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Recording Content:
The first brief part of the tape includes an informal chat with an unidentified man, recorded in Bershad.
The second part of the tape is a formal interview with Sima (Sima Ilinichna) Moiseyevna Listengurt in the town center of Odesa. (Part 1 of 2. See MDV 609)
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The team meets on the street and drives with him to the town center.
The first brief part of the tape includes an informal chat with an unidentified man, recorded in Bershad. The team meets on the street and drives with him to the town center. |
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00:01:33
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The second part of the tape is a formal interview with Sima (Sima Ilinichna) Moiseyevna Listengurt in the town center of Odesa. She was born 1932 in Odesa. The team meets Listengurt on the street and sets up an interview with her. She talks about her life during the war. She evacuated to 01:58 Siberia. She then talks about her family. She then gives a tour of homes of well-known Jewish figures, including Hayim Nahman Bialik. She also talks about prewar Jewish life and continues showing buildings of the former Jewish neighborhood. |
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00:10:12
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Listengurt talks about her childhood memories, living with other nationalities in one building. She then addresses her family. Her father was born in Voznesensk and her mother in Lyakhova. Her parents were both orphans and moved to Odesa in 1921. She grew up with an older sister who was a nurse at the front. Listengurt evacuated to Tashkent during the war. Listengurt continues the tour of the former Jewish neighborhood, explaining former buildings, including a tuberculosis treatment center and a Yiddish school. Listengurt also addresses her uncles’ encounter with Felix Dzerzhinsky in 1920. |
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00:26:27
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Listengurt continues the tour of the former Jewish neighborhood. She also discusses prewar religious life. |
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00:35:28
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The formal part of the interview begins. Listengurt talks about different periods of Jewish history in Odesa and party politics. She then talks about her family, in particular her sister. |
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