Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 4.080 August 12, 1994 1) Fun shames (Noyekh Miller) 2) Introduction (Janice Solomon) 3) Introduction (Rick Kuhn) 4) Introduction (Deb Bailin) 5) Introduction (Alex Weinberger) 6) Yiddish sheet music (Marc Mouries) 7) LCAAJ online electronic data archives (Ellen Prince) 8) Netiquette (David Neal Miller) 9) Yiddish events in Melbourne (Bobbi and Michael Zylberman) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Aug 12 1994 From: nmiller@trincoll.edu Subject: Fun shames At long last the logjam is broken. Mendele is running again. I hope no one's feelings will be injured if I say that none of this would have happened if the person with whom one was forced to deal had majored in French or botany--anything in fact but computer science. Yednfals, mir zenen do. Me vil fun aykh hern! Noyekh Miller 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 08 Aug 94 16:03:00 edt From: SolomonJ@wwpo.nidr.nih.gov Subject: Introduction I am a new user. My name is Janice, and I would like to learn more about Yiddish. My grandparents speak Yiddish to each other when they want to tell secrets, but I really understand very little. I hope this is a good place to learn. Janice Solomon 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 09 Aug 1994 10:50:12 +1100 From: Rick.Kuhn@anu.edu.au Subject: Introduction My interest in Yiddish arises out of research on the marxist economist Henryk Grossmann who was one of the founders of the Jewish Social Democratic Party of Galicia in 1905, before he embarked on his main academic researches and came to prominence as a member of the Institut fuer Sozialforschung in Frankfurt am Main. In order to find out about Grossmann's early activities I started to read some Yiddish language material on the Bund and JSDP, and to seek out his Yiddish publications, notably through YIVO. If anyone can make suggestions about research in this area I would be grateful for advice. I teach courses on Australian Political Economy, German and Austrian Political Economy, and Classical Marxism. I have conducted research and published on social democratic economic policy in Australia, economic crisis in Australia, the Australian Labor Party and contemporary fascism in Germany. As well as Grossmann I am currentlyworking on the history of class analysis in Australia and a comparison of economic restructuring in Germany and Australia. Rick Kuhn 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 12:37:06 -0400 From: bailind@king.lsc.vsc.edu Subject: Introduction Hi! My name is Debbie Bailin, I grew up hearing Yiddish regularly from 4 Russian-born grandparents, and I understood it but couldn't carry on a conversation in it. Like many others on this list I suspect, I'm really feeling the loss of my grandparents' generation and with them the Yiddish language. I've never learned to read Yiddish, I never hear it anymore, and I'm afraid of losing the little bit I've retained. So, when I accidently ran across this list, it seemed like a pretty valuable resource to plug into. I'm looking forward to seeing these commuications and to participating at whatever level I can. Is this enough info to begin with? Thanks. Deb Bailin 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 94 19:31:23 EDT From: LEXAL@aol.com Subject: Introduction ich bin a yid und ich bin du . . . mein ganz leben (fuftzig yur) hob ich kein mul nisht gehert a yiddish vort zol tadzhen "survivor" fin english . . . ich bin aufgevaksen kleinherheit aushern geshirten fin farshidener yidn fin farshidener pletzer vus hobn derlebt der kriegzeit . . . ich ken dertzelen azoy fil gesheertn (vizoy schreibt men yiddish ??? azoy feel vegen . . . azoy feel geshirten . . . vus heist a yid??? ich bin geboyren in 1944 . . . ich hob nish gevist ich bin a yid bis 6 oder 7 yur shpeter . . . bei der dritn yur, hot men gevoynt in Brissel (Brussels, Belgium) ofn tzveitn shtock fin a gebau aun a WC . . . me hot nisht gelozst inz yidn gebrauchn der eintzick WC in dem gebau . . . dus iz geshain yurn nuch der "holocaust" . . . farvus dertzail ich dus? ich vays grade nish . . . efsher mizt ir lezn "maus" tzu hubn a ta'am fin vus ich red efsher kent ir mich lozn visn vus ir meynt . . . az ir vilt, kent ir mir freg'n a p'oor kashes . . . vus noch? . . . yetz bin ich mid . . . ich mis mich tzileig'n . . . bis shpeter . . . Alex Weinberger 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 94 16:45:59 +0100 From: mm@emma.unice.fr Subject: Yiddish sheet music I'm looking for Yiddish sheet music can i get some via Internet ? Thanks Marc Mouries 7)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 1994 15:20:21 EDT From: ellen@central.cis.upenn.edu Subject: lcaaj online electronic data archives to: andrew sunshine alevay! that's wonderful! one suggestion: what you propose is very ambitious and would of course be wonderful. however, you might think of streamlining your goals and leaving out, for the first stage at least, the dialectological tagging/addressing. while i realize it's very dear to your heart, there's a lot of use that could and would be made of such an archive that is not concerned with dialect issues. (i for one would much prefer syntactic tagging--but raw text would be fantastic all by itself.) good luck! ellen prince 8)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 94 1:39:24 EDT From: dnmiller@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: Netiquette Zellig Bach may be silently forgiven for having missed the word play in the subject line of my gentlest of corrections, sent to him by private e-mail, but riposting [to] that message in a public forum is, to my mind, an unfortunate (and probably uncharacteristic) lapse in judgment. How many of us would like to see our MENDELE-engendered e-mail reposted, without permission, to the net? David Neal Miller 9)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 94 21:11:39 +1000 From: mzylberm@ozemail.com.au Subject: Yiddish events in Melbourne The following is the calendar of events for the month of August organised by the Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library "Kadimah" in Melbourne Australia. 7 August 3pm Video Film Festival. "Mirele Efros" a Yiddish Classic with English Subtitles. 14 August 3pm Kadimah together with the Jewish Soviet Veterans Group have organised a Yiddish Soviet Writers afternoon, spoken in Yiddish and Russian. 28 August 8pm Refugee Benefit Concert for Care Australia Rwanda Appeal and U.I.A. Refugee Relief organised by The Melbourne Yiddish Theatre. Hosted by Arnold Zable. The Kadimah Club meets between 12 and 3 pm on August 10, 17 and 24. Visitors and enquiries are always welcome. 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