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MDV 89 · Gabor Deutsch

Budapest, Hungary 21 June 2007 Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Ildi Kovacs Part 2 of 2 7 min · 2 passages

MDV 88 · part 1 MDV 89 · part 2

One conversation with Gabor Deutsch, continuing over MDV 88, MDV 89.

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Passages

0:00

Deutsch chants prayers.

Recitation Synagogue and prayer · MCO

From the machine transcript

Kerler asks Deutsch whether he remembers more of a Purim play. Deutsch answers that it was in Hungarian and that nothing of it was written down. Kerler then asks for prayer, and Deutsch chants Hebrew liturgical texts from memory, among them what appear to be Hallel verses (?). Kerler praises the chanting and asks for a little more.

Adds Deutsch's remarks on a Hungarian-language Purim play, and that the Hebrew chanting is more than a few prayers.

Songs and music Purim

4:47

The team concludes the formal part of the interview with Deutsch. The camera then collects footage of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Footage · MCO

From the machine transcript

Deutsch thanks the interviewers and says he has been glad to help. Kerler says he will remember it and asks a closing question about a description. The transcript is thin and unclear.

The transcript shows only closing thanks and a few unclear remarks; it has nothing of the seminary footage.

Interviewee: Gabor Deutsch
Interviewers: Dov-Ber Kerler, Ildi Kovacs
Recorded: 21 June 2007, Budapest
Kind: interview
Related tapes: MDV 88

Identifiers and copies

Tape MDV 89 · record n296xm16t · Hungary, Budapest, 2007 - 2009
Media Collections Online (Indiana University — the archival copy)
Not yet on YouTube or archive.org.

Cite this moment

Gabor Deutsch, interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Ildi Kovacs, Budapest, 21 June 2007. AHEYM (Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories), Indiana University, tape MDV 89, at 0:00. https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/n296xm16t/section/4t64h9878?t=0

Catalogue introduction

June 21, 2007. Hungary, Budapest County, Budapest. This recording is the continuation of a formal interview with Gabor Deutsch. (Part 2 of 2. See MDV 88) Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Ildi Kovacs.

From the machine transcript

Continuation of the formal interview with Gabor Deutsch in Budapest on 21 June 2007, with Dov-Ber Kerler asking. The tape is mostly Deutsch chanting or reciting liturgical texts from memory, after Kerler asks about a Purim play and about prayer. The talk is brief and the transcript is poor, so the closing thanks and wrap-up are only partly legible.

Speakers, as the transcript identifies them

Gabor Deutschinformant
Chants prayer texts at 01:25–04:00 and answers in Yiddish and Hungarian. He says at 00:12 that the Purim play was in Hungarian.
Dov-Ber Kerlerinterviewer
Asks about the Purim play and the prayer chant, and speaks some Hungarian. He also winds up the interview.
UNKother
A brief interjection at 00:52 and another at 04:48, possibly Deutsch or a bystander. The transcript does not make this clear.

Languages heard

Yiddish 5.2 min

Where catalogue and transcript differ

The chanted Hebrew in s0001 is badly garbled by the recogniser, and the opening exchange is also unclear. The catalogue's remark about footage of the Jewish Theological Seminary in s0002 cannot be checked from this transcript, which has no speech from that part. The catalogue also lists Ildi Kovacs as an interviewer, but she is not identified by voice here.

A paraphrase of a machine reading: the topics can be trusted; names, numbers and family relations are to be heard before they are cited. How this layer was made.