Yosef Burg Recalls Cheder in Prewar Europe

Yosef (Josef) Burg (1912-2009) the last Yiddish author of Ukraine and Bukovina recalls the traditional system of learning the Chumesh Pesukim with extended Yiddish translation about Yaakov Avinu's discussion with his son Yosef Hatazdik regarding the burial of Yosef's mother Rochel Imeinu, as he was taught in his early childhood in the Cheder in Vizhnitz.

Recorded May 17, 2003 in Czernowitz by the AHEYM (ARCHIVES OF HISTORIC & ETHNOGRAPHIC YIDDISH MEMORIES) project, Indiana University.

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