Abram (Arkadii, Abrashe) Khaimovich Vaisman

born 1940 in Sharhorod · recorded in Sharhorod, 2002

3 recordings · 117 minutes · 30 min of questionnaire

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Dovid Katz, Jeffrey Veidlinger

Conversations 1

Each line is one conversation with Vaisman, 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.

• 2002-07-12
  ▶ Sharhorod · 2.0 h

  MDV 654 · MDV 655 · MDV 656 (3 tapes)

Topics

Questionnaire

29 questions put to Vaisman. Each link opens the recording at that moment.

• MDV 655 11:00
  color of sky — color of the sky
• MDV 655 13:37
  small mouse — a small mouse
• MDV 655 14:37
  happiness/luck (счастье) — luck, happiness
• MDV 655 15:44
  dreidel — dreidel (spinning top for Hanukkah)
• MDV 655 16:24
  quickly (быстро)
• MDV 655 17:13
  then (тогда)
• MDV 655 17:26
  memories of Purim
• MDV 655 17:56
  what was eaten on Hanukkah
• MDV 655 18:16
  mistake (ошибка)
• MDV 655 18:38
  near (близко) — near, close
• MDV 655 19:01
  ceiling (потолок)
• MDV 655 19:16
  floor (пол)
• MDV 655 19:24
  fence (забор)
• MDV 655 19:31
  Tisha B'Av customs — memories of Tisha B'Av
• MDV 655 21:08
  face (лицо)
• MDV 655 22:42
  back (назад) — back, backward
• MDV 655 24:37
  almost (почти) — the Yiddish word for 'almost'
• MDV 655 25:22
  house (дом) — the Yiddish word for 'house'
• MDV 655 27:06
  non-Jew (не еврей) — the word for a non-Jew (incomplete question)
• MDV 655 30:39
  biographical — the father's name
• MDV 655 37:40
  life (жизнь) — the Yiddish word for 'life'
• MDV 656 20:15
  year of birth — what year the informant was born
• MDV 656 23:39
  biographical — the father's name
• MDV 656 23:53
  mother's name — the mother's name
• MDV 656 28:26
  whether there were Hasidim — whether there were Hasidim before the war
• MDV 656 30:25
  which school he attended — what school the informant attended
• MDV 656 32:32
  cross (крест) — the Yiddish word for 'cross'
• MDV 656 32:47
  what tseylem kop means — what 'tseylem kop' means
• MDV 656 33:09
  floor (пол) — the Yiddish word for 'floor'