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Recording Content:
The recording is the continuation of a formal interview with Mira Markovna Murovanaia. (Part 2 of 3. See MDV 439 and Accession # 09-010.45-F MDV 666) The interview continues in Mira's kitchen as she talks about cooking and gefilte fish. The interview then moves into her living room. She was born in Nikolaev in 1926. She finished seven classes before the war. When the war broke out, she was evacuated to Central Asia. She spent 3 years in Central Asia and then returned to Haysyn after the city's liberation. She became an apprentice in a pharmacy and later a pharmacy technician. She worked in the pharmacy for forty-five years, until 1990. She discusses how her mother, who was a Communist, was also a pious woman. Her father-in-law was a communist, but her mother-in-law observed Jewish holidays, but "without praying."
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00:00:00
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Murovanaia talks in Russian about the contemporary community, as well as charity. |
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00:04:51
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Murovanaia shares her recipe for gefilte fish. She also speaks about her family. |
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00:06:47
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Murovanaia provides personal information. |
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00:08:22
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The formal interview with Murovanaia begins. She addresses speaking Yiddish with her family. |
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00:11:16
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Murovanaia provides personal information and speaks about her family. Murovanaia's family moved to Haysyn shortly after her birth. Her father was born in Kiblych and separated from her family. He was a colonel in the Red Army and taught at the military institute for electronics near Moscow. Murovanaia's mother was born in Haysyn and was the president of a tailor artel, before the war. Murovanaia grew up as an only child. |
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00:17:56
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Murovanaia addresses her childhood memories of Haysyn. She finished seven grades at a Russian school, before her evacuation to Central Asia. She then addresses her return to Haysyn in 1944, when she worked as statistician. Murovanaia continues that she studied pharmacy between 1945 and 1947 and became an assistant pharmacist. She worked in the same pharmacy for fourty-five years. Murovanaia's daughter also worked in the same pharmacy, before her immigration to Germany. |
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00:22:01
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Murovanaia discusses food customs for Passover, as well as other dishes. She then speaks about a childhood friend from before the war, before talking about her family. Murovanaia raised two daughters. |
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00:27:13
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Murovanaia addresses postwar holiday celebration at her in-law's house. Murovanaia states that she went to celebrate Jewish holidays at her in-law's house and they came to visit on Soviet holidays. Murovanaia mentions that she learned Jewish cooking from her mother-in-law. She then addresses postwar Passover celebrations, including food customs. |
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00:30:16
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Murovanaia answers dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish linguistic questionnaire. |
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