Isaak Iosipovich Vaisman (Itsik)

born 1925 in Berdychiv · recorded in Berdychiv, Vinnytsya, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009

9 recordings · 419 minutes · 40 min of questionnaire

Also written: Isaak (Itsik) Iosipovich Vaisman

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

Conversations 3 ▶ 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 Beyle Mindel Vaisman
• 2005-12-11
  ▶ Berdychiv · 62 min proposed

  MDV 761
• 2009-01-09
  ▶ Berdychiv · 74 min

  MDV 354 · MDV 355 (2 tapes) · with Beyle Mindel Vaisman

Topics

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'