Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 2 no. 134 January 8, 1993 1) Call for papers (David Neal Miller) 2) Yiddish tog in Knesset (Daniel Galay) 3) Yofes? (Michael Shimshoni) 4) Emet/emes (Meylekh Viswanath) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 20:37:00 EST From: David Neal Miller Subject: Call for Papers Call For Papers: Modern Language Association of America/American Association of Professors of Yiddish Joint Annual Meeting (Toronto, 1993) Proposals for papers are welcome on the following topics: Yiddish and Postmodernism Yiddish as Other: The Impact of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Cultural Force on the Practice of Literary Discourse The Yiddish Novel Reconsidered Proposals, which will be refereed, should be addressed to Professor Joseph C. Landis, NSF 350, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, NY 11367. Submitted by David Neal Miller for the AAPY Executive Board (miller.3@osu.edu) 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 11:14:54 IST From: HISHTALMUT Subject: Yiddish tog in Knesset Lybe un tayere Mendelenykes, Hayn iz Yontef un ick hob far ayck gute bsires. Der Yddish Tog in Knesset vos iz forgekumen dem 4tn Yanuar 1993 iz geven zeyer derfolgraick. Keeyner hot zick nit gekent forshteln, az mir veln in undzer Parlamaent hern azelche vareme un farflicktndyke reyd letoyves Yiddish/ Di hoypt redners zenen geven: Prof. Shevack Weiss, Abraham Burg, Dov Shylanski, Shulamit Aloni un Ovadya Ali. Der Tog iz a nitsockn fun der kontsepsie funem Hemshceck Dor Lybhobers fun Yiddish, vos halt' az men darf shafn a Loby in Knesset kedey tsu farbesern dem matsev fun Yiddis in Isroel. Der veg iz nock a langer, ober myr shteyen shoin oyf a nayem shtapl. In gyckn vel ick ayck gebn a protemdikn baryckt fun alts vos iz forgekumen. Ayer dermutikung un shtitse iz gor vicktyk. Ick vart tsu hern fun ayck. Myt frayndshaft Daniel Galay, Tel-Aviv. (Sredt zych do fun moralisher shtytse) 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 09:08:59 +0200 From: Michael Shimshoni Subject: Yofes? Mendele in general is somewhat above me, but at least your Bay Noyekhn in der Teyve, a Khumesh-shpil was something even I could enjoy. I have two questions. Why do you call the third son Yofes instead of Yefes? In the "Khumesh" it is basically with two segols. Sometimes the yod is with a qamatz, but this is the frequently used change to a qamatz at the end of a passage (I do not know the posh words for this type of change :-( ). If it is a "Khumesh-shpil" why does it go against the Khumesh story in which Yefes was was one of the good guys and only Kham was naughty? Michael Shimshoni 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:40 EDT From: VISWANATH%DRACO.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Subject: RE: Emet/emes Berl, in explaining the origin of 'emet' writes: The historical root of emet was aleph-mem-nun, the same as in amen, and the -t is a suffix, so the word was underlyingly something like *'emen-t. However, in very early Hebrew, before the Biblical spelling was fixed, the n-t sequence in *ement assimilated to t-t, then just -t, before it had a chance to get split by an epenthetic vowel as in shamEnet. -- If so, why does the final 't' not take a dagesh? I suppose there is some additional rule governing that. Meylekh. ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 2.134