Yiddish Mailing List, Issue #35 April 18, 1991 146 lines =============================== Vitz(?) (Ken Kaminsky) Shabes bei dem tish (Rechnitzer Rejects) Homophones (Robert Berk) Vegn Kansas un Kentucky (Nicholas Eshelman) [Nu, ver kon shikn epes farn nekstn numer...? - DS] ------------------------ Digest-Message: 35/1 Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1991 20:06:55 -0500 From: katz@aug1.augsburg.edu (Ken Kaminsky) Subject: Vitz Ich hob far aich a kortzn vitz. A lengerer kumt shpeter: Tsvei alte yidn zitsn tsuzamen af a bank in park. Der ershter shtelt zich zeyer, zeyer pamelech. Zogt der anderer: "Louie! Vu loifstu? Zi hostu shoin gehert dem vitz? [Nein. Dus iz a vitz? Hostu gornisht besser? - DS] Ken (Shimon) Kaminsky ------------------------ Digest-Message: 35/2 From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman) Subject: another Rechnitzer Rejects song Date: Mon Jan 28 11:56:22 EST 1991 This comes from Rechnitzer Rejects Volume 6. To understand it, it helps to know the Hebrew phrase "bosor v'dagim v'khol mat'amimim". This phrase, found in the Shabbos zemiros (and originally in the Tanakh, I believe), means, roughly, "meat and fish and all tasty foods", referring to what one eats on Shabbos. Sung to the tune of "Finiculi Finicula" Shabes bei dem tish =================== Men zugt, as shabes is a tog fun bosor Un oikh dagim Umatamim Mein veib, zi zugt "ikh gei un koif fun grocer Bosor, dagim Umatamim" Zi geyt in town un koift far zikh a nay pur shiekh Ober nisht kein bosor Un nisht dagim Zi kumt aheim un nemt arois fun freezer Zi meint forhin [?] In aluminim [CHORUS] Oy -- Shabes, Shabes Shabes bei dem tish Muz ikh esn Shvartz gefilte fish Di zup is kalt, di tcholent alt di kugl falt ikh shrei "gevalt!" Varf arois di bosor, di dagim umatamim! Di khale zet ois vi a kleine knaidl S'iz nisht fun heint Ikh hob es feint A yor tsurik gebakt hot Tante Freidl Nem es avek! Ikh gib a shrek! Oy -- Shabes, shabes Shabes bei dem tish Muz ikh esn Shvartz gefilte fish Di zup is kalt, di tcholent alt di kugl falt ikh shrei "gevalt!" Varf arois di bosor, di dagim umatamim! ------------------------ Digest-Message: 35/3 Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1991 18:51:00 -0400 From: BERK@zodiac.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Yiddish mailing list agov: i have compiled a short list of english-yiddish homophones - such as mention, gay, guy, key, bane, vent, cushion, cane, kine, u.a.v. (there are a number of words, such as teller, that almost work - except for the r/reysh difference. i'm not sure if they properly belong in such a list.) shall i send it along for the reshime? [It'd be interesting. We've have some fun with the kids with these, both intentionally and unintentionally. I remember my wife asking Ariela for a pillow when she was about 3, and getting a kiss instead. - DS] ------------------------ Digest-Message: 35/4 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 08:10:55 -0500 From: Nicholas Eshelman Ikh veys nisht vifil yidn voynen in Lawrence. Veynik, ober avade mer vi in and ere shtotn in Kansas. Mir zaynen nisht vayt fun Kansas City (Mo.) un mir hobn oykh a sakh yidishe studenten baym University of Kansas, ober zi voynen andersh vu (lemoshl Kansas City, St. Louis) Mit tsvey yor tsurik hobn mir gevoynt in South Dakota. Es voynen do 501 yidn. A froy, vos mit ir ikh hob gearbet, hot mir amol gefregt "Tsi glaybn yidn in Got?" In farglaykh mit South Dakota, Kansas iz take nisht seyer fremd. Du hos dermont az s'iz do a yidish-reder in Kentuky. A shir kumt vider oyfn zin. Der dikhter Yisroel-YankevSchvartz hot geshribn a lid vos heyst "Kentuky" Un dan hot shoyn der nomen funem yid Geklungen hoykh un vayt ibern land: Kentuky, Tenessee, Ohio un Indiana Biz Ilinois--un Kansas-shtot fun eyn zayt Un fun di vayte tsofndike statn Fun tsveyter zayt ... Genug shoyn, Zay gezunt! ------------------------ SOF FUN NUMER 35 ------------------------ David (Daniel Moishe) Sherman, Toronto Moderator, mail.yiddish dave@lsuc.on.ca attcan!lsuc!dave@uunet.uu.net uunet!attcan!lsuc!dave {AT&T sites}!att!lsuc!dave