Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 1 no. 230 April 28, 1992 1) Yidlish/gut-yor (Dovid Braun) 2) Yidlish (Bob Werman) 3) Announcement of Yugntruf conference (Dovid Braun) 4) Yidlish Omissions (Hershel Bershady) 5) Yidlish (Zev Hochberg) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 14:50:27 -0400 From: David Braun To: mendele@Vax1.Trincoll.Edu Hershl Bershadi, that is truly important work. Varnish as a "Yiddish" word reminded me of the "gornisht hens" my grandmother would prepare. And she served them and referred to them in this way in full earnest. Not to mention the "Segal pears". Lang lebn zol der griner english! Bob Werman, are you sure you can be Person A (i.e., the greeter, as opposed to the greetee) and greet your interlocutor with _gut-yor_ (not on rosheshone, that is)? Walking up to someone and being the first to speak and saying _gut-yor_ seems very odd to me. Have you heard this, or is it just the "logical" thing you thought of for when you need a neutral term for two people, one still shabesdik and the other vokhedik? Dovid Braun 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 23:50 +0300 From: RWERMAN%HUJIVMS.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 1.228 English - Yiddish words a la Hershel Bershady. And another kind, too. For example, it was many years that I realized that "aggravate" was not a purely Yiddish word. And the English subvariety had a rather different meaning, "make worse" instead of "annoy." __Bob Werman rwerman@vms.huji.ac.il Jerusalem 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 92 15:28:57 -0400 From: David Braun Subject: Yugntruf annual conference/symposium Libe khaveyrim, Here's the program of the annual conference/symposium of Yugntruf - Youth for Yiddish, as I promised you a few days ago. Glad to have received all your personal mail on the subject. Dovid * * * * * * * * * * Yugntruf - Youth for Yiddish invites you to its annual symposium REVIVAL: JEWS AND YIDDISH IN THE NEW EASTERN EUROPE Sunday, May 3, 1992 1:00-5:00 pm Unterberg Hall Jewish Theological Seminary 3080 Broadway, at 122 Street (Manhattan) Guest speakers: Dr. Samuel Kassow (Prof. of History, Trinity College) Dr. David E. Fishman (Asst Prof of Jewish History, Jewish Theological Seminary) Mikhail Krutikov (Doctoral student in Yiddish studies, Columbia Univ/Max Weinreich Center Fellow, YIVO) Chair: Mary Horn (Doctoral student in Yiddish studies, Columbia Univ/YIVO) Musical Program: Adrienne Cooper, well-known Yiddish singer, accompanied by Binyumen (Ben) Schaechter, pianist and composer Refreshments will be served. Admission: $5.00 ($3.00 for students) (Program will be conducted in Yiddish.) For further information call (212) 787-6675. 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Apr 92 23:27:45 EST From: "Dr. Harold Bershady" Subject: Yidlish omissions Tom Wasow reminds me of three other words I neglected to mention. (It was only a short list...): perusal, crankshaft, shin splints. These were discovered in the early days -- 30 years ago in the wilds of Mad. Hershel Bershady 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1992 00:25 EST From: Zev Hochberg Subject: Yidlish re Hershel Bershady's list of Yiddish sounding English words (1.228, Yidlish): My favorites are conniption and ladle - words I never use in non-Jewish circles. (cf Alex Portnoy's discussion of this phenomenon.) Zev Hochberg ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 1.230 Submissions: mendele@vax1.trincoll.edu Business: nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu Please sign your articles.