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Khmel’nyts’kyy
 (09-010.21-F) -  Shelf Number: MDV 477
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Date: May 27, 2008

Participants: Bivson, Sura Melekhovna. Interviewed by Moisei Lemster.

Location recorded: Starokostyantyniv, Khmel'nyts'ka Oblast', Ukraine

Language: Yiddish, Russian

Culture Group: Jews, Yiddish-speakers, Ukrainians

 Recording Content:   

This recording is a continuation of a formal interview with Sura Melekhovna Bivson (née Frierman, b. 1926 in Polonne) conducted in Starokostyantyniv. (Part 2 of 2. See Accession # 09-010.48-F MDV 676)

00:00:00 This tape is a continuation of a formal interview with Sura Melekhovna Bivson (née Frierman, b. 1926 in Polonne) conducted in Starokostyantyniv. Dr. Lemster asks Bivson questions from the AHEYM sociolinguistic and dialectological survey. Bivson also briefly discusses wedding and culinary customs from her youth.
00:16:20 Bivson shares her views on what it means to be a Jew, stating that Jews are morally decent people, who have love and pity for other people and animals. Dr. Lemster then returns to the linguistic questionnaire.
00:22:32 Bivson describes the atmosphere of her childhood home and how it continues to influence her attitudes and actions today.
00:26:52 End of Recording.