
• MDV 239 11:21
  what shlaf means — what 'shlaf' means (weak)
• MDV 239 11:54
  barely walks (еле-еле ходит) — he barely walks
• MDV 239 13:33
  honest person (честный человек (honest person))
• MDV 239 15:01
  cross (крест)
• MDV 239 15:34
  what tseylem kop means — what 'tseylem kop' means
• MDV 239 15:51
  to cross oneself (перекреститься) — to cross oneself (make the sign of the cross)
• MDV 239 17:13
  my head hurts (голова болит)
• MDV 239 17:34
  where are you from (откуда вы?) — where are you from (du/ir)
• MDV 239 19:46
  brandy
• MDV 239 19:56
  thousand (тысяча) — one thousand
• MDV 239 21:20
  don't cry (не плачь)
• MDV 239 22:20
  I live on the street
• MDV 239 23:52
  potato (картошка) — potatoes
• MDV 239 24:30
  store (магазин) — store, shop
• MDV 239 25:21
  flower (цветок) — flower (bloyer or blumen)
• MDV 239 27:18
  he told her that you are sick (он ей сказал, что ты болен) — he told her that she is sick
• MDV 242 0:04
  meaning of a guter yid — meaning of 'a guter yid'
• MDV 242 0:40
  difference between rov and rebe — difference between 'rov' and 'rebe'