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Bershad'
 (09-010.06-F) -  Shelf Number: MDV 373
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Date: July 18, 2002

Participants: Shor, Anatolii Petrovich. Interviewed by Dov-Ber Kerler, Jeffrey Veidlinger.

Location recorded: Bershad', Vinnyts'ka Oblast', Ukraine

Language: Yiddish

Culture Group: Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians

 Recording Content:   

This tape continues an interview with Anatolii Shor. (Part 2 of 3. See MDV 372 and MDV 374) Shor discusses his childhood education in the cheder (religious school). He recalls ditties and songs from the cheder, including macaronic Hebrew-Yiddish songs and off-color songs. He demonstrates prayer techniques he learned in cheder. He shows photos of his family. He recites from the Passover Haggadah. At the end of the tape he answers a few dialectology questions.

00:00:00 Shor shows cooking tools.
00:01:49 Shor addresses religious customs and prayers before the war. He recites the morning prayer "Modeh ani." Shor then addresses his religious school (cheder) education at the age of six.
00:03:25 He demonstrates prayer techniques he learned in cheder.He recites the "Shemoneh Esrei."
00:06:16 Shor recalls ditties and songs from the cheder, including macaronic Hebrew-Yiddish songs and off-color songs. Shor then shows family photographs.
00:08:49 Shor recites the Four Questions of Passover with his Yiddish translation, as well as other parts of the Haggadah. He then shows his father's machzor (prayer book used on the High Holidays).
00:16:34 Shor recites prayers in Hebrew (lashon kodesh) and Yiddish from the machzor.
00:19:40 Shor sings Yiddish songs about love and leaving home from his childhood. He then sings the Passover songs "Echad mi yodea (who knows one) and "Chad gadya" (one little goat).
00:29:42 Shor addresses prewar Passover celebrations at home, before he sings snippets from "Vu zenen mayne zibn gute yor?" (where are my seven good years).
00:32:09 Shor touches upon prewar cultural life, before speaking about Yom Kippur celebrations. Vyogdner also addresses postwar religious life during the High Holidays in Bershad.
00:34:33 Shor addresses Hanukkah food customs. He then answers dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish linguistic questionnaire.
00:37:55 End of recording.