Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 4.143 October 17, 1994 1) Noch vegen Grine Kozine (Mendy Fliegler) 2) Kapelye's "Af der luft" (Andrew Cassel) 3) Dutsn/irtsn god (Ellen Prince) 4) Thanks re: Ravel (Daniella HarPaz) 5) Yasher koyekh Zelig Bakh! (Louis Fridhandler) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 03:41:04 -0400 From: sroolik@aol.com Subject: Re: Noch vegen Grine Kozine To all: I have sculpted a bust of vie azoi sie kikt ois...Zie hut a groisen shlayf oifen kop, mit a fachayle vus halt ihr hur, un shmaychlt mit greene bekelach, un a broinishe-greene punim. ...Az ihr vilt zie zehn, kumt kein Vashington, a bild kost gelt. Ich bin a mitgleeder fun Yidish fun Groish Vashington... Ich hob oich a Sholem Aleichem gemacht fun laym.un shtell ihm oiven un ven mir hoben zein Yuhrtzeit in der JCC yeden yuhr... Alzo ich bayt eich az ihr zol forshtellen tzu die chevre az ich hob skulptiert Die Greeneh Kozineh, un oichet gemacht a Y.L. Peretz un a Sholem Aleichem complet mit pins-nez. Ich bin a mitglieder fun ArtSites, a ko-operatif fun Yiddeshe artisten in der Vashington gaygnt. Mendy Fliegler 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 94 09:55 edt From: acassel@philly.cerf.fred.org Subject: Kapelye's "Af der luft" Since I wasn't able to get back stage, let me use this channel to congratulatHenekh Sapoznik for his delightful production taken from old-time Yiddish radio bits, entitled "af der luft" which played last night here in greater Philadelphia. And of course to recommend it to any Mendeleniks who have a chance to catch it in the future. Andrew Cassel P.S. Henekh, how about posting the lyrics to your version of "16 Tons"? 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 11:19:12 EDT From: ellen@central.cis.upenn.edu subject: dutsn/irtsn god arnie kuzmack writes: >Other European languages that distinguish between familiar and formal >forms of the second person, such as French, German, Russian, etc., also >use the familiar form for addressing God. Thus, in itself, it does not >tell us anything about particularly Jewish ways of relating to God. my understanding was that catholics use the polite form and protestants the familiar form. this was certainly my recollection of the pattern in france, where i spent a summer once with a protestant family but also attended various catholic church events. perhaps the christian mendelnik(es) could enlighten us here? a dank. ellen prince 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 14:58 EDT From: harpaz@binah.cc.brandeis.edu Subject: Thanks re: Ravel Just a note of thanks to all those who helped me help my student understand the transcription of the Ravel music she is to perform. Several very interesting histories and versions of the transcriptions were sent to me and I'm truly grateful! My student asked that I send a message of her thanks, also....so, "thanks from feygi". Now the show will go on......correctly! zayt ir ale gezunt, Daniella HarPaz 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: 17 Oct 94 18:21:14 EDT From: 74064.1661@compuserve.com Subject: Yasher koyekh Zelig Bakh! Far khoshever colege Zelig Bakh, (un far andere Mendelenikes vos zenen oykh interesirt,) Zelig: Tsurik mit a por vokhn hob ikh geleyent az ir zent farinteresirt in sikhologiye un sikhoanaliz. Efsher hot ir geleyent dos bukh fun Gershon Sapoznikow, "Shraiber un Werk in Licht fun Psychoanaliz" (azoy hobn di aroysgebers in Tel-Aviv es oysgeleygt). Vayter af English: It was published in 1969 by the I.L. Peretz Publishing House, 31 Allenby St., Tel-Aviv, Israel. I've read only that part dealing with Sholem Aleichem. My impression was that it was more an adoration of Sholem Aleichem than a probe of the unconscious of the author and/or his characters. As a student of Yiddish culture I am interested in whatever psychoanalytic thinking may reveal about the hidden depths of literary creators and their creations (especially Sholem Aleichem). Sapoznikow also wrote about Itsik Manger, Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Jacob Dineson. Another interesting study is: Psychological Types in Sholom Aleichem's Literary Creation, by Isaac Kanter, in J. Psychol. and Judaism 4: 205-213, 1980. I disagree with some of Kanter's assumptions. For example, Kanter claims support for assuming that Tevye was obese, and that casting a somewhat obese man like Zero Mostel as Tevye was appropriate. Some evidence does not support that speculation. In the generally available version of Tevye (revision of 1903), there is no description of Tevye. However, in the 1895 original (not generally available) there _is_ a brief description. Tevye did not look much like Zero Mostel. Further, because Tevye could not always feed his family, I would guess that he had no excess food with which to load on excess fat on his own belly. Louis Fridhandler ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 4.143 Mendele has 2 rules: 1. Provide a meaningful Subject: line 2. Sign your article (full name please) 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 Send articles to: mendele@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu Send change-of-status messages to: listserv@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu a. For a temporary stop: set mendele nomail b. To resume delivery: set mendele mail c. To unsubscribe kholile: unsub mendele Other business: nmiller@mail.trincoll.edu