Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 2 no. 129 December 27, 1992 1) Phonetics (Mikhl Herzog) 2) Brooklyn (Ellen Prince) 3) Pozshornes (Sheldon Benjamin) 4) New NYBC address (Arn Abramson) 5) WBRS (Brandeis) Yiddish Hour (Mark David) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 16:10 EST From: ZOGUR@CUVMB.Columbia.edu Subject: Phonetics Yitskhak Kertesz: Stress shift in multisyllabic Yiddish words of Hebrew origin, like emunA, etc., is usually to the penultimate syllable and not, in the Hungarian fashion, to the first. Thus, Yiddish emUne vs. Hungarian accented Emuna. OK? Mikhl. 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 17:39:39 EST From: "Ellen F. Prince" Subject: Where in Brooklyn? for norman zide: clearly we come from very different neighborhoods in brooklyn, since yours had people of italian and jewish descent while mine had italians and jews, but i will give you what would be my neighborhood's answer to your question of whether queen elizabeth is a shikse: you gotta be kidding. she hasn't been a shikse for nearly half a century and is now definitely an alte goye. are you SURE you're from brooklyn??? :) ellen prince 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 22:16:37 EST From: sbenj@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Pozshornes I don't know if it's the same thing or not, but my grandmother used to refer to the firehouse in her (Belorussian) shtetl as the Pozharne Kommande. Sheldon Benjamin 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 22:17:44 EST From: "Arthur S. Abramson" Subject: The new NYBC address Hershel and everyone else should note that the address he has given for the National Yiddish Book Center is its old one, although I guess mail will be forwarded from there to the new one: National Yiddish Book Center 48 Woodbridge St. South Hadley, MA 01075, USA Arn Abramson 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 16:24:32 -0500 From: mhd@world.std.COM Subject: WBRS's The Yiddish Hour Celebrates Second Broadcast Year Press release for the "Yiddish Hour" radio show I produce. -- Mark David (mhd@world.std.com) ----------------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 December 1992 Waltham, Massachusetts Contact: Mark David (617) 738-1870 or (617) 736-5277 WBRS's The Yiddish Hour Celebrates Second Broadcast Year Ruth Wisse, Jeff Warshauer, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman Among Featured Guests During Jubilee Month Boston's Yiddish-language radio program, The Yiddish Hour (WBRS-FM 100.1 in Waltham, MA), celebrates the completion of its second year of programming beginning today, Sunday, December 27, 1992 at 6:00 pm, and continuing throughout January. Special guests will include: Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, poet and songwriter from New York, featuring selections from her new cassette recording Zumerteg (Sunday, December 26, 1992, 6:00 p.m.); Jeff Warshauer, a renowned Boston-based klezmer guitarist and mandolinist, who will play original klezmer tunes, both live and from his upcoming album: The Singing Waltz: Klezmer Guitar and Mandolin (Sunday, January 10, 1993, 6:00 p.m.); and Ruth Wisse, who joins the Boston Jewish community this spring as the Professor of Yiddish and Comparative Literature at Harvard University (Sunday, January 24, 1992, 6:00 p.m.). The Yiddish Hour has been broadcast continuously since December 30, 1990, out of WBRS's studios on the campus of Brandeis university, every Sunday at 6:00 p.m., bringing Yiddish-language programming to Brandeis and communities in the surrounding Greater Boston area. This special programming tops off another successful year for the Yiddish Hour, one highlighted by a live-recorded radio concert by the Wholesale Klezmer Band, as well as exclusive appearances by such Yiddish-speaking personalities from near and far as Leyb Frenkel, Sylvia Fuks-Fried, Joseph Goldman, Miriam Kressyn, Miriam Libenson, Leah Post, Seymour Rexsite, Harriet Segal, Leah Shlanger, S. L. Shneiderman, Semyon Shuster, Zalman Srebro, Manya Webb, Beatrice (Baker) Weinerman, and Rosa Zarubinskaya. In addition, the program has featured the best in Yiddish recorded works, including outstanding coverage of the local, national, and international Klezmer music revival. WBRS-FM, a student-run radio station at Brandeis University in Waltham, serves the Brandeis community and residents of surrounding towns, including Waltham, Watertown, Newton, Cambridge, Boston, and Brookline. For further information, contact the producer of The Yiddish Hour, Mark David, by mail at WBRS, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02254, or by telephone at (617) 738-1870. Mark David ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 2.129