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MDV 703 · Moisei Miaskovskij

Tomashpol', Ukraine 28 May 2007 Part 2 of 2 19 min · 3 passages

One conversation with Moisei (Moyshe) Miaskovskij, continuing over MDV 702, MDV 703.

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0:00

Continuation of interview with Moisei Miaskovskij.

· MCO
From the machine transcript

Miaskovskij mentions a sister in Israel and answers Lemster's and Kerler's questions about prewar Jewish weddings in Tomashpol' and his father's house. The house is about a hundred years old and has a mezuzah on the door but not on the window frame; he explains what a mezuzah is for. He recalls his pious grandmother and speaks about the languages he used and his Ukrainian school. He says his mother died before the war and that his father hid during the occupation, with a ghetto mentioned. Kerler asks to see the father's books in the attic, but Miaskovskij says he cannot climb up.

Also covers the mezuzah, languages spoken, family deaths and the request to see the books in the attic.

9:09

Discussion with Vasili Mukha.

· MCO
From the machine transcript

Kerler and Lemster talk with Vasili Mukha (b. 1933) about his Yiddish. He spoke it with Jewish friends as a child, has forgotten much of it, and is asked for songs and sayings. He says his father's brother was a Jewish shoemaker. In the war Jews slept in his family's house, with the transcript suggesting they were hidden. He is asked whether there were beautiful Jewish girls, about life after the war, the town's Jewish trades and streets, and his own work.

The passage is a doorway talk with Mukha covering his childhood Yiddish, hiding Jews in the war and Jewish trades.

16:48

Farewell exchange with Moisei Miaskovskij.

Informal · MCO
From the machine transcript

The team takes leave of Miaskovskij, with thanks and good wishes. They say they will come back to see the books and him. Some of the talk is muddled, with mention of a further trip, possibly to Vel'nitsk (?), and an unclear remark about a small cloth.