Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 4.068 July 21, 1994 1) Lamed-tsadi (Arn Abramson) 2) Allah/alemen (Shleyme Axelrod) 3) Isaiah Spiegel (Bret C. Werb) 4) Tlomatskie 13 (Michael Steinlauf) 5) Grandmother's prayer (Mikhl Herzog) 6) Friendly acts (Mikhl Herzog) 7) Seattle activities (Evalah Feins) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 00:11:25 EDT From: ABRAMSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu Subject: Lamed-tsadi To: Arnie Kuzmack There is a Hebrew abbreviation that I know about, lamed-tsadi for /lo tsarikh/ 'need not; must not,' but it is not tsadi-sofit (final tsadi). I wonder whether you have come across a scribal error. I cannot find your version in the Even Shoshan dictionary. Arn Abramson 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 16:56:07 -0400 (EDT) From: PTYAXEL@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu Subject: allah/alemen I think that Harold Orbach (4.065) misunderstood the important point in Zellig Bach's correction of Evelyn Fein's "allah" in "A ... dank tzu allah", which was not the un-YIVO spelling of "ale" but the case, which is dative, and so calls for "alemen". "Loz mir alle zingin" (or "Lomir ale zingen") is correctly recalled, but not relevant here. Or have *I* misunderstood the issue? Shleyme Axelrod 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 10:14:51 EST From: bwerb@ushmm.org Subject: Isaiah Spiegel Does anyone know the whether this Yiddish poet and author (b 1906) still lives? His last known residence is in Israel. Thanks. Bret C. Werb 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 10:50:45 -0500 (EST) From: M_STEINLAUF@ACAD.FANDM.EDU Subject: Tlomatskie 13 Some time ago (4.049), but only recently received because of mail sludge, Leah Zazulyer asks about an important but still ignored piece of recent history: the activity of Tlomatskie 13 (in Polish Tlomackie),the Warsaw headquarters of the Union of Jewish Writers and Journalists during the interwar period. This was a place that functioned as a kind of secular beys hamikdash for a generation or two of Polish Jews. There is a great deal of relevant written material, first of all two books, both titled "Tlomatskie 13," one by the novelist Z. Segalovitsh (Buenos Aires, 1946), and one by Ber Rozen (Buenos Aires, 1950). Melekh Ravitsh was for many years the Secretary; check his memoirs, as well as the memoirs of other literary figures of interwar Poland. Then, of course, the Yiddish press, above all the weekly "Literarishe bleter" (annual volumes have indexes), and the daily press, "Haynt" and "Der moment" (with an index now on line courtesy of A. Novershtern in Israel; details in an earlier Mendele). A marvelous person to speak to is S. L. Shneiderman in New York, who was an active member of this and many other Warsaw Jewish literary scenes. It's an exciting subject. Good luck with it, Leah. Michael Steinlauf 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 11:17 EDT From: ZOGUR@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Subject: Grandmother's prayer Arn Abramson: You're probably looking for "Got fun Avro(ho)m". There are surely printed versions. Perhaps Zachary Baker or Shula Berger can supply specific references. The Atlas inquiry sought regional versions, but they've not yet been transcribed--a task and topic for an MA. By the way, there's a well-known (art?) song "Bobenyu, zog nokh nisht 'Got fun Avro(ho)m'", a plea to hold back the end of the Sabbath. Mikhl Herzog 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 11:17 EDT From: ZOGUR@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Subject: Friendly acts Am I alone in finding something condescending and arrogant in addressing one's friends and colleagues as "undzere khakhomim",\j Mikhl Herzog 7)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 01:33:00 UTC From: e.feins@genie.geis.com Subject: Seattle activities To: Fishl Kutner Your writeup up on the Toronto Yiddish Conference sounded so fascinating, I wondered if you or perhaps some yiddisha Seattleites, had any info available on anything of this nature, when my husband and I take a mini vacation the end of this month. We will leave, haysa, nussa Florida for, I hope, a bissel keeler und maire trinken Seattle, far a pur tayg. We will be there from Sunday, July 31st through Wed noon, Aug. 3. Would be interested in anything re: yiddishkeit, programs, museums, etc. A shainen danke to allamen (no allah THIS time :-) ) Evalah Feins ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 4.068 A Table of Contents is now available via anonymous ftp, along with weekly updates. Anonymous ftp archives available on: ftp.mendele.trincoll.edu in the directory pub/mendele/files Archives available via gopher on: gopher.cic.net Mendele has 2 rules: 1. Provide a meaningful Subject: line. 2. Sign your article. Send articles to: mendele@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu Other business: nmiller@mail.trincoll.edu