Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 3.178 December 22, 1993 1) Pishy Pashy (Vicki Fromkin) 2) Yiddish bibliography (Ellen Prince) 3) Jewish languages -- Judezmo/Ladino (Zachary Baker) 4) Ameratses (Bob Rothstein) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue Dec 21 12:53:03 1993 From: Vicki Fromkin Subject: Pishy Pashy any answers to these questions? Vicki Fromkin Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 7:31:40 -0800 (PST) From: "Leonard Pitt LPITT@VAX.CSUN.EDU" To: Iyo1vaf@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU Subject: Pishy Pashy Pishy Pashy was a card game played by Eastern European Jews in this country. Can you have the Mendele folks give me a reading on it. Why this game? Where did it come from? Why this name--any connection with the diminutive for urination? Was it a "woman's game," as we seem to recall only women playing it? This is serious stuff. Best, Len Email LPITT@vax.csun.edu. 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue Dec 21 13:05:01 1993 From: "Ellen F. Prince" Subject: yiddish bibliography a hearty thanks to bob rothstein for starting the ball rolling on the bibliography! but, while annotated entries like his would be great, i don't want to scare off those who just have references sans annotations. send me what you've got, annotated or not. ------------ Subject: jewish languages one important reference is: Wexler, P. 1981. Jewish interlinguistics. Language 57.1.99-149. Ellen Prince 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue Dec 21 14:56:13 1993 From: Zachary Baker (bm.yib@rlg.stanford.edu) Subject: Jewish languages -- Judezmo/Ladino Lewis Leavitt (MENDELE 3.177) requests references for Jewish languages other than Yiddish, and in that connection I would like to bring to his (and everyone's attention) the following, brand-new publication on Judezmo: BUNIS, David M. A Lexicon of the Hebrew and Aramaic Elements in Modern Judezmo. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1993. ISBN 965-223-803-1 >From the dust jacket: "This is the first comprehensive dictionary of the Hebrew and Aramaic component of Modern Ottoman Judezmo -- the traditional language of the Turkish and Balkan Sephardim, descendants of the Jews exiled from Spain in 1492. Its over 5000 entries and subentries reveal popular pronunciations of the words as well as the creative grammatical constructions, imaginative semantic innovations, and idiomatic expressions, proverbs and sayings incorporating Hebrew and Aramaic elements, which form a part of the unique Jewish subculture created by the Ottoman Sephardim. THE DICTIONARY IS PRECEDED BY AN OVERVIEW OF THE JUDEZMO (also known as Judeo-Spanish, Ladino) LANGUAGE IN ITS HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT, and an analysis of the Hebrew and Aramaic elements used by Judezmo speakers before the modern period covered by the dictionary." (My emphasis -- ZB.) David Bunis, who has taught Judezmo language and linguistics at the Hebrew University since 1980, did his graduate studies in linguis- tics at Columbia and was a research fellow at YIVO's Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, before going on aliyah. He is also the compiler of a book-length bibliography, "Sephardic Studies" (New York: Garland, 1981). Zachary Baker 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue Dec 21 22:29:02 1993 From: ROBERT A ROTHSTEIN Subject: Ameratses As the proverb says, "Az Got vil shtrofn an amorets, leygt er im a loshn-koydesh-vort in moyl arayn." In my quotation from Yudel Mark in Mendele 3.177, the word for "examples" should have been _dugmes_ and not _doygmes_. But then, as I tell my students, my greatest strength as a speaker of foreign languages is a good intuition about when I'm probably wrong and should check in a dictionary. Bob Rothstein ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 3.178 Mendele has 2 rules: 1. Provide a Subject: line. 2. Sign your article. Send submissions/responses to: mendele@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu Other business: nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu Anonymous ftp archives available on: ftp.mendele.trincoll.edu in the directory pub/mendele/files