Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 08.074 October 21, 1998 1) Yiddish on Israeli television (Ida Selavan-Schwarcz) 2) early bird (Anita Schonhaut Appelbaum) 3) early bird (Yosef Gilboa) 4) early-bird (Gitl Dubrovsky) 5) Seeking a Kreplach song (Rodney Falk) 6) What does "kasa" mean? (Gilad J. Gevaryahu) 7) Ikh zing (R. Lea Singer) 8) Ikh zing (Itsik Goldenberg) 9) Yiddish poetry in America (Chana Mlotek) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 05:05:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Yosef & Ida Schwarcz Subject: Yiddish on Israeli television This week has been dedicated to Yiddish on Israeli television channel 8 (Educational channel). Saturday night it screened Grine Felder. I ran for Eric Goldman's book, Visions Images and Dreams, and got all the details. It was fun to see Hershl Bernardi as the young boy, Avrum Yankev. I wish I knew where in New Jersey it was filmed. My husband, who was born in Hungary and lived there in a small town until the age of 6, said that the houses looked like the peasant houses he remembered. Sunday night we saw an adult Hershl Bernardi in The Golden Age of Second Avenue (from the early seventies?). He showed a bit of Yankel der Shmid, in which he plays the young Yankel. That was the first movie I ever saw, at the Capitol Theater on Saratoga and Pacific in Brownsville, and I still remember Moyshe Oysher striking the iron on the anvil. The people who did the Hebrew translation named him Moyshe Oyshel. The same people Video Spot mangled a name last night, in Yiddish Blues, about Yiddish in Paris. There is a scene in a library where a man asks for a book by Sholem Asch and it is translated as Sholem Aleichem! Tonight channel 8 is featuring Yiddish folksingers and the last klezmer in Poland. I won't be home so I shall miss this. Ida Selavan-Schwarcz (back in Brownsville I was Ida Cohen or Haye Sure) 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 02:50:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Enele73@aol.com Subject: early bird Ikh bin zikher az ir vet derhalten farshidene forshlogen far ayer frage,"Vi zogt men oyf Yidish, 'early bird'?" Ot iz mayn forleyg: fraykele feygele. Anita Schonhaut Appelbaum 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 05:56:06 -0400 (EDT) From: AJ Gilboa Subject: early bird How about "hashkome minyen"? Yosef Gilboa 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:44:12 -0400 (EDT) From: GDubrovsky@aol.com Subject: early-bird, etc. Re Pessel Semmel-Stern's request for a translation of "early-bird," I offer: Frierdikn foygl. For Craig Abernathy's collection of Yiddish poetry in America, I hope he does not forget my translation of I. J. Schwartz's KENTUCKY. Thank you for all the wonderful postings. Gitl Dubrovsky 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:33:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rodney Falk" Subject: Seeking a Kreplach song!! 40 years ago, as a child , my father had a Yiddish comic record (actually, Yiddish and English) entitled "Kreplach". I have no idea who sang it (it was a male) but lines from it stick in my memory and I would love to track it down --"Kreplach, Oh I I love Kreplach, I like 'em hot I like 'em cold I like 'em new I like 'em old---- those kreplach they are driving me i-n-n-n-n-sane " --- Can anyone help me??? Many thanks, Rodney Falk 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:19:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Gevaryahu@aol.com Subject: What does "kasa" mean? I found the term "kasa" used in the following way: "When I was a boy [in Karpata-Rus] we used to arrange for ourselves a "kasa" for Shabbat. We kids used to "steal" fresh apples and other fruits specially for the Shabbat "kasa". (From an article which appeared in 1939). What does "kasa" mean? Sometimes it appeared in plural form in Hebrew "kasot". This word is not a Hebrew word, and I could not find it in my Yiddish dictionaries either. The big city near where that story took place was Khust. Gilad J. Gevaryahu 7)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:12:32 -0400 (EDT) From: RivkaNet@aol.com Subject: Ikh Zing One place the Yiddish lyrics (along with the sheet music) can be found is the New York Times "Great Songs of the Yiddish Theater" (1975). Lyrics by Molly Picon, Music by Abraham Ellstein, from the film "Mamele." The version with which I am familiar is on "Jan Peerce on 2nd Avenue." R. Lea Singer, St.Louis 8)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:26:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert Goldenberg" Subject: Ikh zing Re: Allan Blair's request on Mendele 08.073 (8), Here are the lyrics for "Ikh Zing," by Molly Picon, from the film MAMELE. The music to this song is by Abraham Ellstein: Shloyme hamelekh hot tsu zayn Shulamis Gezingen a libes shir, Un punkt vi Shloyme dan, gelibte mayne, Breng ikh mayn lid tsu dir. Ikh zing far dir mayn shir hashirim Mit libe ikh batsir im, Far dir nor neshome mayn. Ikh zing far dir mayne khaloymes. Mayn libe vi a troym iz Fun dir nor nekhome mayn. Ven ikh gey oys fun benken nokh dir, gelibte mayn. Un ven ikh halt in eyn denken Az du vest nokh amol mayne zayn. Ikh zing fun hartsn mayne lider, Mayn shir hashirim vider, Gelibte, far dir ikh zing. Itsik Goldenberg 9)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:30:06 -0400 (EDT) From: EMlotek@aol.com Subject: Yiddish poetry in America With regard to the Yiddish poetry in America-page mentioned on Mendele, it may interest Mendelyaner to know that since l970 my husband Yosl/Joseph Mlotek and I have been editing two pages in the Yiddish Forverts, devoted to Yiddish poetry and song - they first appeared weekly, then bi-weekly in the column Perl fun der yidisher poezye This column formed the basis for four anthologies, Mir trogn a gezang, Perl fun yidishn lid, Songs of Generations/ Lider fun dor tsu dor, and in Yiddish - Perl fun der yidisher poezye. We have written about Avrom/Abraham Reisen many times. I prepared a bibliography of Reisen's poems that were set to music in Zalmen Zylbercweig's Teater leksikon, vol. 6. In the "Perl" we sometimes comment on poems and songs that appear on Mendele. I also respond to queries about Yiddish music and songs in my capacity as Music Archivist of YIVO... That is regrettably why I lack the time to reply directly on Mendele. But We invite Mendelyaner to join us at the other venues.. A groysn dank Mendele-fraynd far di interesante briv, un ayere shayles un tshuves. Chana Mlotek ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 08.074 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