Yiddish Mailing List, Issue #34 April 16, 1991 178 lines =============================== Administratsie (David Sherman) A bisl fun mein lebn (nat@yoko.rutgers.edu) Chadish Media tapes (Sherri Chasin Calvo) A briv (Nicholas Eshelman) Rescuing the Forverts' Yiddish linotypes (Sam Saal) [Nu, ver vil shikn a pur verter farn nekstn numer...? - DS] ------------------------ Digest-Message: 34/1 From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman) Date: Tue Apr 16 14:14:38 EDT 1991 Subject: Administratsie Entshuldikt (vider a mol) az ikh hob shoyn lang gor nisht aroisgeshikt. Dos lebn bei uns iz geven a bisl meshige, mit a nayem efele in der heim, nokh drei gresere kinder, Pesakh, un khutzdem hobn mir hersht gekoift a nay hoiz. Ikh hof az ikh'l hobn tseit yetst aroistsushikn a numer yeder vokh oder tsvei vokhn. Zolt ir ale shikn material, az ikh zol hobn vus aroistsugebn. Mir hobn gekrign Mordkhe Schaechters verterbukh, "Trogn, Hobn, un Fri'ike Kinder-Yorn", a verterbukh fun english oif yidish. S'iz zeyr interesant un nitzlekh. Eine fun di iberzetsungen far "pacifier" iz "sharapnikl" -- fun dem english "shut up"(!). Me kon krign dos verterbikhl fun der Yidish-Lige (zen Digest-Message 33/2). ------------------------ Digest-Message: 34/2 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 1991 09:06:24 -0500 From: nat@yoko.rutgers.edu Subject: a bisl fun mein lebn A bisl fun mein lebn: Ikh bin gevein interestiert in Yiddish far a lange tsayt. Mein mame, tate, bubbe, und zayde hobn geredt yiddish in dem heim ober ikh hob nisht gelernt fun zey. Ober, ikh hob gevolt lernen. In High School (in France), hob ikh gekent lernen deutshn. Di mame hot mikh gezugt as dus ken zein a gute idea far mikh tsu farshtein yiddish. Ober, ikh hob nisht gevolt lernen Deutsh, as ikh hob nisht gevolt redn Yiddish, mit kein Deutshn Accent. Ikh hob ersht gelernt Yiddish (mit an Oxfordian accent?) in the Oxford Yiddish Program (vus hot mikh a sakh geferlt). Ven ikh bin geven an undergrad in McGill University (Montreal), hob ikh oikh genumen tsvei coursn in Yiddish. As an undergrad, ikh bin gevein zayer interestirt in Yiddish (Hob ikh oikh geshaftn a yiddisher group in Hillel Montreal far tsvei yurn). Ikh hob gevoint in Toronto far tsvei yurn, ober ikh hob nisht geredt kein yiddish, dortn. Yitz, bin ikh in Highland Park, Ney Jersey, und red ikh oikh kein Yiddish. As ikh bin troyerik tsu losn mein yiddish, hob ikh bashlis tsu redn di brivn in dem group, und shribn a puar brivn oikh. Efcher, vel ikh nisht losn alts vos ikh ken bai yiddish oib ikh correspondiert mit ikh. Zeit Gezunt, Nathalie. ------------------------ Digest-Message: 34/3 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 1991 09:17:05 -0500 From: calvo@nssdca.span.nasa.gov (Sherri Chasin Calvo) Subject: Chadish Media tapes As far as Chadish Media, their regular phone numbers are 718-856-3882 and 718-693-2053. Their mailing address is 453 E. 9th St., Brooklyn, NY, 11218. It turns out that Chadish Media and Rabbi Rosenberg are essentially the same entity; the phone rings in his house. So mail.yiddish readers should be advised not to call too early in the morning, too late at night, or on Shabbos or Jewish holidays. The Yiddish tape I received was not produced by Chadish Media, as I had expected, but rather of the "INSERT LANGUAGE NAME HERE/30" series. Has anyone reviewed this yet in mail.yiddish? I haven't had the chance to use it yet, but I'm hoping that the producers of the series tailor the curriculum to practical applications of a given language. I know that other tapes in this series cover subjects of interest to travelers like how to get around airports; I've never heard of an airport where it was necessary to know Yiddish (although probably it would be helpful in Israel if one encountered an elderly Ashkenaz with whom it would be a common language, and who needed help finding the right flight, or something). People should be aware that these small media places might not advertise their Yiddish cassettes as "Yiddish/30" and ask, so they don't order the same set more than once from different places. Anyway, if no one has reviewed this for you yet, I'd be happy to do so once I've gotten into it. [Yes, please do -- DS] Sherri Chasin Calvo calvo@nssdca.span.nasa.gov Yehi ratzon milfanecha, A--i Elocheinu velochei avotaynu, she'tishmor et artzeinu kidosha, v'tavi shalom al Yisrael v'al haolam. ------------------------ Digest-Message: 34/4 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1991 09:29:55 -0500 From: NESHELMA@UKANVM.Bitnet (Nicholas Eshelman) David, A dank far dem briv. Emes gezogt, ikh ken nisht gut Yidish, ober ikh hof az du zolst mikh farshtayn. Ikh vil zikh farbesern oyf Yidish, ober s'iz shver. Itst voyne ikh in Kansas, vu es zaynen nito fil mentshn vos redn dos mame-loshn. Ikh bin a biblioteker baym University of Kansas. Nit tsu farzoyndikn, ober di arbet kumt mir on shver vayl es iz zeyer langvaylik. A shir kumt oyfn zin: "Nudne teg, unter ayer last / Faln ferd, meshuge vern hint." --Aba Shtoltsenberg, "Nudne teg". Ikh gey arum vi a somnambulist, a yidisher zombie, a golem. Vos tut nisht a Yid tsulib parnose? Got tsu danken, di Golf mikhome iz bald fartik. Azoy fil kharbones. Ver vet zayn der noynste sakone inem mitler-mizrekh? Vi maynstu? Ikh bet dikh tsu antshuldikn mayn shlekht yidish. Ikh volt badarft geyn. Shrayb mir! [Vus far a shlekht yidish? S'iz azoi gut vi meins... -DS] ------------------------ Digest-Message: 34/5 From: saal@floyd.ATT.COM (Sam Saal) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish Subject: Yiddish linotype Date: 27 Feb 91 14:13:38 GMT [reprinted from soc.culture.jewish] I recently recieved a fund-raising letter from the National Yiddish Book Center (PO Box 969, Old East Street School, Amherst, MA 01004) requesting donations to help purchase the Forward's remaining Yiddish linotype machines. Many years BC (Before Computers:-) newspapers were produced on these machines and it was only 5 years ago that the Forward, the Yiddish newspaper, finally converted to DTP on MacIntoshes. They had several linotype machines left over, the rest were sold for scrap. The NYBC believes it is worth saving one of the last linotype machines as a museum peice. If you are interested in more information, contact the NYBC at the address above, or at the following phone numbers: Phone: (413) 256-1241 FAX: (413) 256-4261 I am in no way affiliated with the Forward, or the NYBC; I don't even understand that much Yiddish. Sam Saal saal@floyd.att.com Vayiphtach HaShem et peah HaAttone ------------------------ SOF FUN NUMER 34 ------------------------ David (Daniel Moishe) Sherman, Toronto Moderator, mail.yiddish dave@lsuc.on.ca attcan!lsuc!dave@uunet.uu.net uunet!attcan!lsuc!dave {AT&T sites}!att!lsuc!dave