Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 2 no. 79 October 8, 1992 1) Got vet helfn (Shleyme Axelrod) 2) Introduction and query (Dvosye Bilik) 3) Query (Hershel Bershady) 4) More Jobs Jobs Jobs (Elizabeth F. Miller) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: 04 Oct 1992 13:07:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Seymour Axelrod Subject: got vet helfn Hanan Ayalti's collection "Yiddish Proverbs" (Schocken, 1949, 1963) includes Got vet helfn--vi helf nor Got biz Got vet helfn. ^^^^ translated for Ayalti by I. Goldstick as "God will provide--if only God would provide until he provides." Nu, gut. But why is it "helf" rather than "helft", the regular 3rd person singular present of helfn? Is there a tense (or mood or aspect or whatever) here that I never learned? Or could this be a misprint? A dank. Shleyme Axelrod 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 04 Oct 92 14:31 EDT From: Dorothy_BILIK@umail.umd.edu Subject: introduction and query Tayere mitglider fun MENDLEN: I have been teaching Yid. lang.and lit. and Holocaust lit.and film at Maryland since 1976.My research interests include work on Glikl Hamil,Tsenerene, Holocaust lit. and Soviet Yiddish writers.My current project is Der Daytch-The Image of the (non-Jewish) German in Yiddish lit. I have collected shprikhverter, oysdrukn, lider etc.I have given papers on Aksenfeld's Shterntikhl and its presentation of Germans and Germany as well as on Kulbak's Disner Tshayld Herold. I'm working on Vaysenberg's Shmuglares. I ask my fellow MENDLNIKES to inform me of any references to Germans they have come across in their reading in Yid.lit.I found an isolated reference `in an early Vintshfingerl, in Perets Di Royz,Zibm gute yor. Sholem Aleykhem's Marienbad is another source. I would be grateful for any perl funder yidishe literatur vos hot a sheykhes tsu mayn inyen. A sheynem dank aykh alemen un hotzshe zikh a laykhtn tones un a gut yor. Dvosye. Dorothy Bilik@umail.umd.edu. 3)--------------------------------------------------- Date: 05 Oct 92 15:59:37 EST From: "Dr. Harold Bershady" Subject: an idiom After a recent faculty meeting a phrase popped into my mind that I used to hear from my bubbeh. The problem is, I don't know the exact meaning and would ap- preciate any help. The phrase is: Se it govern mir NIMIS UND MUVIS. I under= stand the first four words. "Nimis," ikh denk maint miserable -- although I'm not sure. But on "muvis" I draw a complete blank. For a moment I thought the word was "boorvis" -- barefoot -- that's the word I thought I heard her say when I was child, but it seems to my adult ear that that's all wrong. Ikh bait dir alleh fur an anfer. Dank. Hershel. aka Harold Bershady 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:52:10 -0400 From: "Elizabeth F. Miller" Subject: Library of Congress Vacancy - Hebraica The following is being cross-posted to MENDELE, JUDAICA, HEBREW-L, LIBRARY, and AUTOCAT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Washington, DC 20540-2295 *** VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT*** ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ Vacancy Announcement Number: 21263 ^ ^ Opening Date: September 21, 1992 ^ ^ Closing Date: October 23, 1992 ^ ^ ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ GENERAL POSITION INFORMATION: Title: Librarian (Whole Book Cataloger) GS-1410-9 (9235) $26,798 - $34,835 GS-1410-11 (9236) $32,423 - $42,152 GS-1410-12 (9237) $38,861 - $50,516 Position Location: Hebraica Team, Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division, Collections Services; James Madison Memorial Building Type of Appointment: Permanent, Non-supervisory, bargaining unit position Number of Vacancies: One (Subject to Congressional funding authorization for fiscal 1993 beginning October 1, 1992) Tour of Duty: Compflex or Flexitime BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES: The incumbent will serve on a team comprised of other catalogers and technicians responsible for cataloging material in the field of Jewish studies (e.g. Jewish history, philosophy, literature, or Judaism) or Hebrew studies with supervision provided by a GS-13 Team Leader. 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