Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 3.212 February 2, 1994 1) Philadelphia Yiddish Radio (Stephen Dubin) 2) Strong Yiddish verbs (Steve Jacobson) 3) Yosele Hill (Sheldon Benjamin) 4) The Jews of Ioannina (Zachary Baker) 5) Introduction (Jules Levin) 6) Problems and solutions (Berl Hoberman) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Jan 30 16:40:54 1994 From: "S. Dubin" Subject line: Philadelphia Yiddish Radio Rob Frantz asked about Yiddish radio programs in Philadelphia. Now here is how to receive them. First you get a really old radio! Tune to WDAS around 40 years ago. You will be able to hear Seymour Rechseit, Sheindele the Chazante, Yeider Fru's Farlang etc. all sponsored by Planters Peanut oil - gut for kochen, gut for bachen, for di Shubbis for di vachen. S'is gut S'is gut!! Stephen Dubin 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue Feb 1 09:59:25 1994 From: STEVEN A JACOBSON Subject: strong Yiddish verbs Does anyone know of a published (or unpublished) alphabetized list of past participles of strong Yiddish verbs which have vowel changes from the infinitives? I want something whereby, for example, if one reads or hears the word GEYOYRN one could look up this word and see that it is the past participle of YERN which means "to ferment". I know that Weinreich's "College Yiddish" lists a number of such participles in the Yiddish to English glossary, but the onlylist I know of which seems to aim at comprehensiveness is in a Russian Yiddish grammar published a couple of years ago. Steve Jacobson 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue Feb 1 09:59:47 1994 From: sbenj@MIT.EDU Subject: Yosele Hill Arre Komar's submission of the Yiddish version of Joe Hill was wonderful! If anyone can supply other verses I, too, would like to read them. -Sheldon Benjamin 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue Feb 1 14:04:46 1994 From: Zachary Baker (bm.yib@rlg.stanford.edu) Subject: The Jews of Ioannina To those who are interested in pursuing the history and culture of Romaniot Jews in Ioannina, Greece, I would like to refer you to the following, recently published book: Dalven, Rae [Rachel]. The Jews of Ioannina. Philadelphia: Cadmus Press, 1990. xiv, 227 p.: illus. (Bibliography: pp. 211-219.) I do not have the book in front of me (I'm sitting in my nephew's apartment in La Jolla, and am away from my usual locale), but I did hear the late Prof. Dalven speak on several occasions, regarding her ancestral city, at Sephardic studies conferences held at Yeshiva University, back in the late 1970s. (Prof. Dalven died about two years ago.) She was one of the very few scholars to study modern Romaniot Jewry on an intensive level. This reference is directed to the particular attention of Kalmen Weiser, Jascha Kessler and Mikhl Herzog (MENDELE 3.209, 211). As an aside, I am working on a paper for presentation at the June conference of the Association of Jewish Libraries, entitled "Some Problems in the Romanization of Ladino/Judezmo." I will be devoting the bulk of my remarks to a critique of current Library of Congress practices in this area, and any suggestions that I proffer will be tentative, since I am not a specialist in this area. Zachary Baker, YIVO Library (currently on location in Southern California) 5)---------------------------------------------------- DATE: Tue Feb 1 19:07:18 1994 From: Subject: Introduction Shalom, all. I'm a Baltic and Slavic linguist. My yiddish is bad-- 3rd generation Am pidgin yiddish. But I'm a Lithuanian specialist, so perhaps occasionally I can have something to contribute re coteritorial lang. I'm esp. interested in yid. borrowings in Lith. I've been back to Lith twice, including my grandparents' home village (Shaky [Lith shakiai'], pop. as of 1892 3000 Jews, 2000 Lithuanians) I'm a real Litvak. ---Jules Levin 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed Feb 2 09:29:50 1994 From: Robert D Hoberman Subject: Problems and solutions In this past Sunday's New York Times (Week in Review p. 1( Charles Silberman wrote: "'The mere existence of a problem,' a Yiddish proverb tells us, 'is no proof of the existence of a solution.'" Could someone give us the Yiddish original? Bob (Berl) Hoberman ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 3.212 To subscribe, send SUB MENDELE FIRSTNAME LASTNAME to: LISTSERV@YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU 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