Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 3.097 September 2, 1993 1) Boiberik and Anatevka (Zachary Baker) 2) Sluschei (Hal Berman) 3) Introduction (Keith Denning) 4) Exclamations (Beatrice Santorini) 5) Introduction (Susan B. Jones) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue Aug 31 11:02:35 1993 From: Zachary Baker (bm.yib@rlg.stanford.edu) Subject: Boiberik and Anatevka -- Tikn toes (1) In my Aug. 27 posting (MENDELE 3.096), I mistransliterated the title of Dr. Khariton Berman's article. Instead of "Keyn Boyberik un Anatevka vu s'hot gevoynt Tuvye der milkhiker..." I inadvertently wrote "... vo s'hot gevoynt..." Ikh shver benemones az dos iz geven a posheter drukfeler (vayl keyn germanist bin ikh dokh nit)! (2) One of my own sentences got garbled, in my haste to get the message off. I should have written: "It appears that the Bermans were not the first to undertake such a pilgrimage, because the locals in Boyarka have preserved the memory of Sholem Aleichem, and they continue to collect memorabilia relating to him and to his literary protagonists." Zachary Baker 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue Aug 31 11:41:24 1993 From: BERMAN Subject: Sluschei According to my mother and her mother, the word is polish in origin. It means LISTEN. Hal Berman 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed Sep 1 14:51:07 1993 From: denning@emunix.emich.edu (Keith Denning) Subject: Introduction I'm a linguist who teaches and does research on language change, the History of English and other languages (incl. Germanic, African and Asian tongues).A former long-time resident of Brooklyn, I am a speaker of a variety of Yiddishized English -- i.e. the colloquial language typical of second or third generation Jews in New York and other centers of Jewish population in the U.S.. My interests in Yiddish are centered on its development over time, its affect on American dialects and its place in the modern world. Keith Denning Department of English Language and Literature (Linguistics) Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI 48197 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed Sep 1 15:30:35 1993 From: beatrice@zora.ling.nwu.edu (Beatrice Santorini) Subject: question about yiddish exclamations this is a question for a friend who is interested in yiddish syntax who doesn't currently have access to email. he is interested in knowing whether it is possible to have exclamations with the (tensed) verb in first position, as is possible in other germanic languages (like the following german examples): is he an idiot! boy, does that ever make life easier! won't she be thrilled. many thanks in advance. beatrice santorini 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu Sep 2 16:35:55 1993 From: sbjones@MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones) Subject: Introduction Dan Kirschner told me about this list and sent me a summer's worth of back issues to get my feet wet. I would like to join the list as a "lurker" :-) My Yiddish is practically zilch, but a background in Hebrew, a smattering of German and Russian, and of course a long major in English help me decode bits and pieces. Anyway the topics are interesting and I promise I'll be quiet. I have a Master's in Near Eastern Languages and Literature (major Hebrew, minor Arabic). But that was then ... now I write about computers and the Internet. Susan B. Jones Sr. Technical Writer MIT Information Systems ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 3.097