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Mukacheve
 (09-010.32-F) -  Shelf Number: MDV 596
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Date: July 6, 2005

Participants: Vider, Hershel Ylyevich; Snook, Malke Leybovna. Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Dovid Katz.

Location recorded: Mukacheve; Khust, Zakarpats'ka Oblast', Ukraine

Language: Yiddish

Culture Group: Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians

 Recording Content:   

The first part of the tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Hershel Ylyevich Vider in Mukacheve. (Part 6 of 6. See MDV 589, MDV 590, MDV 591, MDV 592, and MDV 595)

The team travels to the next interview in Khust. After the team arrives, they set up the formal interview with Malke Leybovna Snook, born in Kolochava in 1921. (Part 1 of 3. See Accession # 09-010.22-F MDV 484 and MDV 485)

00:00:00 The first part of the tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Hershel Ylyevich Vider in Mukacheve. The team continues to ask a number of dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire.
00:31:10 Vider tells an anecdote making fun of the Jews of Berehove, who tried to build a besmedresh. He then talks about the difference between a synagogue and a besmedresh. After concluding the official part of interview, the camera films photos and artifacts from Vider’s apartment.
00:43:46 The camera records the school building where Vider’s cheder was located, and the house in which Vider was born on the former Jewish street.
00:45:53 The team travels to the next interview in Khust. After the team arrives, they set up the formal interview with Malke Leybovna Snook, born in Kolochava in 1921.
00:49:34 Snook discusses her family and Jewish life in her home town of roughly sixty families. Her father transported items with his horse. Snook grew up with five siblings, who were all killed in 1943 in Poland.
00:54:58 Snook talks about Jewish life today, before she continues talking about her family. Snook got married at 17 and lived in Drahovo for forty years. In 1971, she moved to Khust with her family, where there was a more active religious community.
01:02:04 End of Recording.