Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 1 no. 187 March 2, 1992 1) Introduction (Hinda Feldman) 2) Glueckel's Yiddish (Hinda Feldman) 3) Introduction (Murray Glanzer) 4) Introduction (Label Janus) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 92 22:07:59 EST From: Linda FELDMAN <42161_655@uwovax.uwo.CA> Subject: Introduction My FULL name is Linda Ellen Feldman. If you want to call me Hinda, that's fine: I'd like to hear the name used once in my life! Despite my address, my place of work is really at the University of Windsor , where, contrary to what one might expect, I teach German. (That makes me the resident Germanist in drag? Or are there any others out there in the electronic wilderness?) I am currently working on a research project on the Zichroynes of Glikl Hamil, or, as I usually call her, Glueckel von Hameln. Specifically, I am studying the question of marginality in the genesis of her - and eventually - early modern German autobiographical writing by women. I won't bore you with the tedious details unless I am asked. . . From working on the project, I have had the lonely task of confronting Western Yiddish on my own, and my interest in post-renaissance reading materials in Western Yiddish has been aroused. So I suspect that, should I survive Glueckel, I shall march determinedly toward the Brantspiegel, and who knows what else after that! My approach is interdisciplinary, which can be stimulating, but also extremely frustrating: to my knowledge, there are few early modernists in the two fields, which means I soliloquize a lot. This is where the list comes in: I hope it will forge a few useful contacts, provide bibliographical references, increase my awareness of on-going debates in the field of Yiddish lit, stimulate my imagina- tion and provide a recipe for earthly happiness! I have also taught courses on the Holocaust in western lit and film, but that probably lies outside the scope of the list's discussion. My only credentials as a Yiddishist is that I sing in the Yiddish choir at the Windsor JCC. (:-) Still, I hope that my voice will occasionally be heard in the land of mendele. A gut yomtov. Hinda Linda Feldman 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 92 21:04:34 EST From: Linda FELDMAN <42161_655@uwovax.uwo.CA> Subject: Glueckel's Yiddish To whoever enquired about a Yiddish edition of Glueckel's Zichroynes: 1)David Kaufmann transcribed and annotated the memoirs in 1896; they were published in Frankfurt am Main by F. Kaufmann (I may have to check that: my copy of the memoirs is in my office) 2)Alfred Feilchenfeld published a German translation of the memoirs around 1916; his GERMAN translation is the basis of English, French and modern Yiddish translations of the text. This is to be regretted, as Feilchenfeld chopped parts of the text he considered "wordy". 3)However, a German translation of the complete text was published privately by Bertha Pappenheim about 1910. As far as I am aware, a Western Yiddish edition of the memoirs is not currently in print; I obtained my copy through Germania Judaica in Cologne. If my memory serves me well, Hebrew Union in Cincinnati has the text, ditto the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, and possibly the Jewish Public Library in Montreal. Pappenheim's translation I also obtained through Germania Judaica; I have not looked for it here, nor have I stumbled across it, but presumably the first two institutions named above would be good places to begin looking, especially if you are desperate. Hope these comments have been helpful. Hinda Linda Feldman 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 92 11:15:54 est From: mg@xp.psych.nyu.edu (Murray Glanzer) Subject: Introduction Murray Glanzer Professor of psychology, New York University. Family from Lemberg (Lwow). 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 92 16:37:12 CST From: Louis Janus Subject: Introduction Louis (Label) Janus I am a historical linguist, with particular interest in North Germanic Languages. My interest in Yiddish, aside from its relatedness to West Germanic, is cultural. My parents and grandparents spoke Yiddish, and I have studied it a bit (one course at the U of Minnesota, and one at Hillel in Wisconsin. Louis Janus ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 1.187