Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 5.291 March 27, 1996 1) Mumps (Dovid Braun) 2) Roykh and ruakh (Rita Falbel) 3) Charlotte Yiddish Institute (Daniel M. Pransky) 4) Sholem Aleichem Institute (Menachem Young) 5) "Fishke the Lame" in English translation (Hershl Hartman) 6) Yiddish fonts on Hebrew Windows (Daniella HarPaz) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:34:27 EST From: dovid@mit.edu Subject: Mumps a modne frage, ober dokh: tomer kent ir yidish fun der heym, veyst ir vi me ruft af yidish di krenk vos heyst of english _mumps_? (kh'bet aykh: kukt *nit* arayn in verterbukh -- mit verterbikher bin ikh shoyn aleyn farzorgt.) oyb ir dermont zikh vi me zogt es / vi me hot es gezogt ba aykh, zayt azoy gut un entfert mir perzenlekh: dovid@mit.edu. a groysn dank foroys! dovid braun Cambridge, MA 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:51:37 -0500 From: rfalbel@mail.med.cornell.edu Subject: Roykh and ruakh I remember a phrase like "er varft zikh vi a rikh", relating to someone having a tantrum. Can anyone enlighten me about whether this is the same word or a completely different one. Rita Falbel 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:15:03 EST From: tjja70d@prodigy.com Subject: Charlotte Yiddish Institute The Charlotte Yiddish Institute announces its 18th (Chai) season at the glorious Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC, a mountain top conference center of 1400 acres set in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, elevation 3300 ft,. August 15 - 18, 1996. Featuring: Dr. Chava Lapin, lecturer; Zalmen Mlotek and Michael Altpert, artists-in-residence. To add your name to the Charlotte Yiddish Institute's mailing list please write to: The Charlotte Yiddish Institute/JCC Shalom Park 5007 Providence Rd. Charlotte, NC 28226 Daniel M. Pransky 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 11:14:00 -0500 From: moyng2626@aol.com Subject: Sholem Aleichem Institute Sholem Aleichem Institute was founded 70 years ago in 1926 in Detroit,Michigan to support and conduct an Yiddish secular shule. The shule ,zum badoyern, is no longer in existance,but the organization is still active. It provides Yiddish and Jewish programs to the community on a regular basis. On its seventieth anniversary the Institute is having a gala celebration and reunion on Saturday,October 19,1996. In order to contact them the Institute is requesting names and addresses of all former students, their children, friends and members living anywhere in the world. Please send information to: Sholem Aleichem Institute 24901 Northwestern Highway,Suite 313B Southfield,MI 48075 Phone (810) 352-6852 or e-mail: MoYng2626@AOL.com A hartsikn dank un a zisn Pesakh. Menachem Young 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:28:13 -0500 From: hershl@aol.com Subject: "Fishke the Lame" in English translation In response to Mark Shechner's query (Vol. 5.287), Mendele's novella appears in Gerald Stillman's English translation in Marvin Zuckerman, Gerald Stillman, Marion Herbst, eds., "Selected Works of Mendele Moykher-Sforim," Malibu, CA, Joseph Simon Pangloss Press, 1991. Hershl Hartman 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 13:01:02 -0500 (EST) From: harpaz@binah.cc.brandeis.edu Subject: Yiddish fonts on Hebrew Windows I just received and installed "Kabbalah Yiddish", a collection of Yiddish fonts that work in Hebrew Windows and Microsoft Word in Hebrew. They are very nice and seem to work well. The only think I would like that it doesn't have is "tvey yudn," "pasekh tsvey yudn" is, however, there. The fonts cost $89. If you would like to know more about my experience with them or with Hebrew Windows/Word, etc. please contact me directly so as not to over-clutter Mendele. Daniella HarPaz ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 5.291 Mendele has 2 rules: 1. Provide a meaningful Subject: line 2. Sign your article (full name please) 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 ****Getting back issues**** 1. Anonymous ftp archives are available. ftp ftp.mendele.trincoll.edu in the directory pub/mendele/files A table of contents is also available, along with weekly updates. 2. Mendele archives can also be reached as follows: via WWW: http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/mewais.html via gopher: gopher://sunsite.unc.edu/11/../.pub/academic/languages/yiddish/mendele via ftp: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/languages/yiddish/mendele