Rita Davidovna Shveibish

née Vaynblat · born 1936 in Tul'chyn · recorded in Tul'chyn, Berdychiv, Pechera, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009

6 recordings · 315 minutes · 42 min of questionnaire

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Dovid Katz, Moisei Lemster, Margot Valles · recorded together with Iosif Abramovich Kogan, Penia Nukhovich Golfeld, Sara Vainshelboim, Aleksandr Shayevich Kolodenker, Mikhail Aronovich Vainshelboim

Also interviewed in Russian by the USC Shoah Foundation (Visual History Archive interview 31019).

Conversations 5 ▶ play all in order

Each line is one conversation with Shveibish, 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.

• 2002-07-14
  ▶ Tul'chyn · 74 min proposed

  MDV 708 · MDV 709 0:00–33:39 (2 tapes)
• 2003-05-20
  ▶ Tul'chyn · 46 min proposed

  MDV 713 0:00–46:30
• 2008-05-25
  ▶ Tul'chyn · 36 min

  MDV 722
• 2009-01-08
  ▶ Tul'chyn · 25 min proposed

  MDV 725 0:00–25:02
• 2009-06-09
  ▶ Pechera · 50 min proposed

  MDV 359 0:00–49:58

Topics

Questionnaire

33 questions put to Shveibish. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 708 0:05
  cross (крест) — Yiddish word for 'cross'
• MDV 708 0:42
  to cross oneself (креститься) — Yiddish for 'to cross oneself'
• MDV 708 2:37
  mouse (мышь) — Yiddish word for 'mouse' (small mouse)
• MDV 708 2:58
  happiness/luck (счастье) — Yiddish word for 'happiness, luck'
• MDV 708 3:03
  there isn't (нету) — Yiddish equivalent of Russian 'нету' (there isn't)
• MDV 708 3:18
  my head hurts (голова болит) — Yiddish for 'head hurts'
• MDV 708 3:36
  cold (холодно) — Yiddish word for 'cold'
• MDV 708 3:45
  to do (делать) — Yiddish word for 'to do, to make'
• MDV 708 4:00
  bed (кровать) — Yiddish word for 'bed'
• MDV 708 4:00
  to ask/request (прошу) — Yiddish word for 'to ask, to request'
• MDV 709 1:53
  ear (ухо) — the word for 'ear'
• MDV 709 2:37
  light blue (голубой) — the word for 'light blue'
• MDV 709 3:32
  gray-haired (седой) — the word for 'gray-haired'
• MDV 709 4:51
  deaf (глухой (deaf)) — the word for 'deaf'
• MDV 709 5:04
  pigeon (голубь) — the word for 'dove/pigeon'
• MDV 709 6:26
  faster (быстрее) — the word for 'faster'
• MDV 709 6:32
  near (близко) — the word for 'near/close'
• MDV 709 6:44
  nearer (ближе) — the comparative form for 'closer'
• MDV 709 6:47
  later (позже) — the word for 'later'
• MDV 709 6:57
  later (позже) — the comparative form for 'later'
• MDV 709 7:09
  mistake/error — the word for 'mistake/error' (шибка)
• MDV 709 8:25
  probably (наверное) — the Yiddish for 'probably'
• MDV 709 8:39
  ceiling (потолок) — the word for 'ceiling'
• MDV 709 9:05
  floor (пол) — the word for 'floor'
• MDV 709 9:22
  face (лицо) — the word for 'face'
• MDV 709 9:29
  what tsure means — the meaning of 'צירה'
• MDV 709 10:54
  back (назад) — the word for 'back' (direction)
• MDV 709 15:23
  also (также) — the Yiddish for 'also'
• MDV 713 27:52
  store (магазин) — the Yiddish word for 'shop, store'
• MDV 713 29:47
  well (колодец) — the Yiddish word for 'well'
• MDV 713 30:14
  potato (картошка) — the Yiddish word for 'potato'
• MDV 713 45:13
  thank you (спасибо) — how to say 'thank you' in Yiddish
• MDV 713 45:30
  please (пожалуйста) — the Yiddish for 'please' (пожалуйста)