Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 3.117 October 11, 1993 1) Anna Margolin (Andrea Most) 2) PAC and PJ (Fishl Kutner) 3) Nasalized "ayin" and payger (Moshe Waldoks) 4) Peygern (Tuvye Shtern) 5) Pinchas (Zev Kesselman) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri Oct 8 12:12:34 1993 From: MOST@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU Subject: Anna Margolin I am looking for a bibliography of critical and biographical information on poet Anna Margolin. Does anyone have any leads? Thanks ---Andrea Most 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri Oct 8 12:16:28 1993 From: Philip Kutner Subject: PAC and PJ PAC, Project: Accredited Courses, started with the column on the Yiddish program at UCL in the September issue of der bay. Ohio State will be PAC 2 in the November issue. Each month another college will appear. The aim is to have a clearinghouse of current catalogs and a description of the programs. There will be no evaluation, only facts. These will appear in the order in which they are received. Please send the article online so that it can be easily formatted. A catalog listing the current courses is needed. It is hoped that B'nai B'rith will list these programs in their annual GUIDE TO JEWISH LIFE ON CAMPUS. This list will be available on request. PJ, Project Journals, is an effort to update the list of Yiddish periodicals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters and Yiddish organizations. The starting point is Dina Abramowicz's listing in JUDAICA LIBRARIANSHIP, the Journal of the Assn. of Jewish Libraries, Spring 1984 issue. Please send additions, deletions, and corrections online to Fishl. fishl@well.sf.ca.us Philip (Fishl) Kutner 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri Oct 8 12:59:24 1993 From: WALDOKS@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU Subjwct: Nasalized "ayin" and payger The name Yankel for ya'kov drives from the notion that the original pronounc- iation of "ayin" (preseveresed in Yemenite and high-Sephardic ("Shemang Yisrael " as heard in the spanish-portugese rite) entered into Yiddish oyssprakh dos heisst that Yiddish presereved the distinvction between shtumer Aleph and nasalized ayin- no alepg beys permits two letters to serve only one function. I am fascinated by this Shephardic/Ashkenazic nexus and propose that it had an Italian interface- in the renaissance anf later- (e.g. the Bovo book, (bobe mayseh, etc.) Yankel is of course only one of the many nasalized ayins that have been discussed recently in these messAges. Peyger- has I beleive a Hebrew opshtam and is used only with the demise of animals and as a slur for a non-Jews. Jews use the verb nifter for a Jew and histalek for a tzaddik. mit kovid, Moshe Waldoks 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun Oct 10 03:48:34 1993 From: Jeremy Stern Subject: Re: Peygern Peygern iz yo a heberyish vort, vos shtamt aroys funem shoyresh "p.g.r.", khotsh dos hebreyishe vort bashraybt nit bloyz khayes, nor mentshn oykhet. git a kuk in der tfile "eloykay neshome," vu es shteyt geshribm "hamakhzir neshomes _lifgorim_ meysim." (der vos kert um neshomes to meysim.) Tuvye Shtern 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon Oct 11 02:22:45 1993 From: Subject: Pinchas I once did miluim (reserve army service) with an Egyptologist, who informed me that the name Pinchas is ancient Egyptian in origin (after all, the original Pinchas was in the Exodus). The P is the definite article, equivalent to Hebrew's prefix 'heh', and the n-ch-s means black. Zev Kesselman ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 3.117