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MDV 110 · Footage, Synagogue

Debrecen, Hungary 2 July 2008 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler 51 min · 3 passages
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The team chats with community members.

Informal · MCO
From the machine transcript

Kerler chats with a man in the community, who says he speaks some Yiddish. The talk is brief and partly garbled, with some talk of Hebrew. The transcript is too unclear to say more.

1:39

The team joins the morning service.

Service life today Synagogue and prayer · MCO
From the machine transcript

Filming of the morning service in the Debrecen prayer house. The transcript is almost entirely fragmentary, with scattered Yiddish phrases, a Hungarian stretch, a noted song and recogniser loops, so the spoken content cannot be reliably described. Near the end Kerler speaks briefly to those present.

The transcript shows the service as mostly unintelligible and the speech as largely non-Yiddish or garbled.

47:53

The team chats with community members.

Informal · MCO
From the machine transcript

Kerler chats with several community members, asking how many tallises or families there were in the community; one answer gives about forty to fifty families. The talk turns to righteous and good Jews and to a rabbi, who after the war was chief rabbi in Budapest. Kerler then suggests going into the large synagogue.

The talk covers the size of the community, a rabbi in Budapest and a move to the large synagogue.