Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 3.032 June 11, 1993 1) Alle montag un donershtag (Bob Werman) 2) Laks, salmon (Bob Werman) 3) Various (Ellen Prince) 4) Rebbe, rebbetsin (Henry Breitrose) 5) Yiddish in the DC area (Diane Valsamis) 6) Yiddish club conference attendance (Fishl Kutner) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed Jun 9 15:27:21 1993 From: RWERMAN%HUJIVMS.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Subject: alle montag un donershtag Monday and Thursday, in addition to fasting on Mondays and Thursdays for part of the year, Monday and Thursday are marked by some differences in morning prayers, particularly in the penance which is lengthened for all but two months and the reading of the Torah which is always done. always done is alle montag un donershtag. __Bob Werman 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed Jun 9 15:48:59 1993 From: RWERMAN%HUJIVMS.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Subject: laks, salmon An article in Scientific American about 35-40 years ago claimed that counting, beginning in Teutonic Germany and spreading into the Middle East went One, Two, ... Nine, Ten, Lox [or lax or related words]. lax and lox [not the Roman lex] were salmon related or derived in all these languages, according to the article. __Bob Werman 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed Jun 9 17:36:13 1993 From: "Ellen F. Prince" Subject: Various [Mark Pinson writes:] >I was rather surprised when at your shop & my alma mater, U of PA, >when I proposed to send in for consideration an article surveying >these resources to the SLAVIC REVIEW, now based at Penn, I never >got any answer at all - and as you probably know, your Russ/E.Eur. >center is very computerized. i take no responsibility for my esteemed colleagues across the hall. :) [Shleyme Axelrod writes:] >In a recent posting, ellen prince states that a female colleague >"should ... be a mendelnik." My immediate reaction was that ellen >should have said "mendelnitse",... ah, very true--*if* i were writing yiddish! but i was using a by now well-entrenched *english* word, which is of course invariant with respect to gender (cp. beatnik, but not *beatnitse; refusenik, but not *refusenitse...) heh heh... ellen prince, only a nudnik, never a nudnitse... 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed Jun 9 19:12:30 1993 From: hbreit@leland.Stanford.EDU Subject: Rebbe/Rebbetsin The recent discussion about Mendelnik/Meldenitse for mitglider fun Mendele raises another question in my mind. A former student went on to become an ordained rabbi. She will be visiting in a few weeks with her husband. How shall I address them. Can there be a female Rebbe? Obviously she's not a Rebbetsin. But how should her husband be addressed? A shayne, groise, hartsidige dank, Henry Breitrose (vos voynt in Stanford, avadeh.) 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu Jun 10 08:51:05 1993 From: Diane Valsamis Subject: Yiddish in the DC Area Does anyone know of any Yiddish clubs or classes in the Northern Virginia or DC Area? Diane Valsamis 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu Jun 10 09:43:45 1993 From: Philip Kutner Subject: Yiddish club conference attendance In Mendele 3.023 Allan Blair reported on the First International Yiddish Club Conference at the U of MD. Below is a distribution of the participants. Couples were given as a single listing. Listings (Not People) of First Yiddish Club Conference MD 26 NY 19 OH 9 NJ 8 CA 8 DC 6 Canada 4 FL 4 AZ 3 IL 2 MA 2 TX 2 VA 2 Argentina 1 CT 1 GA 1 ME 1 PA 1 OR 1 The coordinating committee will be visiting Toronto at the end of this month to discuss the possibility of the Friends of Yiddish being the sponsoring group for the next conference. If you wish to be sent notices about the conference please contact me. Those receiving DER BAY will be automatically notified. Fishl ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 3.032