Katz discusses holiday celebrations, including Shavuot and Yom Kippur. He then talks about a Sabbath goy he remembers from home and food customs. Katz also addresses non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, antisemitism, football clubs, and drama circles. Katz then lists political organizations, including Hashomer Hatzair, Gordonya, Poale Zion, the Bund.
Answers Kerler's questions about prewar life in his hometown. Topics: Shavuot greenery and Yom Kippur fasting by Katz and his parents; the Sabbath goy who stoked the stove; Sabbath cholent baked in the bread oven; the word for beans. He then discusses non-Jews who spoke Yiddish, a woman living with a non-Jew, and antisemitism, which varied by period. He names the fire brigade, a Jewish football club, a drama club in Tlumach, Zionist and Bundist groups, and Polish and Yiddish newspapers from Lviv.
Adds the fire brigade, a mother who did not read the popular literature, and a question about the Yiddish word for beans.
Katz recites or sings a quoted Sabbath greeting and dialogue from a play he saw, and talks about the Yiddish and Polish dramas performed in the town. A play title about a madman in a hospital is mentioned, with a name (Barishev?) that is unclear. He then answers Kerler's questions about the town's craftsmen (carpenters, shoemakers, tailors, tinsmiths, brewers, butchers, three ritual slaughterers), the many prayer houses, and the town's rabbi. He says his father was a brewer. The young rabbi was killed by the Germans.
Adds Polish drama, a play title, the number of slaughterers, and the town's rabbi.
Answers Kerler's questions on cultural terminology. Topics: the difference between rov, rebbe and rabbiner, and their plurals; a good place as a name for a cemetery; a good Jew as a rebbe; Litvak; tsadik; Galitsianer; and Yiddish words for various types of person. He recalls a Jewish wedding. He also discusses the Dybbuk and the Vilna Troupe's performance with the Turkow brothers in Stanislav, which he attended in 1924.
Adds the Dybbuk and the Vilna Troupe performance, with the year; the catalogue mentions it in a different order.
Katz discusses his childhood memories and education. He studied 31:15 at a handicraft school in Lviv and took exams in lock smithy. Katz states that he was unemployed in Tlumach until the territory was occupied by the Soviets and he found work at 32:20. Katz also mentioned his traditional wedding at the rebbe’s house. He then talks about his life during the war. He was drafted into the Red Army and served in the labor battalion. Among other places, Katz was sent to a place eighty kilometers from Stalingrad, before his battalion arrived in Stalingrad. Katz continues that he became ill and worked in a factory for military goods eighteen hours a day. He was then sent to another factory in Kirov, Russia, where he worked until 1947. That year Katz moved to Ivano Frankivsk.
Katz talks about his schooling: seven classes at a Polish school, then three years at a trade school in Stryi, followed by a locksmith's exam in Lviv and a diploma. He was unemployed at home until the Soviet occupation, then worked in a ministry office and married at the rebbe's house in Stanislav. During the war he was in a labor battalion digging trenches near Stalingrad, fell ill with a high fever, and worked eighteen-hour days in a munitions factory. He was then sent to another factory in Kirov (?), where he stayed until moving to Ivano-Frankivs'k in 1947.
Adds the wedding in Stanislav and Katz's attendance at a ministry office; the transcript shows hunger in the labor battalion.
Katz confirms that his parents and siblings were killed, and Kerler lists their names. He then describes life in Soviet Stanislav (later Ivano-Frankivs'k) after the war: no synagogues, private prayer in homes, a closed city. He says he has no relatives abroad but had friends in Israel from the Hashomer movement. Kerler ends by announcing a set of words to translate.
Adds the family names Kerler lists after the war, and the closed-city status.
Answers questions from the AHEYM Yiddish dialectological questionnaire. Kerler gives Russian words or sentences, and Katz translates them into Yiddish. Items include: everyday objects (book, glass, skin, pigeon, building, ear), colours, comparatives and adverbs (quicker, nearer), weather words, verb forms and prepositions (the dative and accusative), and sentences on health and travel. They also test words such as well, flowers, potato, and baba.
