Mendele: Yiddish literature and language
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Contents of Vol. 3.063
July 19, 1993

1) Koylech/barkhes (Pe'rets Mett)
2) Shiksa (Diane Valsamis)
3) Old poetry (Chaim Rosmarin)
4) Vanity tags (Yankel Lantz)
5) Necrology (Zachary Baker)

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 11:21:31 BST
From: P.Mett@open.ac.uk (Percy Mett)
Subject: koylech/barkhes

Thank you Yitschok K for elaborating.

In response to your question

"What is the definition of large? Does this mean larger than a loaf
of bread? "

-- I don't know (and I am quite willing to accept your
interpretation. We didn't use (eat) a koylech at home - it merely
came up in conversation, so i have no idea how big it was. Somehow I
just associate it with a very large loaf.

(Totally irrelevant, but this might amuse you: When I was accepted
at university  {=college} as an undergraduate, this became a subject
of some amusement to my father and his family, who had not
participated in a formal educational system, and certainly had
received no secular education. How could they when they were brought
up in Klimontow {klimentov, keltse gubernye} which had no such thing
as an elementary school. Education was at the house of  a mlamed,
followed by a number of years of participation in a shiur and joint
study in the beysmedresh. On hearing the word 'college' this was
immediately translated as koylech)

pe'rets mett

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Date: Fri Jul 16 09:33:39 1993
From: Diane Valsamis <MNHEN031%SIVM.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
Subject: Shiksa

Growing up in Colombia, I remember my grandparents referring to the
maids as shiksas also, not with a negative connotation, just
matter-of-factly.

Diane Valsamis

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Date: Fri Jul 16 17:52:45 1993
From: Howard Rosemarin <chaim@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Old poetry

For a piece on the origins of the yiddish theatre, I would
appreciate information on yiddish poetry and folk songs from before
1880.

Chaim Rosemarin

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Date: Sun Jul 18 10:07:51 1993
From: rwl@world.std.com (Robert W Lantz)
Subject: Vanity tags

In Staunton, VA there is a car with OI VEY as the vanity tag.  My
own is YANKELE.  Somewhere in Virginia there must also be YANKEL and
YANKL.  They were already taken when I applied for mine.

Yankel

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Date: Sun Jul 18 20:32:41 1993
From:  Zachary Baker (bm.yib@rlg.stanford.edu)
Subject:  Necrology

A number of MENDELE subscribers have heard of the sudden and
untimely passing of Bobbi (Getzoff) Zylberman's oldest daughter,
Penina, about two-and-a-half weeks ago, in Melbourne, Australia.
Before she married Michael Zylberman and moved to Melbourne, Bobbi
was a Yugntruf stalwart here in New York, a graduate of the Queens
College Yiddish program and a student in YIVO's Max Weinreich Center
for Advanced Jewish Studies.  Over the past few years, Bobbi has
continued her Yiddish activities through the establishment of
Koala-Farlag, a publisher of Yiddish children's books.  She and
Michael have raised their children in the Yiddishist spirit in which
they themselves grew up.

Penina, who was only nine, died after a brief illness.  Memorial
contributions in her name may be sent to: The Sholem Aleichem
College,  11 Sinclair Street, Elsternwick 3185,  Victoria,
AUSTRALIA.

Condolences may be sent to Bobbi and Michael Zylberman, at: 3
Lubrano Street,  East Brighton 3187,  Victoria,  AUSTRALIA.

A memorial service for Penina Zylberman took place on July 18th, at
Riverside Cemetery, in Lodi, NJ, and was attended by family and
friends from the New York area.

Zachary Baker

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