Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 4.187 November 20, 1994 1) Introduction (Berl Walfish) 2) Introduction (Ruth Bauman) 3) Jews in France (Gaston L. Schmir) 4) Judaica marketplace (Elisheva Schwartz) 5) The "gram-mayster" of WEVD (Harvey Spiro) 6) "The Last Klezmer" and "Schwein" (Meyer David) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 18:04:25 EST From: walfish@vax.library.utoronto.ca Subject: Introduction My name is Barry (Berl) Walfish and I am the Jewish Studies Librarian at the University of Toronto Library. I am especially interested in information concerning recent Yiddish publications throughout the world and other events and activities related to Yiddish. Berl Walfish 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 17:58:48 -0500 From: rutala@aol.com Subject: Introduction Sholom aleichem. Ich hob ge'lernt Yiddish in di hime. Mein tateh iz a Yiddisheh journaliste, Mortdche Bauman, vos shreibt in Der Algemeiner Journal (un anderreh publicatzias). Ehr is yetze aroisgegebben a bikh, a zamlung fun artiklen, mit iberzetsungen uf English. M'ken avadeh hayren as mein elterin zennin fin Warshaw (laben Warshaw, a klayne shtut -- Zyrardov). Ich redt Yiddish mit a vinkala vos kimt for alleh hoidish in Somerville, Mass. Y'asheh koyach tzu Michael Katz un Linda Gritz! Un a shaynem dank tzu Chaim (Harry) Bochner for letting me know about Mendele -- which has been a joy to lurk in -- and for helping me (very patiently) osbesserin mayn Yiddish. Ruth Bauman 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 19:06:32 -0500 (EST) From: glschm@minerva.cis.yale.edu Subject: Jews in France In connection with the remarks of Harold L. Orbach on the use of the terms Israelite vs. Juif in France, I woud like to add that I still recall clearly that as a boy in France during the 1940s, I was not infreqently apostrophized as "sale Juif" (dirty Jew) by some of my classmates. Well-intentioned people (such as teachers) would invariably refer to me as israelite. In several trips to France taken since 1990, I have noted that the term juif appears to have largely lost its pejorative undertones, and is used freely both by Jews and non-Jews. Only in conversation with elderly French people (in their seventies or older) did I encounter the use of the term israelite. With regard to the remarks of Martin Davis concerning the two monuments to the "deportees" in Paris, I would like to add the following: [1] The best available estimates for the number of Jews deported from France is a maximum of 76 000, so that it does not seem advisable to state that most of the 200,000 deportees from France were Jews [see Serge Klarsfeld, "Le Calendrier de la Persecution des Juifs en France 1940-1944", Paris, 1993, p 1125] [2] While it is true that the Memorial du Martyr Juif Inconnu, located at 17, rue Geoffroy-l'Asnier, in the 4th arrondissement, was built solely under Jewish auspices, the land on which it stands was donated by the City of Paris Gaston L. Schmir 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 94 14:01:09 EST From: es63@columbia.edu Subject: Judaica marketplace Judaica book and crafts marketplace Sunday, November 20th, 10:00-5:00 Monday, November 21st, 10:00-8:00 Tuesday, November 22nd, 8:30-6:00 New York Hilton, Rhinelander Gallery, 6th Avenue and 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. New this year! A full schedule of lectures and workshops about Women's Issues, Art, Music, Politics, Genealogy, Storytelling, and more... Just in time for Chanukah, the second annual Judaica Book and Crafts Marketplace will offer over 100 vendors of Judaica displaying books, hand-made crafts, original art, antiques, jewelry, CDs and cassettes, and Hebrew-English software--the largest array of Judaica in the New York metropolitan area. This year the Marketplace will provide a full schedule of programs on Sunday and Monday including Storytelling with Penninah Schram, Perspectives on Women's Issues, Law and Politics, Jewish Music, Genealogy, Yiddish, Hebrew, Entrepreneurship in Israel, Rabbi Marc Angel on Sephardic Culture, Food, Jewish History, Israeli authors Batya Gur and Meir Shalev, Naomi Ragen on her new book the Sacrifice of Tamar, and more! Sponsored by the Jewish Book Council and the Association of Jewish Libraries (New York Metropolitan Area) Elisheva Schwartz 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed Nov 16 16:01:43 1994 From: hjs@nrc.gov Subject: The "gram-mayster" of WEVD Yiddish-lovers who lived in New York during the 1960s - 1980s period surely remember Tzvi Schooler, the wonderful commentator and "gram-mayster" of Yiddish radio station WEVD ("the station that speaks your language"). His rhymed Yiddish commentaries on the world news were often difficult for me to follow, but his Yiddish was eloquent and his wit was sharp and well-aimed. Does anyone know if collections of his commentaries -- or for that matter any published works of his -- are available? Harvey Spiro 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 20:54:34 -0800 From: mhd@crl.com Subject: Re: Film "The Last Klezmer" and "Schwein"? I also attended the screening of "The Last Klezmer" at the Boston Jewish Film festival last weekend. I also noticed the use of the German word Schwein by Kleinman/Kozlowski, the subject of the film. However, I also heard him use German in several other situations -- e.g., the use of the German word "antworten" for answer (instead of "entfern"), so I saw it as a case of this individual having some interference from German in his Yiddish. Weinreich doesn't list shvayn anywhere. Personally, I've only heard the word khazer used for "pig" as well. However, Harkavy's dictionary does give "shvayn" as perfectly good Yiddish word for pig, pork, and swine. Now, Weinreich's dictionary gives shtekhl-khazer as the Yiddish word for porcupine. But Harkavy does not. Harkavy gives shtekhl-tir instead.... Un azoy geyt's vayter. Meyer David ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 4.187 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