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Uzhhorod Ужгород אונגווער

Zakarpats'ka Oblast', Ukraine · Yiddish /INGVER/ (אונגווער, אונגוואַר) · Íngvər in the LCAAJ

Hungarian Ungvár · Slovak Užhorod · Hebrew אוז'הורוד

5 interviews on 8 tapes, 7.9 hours approx., 2005 · 6 people interviewed here · 1 born here · 167 questionnaire answers · 4 later recordings (2012–2018)

Also a point of the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (informant location 48224): the same town's Yiddish was recorded from emigrants a generation earlier.

Ukraine Slovakia Slovenia Republic of Serbia Russia Romania Poland Moldova Lithuania Hungary Germany Czechia Croatia Bulgaria Bosnia and Herzegovina Belarus Austria Chișinău — 50 recordings, 43.4 h (2005–2006) Zhytomyr — 51 recordings, 35.1 h (2002–2015) Budapest — 40 recordings, 31.5 h (2006–2014) Kolomyya — 38 recordings, 26.5 h (2003–2013) Berdychiv — 32 recordings, 25.1 h (2002–2015) Chernivtsi — 29 recordings, 24.2 h (2003–2015) Cluj-Napoca — 47 recordings, 23.5 h (2007–2013) Tul'chyn — 28 recordings, 22.3 h (2002–2015) L'viv — 24 recordings, 20.8 h (2003–2015) Kyiv — 24 recordings, 17.5 h (2002–2005) Khmel'nyts'kyy — 20 recordings, 17.1 h (2007–2009) Bershad' — 22 recordings, 16.1 h (1903–2008) Vinnytsya — 24 recordings, 15.1 h (2002–2008) Oradea — 33 recordings, 14.2 h (2007–2013) Debrecen — 26 recordings, 13.7 h (2006–2015) Rivne — 15 recordings, 13.2 h (2003–2007) Rîbniţa — 21 recordings, 11.9 h (2006–2018) Uzhhorod — 12 recordings, 11.7 h (2005–2017) Odesa — 13 recordings, 11.3 h (1903–2008) Baia Mare — 59 recordings, 10.6 h (2013–2015) Soroca — 13 recordings, 10.3 h (2005–2006) Iași — 14 recordings, 10.1 h (2006) Tomashpol' — 12 recordings, 9.6 h (2003–2008) Bălți — 12 recordings, 9.3 h (2005) Ovruch — 9 recordings, 9.1 h (2003–2007) Balta — 11 recordings, 8.7 h (2008) Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy — 11 recordings, 8.4 h (2003–2005) Khust — 9 recordings, 8.2 h (2005–2012) Bender — 20 recordings, 8.1 h (2006–2018) Bratslav — 10 recordings, 7.8 h (2002–2008) Uman' — 12 recordings, 7.2 h (1904–2008) Ivano-Frankivs'k — 7 recordings, 7.1 h (2003) Drohobych — 8 recordings, 7 h (2003–2007) Luts'k — 8 recordings, 7 h (2003–2007) Mukacheve — 11 recordings, 6.7 h (2005–2015) Botoșani — 11 recordings, 6.5 h (2006) Korsun'-Shevchenkivs'kyy — 8 recordings, 6.5 h (2005) Slavuta — 8 recordings, 6.3 h (2003–2007) Dorohoi — 8 recordings, 6.2 h (2007) Košice — 7 recordings, 6 h (2006) Warsaw — 22 recordings, 5.8 h (2017–2018) Bila Tserkva — 6 recordings, 5.2 h (2005) Teplyk — 10 recordings, 5.2 h (1903–2002) Izyaslav — 6 recordings, 5 h (2003–2007) Kam'yanets'-Podil's'kyy — 5 recordings, 4.9 h (2003) Vaja — 5 recordings, 4.8 h (2006–2008) Sighetu Marmației — 4 recordings, 4.8 h (2007–2012) Chernihiv — 5 recordings, 4.8 h (2003) Khmil'nyk — 5 recordings, 4.7 h (2008–2009) Mykolayiv — 5 recordings, 4.2 h (2008) Starokostyantyniv — 6 recordings, 4.2 h (2008–2009) Briceni — 5 recordings, 4 h (2005) Fastiv — 6 recordings, 4 h (2008) Kovel' — 4 recordings, 4 h (2003) Korosten' — 4 recordings, 3.9 h (2003) Lipcani — 4 recordings, 3.8 h (2005) Rădăuți — 6 recordings, 3.8 h (2006) Polonne — 4 recordings, 3.8 h (2003) Sharhorod — 7 recordings, 3.6 h (2002) Hîrlău — 5 recordings, 3.5 h (2006) Berehove — 5 recordings, 3.4 h (2007–2012) Haysyn — 5 recordings, 3.3 h (2002) Novoselytsya — 4 recordings, 3.1 h (2009) Vynohradiv — 3 recordings, 3.1 h (2005–2008) Mihăileni — 5 recordings, 2.9 h (2006–2007) Shepetivka — 3 recordings, 2.9 h (2003) Săveni — 4 recordings, 2.8 h (2007) Ternopil' — 3 recordings, 2.8 h (2005) Siret — 4 recordings, 2.7 h (2006) Kotovs'k — 3 recordings, 2.6 h (2008) Zhmerynka — 4 recordings, 2.6 h (2002) Edineț — 4 recordings, 2.5 h (2005–2006) Onești — 5 recordings, 2.5 h (2008) Orhei — 3 recordings, 2.4 h (2006) Vatra Dornei — 3 recordings, 2.4 h (2007) Kraków — 7 recordings, 2.3 h (2016–2017) Bar — 4 recordings, 2.3 h (2005) Hnivan' — 3 recordings, 2.3 h (2008) Klyachanovo — 4 recordings, 2.3 h (2005) Dubăsari — 2 recordings, 2.1 h (2006) Chortkiv — 2 recordings, 2.1 h (2005) Ocna Șugatag — 2 recordings, 2 h (2007) Nizhyn — 2 recordings, 2 h (2003) Popel'nyky — 2 recordings, 2 h (2005) Solotvyno — 3 recordings, 1.8 h (2005–2012) Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy — 2 recordings, 1.7 h (2006–2008) Shpykiv — 4 recordings, 1.7 h (2002) Góra Kalwaria — 4 recordings, 1.5 h (2017) Zhovkva — 2 recordings, 1.3 h (2003) Călărași — 1 recording, 1 h (2006) Peresecina — 1 recording, 1 h (2006) Boryslav — 1 recording, 1 h (2007) Chudniv — 1 recording, 1 h (2008) Kopayhorod — 2 recordings, 1 h (2008) Lityn — 1 recording, 1 h (2005) Skvyra — 1 recording, 1 h (2008) Svalyava — 1 recording, 1 h (2005) Yampil' — 2 recordings, 1 h (2005) Rașcov — 1 recording, 0.9 h (2006) Lublin — 2 recordings, 0.8 h (2017) Kremenets' — 1 recording, 0.8 h (2005) Pechera — 1 recording, 0.8 h (2009) Suceava — 1 recording, 0.6 h (2006) Transnistria — 1 recording, 0.3 h (2006) Legnica — 2 recordings, 0.3 h (2017) Ostroh — 1 recording, 0.3 h (2007) Bistrița — 1 recording, 0.2 h (2008) Nyíregyháza — 1 recording, 0 h (2006) Hîncești — 1 recording, 0 h (2008) Șofrîncani — 1 recording, 0 h (2006) Nemyriv — 1 recording, 0 h (1904) Uzhhorod

People recorded here

Born here, recorded elsewhere

Interviews recorded here

One line per conversation — a speaker or group on one day, sometimes over several tapes, sometimes a part of a tape shared with another conversation. The division of shared tapes was proposed from the catalogue's descriptions and the machine transcript; a mark says how surely (how).

The tapes (8)

Later expeditions, 2012–2018

Recordings made here after the MiniDV years; not online, described from machine transcripts (about this material).

What people talk about here

Family history26Synagogue and prayer14Work and trades12Religious education12Camps and forced labor11Emigration and relatives abroad10Local Jewish history10Yiddish language and dialect9