Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 4.156 October 27, 1994 1) Introduction (Patrick Markowicz) 2) Bibliography of Bashevis works (Daniella HarPaz) 3) A yid fun kasrilevke (Dvosye Bilik) 4) Rote brik (Mendy Fliegler) 5) Re: Yiddish life in Estonia (Avrom Yitzkhok Blair) 6) Re: Yiddish life in Estonia (Arn Abramson) 7) Yugntruf-aktivitetn: a toes (Brukhe Lang) 8) Beruriya, Learned Wife of Meyir bal ha'nes (Zellig Bach) 9) Rish (Bob Rothstein) 10) Rish (Margaret Mikulska) 11) Rish (Moyshe Taube) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 10:31:44 +0100 From: patrick.markowicz@eurostat.cec.be Subject: Introduction I am Patrick Markowicz, 36, 4 children and live in Metz (France) near the Belgian, German, and Luxemburger border. I show issues of MENDELE to my father Benjamin (71 years, born in Sosnowiec, Poland). He doesn't understand very much computers and internet but he would like to know if someone could send us by e-mail funny stories or funny books in yiddish. Thank you very much in advance. Patrick Markowicz 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 14:49 EDT From: harpaz@binah.cc.brandeis.edu Subject: Bibliography of Bashevis works There is a good thorough bibliography of the first few decades by David Neal Miller. Daniella HarPaz 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 15:46 EDT From: dorothy_bilik@umail.umd.edu Subject: A yid fun kasrilevke For Kayla: The song was popular at Dritn Seder of the Arbeter ring shuln. fun vanen kumt a yid- fun kasrilevke vos tut men epes dort in kasrilevke men trikt bronfn un men hulyet un men tantst dem karakhod and was immediately translated into English of a distinctly lower register,thus ( but keeping the first two lines) af yidish We drink whiskey and make whoopie and we dance the Susie Q What memories! Dvosye Bilik 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 02:41:01 -0400 From: sroolik@aol.com Subject: Rote brik Dakht zich a rote brik iz a shpielvertl. It's either a red brik (English brick) oder a roiter brik (red bridge). Don't know what the hilarity is about. mendy fliegler 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 18:09:40 -0400 (EDT) From: ablair@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re: Yiddish life in Estonia Yes, mayn leib, there IS Yiddishkayt in Estonia! I refer you to a classmate of mine at Bar Ilan University. Please write to Anna Verschik: Karberi 50-179, EE 0038, Tallinn, Estonia. She is a delightful young woman who is a Yiddish teacher. Now you have an Estonian contact, and also a Fedder-Fraynt! Say "hello" to Anna for me when you write her. Mit groys frayntlekhkayt, Allan (Avrom Yitzkhok) Blair 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 94 23:38:52 EDT From: ABRAMSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu Subject: Re: Yiddish life in Estonia To Sore Benor: When I spent a week in Tallinn, Estonia a few years ago, there were Jews in the city of Tallinn, Estonia. I don't have any names and addresses here, but I think the National Yiddish Book Center has been in touch with them, in addition to Jews in Lithuania and Latvia. National Yiddish Book Center 48 Woodbridge St. South Hadley, MA 01075 (413) 535-1303 Arn Abramson 7)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 19:36:16 -0400 (EDT) From: bl67@columbia.edu Subject: Yugntruf-aktivitetn: a toes Zayt-zhe mir moykhl -- s'iz geven a toes in mayn briv vegn Yuntruf aktivitetn. Der adres fun byuro iz 200 West 72 Street (nisht 112 Street). Do zenen nokh a mol di kumedike aktivitetn, mit rikhtike adresn: Zuntik dem 6tn nov. 2.30pm. Shmuezkrayz: "Zoln yidn shtimen merstns loyt yidishe kriterye?" 535 West 112 Street, NY 10025. Dinstik dem 8tn nov. 7.30pm. Shmuezkrayz far onheybers. 535 West 112 Street, NY 10025. Donershtik, dem 17tn nov. Shraybkrayz. Yugntruf-byuro, 200 West 72 Street, Suite 40, NY 10023. Oyb ir vilt vayterdike informatsyes, oder ir vilt zikh aboniern inem zhurnal, zay azoy gut un klingt in byuro: (212) 787-6675, oder shraybt: 200 West 72 Street, Suite 40, NY 10023. Nokh eyn meldung: a lektsye in Sholem-Aleykhem-Kultur-Tsenter: Zuntik, dem 20. nov. 1.00pm. Prof. D. Roskies vet redn af der teme: "Rokhl Fishmans poetisher gang." 3301 Bainbridge Ave, Bronx, NY. Kumt farbrengt mit undz! Brukhe Lang 8)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 22:48:46 -0400 From: zellig@aol.com Subject: Beruriya, Learned Wife of Meyir bal ha'nes Further to my note on Meyir bal ha'nes (4.150,2): The famous Yiddish writer Dovid Pinski wrote a story about Beruriya, the wife of Meyir bal ha'nes. It is included in his book _Beruriya un Andere Dertseylungen_ (Warsaw, 1938). In addition to the Beruriya story, the following three stories are also on historical themes (Yoykhonon Koyhen Godl, Di Nisyoynes fun Rebe Akive, un Zrubovel). Beruriya was the daughter of a great scholar, unusually gifted and a scholar in her own right. In a number of passages the Talmud cites her sayings, and refers to her wisdom in learning. Meyir bal ha'nes was wont to call her _"home"_out of respect and gratitude for creating a home for himself and their two children. One shabes an extraordinary, unaccountable misfortune befell their household--both children suddenly died. Her husband was, of course, in besmedresh, for shabes services, learning, and teaching. Not wishing to dim his shabes joy and light, Beruriya kept from him the tragic news until he came home in the evening. The story goes that she then said to him: "Rabbi, some time ago a certain one entrusted two jewels to keep for him, and now he asks them back. Must I return them to him?" Meyir bal ha'nes replied: "Would you hesitate to give anyone back his own?" Thereupon she broke the heart-rending news to him. The story suggests Beruriya's nature and character of dignity and nobility. Zellig Bach 9)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 23:29:41 -0400 (EDT) From: rar@slavic.umass.edu Subject: Rish Bob Werman asked (4.152) about an animal called _rish_. It's presumably a lynx, judging by Polish _rys'_. Bob Rothstein 10)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 94 00:07:34 EDT From: mikulska@faust.princeton.edu Subject: rish/lynx/rys rwerman@vms.huji.ac.il asks: > Rish? A wildcat? A tiger? "ry\'s" - with an acute accent on "s" - is Polish for "lynx". The pronunciation suggested by the spelling "rish" is a reasonable approximation of the Polish pronunciation. Margaret Mikulska 11)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 21:41:00 PDT From: Taube Moshe Subject: Rish - Tiger For Bob Werman: Rys' is Slavic for Lynx. In the late 15th c. Jewish translation into Belorussian, the expression "meharrey nemeyrim" in Song of Songs 4:8 is rendered: ot hor rys'ix. Moyshe Taube ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 4.156 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