Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 1 no. 102 November 16, 1991 1) Koyletsh etc. (Mikhl Herzog) 2) Sabbath Bread (Mikhl Herzog) 3) Koyletsh (Raphael Finkel) 4) Koyletsh (Margaret Mikulska) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 91 14:15 EST From: ZOGUR@CUVMB.BITNET Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 1.100 Ellen, without regard for the Yinglish phenomenon, the Yiddish of "Womzi" renders thge final unstressed vowel as "i" (more or less). Thus, "shmati" too, I presume. Call it i-like. Bob, Thanks for the nigrella story. It's been eluding me for a long time. Fishbane: koyletsh is the word-of-choice for Sabbath bread at some locations in Eastern Europe. Where are the Jews of Winnipeg from, essentially? Elsewhere, koyletsh has other definitions. It's always round, though. Toronto, the city of Polish Jews, has its own regional forms--bilke khale, for one: a rectangular loaf of 12(?) bulkes in two rows. What do they call the "egg bread" you mentioned? 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 91 14:47 EST From: ZOGUR@CUVMB.BITNET To: mendele@TRINCC.BITNET Mazl-tov on surpassing 100. biz hudert-un-tsvantsik doesn't seem apprpropriate at this point. Ken yirbu! Another word to the matter of "Sabbath bread" The authority on the subject of its variant regional designations and of thge variant regional meanings attache d to those words, the decorations for special occasions, etc., is Elinor (Leah) Robinson. She's not on E-mail, unfortunately. Her dissertation will reveal all. Mikhl. 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 15:03:43 EST From: Raphael Finkel Subject: koyletsh I believe koyletsh is the standard Yiddish for twisted egg bread. It became known to some as khale because of the portion removed for Priestly use; among others it became known as "gebensh" (my memory is weak here; it was some such) for the same reason (namely, you make a blessing as you separate the khale portion). 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 91 16:46:25 PST From: mikulska@ece.UCSD.EDU Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 1.100 > In the days when I lived in winnipeg, where yiddishkeit > meant bekitzer-- just speaking yiddish-- so that Israelis > didn't count -- the bakeries sold no challah, but they had > a clone for it, which was called koyletch-- is this some > dialect I know nothing about because in Toronto chalah is > chalah unless its egg bread.-- where did koylich come > from?...........herschel Probably from the Polish word "kolacz" (pronounced "kowatch") which comes from "kolo", meaning "wheel". This was a traditional Polish bread-like cake, round-shaped, and sometimes very big. The ingredients vary, but some varieties of kolacz do taste a bit like chalah, although in general, kolacz tends to be somewhat more cake-like than bread-like. Kolacz was very popular in most (if not all) of Poland - at least in the past. Margaret Mikulska mmikulska@ucsd.edu ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 1.102