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Recording Content:
The first part of the tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Mikhail Vladimirovich Kenin. (Part 2 of 2. See MDV 603)
The second part of the tape includes town footage of Nizhyn.
The third part of the tape is a formal interview with Naum Ilyevich Masovich, recorded in Chernihiv.
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00:00:00
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The first part of the tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Mikhail Vladimirovich Kenin. Kenin answers a series of dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish linguistic questionnaire and about food customs. |
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00:07:06
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Kenin talks about his traditional wedding in 1946. |
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00:09:00
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The second part of the tape includes town footage of Nizhyn. The team talks in Russian to neighbors on the street about contemporary life and family. |
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00:13:45
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The team visits with Lipkovich of the “Mitteler rebbe’s” grave (Dovber Schneuri). |
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00:17:16
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The third part of the tape is a formal interview with Naum Ilyevich Masovich, recorded in Chernihiv. The team plans the interview with Masovich, born 1926 in Nizhyn. He briefly talks about his family. His father, an undertaker, was born in Nizhyn. |
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00:18:01
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The team gets acquainted with the community members. |
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00:21:34
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Masovich shows family photographs and talks about his father. |
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00:23:13
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The formal interview with Masovich begins. He provides personal information and talks about his family, including his father’s work as undertaker in Nizhyn. He also talks about his life before the war. His family left the town in 1941 and went into evacuation to Saratov, Russia. |
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00:30:13
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Masovich talks about his life after the war. His family lived in a communal apartment and shared the kitchen with two Christian families. He then talks about his family. He grew up with a brother, who was killed during the war. |
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00:33:59
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Masovich sings songs about a tailor’s work and shares more information about his family. He learned the songs from his father. He also discusses his childhood memories, including games. |
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00:41:27
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Masovich mentions his education at a Russian school and talks about Jewish life in Chernihiv. |
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00:44:52
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Masovich talks about his family. He then discusses Sabbath celebrations at home, as well as Yiddish dialects. |
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00:51:05
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Masovich talks about prewar Jewish life in Nizhyn and answers questions about cultural terminology and a series of dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish linguistic questionnaire. He also mentions how he was not raised religiously during the Soviet period. |
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