Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 3.235 February 14, 1994 1) Introduction (Kathleen Rose Noe) 2) Turniansky's anthology (Kathryn Hellerstein) 3) Glatshteyn on Mozart (Dan Leeson) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat Feb 12 22:56:48 1994 From: Kathleen_NOE@umail.umd.edu (kn11) Subject: introduction after a voyeuristic-like rapport with mendele for a couple weeks now, i think it is time for me to speak up and introduce myself. my name ist kathleen rose noe, i am a phd student in german lit at univ.of maryland. started yiddish one and a half years ago, but don't really have any regular shprakhpartners since the yivo zumerprogramm at columbia ended (in july). ober ikh ken zogn az ikh bin azakh tsufridn mit dem nays vos ikh derfar fun mendele un s'iz oykh interezant tsu zen fun vanen zenen di layt vos interezirn zikh mit yidish. right now in a seminar with Dr. Dorothy Bilik we are reading Glikl von Hamels memoirs and in case anyone is interested in a 17th century Hamburg Jewish woman's perspective on life and the world, i recommend it highly. every time i sit down with it i feel like i'm sitting in der shtub listening to her tales. to daniella harpaz: you were recently talking about schindlers list and is the portrayal of human behavior in the ghetto realistic or not... i haven't seen the movie yet, but thought that you and maybe others might be interested in a recent publication: the chronicle of Jewish ghetto policeman Calel Perechodik, which he wrote from may-oktober 1943. i read an excerpt, it is hard to read because the suffering and agony this man was in just jumps out of every line. he seems to feel that many jews sold each other out on purpose, for privileges, out of spite, whatever. he himself died in 1944. the manuscript had lain in the jewish institute in warsaw for 50 years and nobody cared to publish, cite, or critique it. in case you're interested, the publisher is pawel szapira, warsaw:Karta, 1993. its in polish, the title is: "Czy ja jestern morderca?" kathleen rose noe 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun Feb 13 15:49:01 1994 From: khellers@sas.upenn.edu (Kathryn Hellerstein) Subject: Re: Turniansky's anthology In reference to a query several issues ago about Chava Turniansky's anthology of Yiddish literature, FUN UNZER YIDISHER LITERATUR, (which Dorothy Bilik provided a citation for) -- I was unable to locate any copies for my intermediate Yiddish class this year -- I tried the U. Penn bookstore, National Yiddish Book Center, Workmen's Circle -- and so have concluded that the book is out of print. If anyone knows otherwise, I'd appreciate the information. A sheynem dank, Kathryn Hellerstein 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun Feb 13 16:54:48 1994 From: leeson@cedar.fhda.edu (Dan Leeson: LEESON@admin.fhda.edu) Subject: A Yiddish Poem About Mozart My favorite subject is Mozart, so you can image how I felt when I first saw the following poem of Y. Glatshteyn brought to my attention by Richard J. Fein who teaches at the State University of NY at New Paltz. ===================================================== Es hot zich mir gecholomt: goyim hoben Moztarten gekreitzikt und ihm begroben in an aizel-keber. Nur yidn hobon ihm gemacht far Gotes mensch un zain gedechenish gebenscht. Sein apostol bin ich iber der velt gelofen un fakert yeder ainem vos k'hav getrofen. Umetum voz k'hav gechapt a krist, chob ich ihm geschmat oif a Motzartist. Vi vunderlech iz fun gettlechen mentsch zein musikalischer testament, vi durchgenogelt mit gezang zainen zaine lichtigeh hent. In zein grester noit, hoben beim gekreitziten zinger gelacht ale finger. In zain veinendiksten troier, hot er noch mehr vi zich alein lieb gehat dem schaines oier. Vi orem und vi karg, antkegen Motzartem farblaib, Iz di droshe oifen barg. TRANSLATION: I had a dream that Gentiles crucified Mozart and buried him in a potter's field. Only Jews revered him as a holy man and blessed his memory. I was his apostle. I ran through the world converting everyone I ment. Whenever I caught a Christian, I turned him into a Mozartean. How marvellous the musical testament of a G-d-filled man, how nail-pierced with song are his glowing hands. In his most bitter need,laughter lit up the fingers of the crucified singer. In his most painful weeping,he loved, more than himself, the attentive ear. Compared with what Mozart left us, how poor and meager is the Sermon on the Mount. Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 3.235 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