Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 6.054 August 28, 1996 1) "Yidish redt zikh azoy sheyn" (Morrie Feller) 2) Translating Moishe Nadir (Kenneth Wishnia) 3) Yidish af yidish - a lernbukh (Miki Safadi) 4) Yiddish and Basque (Dan Leeson) 5) Spinoza and Yiddish (David Goldberg) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 21:40:21 -0700 (MST) From: feller@indirect.com Subject: Song "Yidish redt zikh azoy sheyn" We are looking for the song: "Yidish redt zikh azoy sheyn". Can anyone steer us to the words and, hopefully, music also? A sheynem dank in foroys. Morrie Feller Phoenix 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 11:18:34 -0400 (EDT) From: kwishnia@ccmail.sunysb.edu Subject: Translating Moishe Nadir I am preparing a presentation for the AJS Conference in December which will include discussion and translation of two or three early satires by Moishe Nadir, to be culled from a list that currently includes "Geratevet," "Halt op di pres!" "Git im finferlekh," "Stsenkes in a tsaytungs-ofis," "Laptash," and "Ferfelshlinger" (all selections are from Vols. 2 and 3 of _Humor and Satire_ (NY: 1912). If anyone out there knows of a compelling reason why these works are not available, or with whom the translation rights can be negotiated (this is a non-profit purpose), speak now, or--as the saying goes--forever hold your peace. Kenneth Wishnia 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 11:53:51 -0700 From: msafadi@ucla.edu Subject: Yidish af yidish - a lernbukh S'iz doh a naye bukh vos heyst Yidish af yidish: gramatishe, leksishe, un shmues-materyaln farn tsveytn un dritn lernyor fun David Goldberg (Yale University Press 1996). Es ken zayn a hilf far lerers fun studentn vos nitzen Yiddish Tsvey (fun Mordkhe Schaechter). Vos iz gut inem bukh iz 1) alles iz geshribn af yidish, ober af a madregeh vos studentn kenen farshteyn; 2) si'z doh a sakh oyfgabes un genitungen far shmuesn un Goldberg git di idiomatishe oysdrikn vos me nitzt in shmuesn (interyektsies, frages, a.a.v).; 3) me git mer bayshpiln fun verbale prefiksn (oys un aroys, ayn un arayn a.a.v.), un mer bayshpiln fun sufiksn un prepositsies vi me gefint in s'rov lernbikher; un 4) me git mayses vi mosholim fun di gramatishe inyonim un eytses vi azoy banutzn zey in shmuesn. Ikh volt gevolt zehen mer diskusie vegn di aspektn fun yidish vos me moshlt, un efsher entfers tsu di genitungn. Tsulib dem feler zog ikh, az dos bukh ken zayn a gute bukh far oyfgabes un genitungen far a klass. Miki Safadi 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 09:20:35 EDT From: leeson@aspen.fhda.edu Subject: Yiddish and Basque: a suggested relationship On Jewishgen, a list devoted to the study of genealogy of people with Jewish ancestors, a question arose relating to a possible connection between Yiddish and Basque. Personally, I could not care less, but someone posted a website, a serious website by the way, that makes exactly that assertion. In fact, it relates Basque to a number of languages. For those of you with access to the web, the address is: http://www.islandnet.com/~edonon/yiddish.html Going backwards from this page with take you to the homepage as well and on that there is information about the author of the page. I am quite unable to judge the author's statements because I am confused about several of his details. This is not entirely ignorance but due, perhaps, to his layout. For example, he has several hundred Yiddish words that he asserts were looked up in a Basque dictionary. He gives the words but it is hard to find out where he has the Basque-English equivalent. Nonetheless, the author is not a nutcase. The web page is worth exploration. Dan Leeson Los Altos, California 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 03 Sep 96 10:55:57 EST From: david.goldberg@smtpgwy.mla.org Subject: Spinoza and Yiddish Yet another instance of Spinoza in Yiddish literature [see Allan Nadler's query in 6.049] is Khaym Sloves' play _Borekh fun amsterdam_, performed (by the way) in New York in the early sixties. David Goldberg ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 6.054