Eugen Kraus (Yankl)

born 1923 in Zorein not identified · recorded in Cluj-Napoca, Onești, 2007, 2008

7 recordings · 350 minutes · 60 min of questionnaire · 23 min of singing

Also written: Eugen (Yankl) Kraus; Kraus

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Moisei Lemster · recorded together with Eugen Grunfeld, Binyomin Miller, Solomon Hershkovich, Elizabeta Freundlich

Conversations 5 ▶ play all in order

Each line is one conversation with Kraus, 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 Solomon Hershkovich
• 2008-06-06
  ▶ Cluj-Napoca · 68 min proposed

  MDV 249 · MDV 250 0:00–6:10 (2 tapes) · with Eugen Grunfeld
• 2008-06-06
  ▶ Cluj-Napoca · 8 min two sources agree

  MDV 250 53:01–1:00:40 · with Eugen Grunfeld
• 2008-06-06
  ▶ Cluj-Napoca · 4 min uncertain

  MDV 250 6:10–10:07 · with Eugen Grunfeld
• 2008-06-06
  ▶ Cluj-Napoca · 3 min uncertain

  MDV 251 5:32–8:49 · with Eugen Grunfeld

Topics

Questionnaire

64 questions put to Kraus. 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 249 1:25
  honest (честный) — how to say 'honest'
• MDV 249 3:10
  meaning of a guter yid — what does 'a guter yid' mean