Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 4.328 February 20, 1995 1) Paul Garvin (Norman Zide) 2) Yiddish activities in Santa Monica/UCLA? (Victor Bers) 3) Yidishe farlagn (Glenn Levine) 4) Yugntruf af Yidish! (Ruvn Millman) 5) "Yidl mitn fidl" and A. Zeitlin (Dovid Maisel) 6) Third International Yiddish Club Conference (Fishl Kutner) 7) Shraybkrayz (Fishl Kutner) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 95 18:08:22 CST From: n-zide@uchicago.edu Subject: Paul Garvin Paul Garvin died last year (this in answer to Ms Szabo's inquiry). As to where he can be reached .. ?? Norman Zide 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 95 10:54:22 EST From: vbers@yalevm.cis.yale.edu Subject: Yiddish activities in Santa Monica/UCLA? A member of the Yale/New Haven leyn kreiz who will be in Santa Monica in the period Feb. 22-March 1 (+/- a day or two), has asked me to find out whether there is some Yiddish leyn kreiz, class, whatever, in that gegend that she might visit. Could somebody, e.g. Fishl Kutner, let me know (by direct e-mail), so I can relay the info. to her? A sheynem dank in antizipatzie. Victor Bers 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 10:00:47 -0600 (CST) From: schmuel@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu Subject: Yidishe farlagn Far Meylekh Viswanath un ale vos farinteresirn zikh mit yidishe farlagn un farlegers: Ikh hob geshribn mayn master's teze vegn yidishe kultur in Berlin tsvishn di yorn 1919 un 1925, ober der iker vegn yidishe varlagn un farlegers vos hobn zikh bazetst af a por yorn in yener shtot. Zey hobn publikirt in di yorn _a sakh_ bikher un zshurnaln, lemoshl der sheyner literarisher kinstlekher zshournal _Milgroym_, radaktirt fun Mark Wischnitzer un Rachel Wischnitzer-Bernstein. Men hot gekent oysnitsn di umshtandn in daytshland, vi di shreklekhe inflatsye, tsu produtsirn a sakh sheyne bikher un zshurnaln zeyer bilik, bikher vos me hot gedarft in in mizrakh-eyrope, der iker in di shuln. Eyn teyl fun mayn master's teze iz a reshime fun ale titlen vos me hot aroysgegebn in Berlin in di yorn. Ikh shrayb itst an artikel vegn di farleger-aktivitetn, a hemshekh fun yene arbet fun Leo un Renate Fuks (Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 1988). Az emetster farinteresirt zikh mit di titel-reshime, oder mit mayn master's teze (vos iz af daytsh!), volt ikh gekent shikn a kopye. Glenn Levine 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 21:41:04 GMT From: roland.millman@weiser.com Subject: Yugntruf af Yidish! Tayerer Leybl un der Mendele reshime, Leybl, a sheynem dank daynem "ofenem briv" af Mendele tsu Yugntruf. Ikh fil zikh yoysher dir an entfer tsu gebn vayl ikh bin der vos iz geyheysn shikn undzere Yugntruf New Yorker aktivitetn ariber tsu Mendele. Mir veysn az nisht nor du yoynst gor vayt (Un vos iz vayt in undzere hayntike velt?) fun der shtodt New York un kenst nisht (vi a katz) shpringen keyn New York vi du vilst :). Ober faran di vos kumen fun tsayt tsu tsayt af nesies - afile glaykh ven es kumt for epes Yidish. Nokh vayter kenen di aktivitetn gebn gedanken tsu andere aktivitetn far ayer "Yugntruf opteylungen" oyser New York (es volt efsher dermonen in meshiakhn)... in New York afile khapn mir gedanken far aktivitetn fun alerley erter. Vegn shraybn af Yidish: Ikh bin dir gor maskim az vos mer mir kenen redn un shraybn af Yidish vos beser. Ikh nem es tsum hartzn un ikh vel es pruvn tun (pruvn Ruvn) far di kumendike aktivitetn reshimes. Zol zayn mit glik! Ruvn Millman 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 10:09:59 -0500 From: davimaisel@aol.com Subject: "Yidl mitn fidl" and A. Zeitlin Thanks to Aviva Starkman and her grandparents (vol. 4.322) and to Rhoda (Rokhl) Bernard (vol. 4.323) for supplying the "Yidl mitn Fidl" lyrics. Could anyone now enlighten or even spook us by sending in thoughts of how in "Dona Dona" (1940) Zeitlin played on Manger's pairing of the two animals' roles in the "Yidl" ditty (1936)? What is going on between those songs' birds? What do they know that I don't? I await Mendele's bas-kol. Dovid Maisel Newton, Mass. 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 07:18:14 -0800 From: fishl@well.sf.ca.us Subject: Third International Yiddish Club Conference The Committee has had discussions with six cities and had narrowed it down to three. In the last several days serious meetings and long- distance calls has narrowed down the selection, and an announcement will soon be made. The Committee consists of a representative from each of the four Yiddish Club newsletters in North America, the moderator of the Mendele list and an independent Yiddish activist. It is hoped to be held in early 1996 and in the United States. Phil "Fishl" Kutner 7)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 09:38:47 -0800 From: fishl@well.sf.ca.us Subject: Shraybkrayz _Der Bay_ is a monthly Anglo-Yiddish newsletter which compiles lists of Yiddish teachers, Yiddish clubs, Klezmer bands, etc., and has periodic requests. One such request came in recently. "We have leyenkrayzn, shmoozkrayzn and a shraybkrayz. The only shraybkrayz in the States of which I am aware is sponsored by Yugntruf in NY." There appears to be interest in forming one--possibly online or through snail mail :- ). If another one exists, or if you wish to join one, please let me know--especially if you wish to form a leyenkrayz, please contact me at: fishlfishl@aol.com or fishl@WELL.sf.ca.us Phil "Fishl" Kutner ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 4.328 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 subscribe: sub mendele first_name last_name d. To unsubscribe kholile: unsub mendele Other business: nmiller@mail.trincoll.edu