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Recording Content:
This recording consists of a formal interview with David Abramovich Vider (b. 1922 in Sighetu Marmatiei). (Part 1 of 2. See MDV 527)
Cities and towns mentioned on this tape: Kolomyya, Iași, Moscow, Hîrlau, Zhytomyr.
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This tape consists of a formal interview with David Abramovich Vider (b. 1922 in Sighetu Marmatiei). He speaks about the contemporary Jewish community in Kolomyya, their holiday celebrations and weekly school for children. In particular, he details their Passover celebrations that are conducted with help from Chabad rabbis from Zhytomyr. |
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00:02:10
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Vider talks about the song “Ven indzer futer yakoyv iz geleygn afn shteyn” (When Our Father Jacob Laid Down on the Stone), which he heard from a cantor at an evening concert in Iași. He then speaks about how his father used to practice and then read from the Torah on shabes (the Sabbath) with the proper “trop” or cantilation. |
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00:09:18
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Vider recalls the Modern Hebrew songs and dances he learned in the Gordonia Zionist group in his youth. |
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00:11:16
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Vider then sings two songs: "Ven indzer futer yakoyv iz geleygn afn shteyn" (When Our Father Jacob Laid Down on the Stone) and “Got hot indz gegeybn tvsey gite simunim” (G-d Gave Us Two Good Signs). He heard the latter song from his father. |
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00:16:04
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Vider sings "Zeyger tsvelef" (Twelve O'Clock), a song that he heard from his older sister in which there is a dialogue between a mother and a daughter. |
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00:19:16
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Vider’s father failed at being a “shoykhet” (kosher butcher) because he had too much sympathy for the animals. Vider’s father served four years in the Austro-Hungarian army after he finished yeshiva and was wounded during the First World War. Vides briefly discusses the fate of his father and brother, who were killed during the Second World War while he was in the Soviet Union. |
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00:23:48
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During the war, Vider worked in the oil fields in Turkmenistan rather than serve on the front. He describes how this work in the fields and later in the mines was organized. |
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00:27:26
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Vider shares his memories of how his father educated him at home taught him the Jewish alphabet and basic prayers before he started school. He also shows the researchers his father’s unique finger counting system and several other math tricks he learned from his father. |
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00:50:52
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Professor Kerler shows Vider his previous interview on the computer, in which he sings a “purimshpil,” or Purim ditty. |
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00:53:43
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Vider tells a joke about a conversation between a hunter, a sailor and a doctor. |
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