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Recording Content:
This recording is a continuation of a formal interview with Meyer Khaimovich Furman and his wife Tsipora Yankelevna Furman, nee Shtekhman. (Part 2 of 3. See MDV 128 and Accession # 09-007.10-F MDV 205)
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The tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Meyer Khaimovich Furman and his wife Tsipora Yankelevna Furman, nee Shtekhman. Tsipora provides personal information and talks about Jewish life in prewar Sîrbesti (Serbeshty) with roughly two hundred Jewish families. Tsipora explains that they set up a Jewish colony there in 1923. Tsipora then talks about her family. Her father, born in Capresti, was a merchant for wood 4:11. She grew up with one sister and three brothers. Her mother was born in Vadul-Rascov. |
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00:06:53
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Tsipora talks about her education. She only attended a Romanian/Russian school for two years before the war. After the war, Tsipora completed ten years of schooling and worked as a librarian 7:03. Tsipora discusses her childhood memories and holiday celebrations, in particular Sabbath and Chanukah. Tsipora then recalls Passover celebrations when she danced on the street with the religious teacher (melamed) Berl. Her brother studied with Berl in religious school (cheder). Tsipora maintains that studying with melamed Berl was more expensive than with melamed Hershl. |
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00:15:41
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Tsipora talks about her life before the war. Her family kept geese. She then talks about food customs, including recipes, as well as holiday celebrations. She then describes the Jewish colony in her home village. Tsipora lists the different agricultural products they grew, as well as addresses religious life with Rabbi Chaim Silverman and kosher butcher Hershl. Tsipora and Meyer recall chalutsim (early pioneers to Israel). |
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00:25:31
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Tsipora provides a recipe for gefilte fish and tzimmes. |
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00:29:42
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Tsipora answers questions about cultural terminology. |
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00:30:54
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Tsipora talks about her life during and after World War II. She evacuated to the Rostov province first and then to Kazakhstan. Tsipora then talks about her return home after the war in 1945. They moved into her grandmother’s house. She and her sister continued working in agriculture on fields owned by non-Jews. They owned two hectare land and grew wine. They moved to Bălți in 1949 to live with her uncle and lived there for three months, before building their own house. |
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00:36:15
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Tsipora and Meyer answer dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire. |
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