Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 1 no. 236 May 1, 1992 1) Hebrew/Yiddish software (Meylekh Viswanath) 2) Query (Victor Bers) 3) Kneydlekh (Howard Isaac Aronson) 4) For May Day (Robert Rothstein) 5) Harshav (Dovid Braun) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 13:52 EDT From: VISWANATH%DRACO.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 1.232 i'm getting a demo disk from Nisus: its creators like it. does anyone have experience & knowledge of it? zev bar-lev, San Diego State U. ______________________________ My wife uses Nisus, as does Dovid Braun (he'll perhaps respond to your query also). As far as I know, Nisus is quite good, except that there are still a lot of bugs. However, my wife was able to speak to somebody at Nisus, who has been, upto now, able/capable of figuring out solutions to the bugs. I have, myself, used Nisus for Tamil wordprocessing and have found it decent--it's sufficiently similar to Microsoft Word, with which I am more familiar. Meylekh. 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 20:27 EDT From: VBERS@YALEVM.BITNET Subject: More on greetings: Sholom alecheim un ferkert Does anyone know how far back the sequence "Sholom aleichem...Aleichem sholom" is attested? Victor Bers 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 22:11:35 CDT From: howard isaac aronson Subject: In re: Maykholim made with matse mel One of my favorite childhood memories is my grandmother's wonderful kneydlekh. But when I tell friends that they were stuffed with -- raspberry preserves-- everyone is either shocked or incredulous. But, af an emes, these pukhike kneydlekh were served in good chicken soup. Are there any other mendelenikes out there (litvakes, of course) who know of similar stuffings of kneydlekh? Howard I. Aronson 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 23:42:23 -0400 From: ROBERT.ROTHSTEIN@SLAVIC.umass.edu Subject: The complete Internatsional [Here, because it's May Day, is the absolutely last time that the Internatsional will be reproduced on Mendele. It is also not improbable that this is the last time it will _ever_ be reproduced for a Yiddish-speaking audience.] [I'm sure also that Bob Rothstein meant to mention that the song is from a collection co-edited by the poet Itzik Fefer, the same Itzik Fefer whom Stalin caused to be murdered a few years later.] 1) [Internatsional] As with most anthems--and the "Internatsional" was the Soviet national anthem until the "Groyse foterlendishe milkhome"--people tend to know and sing the first stanza and the chorus. For my fellow pedants, however, here is the full Yiddish text, as printed in Beregovski and Fefer's _Yidishe folks-lider_ (Kiev, 1938): Shteyt oyf, ir ale ver vi shklafn In hunger lebn muz un noyt! Der gayst, er kokht, er ruft tsum vafn, In shlakht undz firn iz er greyt. Di velt fun gvaldhaytn un leydn Tseshtern veln mir, un dan -- Fun frayhayt, glaykhhayt a ganeydn Bashafn vet der arbets-man. Dos iz shoyn undzer letster Un antsheydener shtrayt. Mit der international Shteyt oyf, ir arbetslayt. Neyn, kinder, vet undz nit bafrayen -- Nit Got aleyn un nit keyn held, Mit undzer eygenem kleyzayen A retung brengen mir der velt. Arop der yokh! Genug gelitn! Genug fargosn blut un shveys! Tseblozt dos fayer, lomir shmidn, Kolzman dos ayzn iz nokh heys! Dos iz shoyn... Der arbets-man vet zayn memshole Farshpreytn af der gantser erd, Un parazitn di mapole Bakumen veln fun zayn shverd. Di groyse shturem-teg -- zey veln Nor far tiranen shreklekh zayn, Zey konen ober nit farshteln Far undz di hele zunen-shayn. Doz iz shoyn... [My transliteration reproduces some peculiarities of Soviet orthography and punctuation.] 2) [To Dovid Braun, from no. 219] Yes, the line you quote is presumably Polish _moja z.ona Ro'z.yczka_. Bob Rothstein 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 12:51:51 -0400 From: David Braun Subject: hrushovski's book To Arnold Band: Very minor comments (haven't even read part 2 yet): Max Weinreich's _History of the Yiddish Language_ has only been translated in part. The first two volumes of the Yiddish, i.e. the text, have been translated (by Shlomo Noble with the assistance of Joshua A. Fishman) but the last two volumes, the footnotes, have not been translated.ovski/Harshav writes in Yiddish. He never did much of this and hasn't done it for a long time, probably because, in his estimation, the readership is already dead. Dovid Braun ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 1.236 Submissions: mendele@vax1.trincoll.edu Business: nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu Please sign your articles.