Isaak Moseevich Meler (Itche, Itskhok-Avigdor)

born 1919 in Glina Navariya not identified · recorded in L'viv, 2003

3 recordings · 152 minutes · 29 min of questionnaire

Also written: Isaak (Itche, Itskhok-Avigdor) Moseevich Meler

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger · recorded together with Professor Iakov (Yankev) Samoilovich Khonigsman

Conversations 1

Each line is one conversation with Meler, 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.

• 2003-05-13
  ▶ L'viv · 2.0 h two sources agree

  MDV 565 34:09–59:44 · MDV 566 · MDV 567 (3 tapes)

Topics

Questionnaire

82 questions put to Meler. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 566 0:00
  mouse (мышь) — the word for 'mouse' (checking if 'מיש' is used)
• MDV 566 0:01
  meaning of dibek — meaning of 'dibek'
• MDV 566 0:14
  meaning of goylem — meaning of 'goylem'
• MDV 566 0:33
  groats (крупа) — the word for 'groats/grain'
• MDV 566 0:35
  plural of nar — plural of 'nar' (fool)
• MDV 566 0:56
  mouse (мышь) — the word for 'mouse' (large mouse vs. small one)
• MDV 566 2:42
  please (пожалуйста) — how to say 'pozhalusta' (please) in Yiddish
• MDV 566 3:02
  please (пожалуйста) — confirmation of 'bud laska' rendering
• MDV 566 3:06
  belly (живот) — how to say 'zhivot' (stomach) in Yiddish
• MDV 566 3:14
  house (дом) — how to say 'dom' (house), not 'shtub'
• MDV 567 0:05
  window glass — the glass of a window (windowpane)
• MDV 567 0:30
  blue (синий)
• MDV 567 0:50
  gray-haired (седой) — gray (grey-haired)
• MDV 567 1:24
  to build (a construi (RO))
• MDV 567 3:28
  sour (кислый)
• MDV 567 4:02
  kiss her (поцелуй её)
• MDV 567 4:09
  he came today (пришёл сегодня)
• MDV 567 4:41
  later (позже)
• MDV 567 5:04
  earlier (раньше)
• MDV 567 5:15
  colder (холоднее)
• MDV 567 5:32
  high (высоко)
• MDV 567 5:40
  higher (выше)
• MDV 567 5:49
  faster (быстрее) — faster, quicker
• MDV 567 7:24
  near (близко)
• MDV 567 7:45
  nearer (ближе)
• MDV 567 7:51
  he knows everything (Все он знает)
• MDV 567 8:08
  she knows everything (она знает всё)
• MDV 567 8:15
  where does he live (где он живет? (where does he live?)) — where does he/she live
• MDV 567 8:33
  how did you say (как ты сказал?)
• MDV 567 8:40
  listen to me (слушай меня)
• MDV 567 9:27
  he is very sick (он очень болен)
• MDV 567 9:35
  she is very beautiful (она очень красива)
• MDV 567 10:03
  I like (мне нравится) — I like him/her
• MDV 567 10:16
  I like very much (мне очень нравится) — I like him/her very much
• MDV 567 10:29
  barely (еле-еле)
• MDV 567 11:32
  very devout (он очень набожен) — he is very devout/religious
• MDV 567 13:21
  cross (крест)
• MDV 567 13:32
  to cross oneself (перекреститься)
• MDV 567 14:52
  my head hurts (голова болит) — head hurts
• MDV 567 15:01
  my head hurts (голова болит)
• MDV 567 15:36
  where are you from (откуда вы?)
• MDV 567 15:49
  from there (оттуда)
• MDV 567 16:17
  I ask you (я прошу вас) — I ask you / I beg you
• MDV 567 16:26
  thousand (тысяча)
• MDV 567 17:05
  twenty (двадцать)
• MDV 567 17:21
  you are right (ты прав)
• MDV 567 17:23
  you (pl.) are right (вы правы)
• MDV 567 17:45
  don't cry (не плачь)
• MDV 567 18:02
  midwife (акушерка)
• MDV 567 18:55
  I speak with mama (разговариваю с мамой) — I am talking to mother
• MDV 567 19:18
  on the street (по этой улице) — on this street
• MDV 567 19:28
  I live on this street (живу на этой улице)
• MDV 567 19:34
  I see her poorly (я её плохо вижу)
• MDV 567 19:58
  I don't see him (я его не вижу)
• MDV 567 20:04
  he said that you are sick (он сказал что ты болен)
• MDV 567 20:28
  well (колодец)
• MDV 567 21:25
  potato (картошка)
• MDV 567 21:31
  flowers (цветы)
• MDV 567 22:28
  I don't hear him (я его не слышу)
• MDV 567 22:44
  I don't hear her (её я не слышу)
• MDV 567 22:58
  I need him very much (он мне очень нужен)
• MDV 567 23:43
  all people (все люди)
• MDV 567 24:00
  I know everyone (я знаю каждого)
• MDV 567 24:51
  I was at father's (я был у отца)
• MDV 567 24:58
  I sat at the table (я сидел за столом)
• MDV 567 25:42
  on this street live only Jews (на этой улице живут одни евреи) — only Jews live on this street
• MDV 567 25:52
  this is another story (это другая история) — that's another story
• MDV 567 26:36
  one and a half (полтора)
• MDV 567 26:49
  otherwise I cannot (иначе не могу) — otherwise I can't
• MDV 567 26:54
  I don't know whether he knows or not (не знаю, знает ли он или нет)
• MDV 567 27:17
  will you come or not (ты придешь или нет)
• MDV 567 27:51
  store (магазин)
• MDV 567 28:57
  plural of gvir — plural of gvir (rich man)
• MDV 567 29:49
  whose child (чей ребёнок)
• MDV 567 30:08
  car/machine (машина) — machine/car
• MDV 567 30:16
  error/mistake — error, mistake
• MDV 567 30:43
  he probably knows Yiddish (он, наверное, знает идиш)
• MDV 567 31:11
  probably (наверное) — probably (moustome)
• MDV 567 32:35
  ceiling (потолок)
• MDV 567 33:19
  floor (пол) — floor (opposite of ceiling)
• MDV 567 33:36
  fence (забор)
• MDV 567 34:03
  what children threw on Tisha b'Av — burrs (thrown on Tisha B'Av)