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MDV 694 · Tsila Borisovna; Donia (Dobe) Shoilevna Presler

Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy, Tomashpol', Ukraine 19 May 2003 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler Part 3 of 3 61 min · 5 passages
2 conversations on this tape
  1. 0:00–1:01:34 · Tsila Borisovna · Tomashpol' proposed
  2. 1:01:34–1:01:36 · Donia Shoilevna Presler · Mohyliv-Podil's'kyy or Tomashpol' (unresolved) uncertain

The division was proposed from the catalogue's descriptions and the machine transcript, not stated by the catalogue (how).

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Passages

0:00

Conclusion of a linguistic and dialectological interview with Tsila Borisovna in Mohyliv-Podil’s’kyy.

Questionnaire Yiddish language and dialect · MCO
From the machine transcript

Questionnaire work with Tsila Borisovna. Kerler asks how Russian and Ukrainian words and sentences are said in Yiddish: words for pious and honest, the cross, mountain, sea, street, potatoes and flowers, shop, number of family members, 'other', and 'enemy'. He also asks about grammar forms (past tense, "I was", "you are right"), and local words for well, bathhouse and ritual bath, and floor. She also answers a question about whether she remembers ghetto songs.

23:35

The streets of Tomashpol’.

Footage · MCO

24:43

Interview with Sonia (Sure) Romanovna Reznik (née Kordonskaya).

· MCO
From the machine transcript

Kerler meets Reznik at her home and explains the interview. She says she was born in a village near Tomashpol' (name unclear) and gives her maiden name, Kordonskaya, and her husband's family. She went to a Ukrainian school, took courses in Kyiv and worked as an economist and bookkeeper. She was evacuated in 1941 to the Urals and then to a kolkhoz, and returned in 1944, married and bought the house. She names her parents and where they came from.

36:32

Reznik’s sister-in-law, Liza (Leyke) Petrunenko joins the interview

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From the machine transcript

Liza Petrunenko joins and gives her name and Yiddish name. The talk covers her parents and grandfather, and the family's work in the kolkhoz. Reznik and Petrunenko recall prayer in private houses, the many prayer houses of the town, and Sabbath and Passover customs. Reznik names her siblings and recalls childhood games. They discuss non-Jews who spoke Yiddish before the war and today, and Reznik shows the old mezuzahs on doors and windows and her old house.

Adds Petrunenko's own background, the question about singing, and the mezuzahs and house tour.

1:01:34

Very brief segment of interview with Donia (Dobe) Shoilevna Presler in Tul’chyn.

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