This recording is a continuation of a formal interview with Moyshe Smelanskii, born in 1920. (Part 1 of 5. See MDV 490, MDV 491, MDV 492, and MDV 494) The team continues to ask Smelanskii a series of dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire. He briefly talks about religious groups in prewar Smila, before they continue with the questionnaire. Then the team provides contact information.

The official interview concludes with Smelanskii addressing the Jews in America and talking about his hometown Smila. Between ten and twelve thousand people lived in Smila, thirty percent of whom were Jewish. Smelanskii then shares his experience when traveling to the Land of Israel. The conversation turns to his and his father’s profession. His father worked for the railroad until the war and as a shoykhet (kosher butcher). The tape concludes with a discussion about food customs and his father’s work as a shoykhet.