Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 2 no. 194 May 7, 1993 1) Sayings (Alex Rosenberg) 2) Re: pantoufl/slippers (Dvoyreh Biasca) 3) Query on demography (Ellen Prince) 4) Introduction (Keith Wilkerson) 5) Yid/Id (Meylekh Viswanath) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu May 6 22:45:13 1993 From alex@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU Subject: Re: Sayings I was brought up in a Yiddish speaking house and was in the first ever Yiddish class in Melbourne. Unfortunately, due to family circumstances (marriage to a non-Yiddish speaking girl, whose parents barely understood Yiddish) I have not used the language for quite a considerable time but I derive great pleasure from Mendele and am renewing my studies. A sheynam dank , Alex Rosenberg 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu May 6 16:42:42 1993 From: Debra Halperin Biasca Subject: Re: pantoufl/slippers Re: Eli Katz': > Has anyone mentioned "pantofl"? In my home it was > used interchangeably with "shtekshikh", with the lat- > ter much more frequent. Pantoufles are "slippers" in French. Did your family have some contact with France? Dvoyreh Biasca 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri May 7 08:15:31 1993 From: "Ellen F. Prince" Subject: query on demography would anyone out there know of any demographic research on the migrations of jews eastward in the middle ages from german-speaking lands to slavic-speaking lands? i'm particularly interested in the proportion of males to females. a dank aykh! ellen prince 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu May 6 19:34:52 1993 From: k.wilkerson4@genie.geis.com Subject: Introduction My mother's parents both spoke Yiddish, more so my grandmother, as my grandfather considered it a "woman's language", though I think it had more to do with his wanting to be "American" and only speaking English. Ever since I was a small child I was fascinated by it. Since my mother's family lived in Brooklyn, E. 92nd St., there were plenty of opportunities to hear it. I'd even buy copies of Farvart (spelling?) and try my hand at it. Of course that was many years ago, but the fascination lingers. My mother and her mother are now dead, and my mother's two sisters only speak it among themselves, when they don't want others to understand what they're saying. I would greatly appreciate any information you may be able to send me. Unfortunately, the public libraries in Atlanta have no resources at all, and never being raised in the Jewish faith, I wasn't sure about contacting the Jewish Community Center. Keith Wilkerson 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri May 7 09:54:42 1993 From: VISWANATH%DRACO.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Subject: yid/id There was a recent post by Mikhl Herzog about a rule regarding words beginning with a vowel. This was offered as an explanation/clarification of the yid/id question. I don't have the original posting anymore. Also, I didn't understand it the first time around. Could Mikhl expand on it? A dank. Meylekh. ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 2.194