Beyle Mindel Vaisman

née Reinsdorf · recorded in Berdychiv, 2002, 2007, 2009

7 recordings · 296 minutes · 40 min of questionnaire

Also written: Bella (Beyle) Mindel Vaisman; Bella Mindel; Beyle Mindel

Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Dovid Katz, Moisei Lemster · recorded together with Isaak Iosipovich Vaisman, Iakov Shor, Efim Grigoryevich Skobilitskii, Fania (Feyge Leye), Iosif Abramovich Kogan

Conversations 2 ▶ play all in order

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.

2002-07-10
▶ Berdychiv · 83 min
MDV 339 · MDV 340 (2 tapes) · with Isaak Iosipovich Vaisman
2009-01-09
▶ Berdychiv · 74 min
MDV 354 · MDV 355 (2 tapes) · with Isaak Iosipovich Vaisman

The tapes (7)

MDV 338
10 July 2002 · Berdychiv · part 3 of 3 14 passages · with Iakov Shor, Isaak (Itsik) Iosipovich Vaisman
MDV 339
10 July 2002 · Berdychiv · part 2 of 4 9 passages · with Isaak Iosipovich Vaisman
MDV 340
10 July 2002 · Berdychiv · part 3 of 4 11 passages · with Isaak Iosipovich Vaisman
MDV 342
10 July 2002 · Berdychiv · part 4 of 4 16 passages · with Isaak Iosipovich Vaisman, Fania (Feyge Leye, Efim Grigoryevich Skobilitskii, Skobilitskii, Fania (Feyge Leye)
MDV 351
27 May 2007 · Berdychiv · part 1 of 3 27 passages · with Isaak Iosipovich Vaisman, Yosl Kogan
MDV 354
9 January 2009 · Berdychiv · part 1 of 2 19 passages · with Isaak Iosipovich Vaisman
MDV 355
9 January 2009 · Berdychiv · part 2 of 2 2 passages · with Isaak Iosipovich Vaisman

Topics

Daily life (general)8 Yiddish language and dialect8 Family history7 Religious life (general)7 Life today4 Cultural terminology3 World War II (general)3 Cultural life (general)3

Questionnaire

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

MDV 339 0:21
sad (печальный) — Yiddish for 'sad'
MDV 339 1:28
lake (озеро) — Yiddish for 'lake'
MDV 339 4:05
attic (чердак) — Yiddish for 'attic'
MDV 339 7:02
light blue (голубой) — Yiddish for 'light blue/sky blue'
MDV 339 7:44
gray/grey-haired (серый / седой) — Yiddish for 'gray' (hair color)
MDV 339 9:34
belly (живот) — Yiddish for 'belly/stomach'
MDV 339 10:00
mouse (мышь) — Yiddish for 'mouse'
MDV 339 10:16
windowpane — term for windowpane(s)
MDV 339 10:56
groats (крупа) — Yiddish for 'groats/grain'
MDV 339 11:23
deaf (глухой (deaf)) — Yiddish for 'deaf'
MDV 339 11:55
pigeon (голубь) — Yiddish for 'dove/pigeon'
MDV 339 16:23
quickly (быстро) — Yiddish for 'quickly'
MDV 339 16:45
kitchen (кухня) — Yiddish for 'kitchen'
MDV 339 18:35
sons (сыновья) — Yiddish for 'sons' (plural)
MDV 339 19:07
sun (солнце) — Yiddish for 'sun'
MDV 339 19:59
boat — term for 'boat'
MDV 339 21:02
dish — term for 'dish'
MDV 339 22:56
mug/ugly face (рожа) — ugly face
MDV 339 23:26
in-laws — term for in-laws (machatunim)
MDV 339 25:22
man (мужчина)
MDV 339 26:23
probably (наверное)
MDV 339 28:19
plural of nar — plural of fool
MDV 339 29:53
ceiling (потолок)
MDV 339 30:21
floor (пол)
MDV 339 32:08
on this street live only Jews (на этой улице живут одни евреи) — On this street live only Jews
MDV 339 34:23
difference between rov and rebe
MDV 339 39:05
plural of rov
MDV 339 39:30
plural of rebe
MDV 340 0:04
Christian (female) — how to say 'Christian (female)'
MDV 340 2:19
how Litvaks speak
MDV 340 3:10
flower (цветок) — the word for 'flower'
MDV 340 3:37
difference between kveytn and blumen — the difference between קווייטן and בלומען
MDV 340 4:52
church (церковь) — Yiddish word for church
MDV 340 5:09
white church (белая церковь) — what a white church is called
MDV 340 7:34
meaning of a gut ort — meaning of 'a gut ort'