Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 08.022 July 9, 1998 1) mayn shtetele belz (Ellie Kellman) 2) story (Sam Kweskin) 3) Nerayen (Avrum-Yankev Amkraut) 4) fishman fundatsiye: gebitiner termin (Joshua Fishman) 5) Gulliver's Travels in Yiddish (Harriet Murav) 6) verterbukh afn vebs (Refoyl finkl) 7) Dovid Frishman (Alan Shuchat) 8) pamelekh (Mikhl Herzog) 9) pamelekh (Przemek Kasprzyk) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:09:15 -0400 (EDT) From: e.kellman@utoronto.ca (Ellen Kellman) Subject: mayn shtetele belz Can anyone supply the date of publication of the song "Mayn shtetele Belz"? Please reply to me privately. Thanks, Ellie Kellman 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:54:54 -0400 (EDT) From: ESSAIKAY@aol.com Subject: story Ikh ken dos mehr nit tsrikhaltn. Shtelt aykh for---detsember 1944. Ikh gey tsu fuss mit mein platon zelner durkh an elzassisher derfl, un ikh zey shoin az fun alle fenster hengen veisse tekher, Heysst az˙ mir kennen epess umzist durkhgeyn dem derfl. Kumt mir in zinnen˙ az itster kenn ikh bekummen a svastika fohn, veil ikh veyss genoi az 's hot zikh oto doh gefinnen genug fashisten, un efhsr zoll ikh freygn nokh einem. ˙ Ruf ikh ois tsu a froi, vos zee kukt oif unz fun a dritten shtok. ˙ "Bitte, haben Sie eine Deutsche Fahne?"˙ shrei ikh ois. ˙ "Bitte?" ruft sie ois tsu mir. ˙ Nokh a mol gib ikh a geshrei: "Ich moechte wissen--haben Sie eine Deutsche Fahne zu Haus?" ˙ Vider git zi a rir mit a hant tsu di oiren:"BITTE?" ˙ Vos iz dos. trakht ikh?. In dem elzass farshteyn zey plitzling kein deitsch? ˙ Derveille, miz ikh beliben mit mein reihe:,˙ meine khaverim marshieren vi a mol veiter. Vos zol ikh ton? ˙ Shrei ikh in a hoikher kol, oif Yiddish, mit a shalomaizn, Elzashisser aksent" ˙ "Host a deitsche fon?!" ˙ Shreit zi ois, "Yoh! Yoh!" un varft a lange, groisse arunter tsu mir . ˙ Etlike vokhn shpeyter hot mein shvester shoin gemakht derfun a "hostess gown"----on dem Svastika, nor mitn roitn leivnt. ˙ Efshr hot zi geshtammt fun di Vald-Yidn vos hobn dort gevoint in elftn yorhundert? Sam Kweskin 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 19:01:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Amkal@aol.com Subject: Nerayen I'm repeating a previous post in Yiddish, which elicited no response. Hots rakhmunes, Mendelyaner. In a poem by Nudelmann the word "geeytset" was used. I'd never heard it. We Galizianer say "gegeben an eytse" or "nerayet' Where is the former used, and where the latter? Anyone know where "nerayen" comes from? Avrum-Yankev Amkraut 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:04:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Joshua Fishman Subject: fishman fundatsiye: gebitiner termin Der termin vos shayekh aplikatsiyes tsu der fishman fundatsiye, in farbindung mit proyektn letoyves yidish tsvishn kinder un yugnt in meshekh fun 1999, VERT GEBITN. Der nayer termin iz der ershter september, 1998,˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ (nit der ershter november, vi s'iz friyer geven ongegebn). Aplikatsiyes (2 kopiyes) darf men shikn afn adres fun der fundatsiye: 3340 bainbridge Ave., Bronx, NY 10467. Joshua/Gella Fishman Palo Alto, CA 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 17:44:00 -0400 (EDT) From: hlmurav@ucdavis.edu (Harriet Murav) Subject: Gulliver's Travels in Yiddish A colleague of mine in Moscow working on a study of translations into Ladino of European literature asked me to inquire about the Yiddish translation of Gulliver's Travels. She wants to know the date and place of publication, from what language aside from English it may have been translated from, and whether and how it was abridged.˙ I will forward the information to her. On another topic, I have seen the term "musselman" in Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Arkhipelago and E. Ginzburg's camp memoirs. Thank you. Harriet Murav 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:56:06 -0400 (EDT) From: raphael@cs.uky.edu (Raphael Finkel) Subject: verterbukh afn vebs in mayn shraybmashinke hob ikh arayngeleygt etlekhe khidushem.˙ ikh hob mesader geven di kneplekh a bisl andersh, men zol nit kukn azoy vayt zey tsu zen.˙ a nay knepl gefint zikh oykh: "Define".˙ mit dem ken men zukhn taytshn fun verter, i yidishe, i englishe.˙ di taytshn aleyn kumen fun etlekhe mekoyres, befrat Itsik Goldenberg, Al Merkrebs, un Peter Kluehs.˙ lozt hern vos ir meynt. ven ikh'l hobn a gelegenhayt, vel ikh zen oyb ikh ken oykh oysleygn di yidishe verter mit unikod. My Yiddish Typewriter is slightly reorganized for ease of use.˙ It also has a "Define" capability, backed by word lists being entered by Itsik Goldenberg, Al Merkrebs, and Peter Kluehs.˙ Try it with either Yiddish or English.˙ Send me comments.˙ Maybe I'll add Unicode output to it. http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/makeyiddish.html Refoyl finkl 7)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 21:56:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Shuchat Subject: Dovid Frishman Efsher keyner vayst vu in di verk fun Dovid Frishman ikh kon gefinen di geshikhte fun der tolner rebbe Dovid Tversky un vi zayn eynkl reb Nukhem is vern zayn mmale mokom. In "Fun Rebins Hoyf" (1931),˙ D.L. Mekler shraybt: Der hebrayisher shriftshteler, Dovid Frishman, hot fun dem shpeter gemakht a "hoyf-intrige" un hot Yokhevedls "politik" farglikhn mit der politik fun intrigirendige mlokhim un malkes bay di umos haoylm. (Yokheved iz geveyn di shnir fun reb Dovidl un di mame fun reb Nukheml.) A shaynem dank, Alan Shuchat 8)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:37:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mikhl Herzog" Subject: pamelekh Yiddish _pamelekh_ 'slowly' is probably one of a number of "etymological blends".˙ Thus, Slavic _pomalu_ + German _allmaelich_ = Yiddish _pamelekh_. For a Hebrew X Slavic blend, see Yiddish _mefunitse_! Mikhl Herzog 9)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 03:28:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Przemek Kasprzyk" Subject: pamelekh One explanation I know is that "pamelekh" is a hybrid of Slavic (Polish included) "pomalu" and German "gemalig". Hope that helps, Przemek Kasprzyk ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 08.022 Address for the postings to Mendele: mendele@lists.yale.edu Address for the list commands: listproc@lists.yale.edu Mendele on the Web: http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mendele http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/mendele.html