Yiddish Mailing List, Issue #26 June 20, 1990 158 lines =============================== Yiddish lullabies (Stephen Albert) Yidishe tetikaytn in Portland, Oregon (Jack Falk) New list member (Sigrid Petersen) Another Yiddish Folktale (Seth Rosenthal) New list member (Louis/Label Janus) New list member (Steve Stein) [Nu, ver vil shikn a pur verter farn nekstn numer, az m'zol nisht darfn vartn vider a mol drei khodoshim biz s'vet zein genig material aroistsushikn? Lomir hern a yidish vort? Kein entfer nisht, tsu vus men hot geshribn in numer 25? -DS] ------------------------ Digest-Message: 26/1 Date: 3 Apr 90 13:54:14 EDT (Tue) From: stephen@lsuc.on.ca (Stephen Albert) In Yiddish mail #24 there was a note from Ruth Bork asking about Yiddish lullabies. This reminded me that my father had a record called "A Mama Sings a Leidele". Sure enough I found it in our record collection. It includes Hush A Bye, Unter Dem Kinds Vigele, Shluf Mine Kind and a bunch more. Needless to say it's not "New from K-Tel". The record is put out by Apollo Records N.Y. Corp., 1780 Broadway. I don't know what year it was put out. I would be happy to make you a copy if you want. [Stephen hot nokhdem gemakht a copie far mir. Zeyr a shein tashme. S'hot di lidelekh ariber-dermont (?), un nokh a sakh gite. A pur zenen zeyr gekente (Oifn Pripetchik, Rozhinkes mit Mandlen), a pur veiniker gekent. - DS] ------------------------ Digest-Message: 26/2 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 90 10:45:41 PDT From: torsqnt!sequent!mntgfx!jfalk (Jack Falk) Subject: yidishe tetikaytn in Oregon Efsher vilt ir visn epes vegn unzer yidishe tetikaytn do in Oregon? In April hot unzer forshtot Beaverton zikh farbindet mit BiroBidjan vi "shvestershtet". Etlekhe mentshn veln furn keyn sovetn-rusland in juli tsu untershraybn di papirn, un mir veln hobn a yidish-rusish kultur-fest dem 9tn september. Mit yidishe grusn, Yankl Falk ------------------------ Digest-Message: 26/3 Date: Thu, 24 May 90 03:31:00 EDT From: SIGPETER@CC.UTAH.EDU Subject: Yiddish Mailing List I speak, read, and sort of write Hebrew and German. I can often understand, but not speak, extended Yiddish. I am soon to be a graduate student at the Middle East Center at the UofU, studying Hebrew and possibly Yiddish, if I can find another student to take it the same year I want to take it. Just ignore my name. My full name is Sigrid Peterson (or Nitzchiah Bat Zur). Each name is a form of the other. So add me to the list, nu? Danke schoen. ------------------------ Digest-Message: 26/4 From: sethr@cbnewsl.att.com (seth.r.rosenthal) Subject: Another Yiddish Folktale Date: 14 Jun 90 03:33:36 GMT [reposted from soc.culture.jewish - DS] I thought maybe everyone would enjoy another Yiddish Folktale. This one is interesting since it is about the grave of Rabbi Moses ben Israel Isserles, known as Rema. It is from the collection "Yiddish Folktales" edited by B. Weinreich and translated by L. Wolf, Pantheon Publishers, reprinted with permission. This particular tale is anonymous from Cracow. The Unquiet Grave ----------------- The grave of the great Rabbi Moses ben Israel Isserles, who was called the Rema, is in Cracow. Once there was a poor young man who went to the caretaker of the cemetary and asked to buy a plot near the Rema's grave. At first the caretaker refused to sell him one because he thought these should be reserved for dignitaries, but then he began to think: "I'm an old man, and after all, and I'm sure to die before him. So who'll know whether I ever sold him the plot?" Reasoning thus, he finally accepted,the man's money for a plot near the Rema. The very next day a death was reported-and it was that of the young man who had bought the plot. The caretaker was afraid to tell anyone what he had done, so he simply had the man buried in a different plot. Soon afterwards the dead man's ghost began to appear in the caretaker's dreams, demanding the plot he had bought. Night after night the ghost disturbed the caretaker's rest. Finally the care-taker decided to go to the rabbi with the whole story and to get his advice. The rabbi said, "Tell the ghost that he can move to the other plot. A promise should not be broken." So that's what the caretaker told the ghost when it paid its next visit. The following day it was observed that there was a new grave near the place where the Rema was buried. Meanwhile the grave of the recently buried man collapsed in on itself. Soon afterward a gravestone was placed on the unidentified new grave, reading, "Here lies an unknown person". It's said that the gravestone can be seen there to this day. ------------------------ Digest-Message: 26/5 Subject: subscribing to Yiddish list Date: Sat, 16 Jun 90 22:59:29 EDT From: janus@ux.acs.umn.edu (Louis Janus) I am a historical linguist, with main specialization in Historical Germanic, esp. Scandinavian. I have studied Yiddish at several courses, understand a fair amount, but would like to expand my horizons in that regard. Louis Janus (Label) Scandinavian Dept U of Minn ------------------------ Digest-Message: 26/6 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 90 19:13:32 EDT From: horus@WYSTAN.BSD.UCHICAGO.EDU (Steve Stein) Subject: yiddish mail group >As du bist a yidish-reder un layener, bist interesiert in >"mail.yiddish", dem yidishn post-rshime? Ya, Ix vil aubaneer mit di yidishe grupeh. Meyn yidish is zayer shlext, auber Ix vil as es zal forbeser. Ix ken leyenen un farshay. Adank for der briv. Ix bin gliklix as du host geshribn. --Steve Stein ------------------------ SOF FUN NUMER 26 ------------------------ David (Daniel Moishe) Sherman, Toronto Moderator, mail.yiddish { uunet!attcan {AT&T Sites}!att pyramid!utai utzoo } !lsuc!dave dave@lsuc.on.ca attcan!lsuc!dave@uunet.uu.net