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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