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Shabbat

Name of speaker: 
Dr. Yosef Meʾir
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Physicist, high school principal, lecturer and researcher at higher education institutes
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1966
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Endingen, Lucerne, Zurich (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Cycle of the year, Shabbat
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2018

Secret language

                                                                                                                   

Name of speaker: 
Dr. Yosef Meʾir
Participants in the conversation: 
Ḥaya Meʾir
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Physicist, high school principal, lecturer and researcher at higher education institutes
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1966
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Endingen, Lucerne, Zurich (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: Secret language
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2018

Sukkot

Name of speaker: 
Dr. Yosef Meʾir
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Physicist, high school principal, lecturer and researcher at higher education institutes
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1966
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Endingen, Lucerne, Zurich (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Cycle of the year, Sukkot
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2018

Passover customs and 'Ha Laḥma ʿAnya' from Endingen

Name of speaker: 
Dr. Yosef Meʾir
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Physicist, high school principal, lecturer and researcher at higher education institutes
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1966
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Endingen, Lucerne, Zurich (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Cycle of the year, Passover, Passover Haggada and the Seder, Translations
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2018

The synagogue's bell

Name of speaker: 
Dr. Yosef Meʾir
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Physicist, high school principal, lecturer and researcher at higher education institutes
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1966
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Endingen, Lucerne, Zurich (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Community
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2018

The Jewish communities in Lucerne

Name of speaker: 
Dr. Yosef Meʾir
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Physicist, high school principal, lecturer and researcher at higher education institutes
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1966
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Endingen, Lucerne, Zurich (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Community
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2018

Humiliating Jews

Name of speaker: 
Dr. Yosef Meʾir
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Physicist, high school principal, lecturer and researcher at higher education institutes
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1966
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Endingen, Lucerne, Zurich (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Relationships with non-Jews
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2018

Hosha'ana Rabba

                                                                                    

Name of speaker: 
Dr. Yosef Meʾir
Participants in the conversation: 
Ḥaya Meʾir
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Physicist, high school principal, lecturer and researcher at higher education institutes
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1966
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Endingen, Lucerne, Zurich (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Cycle of the year, Sukkot
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke
Year of recording: 
2018

The immigration of Eastern European Jews to Switzerland

                                                                                                             

Name of speaker: 
Dr. Yosef Meʾir
Participants in the conversation: 
Ḥaya Meʾir
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Physicist, high school principal, lecturer and researcher at higher education institutes
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1966
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Endingen, Lucerne, Zurich (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Community
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2018

Bar mitzva in Lucerne

                                      

Name of speaker: 
Dr. Yosef Meʾir
Participants in the conversation: 
Ḥaya Meʾir
Gender of speaker: 
Male
Occupation of speaker: 
Physicist, high school principal, lecturer and researcher at higher education institutes
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
90
Year of immigration: 
1966
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Western
Speaker's community of origin: 
Endingen, Lucerne, Zurich (Switzerland)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Circle of life, Life story
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2018

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