Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 2 no. 140 January 18, 1993 1) Bay Noyekhn .. (Shleyme Axelrod) 2) Help needed (Howie Aronson) 3) Mess and -khe (Bob Werman) 4) Neyditch and -ekha (Isabelle Kreindler) 5) Truth in Advertising (Martin Minow) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: 14 Jan 1993 18:00:45 -0500 (EST) From: Seymour Axelrod Subject: Bay Noyekhn ... I'm surprised that there's apparently been no attempt to identify the Bay Noyekhn ... beginning. Is that because it's so obvious (like "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times") that no one has bothered? I'm afraid it's not obvious to me. (I don't know the work, but the tone and dramatis personae make me guess Itsik Manger.) Mit derekh-erets, Shleyme 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 22:37:19 -0600 From: hia5@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU Subject: Manger help needed! I am preparing an introductory textbook of Yiddish which attempts to teach the language through Itsik Manger's Khumesh lider. I have prepared the texts, vocabulary, and grammatical and cultural notes. But I'm a linguist and not a specialist in literature. Does anyone know of specialists in Yiddish literature who have a particular interest in Manger and his place in 20th century Yiddish literature and who might be interested in collaborating with me on this project? If you know of any names, please notify me at: hia5@midway.uchicago.edu Thanks. Howie Aronson 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 18:49 +0200 From: RWERMAN%HUJIVMS.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 2.137 A note on feminine Yiddish-American endings of the -kha form currently discussed, and apparently of Russian origin. They also exist in the Hebrenglish of Israelis living in the States, Yordim. For example, the very common "next-doorikhe." On making a mess. Macht a tel of course is the same as macht a khurve, both referring to reducing the situation to archeological ruins, and both Hebrew words. For those who do not pronouce the Het, khurve comes out kurve, which is a prostitute, which may or not be a tel. __Bob Werman rwerman@vms.huji.ac.il Jerusalem 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 20:35:46 IST From: Isabelle Kreindler Subject: Neyditch/-ekha shnayden bay der neyditsch I think this means cutting (patterns?) at the sewing table lendlorikhe seems to be a variation of the Russian feminine suffix -ekha like in machekha 'stepmother' (pronounced -ikha) Isabelle 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:59:30 -0800 From: Martin Minow Subject: Truth in Advertising Mendele readers will be pleased to know that there is a business in San Francisco named "Goniff Used Cars." Martin Minow minow@apple.com [Used to be a fur shop on New York's 23rd St. (1946) that featured "genuine schlong". nm] ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 2.140