Isaak Grigorievich Vainshelboim

born 1918 in Ostroh ("Ostroh (then Poland)" in the catalogue) · recorded in Slavuta, Rivne, 2003, 2007

3 recordings · 162 minutes · 60 min of questionnaire · 1 min of singing

Also written: Isaak Grigorievich Vainsheinboim

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Moisei Lemster · recorded together with Maria Isaakovna Liberzon, Moisei Zelmanovich Fish

Conversations 2 ▶ play all in order

Each line is one conversation with Vainshelboim, 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.

• 2003-05-05
  ▶ Slavuta · 50 min uncertain

  MDV 671
• 2007-06-10
  ▶ Slavuta · 53 min

  MDV 673

Topics

Questionnaire

61 questions put to Vainshelboim. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 671 4:11
  sour (кислый) — Yiddish word for 'sour'
• MDV 671 4:22
  deaf (глухой (deaf)) — Yiddish word for 'deaf'
• MDV 671 4:40
  pigeon (голубь) — Yiddish word for 'dove/pigeon'
• MDV 673 0:03
  my head hurts (голова болит) — head hurts
• MDV 673 0:05
  hello (здравствуйте) — Yiddish for 'hello'
• MDV 673 0:12
  morning greeting
• MDV 673 0:13
  evening greeting
• MDV 673 0:45
  barely (еле-еле) — barely, with difficulty
• MDV 673 0:55
  barely (variant) — barely (which variant)
• MDV 673 2:03
  belly (живот) — Yiddish for 'belly'
• MDV 673 2:11
  skin (кожа) — Yiddish for 'skin'
• MDV 673 2:49
  groats (крупа) — Yiddish for 'groats'
• MDV 673 3:07
  room (комната) — Yiddish for 'room'
• MDV 673 3:21
  shed/barn (сарай) — Yiddish for 'shed/barn'
• MDV 673 4:21
  blue (синий) — Yiddish for 'blue'
• MDV 673 4:31
  pigeon (голубь) — Yiddish for 'dove/pigeon'
• MDV 673 4:43
  deaf (глухой (deaf)) — Yiddish for 'deaf'
• MDV 673 4:58
  ear (ухо) — Yiddish for 'ear'
• MDV 673 5:05
  sour (кислый) — Yiddish for 'sour'
• MDV 673 5:09
  to build (a construi (RO)) — Yiddish for 'to build'
• MDV 673 5:20
  gray-haired (седой) — Yiddish for 'gray-haired'
• MDV 673 5:57
  kiss her (поцелуй её) — how to say 'kiss her'
• MDV 673 6:12
  high (высоко) — Yiddish for 'high'
• MDV 673 6:37
  near (близко) — Yiddish for 'near'
• MDV 673 6:49
  he will also come (он тоже придет) — how to say 'will also come'
• MDV 673 7:03
  he knows everything (Все он знает) — how to say 'he knows everything'
• MDV 673 7:33
  she knows everything (она знает всё) — how to say 'she knows everything'
• MDV 673 9:48
  she is very beautiful (она очень красивая) — how to say 'she is very beautiful'
• MDV 673 10:30
  what krank means — what does קראנק mean
• MDV 673 10:56
  I like him (он мне нравится) — how to say 'I like him'
• MDV 673 11:02
  I don't like him (он мне не нравится) — how to say 'I don't like her'
• MDV 673 11:18
  to run away (убежать) — Yiddish for 'run away'
• MDV 673 11:35
  honest (честный) — Yiddish for 'honest'
• MDV 673 11:58
  pious (набожный) — Yiddish for 'pious/religious'
• MDV 673 13:54
  cross (крест) — Yiddish for 'cross'
• MDV 673 14:14
  apostate (выкрест) — Yiddish for a Jew who converted
• MDV 673 15:06
  Christian (христианин) — Yiddish for 'Christian, peasant'
• MDV 673 16:22
  my head hurts (голова болит) — how to say 'head hurts'
• MDV 673 16:33
  from where (откуда) — how to say 'from where'
• MDV 673 16:44
  bed (кровать) — Yiddish for 'bed'
• MDV 673 16:59
  I ask you (я прошу вас) — how to say 'I ask you'
• MDV 673 17:15
  small tree (маленькое дерево) — Yiddish for 'little tree'
• MDV 673 17:23
  vodka (водка) — Yiddish for 'vodka'
• MDV 673 17:36
  thousand (тысяча) — Yiddish for 'thousand'
• MDV 673 17:42
  was born (родился) — how to say 'was born'
• MDV 673 18:03
  potato (картошка) — Yiddish for 'potato'
• MDV 673 18:31
  store (магазин) — Yiddish for 'store'
• MDV 673 18:50
  I don't hear her (её я не слышу) — how to say 'I don't hear her'
• MDV 673 18:58
  I need him very much (он мне очень нужен) — how to say 'I need him very much'
• MDV 673 19:11
  grandmother (бабушка) — Yiddish for 'grandmother'
• MDV 673 19:20
  midwife (акушерка) — Yiddish for 'midwife'
• MDV 673 20:26
  crying (плач ребёнка) — Yiddish for 'crying'
• MDV 673 22:40
  all people (все люди) — how to say 'all people'
• MDV 673 23:04
  today three people came (сегодня пришло три человека) — how to say 'today three people came'
• MDV 673 23:15
  in our family were seven (в нашей семье было семеро) — how to say 'in our family there were seven'
• MDV 673 23:51
  I was at father's (я был у отца) — how to say 'I was at father's'
• MDV 673 24:03
  I sat at the table (я сидел за столом) — how to say 'I sat at the table'
• MDV 673 24:13
  on this street live only Jews (на этой улице живут одни евреи) — how to say 'on this street live only Jews'
• MDV 673 24:28
  on the street (по этой улице) — how to say 'on the street'
• MDV 673 24:38
  this is another story (это другая история) — how to say 'this is another story'
• MDV 673 24:54
  you came from another city (ты прибыл из другого города) — how to say 'you arrived from another city'