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MDV 80 · Andor Rezmovits

Budapest, Hungary 23 December 2006 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler Part 3 of 4 12 min · 4 passages

One conversation with Andor Rezmovits, continuing over MDV 78, MDV 79, MDV 80, MDV 81.

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Passages

0:00

Rezmovits sings a Yiddish song about a rebbe and his wife, he learned from Polish Jews in Israel.

From the machine transcript

Kerler opens with the date and thanks the people who helped the expedition, then asks Rezmovits to sing. Rezmovits, with another person joining in, sings a humorous song about a rebbe, the rebbetsin and the hasidim. Asked when the song was sung, he says he heard it in Israel and brought it back to Hungary, and tells how Polish friends there found he knew Yiddish.

Also includes Kerler's opening announcement and thanks, and an anecdote about Polish friends in Israel.

4:19

Rezmovits addresses local Yiddish dialectology.

From the machine transcript

Kerler asks about a local Yiddish word for 'together' and about a term connected with bundles of beans (?). Rezmovits confirms the first as used in Debrecen and discusses the second; he then says he has songs he heard from his mother.

5:58

Rezmovits recalls songs titles from his childhood, originally from the Transcarpathian region.

From the machine transcript

Rezmovits recalls sayings and songs from his Carpathian family tradition, such as not boasting about money. His parents came from Sighet and his grandfather was a melamed. He tells how his father, angered by a Romanian tax collector who seized his grandfather's tefillin bag, threw the man to the ground and his grandmother calmed the man with brandy. Kerler asks about songs of the grandfather and father, about love, and about a comic song about paper children; Rezmovits cannot place the last.

10:45

The team concludes the formal part of the interview with Rezmovits.

· MCO
From the machine transcript

Kerler thanks Rezmovits and ends the formal interview, saying the team has to leave. The rest is a brief informal exchange with garbled speech.