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The Meʾir family members

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: 
Life story
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2018

Synagogue in 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: 
Community
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2018

Western Yiddish expressions (Alsace dialect)

                                                     

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: 
Proverbs
Documentation: 
Yehudit Henshke, Yaʿel Wecsler
Year of recording: 
2018

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