Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 6.079 October 13, 1996 1) Gedempt and dampf (Joachim Neugroschel) 2) Yiddish courses and libraries (Bernard Katz) 3) Floppy disk with Yiddish (Morrie Feller) 4) Kolekstie fun materialn bay Yidn afn "nets" (Elyet Hersh Gertl) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:16:47 -0400 (EDT) From: achim1@cris.com Subject: Gedempt and dampf Zellig Bach discusses [6.077] the adjectival participle "gedempt." Actually the etymology is as `follows. The root word is the medieval German noun "dampf" (modern German "Dampf") meaning "steam." The German verb "daempfen" (my internet keyboard has no umlauts) meaning "stew, braise," etc. was formed in late proto-Teutonic and is still used in modern German. Yiddish has "damf" for "steam", but the derivatives "dempik" (humid) and "dempn" (stew, braise) do not have an "f"--so the noun may have been taken over at a different place or time than the adjective or the verb. The modern Yiddish formations "dampfer" ("steamer") and "dampfshif" may have originated in Yiddish, but I would suspect that they were taken over wholesale from modern German "Dampfer" and "Dampfschiff." Joachim Neugroschel 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 15:39:51 -0400 (EDT) From: bkatz@uoguelph.ca Subject: Yiddish courses and libraries I believe that in Metropolitan Toronto both the University of Toronto (was reported on the list) and York University (not listed) teach Yiddish. Bernard Katz Guelph, Ontario 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 14:03:31 -1000 From: feller@indirect.com Subject: Floppy disk with Yiddish Those Mendelyaners who also receive Fishl's Der Bay may remember the Bible scenes by Edward Goldman which Fishl published in transliteration. I have converted more than a dozen of these stories into Yiddish on my Macintosh using my Nisus Hebrew program. I am interested in seeing if a floppy disk is a good way to send Yiddish material. If any of you have the Nisus Hebrew capability, I would be happy to send you a floppy disk with these stories. Just send me a request with your snail mail address. All I ask is that you let me know if you were able to bring up the stories on your Macintosh screen. I have had no problem doing this on my system. Morrie Feller Phoenix 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 01:56:32 -0400 (EDT) From: egertel@acc.fau.edu Subject: "Ef-ey-yu" Kolekstie fun materialn bay Yidn afn "nets" FAU Judaica Collections Web Site Khaveyrim un khavertes fun Mendele! Kumt gebn a kuk tsum nayem (mer-veyniker!) "nets" plots bay uns, d"h floride atlantisher universitet. Mir farmogn a nishkoshedike kolekstie fun yidishe bikher tsvishn andere in bibliotek bay uns. Der "adres": http://www.fau.edu/library/depts/judaica.htm Bamerkungen un eytses --afile a por gute verter-- zayt azoy gut zolt ir tsushikn glaykh tsum shrayber fun ot di dozike shures un nisht tsu di leyeners fun Mendele. Farbrengt gut! Elyet Hersh Gertl -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please come visit our (relatively) new web site for the Judaica Collections at Florida Atlantic University --where we have a not too shabby Yiddish collection among other things-- at http://www.fau.edu/library/depts/judaica.htm Suggestions and comments (even encouragement!) welcome (directly to me and not to Mendele, please)! Enjoy your visit. Elliot H. Gertel ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 6.079