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MDV 70 · Latsi (Yisroel-Leyzer) Galambos

Budapest, Hungary 20 December 2006 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger Part 2 of 3 13 min · 4 passages

One conversation with Latsi (Yisroel-Leyzer) Galambos, continuing over MDV 69, MDV 70, MDV 82.

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0:00

Galambos addresses his yeshiva education and explains the system.

From the machine transcript

Kerler asks why Galambos moved between different yeshivas. Galambos says he himself decided to go, having heard about another yeshiva at home, and that a brother also studied in several. He and Kerler discuss how yeshiva study worked: study with a partner, lectures by the head of the yeshiva, the difference from the talmud torah, and the move from partner study to attending lectures.

Also covers his brother's studies, the choice of yeshiva, and the yeshiva versus the talmud torah.

6:40

Galambos speaks about prewar Jewish life, including occupations, in Vaja. He points out that the prayer shawls were in the synagogue and not at home.

From the machine transcript

Galambos describes prewar Jewish life in his village: some poor people, but most Jews worked, as farmers, tailors, shoemakers, carpenters and an innkeeper. Kerler asks about prayer shawls. Galambos says they were kept in the synagogue, and children carried theirs. Only the shochet wore one in the village, and he mentions boys' sidelocks.

Adds the shochet as the only man with a prayer shawl and sidelocks.

10:57

Galambos talks about his mother's attire on Sabbath, before speaking about prewar religious institutions.

From the machine transcript

Galambos answers Kerler's questions about his mother's Sabbath and holiday clothing: a white kerchief on the High Holidays and another cloth head covering on ordinary Sabbaths, whose name is unclear. He then speaks of the large unheated synagogue and the beit midrash in winter, and the seasons when services were held. Kerler ends by asking him to sing.

Adds the synagogue in winter and the closing request to sing.

12:48

Galambos chants the Aramaic zemirah (Sabbath table hymn) "Yah Ribon."

Singing Songs and musicSabbath · MCO
From the machine transcript

After Kerler's request, Galambos says he has no voice. The transcript shows no clear singing, only thanks, an apology from Kerler and closing remarks.

The transcript shows no singing, only thanks and closing remarks.