Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 1 no. 170 February 14, 1992 1) Bshas and hitn (Raphael Finkel) 2) Hitn (Martin Davis) 3) Chiefly Torontan (Mikhl Herzog) 4) 'Hitn' in amolike yorn (Mark David) 5) Introduction (Mendl Louden) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1992 10:36:25 EST From: Raphael Finkel Subject: vayl/bshas un kind-hiters I have found that 'beys' works well for the purely temporal 'while': Hit op di kinder beys ikh arbet in kikh. I have been using 'zitserin' for 'baby sitter'. 'kind-hiter' is most likely better. 'zitserin' sounds more like 'prisoner'. Raphael 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 92 11:27:59 -0500 From: davism@turing.cs.nyu.edu Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 1.169 I think of "hitn" as "to protect" Martin Davis 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 92 14:54 EST From: ZOGUR@CUVMB.BITNET Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 1.169 For Toronto readers who take David Sherman's advise and go to the Lipa Green Centre: please check the photo exhibit in the hallway and see if the last photo is still the one of the folk-shul rythm orchestra (circa 1935). For Hersh Basser: I'm very forgiving. Never mind grayz/gri'es. More important: evidence of language change in Toronto: those of my vintage (the kid in the above-mentioned photo playing the cymbals) said "apstEsiker", not "apsteyrzer". Most Toronto Yoiddish speakers in my day were of Polish, "r-dropping" origin. More Torontoisms: "a saydInteres", "a solifI:te", "a fletelet". Can you decipher? Mikhl. 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 92 12:30:29 EST From: gensym!mhd@harvard.harvard.edu Subject: Mendele Vol 1.169 > My native-Yiddish-speaking grandmother used to say "di > mime hodel hot genemen 'care' oyf untz" (Aunt Hodel took > care of us). Vizoy zogt men 'take care of' oyf Yidish? I have a record on 78 RPM by Max Wilner called Di Babe's Gebiet that has the line in it "du nemst gut 'care' oyf mir". On this record there are numerous other Englishisms thrown in -- e.g., "Ver bin ikh? Nobody!". Still, it's basically a Yiddish record, although not likely to be understood by non-English speakers. Mark H. David 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 12:34:44 -0600 From: louden@bongo.cc.utexas.edu Subject: Introduction My name is Mark (Mendl) Louden, and I am an assistant professor of Germanic Linguistics at the U of Texas. My research in the past has been primarily on Pennsylvania German. I am presently learning Yiddish here with Itzik Gottesman. My linguistic interests in Yiddish include primarily syntax and sociolinguistics. I'm active in the Leyenkrayz here where we're presently reading Raboy's Her Goldenbarg. The last issue of Yugntruf had a picture of me, Itzik and 2 other leyenkrayzniks at an old Jewish cemetery south of here near Gonzales, Texas. Mendl ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 1.170