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Oyb nisht nokh hekher

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Primary Languages: 
Yiddish
Languages: 
Yiddish
Locations: 
Israel
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Prof. Sadock voices a story by Y.L. Perets.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master is a cassette recorded on a portable tape deck in the LLA studio on 12 January 1996. WAVE file has now been converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Sadock, Jerrold

Linguistics research: Yiddish (Steinberg, 2002)

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Subject Languages: 
Yiddish
Languages: 
Yiddish
Locations: 
Israel
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Steinberg elicits examples of usage in Yiddish from an unnamed male consultant.
Collection Technical Notes: 
DATs are the original field recordings made in Chicago (?). Or else, they may be back-up copies.
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Sholom Aleichem, read in Yiddish by Gustav Berger

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Primary Languages: 
Yiddish
Languages: 
Yiddish
Locations: 
Israel
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
1) “Der Daitsch” [The German]; 2) “A story about a greenhorn”;3) “Mr. Green has a job”
Collection Technical Notes: 
(Gift of the Kostas Kazazis estate to the LLA on January 28, 2003)
Contributor: 
Berger, Gustav

Dutch Yiddish (1958)

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Subject Languages: 
Yiddish
Languages: 
Yiddish
Locations: 
Netherlands
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
After an introduction in Dutch spoken by a male native speaker, an unnamed male Yiddish speaker (using English)gives: 1) the Dutch Yiddish equivalents of tokens in German, 2) the Dutch Yiddish equivalents of Hebrew tokens as pronounced by the Dutch Ashkenazim,and 3) various expressions.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tape is (apparently) a dub from another source. It was donated to the Language Lab by Eric Hamp. If JJT understands the Dutch slate, the live recording of the Yiddish was made on 9 April 1958, but the date of this copy is unknown. (Apparently Hamp had nothing to do with the original recording.) WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Unnamed

Sholem Aleichem, read in Yiddish by Gustav Berger

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Primary Languages: 
Yiddish
Languages: 
Yiddish
Locations: 
Israel
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Berger reads three short stories by Aleichem:

Side 1: “Der Daitsch” [The German]
Side 2, Band 1: “A story about a greenhorn”
Side 2, Band 2: “Mr. Green has a job”
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a Folkways Records disc, No. FL 9907. The album contains a pamphlet with a biographical profile of Berger, the Yiddish texts, and the English translations. The donor of this disc is unknown.
Contributor: 
Gustav Berger
Isaiah Sheffer, translator into English