Efim Isaakovich Rubin

born 1922 · recorded in Bershad', Uman', 2002, 2005

4 recordings · 158 minutes · 24 min of questionnaire · 7 min of singing

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Dovid Katz · recorded together with Matvei Vladimirovich Rubin

Conversations 2 ▶ play all in order

Each line is one conversation with Rubin, 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.

• 2002-07-18 – 2002-07-19
  ▶ Bershad' or Uman' · 1.7 h proposed

  MDV 733 · MDV 734 · MDV 735 (3 tapes) · with Matvei Vladimirovich Rubin
• 2005-06-26
  ▶ Uman' · 58 min

  MDV 739

Topics

Questionnaire

40 questions put to Rubin. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 734 0:04
  to ask/request (прошу) — 'please' (прошу)
• MDV 734 0:19
  my head hurts (голова болит) — 'head hurts' (голова болит)
• MDV 734 0:19
  bed (кровать) — 'bed' (кровать)
• MDV 734 0:31
  cries (плачет) — 'cries' (плачет)
• MDV 734 0:55
  how (как) — 'how' (как)
• MDV 734 1:18
  where (где) — 'where' (где)
• MDV 734 1:24
  please (пожалуйста) — 'please' (пожалуйста/будь ласка)
• MDV 734 2:39
  to the street (на улицу) — 'I go out onto the street'
• MDV 734 3:20
  cross (крест) — 'cross' (крест)
• MDV 735 0:21
  listen to me (слушать) — Yiddish for 'listen to me'
• MDV 735 1:02
  vodka (водка) — Yiddish for 'vodka'
• MDV 735 1:15
  cold (холодное) — Yiddish for 'cold'
• MDV 735 1:46
  colder (холоднее) — comparative form for 'cold'
• MDV 735 2:17
  high (высокий) — Yiddish for 'high/tall'
• MDV 735 2:18
  higher (выше) — comparative form for 'high'
• MDV 735 2:24
  also (тоже) — Yiddish for 'also'
• MDV 735 2:56
  mouse (мышь) — Yiddish for 'mouse' (singular)
• MDV 735 3:09
  mouse (мышь) — Yiddish for 'mouse'
• MDV 735 4:11
  house (дом) — Yiddish for 'house'
• MDV 735 6:37
  late (поздно) — Yiddish for 'late'
• MDV 735 7:19
  later (позже) — comparative form for 'late'
• MDV 735 9:39
  thank you (спасибо) — Yiddish for 'thank you'
• MDV 735 10:01
  grapes (виноград) — Yiddish for 'grape(s)'
• MDV 735 10:14
  vineyard (виноградник) — Yiddish for 'vineyard'
• MDV 735 10:51
  to build (a construi (RO)) — Yiddish for 'to build'
• MDV 735 11:21
  thousand (тысяча) — Yiddish for 'thousand'
• MDV 735 13:08
  greeting during the day (здравствуй) — Yiddish greeting during the day
• MDV 735 13:48
  merry people (весёлые люди) — Yiddish for 'cheerful people'
• MDV 735 14:01
  three people (три человека) — Yiddish for 'three people'
• MDV 735 15:16
  then (тогда) — Yiddish for 'then/at that time'
• MDV 735 15:32
  I came from another city (я приехал из другого города) — translate sentence
• MDV 735 15:53
  plural of gvir — plural of גוויר
• MDV 735 16:27
  gray-haired (седой) — Yiddish for 'grey-haired'
• MDV 735 16:45
  to chew (жевать) — Yiddish for 'to chew'
• MDV 735 16:51
  book (книга) — Yiddish for 'book'
• MDV 735 17:30
  pigeon (голубь) — Yiddish for 'dove/pigeon'
• MDV 735 17:46
  groats (крупа) — Yiddish for 'groats'
• MDV 735 17:59
  deaf (глухой (deaf)) — Yiddish for 'deaf'
• MDV 735 18:12
  then (тогда) — Yiddish for 'then'
• MDV 735 18:47
  cupboard (шкаф) — Yiddish for 'cupboard/wardrobe'