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MDV 735 · Efim Isaakovich Rubin; Matvei Vladimirovich Rubin

Uman', Ukraine 19 July 2002 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger Part 3 of 3 24 min · 4 passages

One conversation with Efim Isaakovich Rubin; Matvei Vladimirovich Rubin, continuing over MDV 733, MDV 734, MDV 735.

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Passages

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Dialectology

Questionnaire Yiddish language and dialect · MCO
From the machine transcript

Rubin and a second speaker answer Kerler's dialectological questions. The items include words for vodka, cooler, higher, mouse and mice, the house and its rooms, a non-Jew and a non-Jewish woman, thanks, the vineyard, a mug, 'thousand', a rich man, a book, and a few others. They also discuss how people in Buki spoke compared with Lithuanian Yiddish speakers, and who used certain older expressions.

The speakers also comment on Lithuanian Yiddish and on how Buki speech differed.

19:14

Klezmer musicians and Jewish cultural life in Buki

From the machine transcript

Rubin talks about the many klezmer families in Buki and nearby towns, who played at weddings. He recalls a wedding entertainer who spoke in rhymes and the klezmer slang for words such as water, bread, money and meat. Kerler then asks about Purim plays, and the speakers recall visiting Yiddish theater troupes from Kharkiv, Kyiv and Moscow, and a play seen in childhood.

Adds the klezmer slang words and the visiting Yiddish theater troupes.

22:54

Concluding interview

· MCO
From the machine transcript

Kerler's brief closing remarks. The transcript for this span is too thin to say more.

23:04

Footage of the synagogue

Footage · MCO
From the machine transcript

Short exchange between Kerler and a second speaker about a possible future visit to places in the area, and fragments about something in Yiddish. The words are mostly unclear, and the transcript does not show any synagogue content.

The transcript shows only unclear conversation, with no synagogue content.