Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, West Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A634r
Creator(s): Cheichel, Edna
Site Location(s): Subject - Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7965, -1.54785 )
Date(s): 1970
Language: Yiddish
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 71' 55".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414685
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Various informants recorded at Donisthorpe Hall Old People's Home in Leeds. Leizer Gold sings unidentified song; male sings unidentified song; male ( Rabbi Safer) relates an incident, and other information relating to Leeds; male relates an incident from World War One; Rabbi Safer talks of Yiddish boxers in Leeds; Leizer Gold makes reference to a [Russian] pogrom; Rabbi Safer talks about coming to live in Leeds in the 1930s/1940s; Mely Tayler gives biographical information, and talks [in English] about working in Russia during the Russian Revolution (reference to Red Sunday), coming to England, work, marriage, children, shop owning, visits to Israel, fund raising, the Jewish Club in Leeds; Leizer Gold speaks in Yiddish about the pogrom in Lithuania in 1906; Rabbi Safer relates an incident (in English) and relates a discussion he had in 1913 regarding the coming of war, and another prediction of the same in 1880; Leizer Gold speaks in Yiddish of the pogrom in Lithuania.
Rabbi Safer and Leizer Gold sing and speak (mixture of English and Yiddish); Rabbi Safer sings an unidentified song [in Yiddish and Hebrew]; Leizer Gold sings in Yiddish and Hebrew; Rabbi Safer talks in English of the Chief Rabbi ( Dr. Herz, 1911-1913) speaking in Manchester in 1917, and the issue of conscription and conscientious objection; Leizer Gold talks of the Chief Rabbi, and the 1908/1909 period; Rabbi Safer talks in English and Yiddish of the visit of Moses Segal to Manchester in 1915.
Biography or history
The collector was the Archivist at the Israel Folktale Archives in Haifa, at the time this recording was made.
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy. Tape speed increases towards the end of Track Two.
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