Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 6.058 September 8, 1996 1) Introduction (Shulamis Wisenberg) 2) Lyrics to "Alts far gelt" (Sherry Mayrent) 3) Roza Gutman-Jashy (Uzi Armon) 4) Work songs (Shimke Levine) 5) Yiddish in Nottingham (Hershl Hartman) 6) Talk in Yiddish in Brookline (Shimen Kass) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 16:35:41 -0600 From: slw644@nwu.edu Subject: Introduction/umbeshrin I have been lurking for ever so on and now I am introducing myself at last. I am a third-generation native American, grew up with a few Yiddish phrases here and there, and have been taking Yiddish weekly for the past year and a half. I'm a writer and write a lot about 19th and 20th century Jewish history/life, including my own. I have a piece in "Nice Jewish Girls," ed. Marlene Adler Marks (Penguin, 1996). I am also doing research on Bertha Pappenheim (Freud and Breuer's "Anna O."), Herschel Grynzspan, Sara Schnier, founder of the Bais Jacob schools. I apologize if I'm misspelling the last two names--I have e-mail at Northwestern U, where I teach, and not at home, where I do my research. One of the few words I heard growing up was "umbeshrin," or "embishrin," when is the equivalent to "kenehore." The word was in a family letter my Yiddish teacher helped me translate, and was the only word I knew that she didn't. My mother says that she heard this word only from my father's family--which came from Pusvatin in Kovno gubernye. I have enjoyed lurking on Mendele very much. My friend Andy Cassel in Philly told me about it. Yrs, Sandi (Shulamis) Wisenberg 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 12:39:44 -0400 From: Sherry Mayrent To: mendele@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu Subject: Lyrics to "Alts far gelt" I'd be very grateful if anyone could help me get the lyrics to Aaron Lebedeff's song, "Alts far gelt," which my Yiddish isn't good enough to decipher from the recording. A sheynem dank in advance. Sherry Mayrent 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 23:52:45 +0300 From: uzi@mathcs.haifa.ac.il Subject: Roza Gutman-Jashy Asking for a friend: Does anyone here know where can i get any kind of information about a yidish song writer by the name Roza Gutman-Jashy? Any piece of information would be most helpful. Online network pointers or any other form of pointers to her songs/bibliography etc. Answers in english/hebrew/yiddish would be transfered to my friend. Thanks Uzi Armon 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 14:05:43 GMT+5 From: stanl@aiken.scarolina.edu Subject: Work songs Jeri Fogel asks about women's work songs / working women's songs. The Bund has a record of Yiddish revolutionary songs which has several in this category, as I recall: Di Neytorins, Arbeter-froyen... Stanley F. (Shimke) Levine 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 03:36:34 -0400 From: hershl@aol.com Subject: Yiddish in Nottingham The following message appeared on H-JUDAIC. Mendelistn (and Robinites?) to the rescue?? (BTW, this message inspired another one of those tired old "Yiddish is on its last legs; why bother?" responses. Can any mental health workers out there explain the apparently urgently felt need to bury Yiddish? Ruth Wisse, perhaps?) From: ayari prieto Subject: learning Yiddish Does anyone know how I may learn Yiddish properly? I live in Nottingham and would attend evening classes if any were available. I am also interested in self-teaching tools. Thank you. Hershl Hartman 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 12:33:17 EST From: kass@umbsky.cc.umb.edu Subject: Talk in Yiddish in Brookline The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring in Boston Presents: A Talk in Yiddish by Gershon Winer, Chairman, World Council for Yiddish Culture. "Jerusalem in Yiddish Literature" in observance of it's 300th anniversary Time : Tuesday, September 17, at 7.30 pm Place: The Workmen's Circle, 1762 Beacon Street, Brookline MA Professor Winer has just returned from Kishenev, where in August, he conducted a Yiddish teachers seminar. Next talk in this series: Sheva Zucker, "A Page Torn from a Holy Book: Women's Autobiographies in Yiddish". Monday, October 21, 7.30 pm, same location. Shimen Kass ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 6.058