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Recording Content:
This recording is a formal interview with Roza Ovsheevna Shternberg. (Part 2 of 4. See MDV 419, MDV 418, and Accession # 09-008.07-F MDV 283)
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00:00:00
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Shternberg provides personal information and discusses childhood memories. She then talks about food customs and life today, before talking about her education. A Yiddish teacher came to her Romanian school twice a week and taught them reading, writing, and singing. Shternberg sings a number of Yiddish songs she learned from her teacher. They include themes about mothers and their children and grandparents. |
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00:18:33
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Shternberg talks about her education at the Romanian school, in particular her Yiddish teacher. He hosted the students at home and taught Yiddish songs, in addition to the regular lessons twice a week. She then talks about her family and recalls singing at home. Shternberg sings a song in lashon kodesh, she remembers from her father. She recalls a number of holiday songs in Yiddish, in particular Purim shpiels. Another song deals with an unemployed religious teacher (melamed) who tried his luck in America and fell in love. |
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00:38:32
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Shternberg talks about food customs and prewar cultural life. She mentions the Moldavian cantor Fushman and his singing about “Papirendike kinder” (children made of paper), as well as wedding and love. |
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00:51:22
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Shternberg talks about life day and sings a song about childhood years. |
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00:57:30
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Shternberg talks about her life in the Kopayhorod ghetto during the war. She then sings the well-known melody from Tumbalalaika with a text Shternberg remembers from her childhood. |
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