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Zhytomyr Житомир זשיטאָמער

Zhytomyrs'ka Oblast', Ukraine · Yiddish /ZhITOMER/ (זשיטאָמער, זשיטאָמיר)

Polish Żytomierz · Hebrew ז'יטומיר

25 interviews on 42 tapes, 30.7 hours approx., 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 · 22 people interviewed here · 4 born here · 301 questionnaire answers · 9 later recordings (2012–2018)

Also a point of the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (informant location 50282): 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) Zhytomyr

People recorded here

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).

Recorded here or in another town of the same tape — the catalogue gives both, the passages do not decide:

The tapes (42)

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 history84Yiddish language and dialect47Local Jewish history37Life today33Songs and music32Childhood29Stories, humor and sayings28Religious life (general)27