Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 4.071 July 24, 1994 1) Argentine YIVO (Dovid Braun) 2) More on the bombing in BA (Zachary Baker) 3) Bodies of water (Mikhl Herzog) 4) Rashi glosses (Mikhl Herzog) 5) Ladijin (Kay Goodman) 6) Havdole (Arn Abramson) 7) Havdole (Noyekh Miller) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 94 16:09:23 EDT From: dovid@MIT.EDU Subject: Argentine YIVO Yesterday's New York Times (July 21) stated that the YIVO was spared destruc- tion, but that the archives of AMIA were destroyed. Zachary or anyone else: what's the correct version? Dovid Braun 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 94 12:52:41 PDT From: BM.YIB@RLG.Stanford.EDU Subject: More on the bombing in BA Some more news regarding the bombing of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires, where the Argentine YIVO was situated. On Friday (July 22nd) Larry Rubinstein, Executive V.P. of YIVO in New York had a phone conversation with Shaul Brajer, who is associated with YIVO in BA. Brajer (prounounced Brakher) says that the front part of the building was completely destroyed, but that the rear section is more intact. The surviving portion of the YIVO Library (in the rear) is still surrounded by rubble. Perhaps as much as half is potentially salvageable, but it will be about a week before that can be verified, since the emphasis now is naturally on recovering bodies buried underneath the collapsed sections of the structure. I spoke yesterday with Shoshana Balaban-Wolkowicz, former librarian of the BA YIVO (now living in the U.S.). She says that part of the YIVO Archives was also located in the rear of 633 Pasteur, so it is conceivable that it might also be partly intact. A special fund for the reconstruction of the Buenos Aires YIVO has been set up. Contributions may be sent to the following address: CITIBANK, 111 Wall Street, New York, NY 10043. for: EXPRINTER INTERNATIONAL BANK, N.V., account no. 36083629, reference no. 11159, in the name of INSTITUTO CIENTIFICO JUDIO - IWO - ARGENTINA. In Saturday's NY Times there is a brief article noting that a Shiite group, Partisans of God, based in Lebanon, has claimed responsibility for the bombing. Zachary Baker 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 94 00:37 EDT From: ZOGUR@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Subject: Bodies of water To: Peter Kluehs In Eastern Yiddish "taykh", diminutive "taykhl/tekhl" does, indeed, mean 'river'; a synonym, of more limited distribution, is "bokh". A small "taykh" may also be designated "ritshke" or "zhitshke". A variant of either "ozere" or "sazhlke" designates the "standing body of water" for which modern German uses Teich. How come? I don't have the sources at hand now, but you should consult medieval (rather than modern) German sources, and German dialectal sources (Kluge, Kretshmer, DSA, Zeitschrift fuer deutsche Philologie, etc.) These are apt to provide a better explanation for the divergence. Let us know what you discover. Mikh Herzog 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 94 00:37 EDT From: ZOGUR@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Subject: Rashi glosses To: Bob Werman Bob, does Rashi actually introduce Yiddish glosses with the designation "belaaz", or does your reference to such glosses as "laazim" follow from the assumption that "laaz" is an acronym (for "leshon am zar[a]")? I know that the acronym explanation is part of our "received wisdom" but, what if it's not true? Isn't it the case that wherever Rashi himself introduces a gloss with "belaaz", it's followed by a word of Romance origin? That's why Max Weinreich uses the term Laaz to designate the Jewish correlates of Old French and Old Italian, whence the "Laazic" component of Yiddish. By the way, is it invariably written as "roshe-teyves",i.e. bla"z? Finally, aren't what you call Rashi's "Middle High German" glosses introduced by the "roshe-teyves" bl"a, i.e. "beloshn ashkenaz"? Why assume that "loshn ashkenaz" is Middle High German? Why not Yiddish? The best scholarship on the subject of Rashi's Yiddish glosses is Erika Timm's (University of Trier). I doubt that she'd accept them as MHG. Was there any other designation for Yiddish at that time? What say you? Mikhl Herzog 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 23:18:22 -0700 From: ac939@lafn.org Subject: Ladijin I'm new to mendele and wonder if there is anyone out ther e who might have any information aboutthe town of Ladijin. I was born there, came to US at age 6 months. When my brother visited Russia he did visit Ladijin which is larger than a shtetl now but could find no signs of Jews who ever lived there. Ladijin is part of the Ukraine. Also does anyone have any info on the writer Linetsky. My grandmother came from the town of either Vinnitsa or Uman (I don't know which) and I understand that Linetsky is from one of these two towns. A shenem daynk un gut shabos tsu aleman. Kay Goodman 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Jul 94 23:30:41 EDT From: ABRAMSON@UConnVM.UConn.Edu Subject: Havdole To David Kazdan and Mikhl Herzog, Thank you very much for telling me about the Havdole prayer "Got fun Avrom." I cannot find it in any of the prayerbooks in my house, and I am not likely to be in an urban center soon where i might find it. Would Zachary Baker or Shames Noyekh be good enough to send me a copy of the text either by e-mail in transcription or to my postal address in Yiddish writing? Arn (aka Arthur) Abramson 7)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 94 13:35:20 EDT From: nmiller@trincoll.edu Subject: Havdole My source (Tikkun Asher) writes that this was found among the manuscripts of Rebbe Levi Yitzkhok of Berditchev, that it was considered a segula g'dola l'hatzlacha and that it is recited three times by men and women. I've tried to "match" the spelling throughout. Got fun Avrohom un fun Yitzhkhok un fun Yankev bahit dayn lib folk Yisroel fun alles beyzen un daynem loyb az der Shabbes koydesh geyt avek, az die vokh zol unz kumen tsu emuna shleyma tsu emunas khakhomim tsu ahavas khaverim tsu dveykus haboyre borukh-hu, maamin tsu zayn b'sholoysh-esray ikorim shelkho ub'geula kroyva b'mheyro b'yomeynu ub'tkhyas hameysim ub'nevuous Moyshe re"h riboynoy shel oylom di bizt dokh hanoyseyn lyoef koyekh gib dayne libe Yudishe kinderlikh oykh koyekh dir tsu loyben un dikh tsu dinen vayter keynem nit az die vokh zol unz kumen tsu gezund un tsu mazel un tsu hatslokhe un tsu brokhe un tsu khesed un tsu bney khayi u'mzuney lonu ulkhol Yisrel v'neemar omeyn. Noyekh Miller ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 4.071 A Table of Contents is now available via anonymous ftp, along with weekly updates. 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