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<v Speaker 1>The ALKI wow, I feel got it? You want to go? Do?

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<v Speaker 1>I want to go? Now? What do I do? Pick one?

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<v Speaker 1>How do you do it? Take that can of.

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<v Speaker 2>Gasolina and put it by the door.

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<v Speaker 3>Take homatchet'st and no more candy store.

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<v Speaker 1>How you can throw in a little harmony.

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<v Speaker 4>Kugol is probably the most nostalgic game of my childhood.

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<v Speaker 4>It's these five stones. I want to tell you about Kogola,

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<v Speaker 4>how you can play it, and the larger category of

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<v Speaker 4>oldie games that exist in the Hasidic world. Some of

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<v Speaker 4>them you might know even if you're not Hasidic.

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<v Speaker 5>Hi.

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<v Speaker 4>My name is fre Devisel and I'm a YouTuber specializing

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<v Speaker 4>in a c Brooklyn. Besides for my study of Acitic culture,

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<v Speaker 4>I have a fascination with children's play of your Before

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<v Speaker 4>there were toy stores and actual products designed for children's play.

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<v Speaker 4>We now take it for granted that toy stores are

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<v Speaker 4>a thing. We even have these giant chops that are

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<v Speaker 4>landmarks of childhood play, culture making, and a reflection of values.

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<v Speaker 4>Take Fao Schwartz in Manhattan with the dolls, trends, characters,

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<v Speaker 4>fantasies of Western society. Or take toys for You in

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<v Speaker 4>bar Park, Brooklyn with the Jewish Orthodox puppets, mencheese, costumes

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<v Speaker 4>for children, and Yiddish board games, all reflecting a very

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<v Speaker 4>different society and imparting of values. Once toys were not

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<v Speaker 4>an industry, as Shoshana Hnfeld, who lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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<v Speaker 4>from nineteen thirty seven to nineteen four remembered, they made

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<v Speaker 4>their own toys.

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<v Speaker 6>We had stoops going that one.

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<v Speaker 7>We used to play stoop balls, and we used to

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<v Speaker 7>play hopscotch. We used to roller skates, and we used

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<v Speaker 7>to take a crate. Not us, the boys would do it.

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<v Speaker 7>They would take a crate orange brake or whatever and

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<v Speaker 7>they would nail it with a piece of wooden two

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<v Speaker 7>pieces of roller skate.

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<v Speaker 6>And we would have a scooter.

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<v Speaker 7>Those were fun days. It was you know, you didn't

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<v Speaker 7>go into the store and by this and I because

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<v Speaker 7>it wasn't there, and it was so much better to

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<v Speaker 7>make your own.

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<v Speaker 4>Old footage of the nineteen fifties just children playing with

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<v Speaker 4>jump ropes, with various pieces of trash, with balls, with

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<v Speaker 4>bikes and trikes, and especially girls. Lots of circle games

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<v Speaker 4>and clapping games where you clap and chent in the

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<v Speaker 4>Ascidic Jewish community. Many of these forms of play have

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<v Speaker 4>survived even when forgotten Elsewhere. Of Brooklyn, I see children

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<v Speaker 4>playing for hours with things like crates, boxes, cups, making

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<v Speaker 4>even a vending machine of refrigerator boxes. They do lemonade,

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<v Speaker 4>stand like projects that they call carnivals, where you can

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<v Speaker 4>turn in a book, they sell fresh popcorn slush, or

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<v Speaker 4>you can participate in booths where you can pick challen

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<v Speaker 4>beans out of a plate of flour by sucking on

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<v Speaker 4>a straw. At other times, I see jingle jump or

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<v Speaker 4>lots of rope, hopscotch, tag, hide and seek, kick the can,

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<v Speaker 4>many versions of ball like elimination, hit the deck, machanaium, chalk.

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<v Speaker 4>Of course, drawing on various levels. Art can be seen everywhere. Cards,

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<v Speaker 4>trading cards, collector's cards, rubber, and of course koko. It's

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<v Speaker 4>my theory that the strong prohibition against television and nowadays

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<v Speaker 4>the internet, especially the strict campaign against smartphones, has created

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<v Speaker 4>a space for continuation of old school play while it

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<v Speaker 4>died out elsewhere, replaced perhaps by video games and more

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<v Speaker 4>organized forms of play. Of all these nostalgic games, Kugler

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<v Speaker 4>is most interesting to me because, for one, really embarrassingly

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<v Speaker 4>left footed or left handed at it, and for another

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<v Speaker 4>because it's a variation of the world's oldest game that

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<v Speaker 4>we have evidence that it once existed, that is the

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<v Speaker 4>game of five Stones or knucklebones. Five Stones can be

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<v Speaker 4>played with nothing but five pebbles that you collect from

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<v Speaker 4>the street, like you would perhapscotch. There's no need for

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<v Speaker 4>toy stores, although of course someone is bound to create

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<v Speaker 4>a need and box up the stones into a purchasable product.

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<v Speaker 4>And it looks like this. This holding the Kogler is

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<v Speaker 4>Ricky Rose, a Yiddish singer from the Citic Williamsburg community

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<v Speaker 4>with the voice of an angel. When we visited her

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<v Speaker 4>old Hans recently, we came upon some wild oldie things

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<v Speaker 4>in a store, and that's how I learned that another

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<v Speaker 4>one of Ricky's talons is cookola. She's really good at it.

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<v Speaker 4>So we bought some, brought it back to my place,

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<v Speaker 4>and Ricky tried to teach me how to play it,

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<v Speaker 4>and while she did, we trailed off into remembering many

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<v Speaker 4>other old forms of play.

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<v Speaker 1>Ah nice.

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<v Speaker 4>The cookolar have a nice little heft. They make this

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<v Speaker 4>satisfying clinking sound. They're like mini weighted blankets. The floor

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<v Speaker 4>is the board it's raining outside, it's cozy, and we're

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<v Speaker 4>playing like in the olden days. The objective of the

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<v Speaker 4>game is to throw some cookola and while some are

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<v Speaker 4>in the air, collect others from the floor. Sometimes you

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<v Speaker 4>throw up one, hold one in your palm, grab one

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<v Speaker 4>off the board, all in one swoop. Sometimes you throw

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<v Speaker 4>up one but grab four. Sometimes you throw up four

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<v Speaker 4>and grab one. You might throw, you might hold, you

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<v Speaker 4>might grab various amounts. See, there are phases, and each

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<v Speaker 4>phase contains nine levels with different ways of throwing and

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<v Speaker 4>catching the coo.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow.

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<v Speaker 8>Level one, level two, level three, how's the fourth called?

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<v Speaker 8>Within each level there's onesies, two, four, zayad co coogola, exchange, exchanges,

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<v Speaker 8>puts toy.

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<v Speaker 1>Toyot and bridges. Oh, and there's no patches. Is at

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<v Speaker 1>the end of cool God? You catch everything you do.

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<v Speaker 4>Ricky is really a pro player at this game.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, beautiful, am I fill? You got it? I'm really useless.

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<v Speaker 1>Now what do I do? Pick one? Oh? Try, it's right,

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<v Speaker 1>hold on? How do you do it? You have to

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<v Speaker 1>throw it higher and faster, and you have to be

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<v Speaker 1>like that.

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<v Speaker 4>What I love about this old sensory game is that

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<v Speaker 4>as you play it and sit on the ground, throwing, catching,

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<v Speaker 4>you drift off into a zone. A conversation, a nostalgic

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<v Speaker 4>trip down memory lane of the games we played. I

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<v Speaker 4>never played coogloss really, maybe because they were much more

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<v Speaker 4>popular among the boys than the girls.

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<v Speaker 1>Who did you play with? I played with my neighbors

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<v Speaker 1>and with the girls in the school.

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<v Speaker 9>Actually, my school was a very boyish girls, you know, so.

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<v Speaker 1>I find it interesting, you know.

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<v Speaker 8>For a long time I wanted to do a video

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<v Speaker 8>about coogolok, to document how it's played. Yeah, And I

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<v Speaker 8>was always thinking who to ask, And I didn't think

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<v Speaker 8>that the person i'd ask would have written nail polish,

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<v Speaker 8>pink and egglis.

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<v Speaker 3>It's not red, it's it's it's I was like the

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<v Speaker 3>best in my class, but when I played with the boys,

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<v Speaker 3>the boys were better than me.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the girls were usually much more into ball. One

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<v Speaker 4>of the most popular girls games was bouncing a ball

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<v Speaker 4>and reciting chance.

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<v Speaker 5>Larry Ary.

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<v Speaker 4>It was like this, and yes, we all knew the

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<v Speaker 4>chant one two three h larry, although I thought it

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<v Speaker 4>was hilarry.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you know the chance like a My name is

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<v Speaker 3>Alice and my husband's name is We come from Alaska

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<v Speaker 3>and apple do you know miss Lucy. No, miss Lucy

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<v Speaker 3>had a baby. She named him him. No, no, what

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<v Speaker 3>other chance do you know?

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<v Speaker 1>Once I had a candy shop and business was so bad.

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<v Speaker 3>I asked my mother what to do, and this is

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<v Speaker 3>what she said.

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<v Speaker 10>Take that can of gasolina and put it by that north.

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<v Speaker 1>Take a match it scratch, and.

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<v Speaker 9>No more candy store.

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<v Speaker 1>You can run a little harmony. This song doesn't make sense.

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<v Speaker 1>It's so dark. What is that? Yeah? And we would

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<v Speaker 1>sing it as kids.

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<v Speaker 4>Speaking of dark, we all knew ring around a rosie

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<v Speaker 4>or ring around the roses this oldie. We knew that

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<v Speaker 4>there was some dark history to the song. Ricky decided

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<v Speaker 4>she didn't want to sing it.

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<v Speaker 10>I don't want so many any demons.

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<v Speaker 8>Oh no, okay, we're not gonna Sam and Andy demons.

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<v Speaker 1>We never want to do that. I don't think I

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<v Speaker 1>ever played this. What did you play Rubber? Oh you

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<v Speaker 1>didn't play rubber. I did, but I didn't like. It

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't as fun. Actually it was, Oh my god, we

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<v Speaker 1>should do a rubber video. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 11>One to three, one to three, one to three to three.

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<v Speaker 8>You remember episodes of the Yeah and then you bring

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<v Speaker 8>the rubbers over?

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<v Speaker 7>Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, Wow, that was hard.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm fascinated by these because I still see these games

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<v Speaker 4>played by acidic girls in the streets. I still see

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<v Speaker 4>so many of these oldies around. So many young people

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<v Speaker 4>in Western socidy today know nothing about them. But once

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<v Speaker 4>upon a time, children everywhere knew them.

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<v Speaker 10>In the del Hi hold the day the farmer in

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<v Speaker 10>the Dells, the farmer.

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<v Speaker 6>Takes the white.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you know?

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<v Speaker 10>The farmer and the dell farmer and the bell, The

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<v Speaker 10>farmer and the dell high Onnitaria, the farmer and the bell,

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<v Speaker 10>the farmer and the farmer makes a right, picks a wife.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, the farmer picks a wife. I remember that one.

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<v Speaker 11>No cheese, the cheese stays alone.

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<v Speaker 1>Is that the cheese stays alone? Yeah, that's a little. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 8>Nobody wanted to be the cheese, even though cheese is great,

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<v Speaker 8>because everyone got picked for the wife and then the cow.

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<v Speaker 1>And these games.

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<v Speaker 9>Are so messed up they make no sense.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you know kind of Silissa?

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<v Speaker 9>Who?

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<v Speaker 4>I asked her if she knows Yiddish version of Little

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<v Speaker 4>Sally Walker. It involves a kid in the center of

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<v Speaker 4>a circle, pretending to cry and picking someone out.

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<v Speaker 6>In a weekend shut down.

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<v Speaker 1>Klinas the lesso so.

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<v Speaker 9>And that sounds like tip pizza Pizzoco episodes like you

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<v Speaker 9>know that the kids you play the game with the

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<v Speaker 9>kids you do this, Oh do you know x MAXI

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<v Speaker 9>no xe.

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<v Speaker 1>It goes like this. You turn around and everyone will

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<v Speaker 1>be a line.

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<v Speaker 8>Xy maxi dot dot dot, a line, a line, a

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<v Speaker 8>circle around a line, a bump.

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<v Speaker 1>Getting a free massage. Then you blow, but I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>going to blow into your back. These games are so funny.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you know?

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<v Speaker 4>We reminisced about using the word gay as happy all

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<v Speaker 4>the time.

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<v Speaker 10>Alex went to the barbershop, barbershop, barbershop.

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<v Speaker 1>Alex went to the barber shop on a bright and

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<v Speaker 1>sunny day. He got a haircut that.

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<v Speaker 8>Was sweet and gay, sweet and gay, sweet and gay.

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<v Speaker 3>He got eh haircut that was sweet and gay and

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<v Speaker 3>ran home right away.

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<v Speaker 9>Home or ran home, I don't know right away.

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<v Speaker 11>Why did they?

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<v Speaker 4>By the way, my theory as to y we sheltered

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<v Speaker 4>Yiddish speaking Hasidic kids in the nineteen eighties and nineteen

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<v Speaker 4>nineties two thousand's knew these English songs with all American

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<v Speaker 4>names like Alex and Alice is because when Hassidim originally

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<v Speaker 4>came to America after the Holocaust in the nineteen forties

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<v Speaker 4>and nineteen fifties. For the first ten to twenty years,

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<v Speaker 4>their community was not yet homogeneous, closed off, set up

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<v Speaker 4>this entire ecosystem of insularity. They had not yet developed

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<v Speaker 4>their insular bubble of their own homes and culture, their

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<v Speaker 4>own fortress in Brooklyn, as the Satmareba called it, with

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<v Speaker 4>their own schools and shops and fashions and toys, media

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<v Speaker 4>and culture. They lived among people of different levels of faith.

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<v Speaker 4>South Williamsburg wasn't yet only Hasidic, and so little Hasidic

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<v Speaker 4>children played and mixed with non Acidic neighbors, absorbing the

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<v Speaker 4>American nineteen fifties culture and then slowly closing off and

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<v Speaker 4>bottling it up, becoming as if frozen in time. Some

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<v Speaker 4>of the fashions like pillbox hats or the chans and

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<v Speaker 4>names for food like supper gutter, foxy aspring candy reflect

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<v Speaker 4>the American nineteen fifties. It's an interesting phenomenon that you

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<v Speaker 4>can still to some degree see in the streets people

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<v Speaker 4>calling strollers carriages and look like the fashions of that time.

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<v Speaker 4>But oftentimes the Yiddish speaking Asciitic kids misunderstood what their

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<v Speaker 4>English speaking, neighbors said or censored things.

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<v Speaker 6>Mountains, The lady she is.

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<v Speaker 4>No here, Nellie Groskett and I are singing on the mountain.

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<v Speaker 4>Nellie lived in Williamsburg in the nineteen thirties and wasn't Hassidic.

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<v Speaker 4>I played with our Hasidic grandmothers.

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<v Speaker 6>I loved jumping rope.

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<v Speaker 8>What did you chant when you jumped rope?

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<v Speaker 6>My mother, your mother live across the way two fourteen

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<v Speaker 6>East Broadway. Every night they have a fight, and this

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<v Speaker 6>is what they say, Nellie, Nellie, jump out, stella, stella,

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<v Speaker 6>jump in. I love it the mountains. The lady she

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<v Speaker 6>is no. What she wants is what she wants as

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<v Speaker 6>a nice young man.

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<v Speaker 1>So jump Oh wait, it's what she wants is a

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<v Speaker 1>nice young man.

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<v Speaker 8>Yes, we're saying it as kids, but this part we

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<v Speaker 8>never know that too.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but it was all she wants is gold and silver.

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<v Speaker 1>All she wants is a punch in the boat. You

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<v Speaker 1>know you didn't say those.

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<v Speaker 6>It was some incomprehention.

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<v Speaker 11>Sounds like a fund and then punch in the boat.

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<v Speaker 4>It's so funny to look back to how we repeated

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<v Speaker 4>things having no idea what we were saying.

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<v Speaker 1>I heard a punch in the boat punch. That's it.

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<v Speaker 1>I think they have a whole list. Huh yeah, I've

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<v Speaker 1>been collecting them. I'm trying to figure out what was no, No,

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<v Speaker 1>what was not known? One potato two, potato three, potato four.

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<v Speaker 9>But it's one tequila two tequila three tequila for.

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<v Speaker 1>Five six more. Really I heard that somewhere. Maybe it's offensive.

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<v Speaker 10>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 11>I don't know what's offensive considered offensive anymore.

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<v Speaker 1>No, it's not offensive. It's not offensive. He's dying, okay.

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<v Speaker 1>Last one, do you know the quilla? I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>we sang that. No, we didn't, do you know? I'm one, two,

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<v Speaker 1>three and a six? But do you know what?

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<v Speaker 9>I know what?

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<v Speaker 11>Alta Baba sua licked in bed Oh mat that.

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<v Speaker 9>But my mother didn't let us sing out of Shine

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<v Speaker 9>magazine and malamaed.

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<v Speaker 1>Licked oh by game tie die is.

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<v Speaker 11>Bitter gam the ticket Isa ticket is ease as fish.

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<v Speaker 11>The fish ish is mass.

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<v Speaker 1>Like please, this is no, that's an idol.

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<v Speaker 11>So as fish, the fishes mass.

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<v Speaker 2>Guy and Gus and Gus guy and Vinkle and Vincola

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<v Speaker 2>lid and to high as baint.

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<v Speaker 1>So silly, that's very funny. It's happening with the culture

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<v Speaker 1>Shaw and thank you so much. I appreciate it, Ricky,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you. It's just fun.

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<v Speaker 8>Yeah, you're amazing, very impressed.

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<v Speaker 1>You're amazing. You have a lot of talent. You have

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of talent.

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<v Speaker 10>Can I know?

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<v Speaker 5>I love that you called me that. No one calls

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<v Speaker 5>me call me lift to I know you go better too. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 5>you know our Hungarian Grandma's.

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<v Speaker 4>And here we are hours later and have not passed onesies.

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<v Speaker 4>I will later pour over the footage to zoom in

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<v Speaker 4>and understand what Ricky was doing better and put it

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<v Speaker 4>all together for a separate video, a titorial of Kogol

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<v Speaker 4>Phase one levels one through nine.

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<v Speaker 1>Nice.

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<v Speaker 4>Wow, nice, because those who can play teach right. And

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<v Speaker 4>isn't that a kind of winning anyway?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm out, but where are you up to? You're still

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<v Speaker 1>up to onesies? Don't rub it in.

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<v Speaker 9>The out.

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<v Speaker 1>Hold on, I'm gonna get its elephant. Remember, no, so.

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<v Speaker 11>The little kids who didn't know how to play, okay,

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<v Speaker 11>we would let them play elephant.

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<v Speaker 1>You make you make them this with your hands. I

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<v Speaker 1>swear to god, you make it sounds so.

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<v Speaker 11>You knew this her and and you have to throw

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<v Speaker 11>it in here you can play elephant.

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<v Speaker 4>It's so great to look back at these games and

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<v Speaker 4>chants and to connect the past to the present in

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<v Speaker 4>a world that's so modern, so fast evolving, so far

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<v Speaker 4>away from the memory and experiences of just a mere

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<v Speaker 4>hundred years ago. Here in these innocent childhood games, the

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<v Speaker 4>connection between the present and the past still feels strong.

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<v Speaker 4>The games that continue to be alive, The great old

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<v Speaker 4>game of five Stones of cook Lich, which I now

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<v Speaker 4>hope some of you know how to play, as I

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<v Speaker 4>do not. The games of bouncing ball, playing in the ground,

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<v Speaker 4>playing with chalk, with bikes, and singing on the mountain.

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<v Speaker 4>The farmer in the dell, Little Sally Walker, Ringeranga, Rosie,

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<v Speaker 4>one Potato, two potato, who stole the cookie from the cookie?

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<v Speaker 4>And jump in rifts you and jump out Friday Nanny,

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<v Speaker 4>And then we all have a little bit of children

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<v Speaker 4>in us forever