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Roots trip to Romania

Name of speaker: 
Tsila Meraru
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Accountant and HMO salary unit coordinator
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
85
Year of immigration: 
1964
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Iași (Romania)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Community, Family
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Work

Name of speaker: 
Tsila Meraru
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Accountant and HMO salary unit coordinator
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
85
Year of immigration: 
1964
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Iași (Romania)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Occupations and livelihoods
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Aliya, absorption and living in Israel

Name of speaker: 
Tsila Meraru
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Accountant and HMO salary unit coordinator
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
85
Year of immigration: 
1964
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Iași (Romania)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Aliya, Settlement and absorption
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Passover and kosher

Name of speaker: 
Tsila Meraru
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Accountant and HMO salary unit coordinator
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
85
Year of immigration: 
1964
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Iași (Romania)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Cuisine, Cycle of the year, Passover
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Family and family celebration

Name of speaker: 
Tsila Meraru
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Accountant and HMO salary unit coordinator
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
85
Year of immigration: 
1964
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Iași (Romania)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Family
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

Education and language

Name of speaker: 
Tsila Meraru
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Accountant and HMO salary unit coordinator
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
85
Year of immigration: 
1964
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Iași (Romania)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Education, Language
Documentation: 
Ophir Phofliger
Year of recording: 
2021

The child walked

From the collection of composer and Jewish music curator, Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L (1947-2019)

Kindly delivered by Ḥava Shmulevich for his blessed memory

Name of speaker: 
Maria Lechtman
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
64
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Dunaivtsi (Ukraine)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Folk songs
Documentation: 
Composer and curator Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L
Year of recording: 
1987

It breaks my foot (Es brekhn mir di fis fun trotuarn)

From the collection of composer and Jewish music curator, Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L (1947-2019)

Kindly delivered by Ḥava Shmulevich for his blessed memory

Name of speaker: 
Sima Galinski
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Accountant
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
62
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Soroca (Moldova)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Folk songs
Documentation: 
Composer and curator Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L
Year of recording: 
1987

The orphan (der yosem)

From the collection of composer and Jewish music curator, Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L (1947-2019)

Kindly delivered by Ḥava Shmulevich for his blessed memory

Name of speaker: 
Riva Darer
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Accountant
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
77
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Dunaivtsi (Ukraine)
Language: 
Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Folk songs
Documentation: 
Composer and curator Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L
Year of recording: 
1989

"I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness"

From the collection of composer and Jewish music curator, Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L (1947-2019)

Kindly delivered by Ḥava Shmulevich for his blessed memory

Name of speaker: 
Riva Darer
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Accountant
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
77
Speaker's country of origin: 
Europe: Eastern
Speaker's community of origin: 
Dunaivtsi (Ukraine)
Language: 
Hebrew (Dunaivtsi tradition), Yiddish
Conversation topics: 
Sacred songs
Documentation: 
Composer and curator Zeʾev Bitkin Z”L
Year of recording: 
1989

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