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Recording Content:
This recording is a continuation of a formal interview with Roza Ovsheevna Shternberg. (Part 3 of 4. See MDV 419, MDV 417, and Accession # 09-008.07-F MDV 283)
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00:00:00
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Shternberg talks about her family and her hometown Khotyn, including a non-Jewish tailor who spoke Yiddish. Shternberg then sings a number of Yiddish songs about drinking in the tavern, living a Jewish life, and life in the Kopayhorod ghetto Shternberg wrote herself. The ghetto song deals with a girl who sits next to her dying mother. |
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00:08:47
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Shternberg talks about her life in the Kopayhorod ghetto. She was forced into military barracks next to the railway station. Shternberg then sings another song in Russian she wrote during her imprisonment in the ghetto, before she again sings a different version of Tumbalalaika. |
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00:17:10
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Shternberg sings a different version of the well-known Yiddish song “Vu bistu geven” (where were you), dealing with the kibbutz. She discusses Yiddish cultural life before the war and recalls how her brother and sister used the local library. |
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00:27:03
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Shternberg talks about her family and discusses her father’s work as a merchant. She then talks about the Rabbi of Stefanesti and how her mother went to see him, as well as Sabbath celebrations at home. Shternberg then sings a Sabbath song she remembers from her childhood, as well as reciting sayings and poems. She also discusses folk remedies. |
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00:40:35
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Shternberg sings a Yiddish song about marriage, before she shows photographs. The camera then records Shternberg singing from a tape about Jewish life of the past and distant lands. |
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