Tag #151764 - Interview #84041 (Yacob Hollander)

My father studied in a general Ukrainian school, the only school in Dorobratovo. [Editor’s note: It must have been a Ruthenian school. Ukrainian and Ruthenian are similar languages and the official Soviet policy after 1945 was the denial of the separate Ruthenian identity; they were regarded Ukrainian and the Ruthenian language a Ukrainian dialect.] There was no cheder in the village. My grandfather taught his children to read and write in Hebrew and taught them prayers. They only spoke Yiddish in my father’s family. They spoke the Subcarpathian dialect of the Ukrainian language called Ruthenian with their non-Jewish neighbors.