Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 5.119 September 22, 1995 1) Seasonal greetings (David Herskovic) 2) NPR Yiddish Stories (Ethan Minovitz) 3) An alt lid (Paul Gutblatt Gilon) 4) Yiddish software for children (Uri Postavsky) 5) Yiddish on Mendele (Uri Postavsky) 6) Shlak (Bob Rothstein) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: 21 Sep 95 21:06:55 EDT From: 100114.750@compuserve.com Subject: Seasonal greetings In mendele vol. 5.113, Keyle Goodman signed off by kindly wishing all of us a gmar khasime toyve. Seasonal greetings usually are ksive va'khsime toyve from the beginning of Elel (from the 15th of Ov for some) until the first night of rosh hashone when you wish leshone toyve tikosayv vesaykhaym and the rest. From rosh hashone by day one starts vinching a gmar khasime toyve or a gmar tov until after yom kiper. It is still acceptable until after hoyshane rabe. This is based on the gemore that our cases are heard on rosh hashone we're then put on probation for the aseres ymay chive and the sentence is signed on yom kiper. zol bay aykh ale megiyem veren vos ir vincht zikh alayn. David Herskovic 2)----------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 18:03:46 EDT From: clvm21a@prodigy.com Subject: NPR Yiddish Stories Jay Fleischer, you're in luck (sort of)! WBFO-FM 88.7 (at the University of Buffalo) is the National Public Radio station you're looking for. I don't know its wattage, but you should be able to receive it in Hogtown ("Chazershtot"??). If you have a Web browser, you can access a partial program schedule by keying in http://wings.buffalo.edu/services/wbfo. Unfortunately, I couldn't spot a listing for Leonard Nimoy Yiddish stories -- or an e-mail address. However, an on-line comment form is available at http://wings.buffalo.edu/services/wbfo/comment.html. Hope that this is of assistance. A happy and kosher Rosh Hashana to all! Ethan Minovitz Vancouver, British Columbia 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 10:58:59 From: paul@pg.win.net Subject: An alt lid I would like to find the complete words and score to an dirgeful Yiddish song my mother sang to me in the early 30's. I just remember the first line. Kim tsu mir my kint, tsu mir, a nit vel ich gein tsu dir. I believe that this song might be a mother's lament at her son's kidnapping by a "chapper" for delivery to the Russian army under the 25 year draft of Jewish children (Little Contonists) instituted by Nicholas I. Paul Gutblatt Gilon 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 21:38:58 -0400 From: urip@interlog.com Subject: Yiddish software for children For those who are looking for material in Yiddish for young children, you are invited to download the shareware version of "Aryeh to Zebra" - a Hebrew/English/Yiddish interactive picture dictionary for Windows. If this sounds familiar, it's because Saul Berman has posted already a message about it, but he asked me to do it again and correct a few typos in the www and ftp addresses. So here it is: If you have a graphical WWW browser check one of these: 1. http://www.execpc.com/~rtls/hebrew 2. http://shamash.nysernet.org/computers/rtls-software If you want to use ftp, try one of these sites: 1. ftp.magic.ca /rtls/hebrew/aryeh.zip 2. shamash.nysernet.org /israel/computers/rtls-software Uri Postavsky 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 21:39:14 -0400 From: urip@interlog.com Subject: Yiddish on mendele I have noticed a number of messages written in Yiddish transliterated into English. I assume that this is done not from choice but from lack of software that can deliver Yiddish through e-mail. I have developed a Hebrew Message Viewer for reading Hebrew messages on Compuserve (for those without Hebrew Windows). You can check it on Compuserve Israel forum in the software library (hebmvi.zip). If there is enough interest in this forum and if most of the readers use Windows to read these messages, I can modify it to handle Yiddish and send yiddish text through e-mail in an encoded form. The viewer program is free software. For composing messages you could either use Hebrew software (such as Hebrew Windows or Dagesh) or a Yiddish writer that I would supply for a small registration fee. Let me know what you think. Uri Postavsky 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 22:00:56 -0400 (EDT) From:rar@slavic.umass.edu Subject: Shlak I liked Zavi Beer's explanation (5.116) of _a shlok [shlak] zol dir [dikh] trefn_ (from a falling suke cover), but there's a more likely source in Polish _niech cie szlag trafi_ 'damn you; may the devil take you' (literally, 'may you have an apoplectic fit [i.e., a stroke]'). Polish _szlag_ is in turn from German _Schlag_, which can also mean 'a stroke'. Lomir ober redn fun freylekher zakhn: ale mendelyaner berosh mit dem shames vintsh ikh a gezunt un zis yor. Bob Rothstein ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 5.119