Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 2 no. 63 September 12, 1992 1) Use of es (Mikhl Herzog) 2) Lachoudisch (Zachary M. Baker) 3) A belated press release (Zachary M. Baker) 4) Peh-tsadik (Martin Davis) 5) Taares-hamishpokhe (Khaim Bochner) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 07:37 EDT From: ZOGUR@CUVMB.Columbia.edu Subject: Use of es Will someone please comment on the use(s) of the word "es" in the following sentences. Is it based on a Slavic model? I capitalize it to draw attention to the word, but it's unstressed in every case. Your comments will be appreciated? Mikhl Herzog. 1) alemen hot men ES oysgeharget. 2) vos hostu ES nextn azoy geveynt? 3) es hobn zey ES zikh azoy geshlogn. 4) efsher vet ES di mame tey trinken? 2)---------------------------------------------------- [Note: this message and the one below were posted over a week ago but did not arrive until 11 Sep. If other subscribers have had posts returned for one reason or another, please do 2 things: (1) keep trying (2) send a copy of a rejected post complete with its incomprehensible messages. nm] Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 11:24:58 PDT From: "Zachary M. Baker" Subjects: Lachoudisch (clarification) For those who may have wondered at the phonological connection between the words "loshn-koydesh" and "Lachoudisch" I should have based my transcription of the former on its Western Yiddish pronunciation: loshn-kaudesh. Zachary M. Baker 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 11:24:58 PDT From: "Zachary M. Baker" Subjects: Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry [Press release] The Board of Directors of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research cordially invites you to a reception celebrating the publication of the LANGUAGE AND CULTURE ATLAS OF ASHKENAZIC JEWRY, Volume I: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS, by Marvin Herzog, Uriel Weinreich and Vera Baviskar. Thursday, September 10, 1992, 5 p.m. at YIVO, 1048 Fifth Avenue (corner 86th Street), Manhattan. Chair: Prof. Edward Stankiewicz, Yale University. Remarks: Prof. Mikhl Herzog, Columbia University; Prof. William Labov, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Allan Nadler, YIVO; Robert Neumann, IDS/Mannheim. [I should add that the volume is available for purchase for a rather hefty price, through YIVO -- PLEASE DIRECT ALL INQUIRIES TO PUBLICATIONS ORDERS, AND NOT TO ME! The co-publisher is Max Niemeyer-Verlag, Tuebingen. Zachary Baker 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 13:12:57 -0400 From: davism@turing.cs.nyu.edu Subject: peh-tsadik My father (not at all religiously observant) used this expression often to mean a dummy. It was only years after his death that it occurred to me that it was the spelling of "putz." Martin Davis 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 09:51:48 -0400 From: bochner@das.harvard.edu Subject: taares-hamishpokhe > if anyone here has ever found the term taharas > hamishpoocha before 1940 or even ever heard it then. Well, I wasn't around before 1940 (or 50 :-), but the Spivak & Bloomgarden (Yehoyesh) dictionary of Hebraisms has it, and that was published in 1911. So some one must have been using it. (Unless it's a conspiracy by the dictionary writers :-) > for my money, if > anyone here ever heard it even after 1940 I think they > should get a prize too. I don't think I've _heard_ it, but I think I've encountered it in reading. Couldn't say where, though. -- Khaim Bochner -- bochner@das.harvard.edu ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 2.63 If your message is intended for MENDELE, please write to: mendele@vax1.trincoll.edu If you want to discuss personal business or have a shmues with the shames, please write to: nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu Please sign your articles.