Genrikh Moiseevich Katz (Hersh bereb Moyshe akoyen, Hesye)

born 1912 in Tlumach two sources agree · recorded in Ivano-Frankivs'k, 2003

3 recordings · 177 minutes · 41 min of questionnaire · 6 min of singing

Also written: Genrikh (Hersh bereb Moyshe akoyen, Hesye) Moiseevich Katz

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger · recorded together with Froim Kalmanovich Bukshtein

Conversations 1

Each line is one conversation with Katz, 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.

• 2003-05-14
  ▶ Ivano-Frankivs'k · 2.9 h proposed

  MDV 448 3:32–58:15 · MDV 449 · MDV 450 (3 tapes)

Topics

Questionnaire

67 questions put to Katz. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 449 0:18
  please give me the book (дайте мне пожалуйста книгу) — Yiddish sentence for 'please give me the book'
• MDV 449 0:41
  lives (живёт) — Yiddish for 'lives'
• MDV 449 0:58
  groats (крупа) — Yiddish for 'groats'
• MDV 449 1:20
  plural of rov — plural of רב
• MDV 449 1:33
  blue (синий) — Yiddish for 'blue' (color)
• MDV 449 1:45
  windowpane — Yiddish for 'windowpane' (singular and plural)
• MDV 449 1:45
  plural of rebe — plural of רבי
• MDV 449 2:31
  mouse (мышь) — Yiddish for 'mouse' (singular and plural)
• MDV 449 3:10
  house (дом) — Yiddish for 'house'
• MDV 449 3:10
  skin (кожа) — Yiddish for 'leather/skin'
• MDV 449 4:09
  pigeon (голубь) — Yiddish for 'pigeon/dove'
• MDV 449 4:38
  gray-haired (седой) — Yiddish for 'grey-haired'
• MDV 449 4:38
  builds (строит) — Yiddish for 'builds' (verb)
• MDV 449 5:13
  kissel (кисель) — Yiddish for 'kisel' (a drink)
• MDV 449 5:27
  ear (ухо) — Yiddish for 'ear'
• MDV 449 5:46
  deaf (глухой (deaf)) — Yiddish for 'deaf'
• MDV 449 5:52
  kiss (поцелуй) — Yiddish for 'kiss'
• MDV 449 5:56
  later (позже) — Yiddish for 'later' (comparative)
• MDV 449 6:24
  Jew from Lithuania — term for a Jew from Lithuania
• MDV 449 6:28
  earlier (раньше) — Yiddish for 'earlier' (comparative)
• MDV 449 6:34
  higher (выше) — Yiddish for 'higher' (comparative)
• MDV 449 6:45
  colder (холоднее) — Yiddish for 'cold' and 'colder'
• MDV 449 7:13
  meaning of tsadik — meaning of צדיק
• MDV 449 8:59
  meaning of dibek — meaning of דיביק
• MDV 449 9:01
  where does he live (где он живет? (where does he live?)) — Yiddish for 'where does he live'
• MDV 449 9:29
  to breathe (дышать) — Yiddish for 'to breathe'
• MDV 449 9:34
  catch one's breath (перехватить дух) — Yiddish for 'catch one's breath'
• MDV 449 10:45
  he ran away from the Germans (он убежал от немцев) — Yiddish for 'he fled from the Germans'
• MDV 449 10:52
  very pious (очень набожен) — Yiddish for 'very pious'
• MDV 449 11:46
  my head hurts (голова болит) — Yiddish for 'the head hurts' and 'my head hurts'
• MDV 449 12:02
  meaning of goylem — meaning of גולם
• MDV 449 12:16
  from where (откуда) — Yiddish for 'from where' (where are you from)
• MDV 449 12:29
  from here (отсюда) — Yiddish for 'from here'
• MDV 449 12:42
  from there (оттуда) — Yiddish for 'from there'
• MDV 449 12:52
  bed (кровать) — Yiddish for 'bed'
• MDV 449 12:58
  I ask you (я прошу вас) — Yiddish for 'I ask you / I beg you'
• MDV 449 13:05
  thousand (тысяча) — Yiddish for 'thousand'
• MDV 449 13:42
  this was in the fourteenth year (это было в четырнадцатом году) — Yiddish for 'this was in the fourteenth year / 1914'
• MDV 449 14:05
  twenty (двадцать) — Yiddish for 'twenty'
• MDV 449 14:27
  you are young (ты молод) — Yiddish for 'you (sg.) are young'
• MDV 449 14:31
  you are right (ты прав) — Yiddish for 'you (sg.) are right'
• MDV 449 14:36
  you (pl.) are right (вы правы) — Yiddish for 'you (pl.) are right'
• MDV 449 14:42
  I was there (я был там) — Yiddish for 'I was there' (past participle form)
• MDV 449 14:59
  don't cry (не плачь) — Yiddish for 'don't cry'
• MDV 449 15:09
  grandmother and midwife (бабушка / повивальная бабка) — Yiddish for 'grandmother' and 'midwife'
• MDV 449 15:41
  spoke with mother (разговаривал с мамой) — Yiddish for 'I spoke with mother' (verb form)
• MDV 449 15:52
  I walk on the street (иду по улице) — Yiddish for 'I go on the street' (dative/accusative)
• MDV 449 16:18
  I live on this street (живу на этой улице) — Yiddish for 'I live on this street' (dative)
• MDV 449 17:09
  well (колодец) — Yiddish for 'well' (water source)
• MDV 449 17:55
  potato (картошка) — Yiddish for 'potato' (which term used locally)
• MDV 449 18:16
  flowers (цветы) — Yiddish for 'flowers'
• MDV 449 19:14
  I need him very much (он мне очень нужен) — Yiddish for 'I need him very much'
• MDV 449 19:53
  order (порядок) — Yiddish for 'order/arrangement'
• MDV 449 20:01
  all people (все люди) — Yiddish for 'all people' / 'I know everyone here'
• MDV 449 20:25
  I was at father's (я был у отца) — Yiddish for 'I was at my father's' (preposition choice)
• MDV 450 0:11
  attic (чердак) — Yiddish for 'attic'
• MDV 450 0:57
  to use (использовать) — Yiddish for 'use, exploit'
• MDV 450 3:18
  plural of gvir — plural of גוויר (rich man)
• MDV 450 4:30
  then (тогда) — Yiddish for 'then'
• MDV 450 6:29
  whose child (чей ребёнок) — Yiddish for 'whose is this child?'
• MDV 450 7:01
  plural of vogn — plural of וואגן (wagon)
• MDV 450 7:07
  to make a mistake (сделать ошибку) — Yiddish for 'make a mistake'
• MDV 450 8:09
  man (мужчина) — Yiddish for 'man'
• MDV 450 8:21
  probably (наверно) — Yiddish for 'probably'
• MDV 450 9:00
  what children threw on Tisha B'Av (Тише-Бов) — what children threw at the old Jews on Tisha B'Av
• MDV 450 10:57
  meaning of tsure — meaning of צורה
• MDV 450 12:42
  suddenly (вдруг) — Yiddish for 'suddenly'