Abraham (Avrum-Khayim) Shtaigman

born 1937 in Rădăuți ("Radauti (Yiddish: Radevits)" in the catalogue) · recorded in Iași, 2006

2 recordings · 76 minutes · 22 min of questionnaire

Also written: Abraham Shtaigman

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

Conversations 1

Each line is one conversation with Shtaigman, 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.

• 2006-05-26
  ▶ Iași · 77 min

  MDV 276 · MDV 277 (2 tapes)

Topics

Questionnaire

49 questions put to Shtaigman. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 276 0:00
  hello (здравствуйте) — greeting ('hello')
• MDV 276 0:10
  meaning of dibek — meaning of 'a dibek'
• MDV 276 0:27
  please (пожалуйста) — 'please'
• MDV 276 0:39
  meaning of goylem — meaning of 'a goylem'
• MDV 276 0:45
  vodka (водка) — Yiddish word for vodka
• MDV 276 1:14
  thank you (спасибо) — 'thank you'
• MDV 276 1:14
  cat catches mouse — sentence 'a cat catches a mouse'
• MDV 276 1:50
  belly (живот) — 'belly' (bux or boyx)
• MDV 276 1:54
  blue (синий) — 'blue' (color)
• MDV 276 1:54
  house (дом) — 'house'
• MDV 276 2:29
  meaning of a guter yid — meaning of 'a guter yid'
• MDV 276 2:48
  pigeon (голубь) — 'dove' or 'pigeon'
• MDV 276 2:51
  meaning of a gut ort — meaning of 'a gut ort'
• MDV 276 3:27
  deaf (глухой (deaf)) — 'deaf person'
• MDV 276 4:23
  near (близко) — 'close/near'
• MDV 276 4:23
  later (позже) — 'later'
• MDV 276 4:23
  nearer (ближе) — 'closer'
• MDV 276 4:23
  faster (быстрее) — 'faster'
• MDV 276 4:23
  faster (быстрее) — 'even faster'
• MDV 276 5:34
  sick person — 'a sick person'
• MDV 276 6:13
  I like her very much (она мне нравится) — 'she pleases me / I like her'
• MDV 276 6:59
  to run away (убежать) — 'to run away'
• MDV 276 7:19
  Christian (христианин) — 'Christian' in Yiddish
• MDV 276 7:19
  meaning of erlekher — meaning of 'erlekher'
• MDV 276 8:42
  bed (кровать) — 'bed'
• MDV 276 9:24
  my head hurts (голова болит) — 'my head hurts'
• MDV 276 9:24
  ten (десять) — 'ten'
• MDV 276 9:24
  ten (десять) — 'ten' (confirmation)
• MDV 276 9:24
  from here (отсюда) — 'from here' / 'local person'
• MDV 276 10:29
  from there (оттуда) — 'from there'
• MDV 276 10:29
  there (directional) (туда) — 'there' (go there)
• MDV 276 10:29
  here (come here) (сюда) — 'here' (come here)
• MDV 277 1:07
  grandmother (бабушка) — grandmother (mother's mother, father's mother)
• MDV 277 1:58
  pleases very much (очень нравится) — he pleases me very much
• MDV 277 2:26
  store (магазин) — whether they could say 'קראם' for shop
• MDV 277 3:19
  today three came (сегодня пришло трое) — 'three of them' (plural possessive form)
• MDV 277 3:29
  I was at father's (я был у отца) — whether the dative form 'ביים טאטן' was used
• MDV 277 4:52
  attic (чердак) — attic (under the roof)
• MDV 277 5:00
  paradise — paradise (heaven)
• MDV 277 6:08
  plural of vogn — plural of wagon
• MDV 277 6:09
  whose child (чей ребёнок) — whose is this child
• MDV 277 7:08
  man (мужчина) — whether 'מאנצבול' (man-person) was heard
• MDV 277 7:26
  probably (наверное) — probably, surely
• MDV 277 9:00
  fence (забор)
• MDV 277 10:20
  plural of enemy (mult dușman)
• MDV 277 10:37
  room (комната) — room (not house)
• MDV 277 11:39
  suddenly (вдруг пришёл) — suddenly came
• MDV 277 12:10
  different (различные) — various, different
• MDV 277 12:40
  back (назад) — whether 'קעריק' (back) was heard among older Jews