Khezkel Srulevich Shpitz

born 1916 in Zhytomyr · recorded in Zhytomyr, 2002, 2007

2 recordings · 94 minutes · 20 min of questionnaire · 3 min of singing

Also written: Khezkel Shpitz

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Dovid Katz, Anatolii Kerzhner, Moisei Lemster · recorded together with Lazar Eilovich Burshtein

Conversations 2 ▶ play all in order

Each line is one conversation with Shpitz, 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.

• 2002-07-09
  ▶ Zhytomyr · 41 min

  MDV 780
• 2007-06-11
  ▶ Zhytomyr · 1.8 h

  MDV 799 · MDV 800 (2 tapes) · with Lazar Eilovich Burshtein, Veniamin Iakovlevich Geller

Topics

Questionnaire

23 questions put to Shpitz. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 780 0:00
  one and a half (полтора) — Yiddish word for 'one and a half'
• MDV 780 0:32
  attic (чердак) — Yiddish word for 'attic'
• MDV 780 0:59
  whose child (чей ребёнок)
• MDV 780 1:33
  potato (картошка) — do you know the word 'bulbe' for potato
• MDV 780 1:51
  prophet Elijah (пророк Илья) — Yiddish for 'the prophet Elijah'
• MDV 780 1:51
  golem — golem (stupid person, no brain)
• MDV 780 3:07
  people (люди) — Yiddish word for 'people'
• MDV 780 3:26
  ceiling (потолок) — ceiling (from oven/stove)
• MDV 780 3:55
  wash the floor — wash the floor (mother's expression)
• MDV 780 5:23
  light blue (голубой) — Yiddish word for 'blue'
• MDV 780 5:31
  chews (жуёт) — Yiddish for 'chews'
• MDV 780 5:56
  mouse (мышь) — Yiddish word for 'mouse'
• MDV 780 6:12
  bad people (плохие люди)
• MDV 780 6:35
  window glass — the glass of a window
• MDV 780 6:44
  window (окно) — Yiddish word for 'window'
• MDV 780 7:32
  deaf (глухой (deaf)) — Yiddish word for 'deaf'
• MDV 780 7:57
  pigeon (голубь) — Yiddish word for 'pigeon'
• MDV 780 8:53
  broth (бульон) — Yiddish word for 'broth'
• MDV 780 11:51
  plural of gvir — plural of 'gvir'
• MDV 780 13:14
  then (тогда) — Yiddish word for 'then, at that time'
• MDV 800 0:00
  whether heard goylem — whether the speaker has heard the word 'goylem'
• MDV 800 0:08
  meaning of goylem — what 'goylem' means
• MDV 800 0:08
  whether heard dibbuk — whether the speaker has heard the word 'dibek'