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Recording Content:
This recording is a formal interview with Raisa (Khaye) Efimovna Klichinskaia, born 1926 in Tighina. (Part 1 of 2. See MDV 217)
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00:00:00
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Klichinskaia provides personal information. |
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00:02:20
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Klichinskaia talks about her family. Her father was born in Western Ukraine and worked as a cooper. She grew up with four siblings. |
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00:07:11
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Klichinskaia talks about her military service as a nurse for seven years that began in 1942. During the war, she worked in different countries, including Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. |
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00:08:11
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Klichinskaia talks about her family and holiday celebration, in particular Passover. She also addresses prewar religious life and occupational structure in Tighina. |
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00:12:49
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Klichinskaia talks about her life during the war. She evacuated to the Stalingrad region. She and her mother worked at a hospital. |
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00:14:30
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Klichinskaia discusses her childhood memories. |
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00:15:29
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Klichinskaia sings a Yiddish song "Sorele" that is about longing for a loved one, she remembers from her childhood. |
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00:19:13
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Klichinskaia sings another Yididsh song from her childhood about loving a girl. |
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00:21:09
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Klichinskaia discusses her childhood memories. She attended a Romanian school for four years. She then explains the second song. |
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00:23:30
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Klichinskaia recalls prewar performances by Sidi Tal. She then sings the well-known Yiddish "Nokh a lid" (Another song), before singing a Yiddish drinking song. |
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00:28:38
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Klichinskaia sings the well-known Yiddish wedding song "Makhteyniste mayne" (My mother-in-law). She then discusses traditional weddings. |
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00:32:08
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Klichinskaia talks about Purim celebrations, including food customs, before the war. She then sings Yiddish Purim songs and recalls the beginning of a well-known Purim shpiel, before Klichinskaia sings the Yiddish song "Dire gelt" (rent money). |
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00:36:29
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Klichinskaia discusses childhood games. |
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00:37:46
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Klichinskaia sings the Yiddish song "Lomir zikh iberbetn" (Let's make up). |
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00:39:37
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Klichinskaia discusses food customs, particularly gefilte fish. She then shares her recipe for gefilte fish. |
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00:42:42
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Klichinskaia answers dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish linguistic questionnaire. She then addresses prewar cultural and social life. |
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00:44:12
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Klichinskaia briefly talks about her life during the war in evacuation. She then addresses her life after the war. She was trained as a tailor. She also recalls a tuberculosis outbreak at a Prague hospital in 1946, where she worked as a nurse. |
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00:47:34
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Klichinskaia explains in Russian her return and family life after the war. |
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00:48:34
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Klichinskaia talks about Jewish life before and after the war under Soviet occupation. |
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00:50:18
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Klichinskaia mentions folk customs and how people would come to her mother who practiced the custom of averting the evil eye. |
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00:52:04
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Klichinskaia answers dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish linguistic questionnaire. She then sings again the Yiddish love song "Sorele." |
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00:55:36
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Klichinskaia talks about life today and her family. Her sister lived in Israel for three years. Klichinskaia raised a son. |
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01:00:18
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Klichinskaia sings again the second Yiddish love song, before she sings a song in Russian about the war. |
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