Metadata: Tape Archive of the Finnish Language
Collection
- Country:
- Finland
- Holding institution:
- Institute for the Languages of Finland
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kotimaisten kielten keskus
- Postal address:
- Hakaniemenranta 6, 00530 Helsinki
- Web address:
- https://www.kotus.fi/
- Email:
- archive@kotus.fi
- Reference number:
- Suomen kielen nauhoitearkisto
- Title:
- Tape Archive of the Finnish Language
- Title (official language):
- Suomen kielen nauhoitearkisto
- Creator/accumulator:
- Institute for the Languages of Finland
- Date(s):
- 1969/2004
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 21 interviews
- Type of material:
- Audio
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection holds interviews conducted in domestic languages and is part of the archives of Institute for Languages of Finland (Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus). These interviews include also some in Yiddish, Moses Guthwert’s interview from 1969 and twenty interviews from 2000–2004.
- Archival history:
- The Institute for the Languages of Finland was founded in 1976.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In addition to interviews made in Finnish and its various dialects, the Tape Archive of the Finnish Language collects interviews in other languages spoken in Finland. In 1969 the renowned Estonian linguist Paul Ariste visited Helsinki and interviewed Moses Guthwert (1884–1971). This is the oldest known interview in Yiddish in Finland. Since then, Simo Muir conducted interviews in Yiddish between 2000 and 2004 for his PhD, twenty of which are archived in the collection of the Tape Archive of the Finnish Language.
- Access points: locations:
- Finland
- Access points: persons/families:
- Moses Guthwert
- Paul Ariste
- Simo Muir
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Oral history
- Yerusha Network member:
- National Archives of Finland
