Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 2 no. 176 April 18, 1993 1) A request (Gerald M. Phillips) 2) Kashes vegn Mangers a lid (Reuven Rachlin) 3) Nash (Alan Rutkowski) 4) Socks and slippers (David Sherman) 5) Introduction (Stephen Dowling) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu Apr 15 21:02:23 1993 From: Subject: A request I desperately need the words to "oif a pribichik brennt a feirel..." As many verses as you have. I hope I have the transliteration correct, but it is the song Molly Picon sang in that now famous episode of "Car 54, Where Are You?" If you don't want to post, send to my Email address. Thanks. Gerald M. Phillips GMP@PSUVM.PSU.EDU 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu Apr 15 21:24:02 1993 From: "Robert D. Rachlin" Subject: Shleyme Axelrods kashes vegn Mangers a lid Shleye asks about the meaning of *ti nash* and *tsart*. I would venture a surmise that "ti" (Russian/Polish "you," familiar) and "nash" (Russian/Polish "our") is intended as an address to the Eybershter, i.e. "gotenyu you! ours!". >From the spelling of *tsart* (tsadek-ayin-reysh-tes) I suspect that Shleyme is correct: it's most likely "tsures." I emphasize: these are merely my own conjectures. Reuven 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri Apr 16 13:03:04 1993 From: Alan Rutkowski Subject: Nash For Seymour Axelrod: "ti nash" is for sure Slavic (Pol. Ty nasz, Russ./Ukr. Ty nash) for "you're ours," in this case "you're our gotenyu." Alan Rutkowski 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri Apr 16 18:21:52 1993 From: dave@cai.lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman) Subject: socks and slippers My mother-in-law, from Stashiv (Staszow), Poland, uses shkarpetn for short socks and zokn for long socks (knee-highs, I think). While we're on the subject, what do people use for slippers? We use shteklatshn or shketshikh. David (Daniel Moishe) Sherman Toronto 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat Apr 17 13:30:03 1993 From: STEPHEN DOWLING <71072.2134@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Introduction My name is Stephen Dowling. I am the manager of the Jewish Book Center of the Workmen's Circle in New York. We sell Yiddish books and tapes, Cd's and dictionaries. I studied Yiddish with Pesakh Fiszman and am very pleased to hear of the existence of MENDELE. Ikh bin Stephen Dowling. Ikh bin der Mendele Moykher Sforim fun der Yiddisher Bikher Tsenter in New York. Mir farkoifn Yiddishe Bikher un tashmes, Cds, un verterbikher. Ikh bin geven a talmud fun Pesakh Fiszman un ikh bin zeyer Tsufridn tsu heren vegn Mendele ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 2.176