Moyshe Smelanskii

born 1920 in Smila two sources agree · recorded in Kyiv, 2002

5 recordings · 194 minutes · 70 min of questionnaire

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Dovid Katz, Anatolii Kerzhner · recorded together with Natan Shapiro

Conversations 1

Each line is one conversation with Smelanskii, 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.

• 2002-07-07
  ▶ Kyiv · 4.0 h

  MDV 490 · MDV 491 · MDV 492 · MDV 493 · MDV 494 · MDV 495 (6 tapes) · with Natan Shapiro

Topics

Questionnaire

54 questions put to Smelanskii. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 491 1:00
  sad (печальный) — how to say 'sad' (печальный)
• MDV 491 2:23
  to breathe (дышать) — how to say 'breathe' (дышать)
• MDV 491 2:57
  to breathe (дышать) — is the form אוטעמען used for 'breathe'
• MDV 491 4:54
  blind person — how to say 'blind person'
• MDV 491 5:00
  prophet Elijah (пророк Илья) — how to say 'prophet Elijah' in Yiddish
• MDV 491 6:34
  pleasant (приятно) — how to say 'pleasant' (приятно)
• MDV 491 7:23
  this is another story (это другая история) — how to say 'another story'
• MDV 491 9:11
  you came from another city (ты прибыл из другого города) — how to say 'from another city'
• MDV 491 9:36
  one and a half (полтора) — how to say 'one and a half'
• MDV 491 10:23
  attic (чердак) — how to say 'attic' (чердак)
• MDV 491 10:58
  potato (картошка) — how to say 'potato'
• MDV 491 14:36
  belly (живот) — how to say 'belly, stomach' (живот)
• MDV 491 14:54
  mouse (мышь) — how to say 'mouse' (мышь)
• MDV 491 15:37
  pigeon (голубь) — how to say 'pigeon, dove' (голубь)
• MDV 491 16:48
  broth (бульон) — how to say 'broth, soup' (бульон)
• MDV 491 17:50
  groats (крупа) — how to say 'groats, grain' (крупа)
• MDV 491 18:23
  deaf (глухой (deaf)) — how to say 'deaf' (глухой)
• MDV 492 1:16
  beam (бревно) — word for 'beam' (ברעוונע)
• MDV 492 2:12
  corpse
• MDV 492 2:27
  bier — bier (on which corpse is carried)
• MDV 492 2:57
  well (колодец)
• MDV 492 5:16
  Hanukkah spinning top — Hanukkah toy (dreidel)
• MDV 492 5:40
  meaning of goylem — meaning of 'goylem'
• MDV 492 6:42
  gray-haired (седой) — gray (hair)
• MDV 492 7:57
  plural of gvir — plural of 'gvir' (rich person)
• MDV 492 8:30
  quickly (быстро)
• MDV 492 8:45
  paradise (рай)
• MDV 492 13:17
  what was eaten on Purim
• MDV 492 14:57
  plural of vogn — plural of 'vogn' (wagon)
• MDV 492 15:29
  whose child (чей ребёнок) — whose child is this
• MDV 492 15:42
  right (correct) (правый)
• MDV 492 16:11
  you (pl.) are right (вы правы) — you (plural/formal) are right
• MDV 492 18:28
  mistake (ошибка)
• MDV 492 20:52
  man (мужчина)
• MDV 492 25:06
  near (близко) — close, near
• MDV 492 25:40
  plural of nar — plural of 'nar' (fool)
• MDV 492 27:16
  bad people (плохие люди)
• MDV 492 28:35
  floor (пол)
• MDV 492 29:13
  whether podlage is used for floor (подлога) — floor (Ukrainian)
• MDV 492 31:25
  ferry
• MDV 492 31:49
  overgrown (зарос)
• MDV 493 0:06
  year of birth — what year the informant was born
• MDV 493 0:29
  unclear — Yiddish word for something (interrupted)
• MDV 493 2:28
  thank you (спасибо) — Yiddish for 'thank you'
• MDV 493 3:16
  room (комната) — Yiddish for 'room'
• MDV 493 4:15
  flower (цветок) — Yiddish word for 'flower'
• MDV 493 4:40
  pen/pencil — Yiddish word for pen/pencil
• MDV 493 4:59
  store (магазин) — Yiddish word for 'shop/store'
• MDV 493 5:19
  meaning of krom — meaning of 'קראם'
• MDV 493 5:20
  different (различные) — Yiddish for 'various things'
• MDV 493 5:41
  almost (почти) — Yiddish word for 'almost'
• MDV 493 6:21
  Friday night — how to say Friday night
• MDV 493 8:11
  difference between rov and rebe — difference between רב and רבי
• MDV 493 11:33
  enemy (враг) — Yiddish for 'enemy'