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Ovruch
 (09-010.39-F) -  Shelf Number: MDV 629
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Date: May 25, 2003

Participants: Turovskaia, Raisa Borisovna. Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Dovid Katz.

Location recorded: Ovruch, Zhytomyrs'ka Oblast', Ukraine

Language: Yiddish

Culture Group: Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians

 Recording Content:   

The tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Raisa Borisovna Turovskaia. (Part 3 of 3. See MDV 627 and MDV 628) She continues to tell stories about the tzaddik Leybl der Vayser fun Khabne, who was asked for advice about life after the German invasion. The conversation turns to Turovskaia's childhood memories and religious life in Siberia during and after the war. They then discuss cultural terminology and dialectology, as well as life today. They then talk about weddings before the war, before they return to discussing cultural terminology.

Turovskaia then answers a number of questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire; before she tells more stories about the tzaddik and her visits to his grave. She then talks about religious customs at the cemetery during Tisha B'Av. She puts garlic on the graves. The team then returns to asking dialectological questions, which takes up the remaining part of the tape and concludes the interview. When they talk about religious terminology, Turovskaia briefly mentions how beautiful prayers, for instance Kol Nidre, were recited at the synagogue during her childhood.

00:00:00 stories about the tzaddik.
00:02:44 childhood memories and life in Siberia.
00:03:50 life after the war.
00:04:46 cultural terminology and remembering family.
00:07:22 Yiddish dialectology and family.
00:09:16 weddings.
00:10:31 cultural terminology and Yiddish dialectology.
00:22:38 informal chat with a neighbor about her father's book.
00:23:14 Yiddish dialectology.
00:25:28 stories about the tzaddik and religious customs at the cemetery.
00:31:50 dialectology.
00:57:38 End of recording.