Yiddish Mailing List, Issue #2 Nov 16, 1988 ============================== Ver zenen mir? - David Sherman - Frank Silbermann - Daniel Radzinski - Henry Wolkowicz - Jack Gold Virus joke (Yaakov Kayman) ------------------------ From: dave@lsuc.uucp (David Sherman) Subject: vi azoi ikh kum tsu redn yidish Date: Thu Nov 17 21:16:01 EST 1988 Digest-message: 02/1 Ikh hob in gantzn nisht geredt kein yidish az ikh bin geven a kind. Meine eltern kumen fun England un redn nisht kein yidish. Ikh red a pur andere shprakhn un ikh hob shtudiert deitsh far 5 yoren in schuleh un universitet, un loshn-kodesh red ikh oikhet. Ven ikh hob mikh getrofn mit mein veib, mit elf yur tsurik, hob ikh bashlossn az ikh darf lernen zikh tsu redn yidish, veil zi red mame-loshn mit ihre eltern un tantes. Hob ikh gemakht tzvei kursen fun yidish in universitet Toronto (in yur zibn-un-zibetzik/akht-un-zibetzik). Afile fun dem hob ikh zikh gelern tsu redn, ober nisht flisik. Ober az mir hobn gehat kinder, hobn mir baschlossn tsu redn yidish mit di kinder. Yetzt iz di greste fir un a halb yur alt (mir hobn tzvei tekhterlekh), un mir redn bloiz yidish mit zei, un mir lozn zei nisht redn english tsu uns oder eins tsum tsveitn. Di beide redn yetst flisik yidish, un english oikhet, veil zei zenen yeder tog bei day-care. (Raphael Finkel zogt az men zol dus rufn "kinder-teg".) Tzvishn uns (ikh un mein veib) redn mir a sakh english, ober mit the kinder - nor yidish. S'iz a mechaye tsu hern zei redn yidish tsvishn zikh. David Sherman ------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 88 08:35:17 EST From: Frank Silbermann Digest-message: 02/2 I wish to be on your mailing list. I am not a Chasid, nor did I heard Yiddish in the home. My father _can_ speak it, but he is most comfortable with English. interested in Yiddish after taking two years of German at college. Unfortunately, by the time I learned a bit, most of my Yiddish-speaking older relatives had died. I can now read transliterated Yiddish fairly well. For a while I subscribed to Forwards, but the Aramaic/Hebrew script gives me much difficulty (I have to sound out the words phonetically, instead of just reading them) and would take me a whole month to go through a single weekly issue. I don't know if I will try to write much in Yiddish; when try to I speak, it quickly degenerates into German. But I would like to read Yiddish net-news articles. ------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 88 16:02:17 est From: linus!harvard!husc8!radzinsk (Daniel Radzinski) Subject: Yiddish und andere kashes Digest-message: 02/3 Tayerer Reb Duvid, Ir vet mir aynshuldiken, ober a khusid, bin ikh nisht, und a yidishist bin ikh oikh nisht (a sotsialist bin ikh AVADE nisht). Nor vus, Yiddish kenn ikh a bisle und red ikh a bisle. main elteren reden Yiddish tzevishn zei, und ikh red mit main tate halps-yiddish halps-shpanish (ikh hob gevoint in Lima, Peru biz im bar-mitzah und fun demes un in Tel-Aviv. Yetst bin ikh in Harvard (makh ikh a pi-eitch-di in lingvistik)). Deriber gleib ikh az ir zent nisht ingaintzen gerekht ven ir zugt (oder shraibt) az di eintsike oylam vus reden yiddish zenen khasidim und yidishisten. Zay gezunt und shtark, Daniel Radzinski. ------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 88 20:20:44 EST From: Henry Wolkowicz Digest-message: 02/4 A guten shabbos. Ich vell dir yetz dertzailin a bisl vegn minem geshichte. Ich bin geboiren in Poilen und mir zehnen antlophen venn ich bin geven 6 monat in yur acht und ferttzig. Mir zehnen shpeter gekumen tzu kanada in yur fuftzig. Mein ershter scprach is geven yiddish. Ich hob geredt a bisel poilish oder ich hob es farghesen. ich red noch yidish mit mien muter. ze voint in montreal. ich bin a professor von mathematic. mein spezialitet is optimizierung. mein frau is och a professor von mathematic in mcmaster. mir vohnen in cambridge, in mitten veg. ich red nicht zehr fil yiddish di letze yur, blois mit mein muter. Henry (hersh ben pinchos ben eliezer ben ahron hacoien) ------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 88 06:37:32 PST From: ihnp4!decwrl!curie.dec.com!gold (JACK E. GOLD MRO3-1/K20 DTN 297-5905) Digest-message: 02/5 I was brought up speaking Yiddish in my parents home. Alas, I have forgotten some, but still have a rudimentary knowledge of Yiddish. Transliteration into English makes it a bit difficult, but I am willing to try. Vus vilst du redn fin? Ich ken redn of mine familia. It chup drie kinder: a zin fin tzvelif, a zin fin tzen, und a tuchter fin zex. Ich macht a Bar Mitzah af June far mine elstera zin. Ich voin of Northboro, Massachusetts, driezhik miles fin Boston. Ich bin nisht azoy frim, uber ich gay of shul alla Shabbas. Jack Gold Digital Equipment Corp. Marlboro, MA ------------------------ From: YZKCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Yaakov Kayman) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish Subject: A Virus? (joke) Date: 7 Nov 88 15:51:01 GMT As I am generally an anti-Yiddishist, I normally wouldn't consider telling purely Yiddish humor, but with the recent flap about the latest computer virus (no joke there!), I feel this joke is most appropriate. For those who've heard it before, yes, it's an oldie! Warning: The joke's punchline is Yiddish, and I'm afraid I'll mess it up if I try to translate it, so I'm not going to. If you don't understand it, try to get a Yiddish speaker to explain it. Here goes: A Galitzianer goes to a doctor's office, feeling sick as a dog. The doctor examines him and says, "Mister, you've got a virus". The Galitzianer answers, (Galitzianer accent *MANDATORY* here) "Ahvyros hoob ich? Voo Den! Foon *mitzvos* mir veren krahnk??!!!" ------------------------ END OF ISSUE #2 ------------------------ David Sherman, Toronto Moderator, mail.yiddish { uunet!attcan att pyramid!utai utzoo } !lsuc!dave dave@lsuc.uucp lsuc!dave@ai.toronto.edu attcan!lsuc!dave@uunet.uu.net