Esther Lewitan

Interview # 7569

Gender Female

Age 82

Date of Birth June 3, 1913

Date of Interview October 14, 1995

Interviewer Marlene Waldfogel

Duration

Number of Tapes 2

Transcript Status 2 tapes have been transcribed, and 2 transcripts have been reviewed.

Maps

Place of BirthKuraniec (קורניץ)

Place of InterviewHollywood, Florida, USA

Tapes

• Tape 1
• Tape 2

From the collection of the USC Shoah Foundation

Transcripts

• yidish
• ייִדיש

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• Tape 1Audio (.m4a), Transcript (.txt in Latin transliteration or Hebrew-based alphabet)
• Tape 2Audio (.m4a), Transcript (.txt in Latin transliteration or Hebrew-based alphabet)

Additional transcript formats, including Praat (.TextGrid) and ELAN (.eaf), are available in our GitHub repository.

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• Bleaman, Isaac L., and Chaya R. Nove. In press. The Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe: Goals, methods, and applications. Language Documentation & Conservation.
• Lewitan, Esther. 1995. Interview 7569. USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. USC Shoah Foundation. Accessed .
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  @Article{Bleaman_Nove-inpress,
      author     = {Isaac L. Bleaman and Chaya R. Nove},
      journal    = {Language Documentation \& Conservation},
      title      = {The {Corpus} of {Spoken} {Yiddish} in {Europe}: Goals, Methods, and Applications},
      year       = {in press}
  }
  
  @Misc{Lewitan-1995,
      author     = {Esther Lewitan},
      note       = {USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive},
      publisher  = {USC Shoah Foundation},
      title      = {Interview 7569},
      urldate    = {},
      year       = {1995}
  }

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