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1984-RR-389 cont
1984-RR-390
LOGGER'S SHEET
LOGGER: Ilse Akerbergs
REEL NUMBER: #1 - #2 of 6 
STAGE: Aging workshop
DATE: 7/8/84 
PRESENTOR: Nick Spitzer/Susan Kalcik
GROUP NAME: Doris & Mayer Kirshenblatt
REGION/STYLE: Yiddish storytelling - parables

PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
Mayer Kirshenblatt - toymaker/storyteller
Doris Kirshenblatt

CONTENTS
1. Mayer tells of learning Poland.
2. Life in Poland - jobs & family.
3. What Canada was like
4. Changing name.
5. Work in Canada
6. Toys - poverty in Poland
Doll, skates, etc.
7. Materials toys are made of
8. Doris tells of mother's traditions
9. Parable of the (couple & long life
10. Parable of 2 friends & hospital
11. Parable of wife & money
12. Story of wife locking herself up in bathroom
Continuation of parables about mother & family life & forgetting
13. Mayer tells stories of forgetting.
Poland & outlook on old people
Mayer & Doris tells of mother & children
Old folks
their marriage
Problems w/Mayer & retirement
Dirty story
Mouse toy