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Melody

From the collection of composer and Jewish music curator, Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L (1947-2019)

Kindly delivered by Ḥava Shmulevich for his blessed memory

Name of speaker: 
Moisy Weinstein
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
79
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Slavuta (Ukraine)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Nursery rhymes, Sacred songs
Documentation: 
Composer and curator Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L
Year of recording: 
1987

I am going to the Rabbi (Ikh for tsum rebn)

From the collection of composer and Jewish music curator, Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L (1947-2019)

Kindly delivered by Ḥava Shmulevich for his blessed memory

Name of speaker: 
Sima Galinski
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Accountant
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
62
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Soroca (Moldova)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Folk songs, Sacred songs
Documentation: 
Composer and curator Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L
Year of recording: 
1987

The alphabet song

From the collection of composer and Jewish music curator, Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L (1947-2019)

Kindly delivered by Ḥava Shmulevich for his blessed memory

Name of speaker: 
Bella Roisin (Lifschitz)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Doctor
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
68
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Dubasari (Moldova)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Children's songs, Folk songs
Documentation: 
Composer and curator Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L
Year of recording: 
1987

The small shoes (Di shikhelekh)

From the collection of composer and Jewish music curator, Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L (1947-2019)

Kindly delivered by Ḥava Shmulevich for his blessed memory

Name of speaker: 
Maria Lechtman
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
64
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Dunaivtsi (Ukraine)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Folk songs
Documentation: 
Composer and curator Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L
Year of recording: 
1987

"These are the generations of Noah" (Genesis 6:9)

From the collection of composer and Jewish music curator, Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L (1947-2019)

Kindly delivered by Ḥava Shmulevich for his blessed memory

Name of speaker: 
Meʾir Weinberg
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
79
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Dumbraveni (Moldova)
Language: 
Hebrew (Dumbraveni tradition)
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Children's songs
Documentation: 
Composer and curator Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L
Year of recording: 
1987

Celebrating is good

From the collection of composer and Jewish music curator, Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L (1947-2019)

Kindly delivered by Ḥava Shmulevich for his blessed memory

Name of speaker: 
Meʾir Weinberg
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
79
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Dumbraveni (Moldova)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Folk songs
Documentation: 
Composer and curator Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L
Year of recording: 
1987
Text: 
Text: 

Moses Rejoiced: folk piyyut in Hebrew and in Yiddish

Name of speaker: 
Yeshayahu Gisser
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Community Rabbi
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
58
Year of immigration: 
1961
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Odesa (Ukraine)
Language: 
Yiddish
Hebrew (Odesa tradition)
Conversation topics: 
Piyyutim, Sacred songs
Documentation: 
Ḥava Shmulevich
Year of recording: 
2020

Our wedding

Special thanks to E.D. Rosenberger for his invaluable assistance in locating these materials

Name of speaker: 
Daniel Braunschweig
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Spices and textile trader
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
67
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Lengnau (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Wedding
Documentation: 
Prof. Otto Gruger
Year of recording: 
1934
Transcription: 
More info: 

Guggenheim-Grünberg, Florence (ed.) (1966). Surbtaler Jiddisch: Endingen und Lengnau (Platten ZJM 1 und ZJM 2). Mit einem Anhang von jiddischen Sprachproben aus Elsass und Baden. Frauenfeld: Huber & Co. (= Schweizer Dialekte in Text und Ton: Begleittexte zu den Sprechplatten des Phonogrammarchivs der Universität Zürich, I. Deutsche Schweiz, Heft 4). Sound and text publication is available at https://www.phonogrammarchiv.uzh.ch/ 

Also see:

Fleischer, Jürg (2005). Westjiddisch in der Schweiz und Südwestdeutschland: Tonaufnahmen und Texte zum Surbtaler und Hegauer Jiddisch. Tübingen: Niemeyer. ISBN: 3-484-73104-4.

The Jewish communities in Alsace-Lorraine, Jewish occupations and expressions

Special thanks to E.D. Rosenberger for his invaluable assistance in locating these materials

Name of speaker: 
Paul Gerschel
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Trader
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
78
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Wissembourg (France), Zurich (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Community, Occupations and livelihoods, Proverbs
Documentation: 
Rud. Brunner and Florence Guggenheim-Grünberg
Year of recording: 
1951
Transcription: 
More info: 

Guggenheim-Grünberg, Florence (ed.) (1966). Surbtaler Jiddisch: Endingen und Lengnau (Platten ZJM 1 und ZJM 2). Mit einem Anhang von jiddischen Sprachproben aus Elsass und Baden. Frauenfeld: Huber & Co. (= Schweizer Dialekte in Text und Ton: Begleittexte zu den Sprechplatten des Phonogrammarchivs der Universität Zürich, I. Deutsche Schweiz, Heft 4). Sound and text publication is available at https://www.phonogrammarchiv.uzh.ch/ 

Also see:

Fleischer, Jürg (2005). Westjiddisch in der Schweiz und Südwestdeutschland: Tonaufnahmen und Texte zum Surbtaler und Hegauer Jiddisch. Tübingen: Niemeyer. ISBN: 3-484-73104-4.

Childhood memories (1)

Special thanks to E.D. Rosenberger for his invaluable assistance in locating these materials

Name of speaker: 
Anna Bollag Geismar
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
73
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Grussenheim (France), Endingen, Zurich (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Childhood
Documentation: 
Florence Guggenheim-Grünberg
Year of recording: 
1958
Transcription: 
More info: 

Guggenheim-Grünberg, Florence (ed.) (1966). Surbtaler Jiddisch: Endingen und Lengnau (Platten ZJM 1 und ZJM 2). Mit einem Anhang von jiddischen Sprachproben aus Elsass und Baden. Frauenfeld: Huber & Co. (= Schweizer Dialekte in Text und Ton: Begleittexte zu den Sprechplatten des Phonogrammarchivs der Universität Zürich, I. Deutsche Schweiz, Heft 4). Sound and text publication is available at https://www.phonogrammarchiv.uzh.ch/ .

Also see:

Fleischer, Jürg (2005). Westjiddisch in der Schweiz und Südwestdeutschland: Tonaufnahmen und Texte zum Surbtaler und Hegauer Jiddisch. Tübingen: Niemeyer. ISBN: 3-484-73104-4.

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