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Recording Content:
This recording is a continuation of a formal interview with Raisa Yosifovna Luminskaia and Lev Markovich Goldshteyn. (Part 2 of 3. See MDV 218 and MDV 220)
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00:00:00
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Goldshteyn discusses life before the war, in particular social interactions betweem Jews and non-Jews. He recalls his neighbor who was a priest. |
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00:02:09
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Goldshteyn addresses prewar Jewish life and halutzim. He recalls his uncle who prepared for aliyah. He then discusses the different occuaptional structure between Jews and Christians. |
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00:06:25
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Goldshteyn talks about prewar cultural life, in particular a library and theater performances. He remembers performances by Sidi Tal. |
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00:08:03
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Goldshteyn talks about preware religious life, in particular his bar mitzvah. They then answer questions about cultural terminology, specifically "a guter yid" (a good Jew). |
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00:13:15
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Goldshteyn and Luminskaia discuss traditional weddings and she sings the traditional song "Makhateyniste mayne" (My mother-in-law). |
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00:18:59
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Luminskaia recalls a traditional wedding carried out in secret at her uncle's home in the prewar Soviet period. Goldshteyn recalls gypsies performing at Jewish weddings. Luminskaia then describes a typical wedding she attended. |
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00:23:53
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Goldshteyn discusses folk customs. Luminskaia then recalls how her grandfather applied healing customs to her, when she fell sick as a young girl. He then addresses the custom to avert the evil eye in his hometown. |
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00:28:17
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Goldshteyn and Luminskaia answer questions about cultural terminology. |
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00:31:08
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Goldshteyn and Luminskaia answer dialectological questions from the AHEYM Yiddish questionnaire. |
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