Rakhil Shlemovna Shames

née Goldes · born 1915 in Ivanopil ("Ivanopil' (Yanushpol)" in the catalogue) two sources agree · recorded in Khmil'nyk, 2008, 2009

4 recordings · 161 minutes · 23 min of questionnaire · 2 min of singing

Also written: Shames

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Moisei Lemster, Jeffrey Veidlinger

Conversations 2 ▶ play all in order

Each line is one conversation with Shames, 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.

• 2008-05-25
  ▶ Khmil'nyk · 2.1 h

  MDV 420 · MDV 421 (2 tapes)
• 2009-01-06
  ▶ Khmil'nyk · 37 min

  MDV 424

Topics

Questionnaire

42 questions put to Shames. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 420 0:11
  greeting
• MDV 420 0:31
  when to say a gut elef — when to say 'a gut elef'
• MDV 420 1:04
  thank you (спасибо) — 'thank you'
• MDV 420 1:12
  mouse (мышь) — mouse (little)
• MDV 420 1:56
  I have no luck (у меня нет счастья) — 'I have no luck'
• MDV 420 2:02
  belly (живот)
• MDV 420 2:15
  house (дом)
• MDV 420 2:40
  roof (крыша)
• MDV 420 5:18
  very sick (очень болен)
• MDV 420 5:50
  deaf (глухой (deaf))
• MDV 420 7:03
  ear (ухо)
• MDV 420 7:06
  sour (кислый)
• MDV 420 7:55
  to build (a construi (RO))
• MDV 420 9:14
  honest person (честный человек (honest person))
• MDV 420 10:23
  cross (крест)
• MDV 420 10:44
  my head hurts (голова болит) — 'my head hurts'
• MDV 420 11:08
  I speak with mama (разговариваю с мамой) — 'I'm talking with mother'
• MDV 420 12:26
  store (магазин)
• MDV 420 12:35
  tasty (вкусно)
• MDV 420 13:14
  grandmother (бабушка)
• MDV 420 13:19
  midwife (акушерка)
• MDV 420 13:46
  today three people came (сегодня пришло три человека) — 'three people came today'
• MDV 420 14:12
  I was at father's (я был у отца) — 'I was at father's'
• MDV 420 14:22
  I sat at the table (я сидел за столом) — 'I sat at the table'
• MDV 420 14:30
  I know everyone here (я знаю здесь всех) — 'I know everyone here'
• MDV 420 14:33
  all people (все люди)
• MDV 420 14:43
  unclear
• MDV 420 16:27
  plural of gvir
• MDV 420 16:33
  dreidel
• MDV 420 17:11
  wagon
• MDV 420 17:34
  whose child (чей ребёнок) — 'whose child'
• MDV 420 17:53
  hat/cap (шапка)
• MDV 420 18:05
  oven
• MDV 420 18:42
  fence (забор)
• MDV 420 19:05
  face (лицо)
• MDV 420 19:17
  what tsire means
• MDV 420 20:08
  back (назад) — 'let's go back'
• MDV 420 20:15
  much/many (много) — many, a lot
• MDV 420 20:34
  enemy (враг)
• MDV 421 0:05
  meaning of dibek — whether informant has heard the word 'dibek'
• MDV 421 0:12
  meaning of dibek — what 'dibek' means
• MDV 421 1:14
  apostate (выкрест) — Yiddish for 'apostate' (Russian 'vikrest')