Interviewees Bakmayev Mendel Idlovich Trachtenberg
Interviewers Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Margot Valles
Recorded 7 June 2009, Novoselytsya
Kind tour
Identifiers and copies
Tape MDV 362 · record
b2774g99d · Ukraine, Chernivtsi, Novoselʹtsy
Media Collections Online (Indiana University — the archival copy)
Not yet on YouTube or archive.org.
Cite this moment
Bakmayev; Mendel Idlovich Trachtenberg, interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Margot Valles, Novoselytsya, 7 June 2009. AHEYM (Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories), Indiana University, tape MDV 362, at 0:00 . https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/b2774g99d/section/f18827627?t=0
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Catalogue introduction
June 07, 2009. Ukraine, Chernivets'ka Oblast', Novoselytsya. The tape consists of a tour of the town of Novosel’tsy, led by Mendel Trachtenberg. Trachtenberg takes the team to the site of the Tailor's Synagogue, and on the way Trachtenberg points out sites of Jewish interest in Novosel’tsy. The team enters the synagogue and walks around. After the team exits the building, they walk back to the van while discussing aspects of Jewish religious life before the war. Bakmayev and the team get back into the van. The tape concludes with the team driving away from Novosel’tsy.. Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Margot Valles.
From the machine transcript
Tour of Novoselytsya (Novosel'tsy) on 7 June 2009, led by a local elderly man, with Kerler and Veidlinger's team; the catalogue names Mendel Trachtenberg as guide and Bakmayev as the second interviewee. The transcript is one long outdoor passage with a lot of background Russian and English. It covers the interviewee's family and the town's Jewish houses and street, a former synagogue/sports hall and a Sabbath-keeping non-Jew, the school and soup kitchen, and the cost of restoring the building. It ends with talk about where the team will drive next.
Speakers, as the transcript identifies them
Trachtenberg (?) informant Elderly local man who leads the tour and points out Jewish sites; says he lived on a nearby street and that his father went to the synagogue; his name is not stated in the transcript (00:01–23:05).Bakmayev (?) informant Second local man who speaks Yiddish and comments on the building and the group's route; not named in the transcript, identification rests on the catalogue (08:25–23:05).S3 other Local person walking with the group; speaks some Yiddish and Russian.S4 other Local person who gives figures on the number of Jewish families and asks about synagogues in the informant's childhood.Dov-Ber Kerler interviewer Leads the questioning in Yiddish and Russian.Jeffrey Veidlinger (?) interviewer Occasional Yiddish and English remarks.
Languages heard
Yiddish 8.8 min; Russian 1.4 min
Where catalogue and transcript differ Much of the transcript is garbled; many Yiddish lines are likely misrecognized and some English and Russian lines are background noise, not content. Details such as the mother's family name Kleiman, the synagogue/sports hall and the figures (restoration cost, number of families) rest on doubtful words. The catalogue names Trachtenberg as guide; the transcript does not confirm which voice is which.
A paraphrase of a machine reading: the topics can be trusted; names, numbers and family relations are to be heard before they are cited. How this layer was made.