Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 6.279 April 6, 1997 1) Vey is mir nit (Bernard Gershen) 2) Star Spangled Banner in Yiddish (Leonard Prager) 3) Sholem Asch and Hemingway (Marjorie Schonhaut Hirshan) 4) Yidishe shprikhverter (Dovid Braun) 5) JHS preprints and reprints series (Igor Zlochevsky) 6) Yiddish Studies in South Sweden (Jota Piasecki) 7) A WWW page about Polish roots (Harold Boll) 8) A WWW page about Polish roots (Noyekh Miller) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 15:00:15 EST From: gershen1@juno.com Subject: Vey is mir nit This is an idiom, and I think it is used when something wrong has befallen someone else. The meaning is that this woe shall not befall me. Bernard Gershen 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 04 Apr 97 23:51:18 IST From: rhle302@uvm.haifa.ac.il Subject: Star Spangled Banner in Yiddish Al Grand (6:270) asked for the lyrics of the "Star-Spangled Banner" in Yiddish. I imagine there are a number of translations, but the one that I recall at the moment is Ber Grin's, which can be found in _In dinst fun folk; almanakh fun yidishn folks-ordn_, New York: Book League of the Jewish People's Fraternal Order I.W.O., 1947, p. 112. Star spengld bener fun Frensis Skat Ki O zog! konstu zen in likht fun sof nakht, Vos mir hobn bagrist in demer-shayn mit freyd? Di shtrayfn, di shtern -- in flaker fun shlakht Fun di shuts-vent mir hobn mit bang in blik bagleyt. Un der blits fun raket, un der knal fun kanon Durkh der nakht gerufn hobn zey: es lebt di fon. O zog! di fon mit di shtern iz zi nokh tsehelt Iber land fun fraye un iber heym fun held? Afn breg, durkh neplen fun yam fartunklt, Vu dem soynes makhne iz fartayet in shrek, Vos iz es, in bloz fun laykhtn vintl fartunken, Ot halb-farborgn, ot af a helft antplekt? Es iz di fon mit di shtern, o, af lang zey tsehelt Iber land fun fraye un der heym fun held. O, azoy vet es tomed zayn, ven frayer mentsh mit gever in hant Bashitsn vet zayn libe heym kegn farlend fun krig un zayn shnit! Gebentsht mit zig un frid, zol dos land Loybn di kraft, vos hot undz als folk farhit! Undzer kamf iz a gerekhter -- undzer iz der nitsokhn, Zol zayn undzer gebot: "In got iz undzer bitokhn!" Un di fon mit di shtern, in zig vet zi zayn tsehelt Iber land fun fraye un der heym fun held! Presumably an English translation is unnecessary. Leonard Prager 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 21:20:53 -0500 (EST) From: shirshan@aol.com Subject: Sholem Asch and Hemingway I would bet a nickel, maybe a dime, that I am not alone in harboring a deep interest in the elusive facts that Miriam B. Mandel (vol 6.273) garnered through Mendele steering her to information about Asch and Hemingway via Asch's grandson. We would be happy if she shared the information with us. Marjorie Schonhaut Hirshan Boynton Beach, Florida 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 00:36:50 EST From: dovid@mit.edu Subject: Bernshteyn's _Yidishe shprikhverter un rednsartn_ The toilet-and-bedroom supplement to Ignats Bernshteyn's _Yidishe shprikhverter un rednsartn_ is available on the Web and in book form with foreign-language interpretation and glossing, as we now know. What about the core material? Dovid Braun Cambridge, MA 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 19:34:56 +0400 (WSU DST) From: heritage@glasnet.ru Subject: JHS preprints and reprints series The revival of Jewish scholarship in the CIS and the Baltic states has already produced dozens of research articles, monographs, bibliographies and source studies. These enthusiastic efforts of authors demanded prompt publication. This demand was met by the Jewish Heritage Society Preprints and Reprints series program. The JHS Preprints and Reprints series attracted many Judaica scholars in Russia, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics. The authors are especially excited about the fact that their research would not have to wait years for publication in a scholarly journal. It is also very important for scholars to discover a certain demand for their intellectual product and that they could expect possible feedback from colleagues working in the field. The program also contributes to establishing professional ties among scholars worldwide and fosters a vigorous exchange of ideas. Recently published works (preprints 19 - 26 are available on the Society's Web site): http://www.glasnet.ru/~heritage/ in 1994 - 1995 1. Almeev R. Legends and Proverbs of Bukharan Jews (in Russian) 2. Almeev R. Legends of the Ancient Bukhara: About the Construction of the First Synagogue in Bukhara (in Russian) 3. Binevich E. The Early Years of Yiddish Theater in Russia (in Russian) 4. Granovskii B. Phenomenon of Giora Feidman (in Russian) reprint 5. Gusev V. Bund, Komfarband, Evsektsiia of the Communist Party of Ukraine: Political History. 1917 - 1921 (in Russian) 6. Mogilner M. The Jews in the "New" Russia. 1907 - 1914 (in Russian) 7. Petriakova F. Maximillian Goldschtein: His Life and Work in Galitsia in the First Half of the 20th Century (in Russian) in 1996 8. Banchik N. Between Uniqueness and Universalism: Comparative Study of History of Jews and Armenians (in Russian) 9. Binevich E. Yiddish Theater in St. Petersburg (in Russian) 10. Glembotskaia G. Development of Jewish Art in Galitsia in the First Half of the 20th Century (in Russian) 11. Druziuk-Skop G., Skop L. An The Image of Galitsian Jews of the 14th-18th Centuries in the Ukrainian Sacral Painting (in Russian) 12. Kaufman Z. Jews in the Paintings of Non-Jewish Artists (in Russian) 13. Naiman A. Contemporary Anti-Semitism in Ukraine (in Russian) 14. Orlianskii S. The Dubnov's Theory of Cultural and National Autonomy and Contemporary Problems of Ukrainian Jewry (in Russian) 15. Senina T. On the history of the "National Minorities" in Kremenets (in Yiddish) 16. Yukhneva N. Jews and Other Ethnic Minorities in Petersburg / Leningrad in the Soviet and Post-Soviet period (in Russian) reprint 17. Yukhneva N. Jews of Petersburg in the Period of Reforms of the 1860s: Sociological and Demographic Aspects (in Russian) reprint 18. Podolskii A. Genocide of Jewish Population of the Middle Dnepr Region in the Years of German Occupation. 1941 - 1944 (in Russian) 19. Mindlin A. Jewish Politics of Stolypin (in Russian) 20. Nakhmanovich V. Jewish Politics of the Czarist Government in the 1870s. Committee for the "Setting of Jewish Life" (in Russian) 21. Khaesh A. Genealogy Data from the Archive of the Eizenbet Jewish Men's School in St. Petersburg (in Russian) 22. Naiman A. Jewish Political Parties and Organizations in Ukraine. 1917-1925 (in Ukrainian) 23. Nosonovskii M. Epitaphs on the Jewish Thombstones in Ukraine (in Russian) 24. Nosonovskii M. On the history of the Karaite Community in Derazhnia (in English) 25. Shternshis A. The Soviet Yiddish Folklore Songs (in Russian) 26. Shkolnikova E. The Transformation of the Jewish shtetl in the Soviet Union in the 1930s (in Russian with summary in English) Igor Zlochevsky 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 18:05:47 +0200 From: jpi@it.lth.se Subject: Yiddish Studies in South Sweden _Are_ there some? They should be, due to at least two emigrations vogues from Poland, in 40's and '68. But the younger among the '68-deportees were probably not Yiddish speakers. Some elder people I knew, who were, are not longer alive. By South Sweden I mean the Lund-Malmoe area, as I am working at the University of Lund. Even Copenhague counts as Lund-Malmoe area, as it is only an hour's journey from my home. Jota Piasecki 7)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 14:28:49 -0500 From: boll@ekbos.com Subject: A WWW page about Polish roots The first contribution in Mendele Vol 6.273 gave the URL of a home page which the author described as "one superb site" for obtaining pictures and info about "...our roots in Poland." He neglects to mention that he is the author of the recommended page, and that it is a fee for service proposition. There is no online database or images. A far better place to initiate an internet jewish roots search is: http://www.jewishgen.org/ and, specifically for Polish shtetls, scroll down the page and select the "JewishGen ShtetLinks Project" link, or surf directly to: http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/directory.html Harold Boll 8)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 From: nmiller@trincoll.edu Subject: A WWW page about Polish roots Harold Boll's post (see above) is well-taken and the shames is embarrassed at not having checked the website before running the notice. Mendele has always tried to balance its unwillingness to serve as a vehicle for profit-making ventures with its commitment to keep readers informed. That is how and why the supplement "Personal notices and announcements" came into being. The reverse side is of course the expectation that ads be clearly labelled as such. The poster did not do so. Nor has he apologized for his conduct as requested. He is no longer with us. Noyekh Miller ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 6.279