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Recording Content:
The first part of the tape consists of town footage of Mukacheve and the team greets Hershel Ylyevich Vider and Dovid on the street.
The second part of the tape includes town footage of Svalyava with a tour led by Misha (Moyshe Hersh) Berger, born in Svalyava.
The final part of the tape includes a formal interview with Anna Fedorovna Tartinets, born 1930 in Nelipyno. (Part 1 of 2. See MDV 680)
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The team informally chats with Vider and Dovid, who came to visit his hometown from America. They talk about contemporary Jewish life in the region. |
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00:07:00
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Berger gives a tour of the prewar Jewish neighborhood in Svalyava. They are headed to the town's synagogue. The complex around the synagogue was used as an industrial plant, bakery, during the postwar Soviet period. |
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00:10:12
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The team arrives at the synagogue area and takes a tour, led by Berger. According to him, the synagogue was closed in 1946. An unidentified man provides information in Russian on the renovation of the synagogue. |
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00:14:38
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The team enters the synagogue building and the camera collects footage. |
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00:17:28
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The conversation moves outside again and they discuss contemporary Jewish life in the region. |
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00:19:30
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The team heads with Berger to the local synagogue. Berger talks about life today in Svalyava. |
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00:22:22
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On the way, the team and Berger briefly stop at an unidentified woman's house and briefly chat with her in German and Russian. |
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00:24:10
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The team gets back into the van and then stops at a former synagogue, which is now used as restaurant. Berger talks about contemporary religious life. Berger owns a hotel. |
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00:29:15
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They discuss about life today at a restaurant. Berger then recites prayers and a Purim shpiel. |
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00:32:41
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Berger talks about his family. He grew up in Holubyne and moved to Svalyava forty years ago. |
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00:33:31
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Berger remembers snippets from a Yiddish song about raising children. They then talk about religious life today and his family. His older sister lives in Israel. |
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00:39:31
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Berger talks about his life during the Soviet period, as well as life today. Berger was the director of the 42:03 industrial plant during the Soviet period. |
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00:43:26
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The team, together with Berger, head to the next interview with Tartinets. He gives a tour of the former Jewish neighborhood. |
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00:44:20
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The team makes a stop, before arriving at Tartinets house. |
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00:48:16
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They greet Tartinets on the street. She then recites prayers. The team drives with Tartinets to a quieter place in order to conduct a formal interview. She provides personal information and they chat in Russian. |
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00:52:27
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The formal part of the interview begins. Tartinets provides personal information and discusses her childhood memories of Nelipyno. |
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00:56:00
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Tartinets discusses holiday celebration and prewar religious life. She then sings a Yiddish song about a child. She then recites the morning prayer. She then answers dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire. |
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01:00:50
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Tartinets talks about her family and holiday celebration. |
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