Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 4.186 November 16, 1994 1) The Yiddish Voice (Meyer David) 2) Di bubeshkale iz gegangen (Mendy Fliegler) 3) Moishe Pipik and Chaim Yankel (Neil Baker) 4) Minken un kikhelekh (Daniella HarPaz) 5) Dmitri Shostakovich (Jascha Kessler) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 00:18:56 -0500 From: yv@world.std.com Subject: Rhoda Bernard Sings for The Yiddish Voice (PRESS RELEASE) Yiddish Voice Radio Features Singer Rhoda Bernard Boston Show's First Live Music Event The Yiddish Voice, a brand new Yiddish-language weekly radio show, will feature singer Rhoda Bernard on its upcoming show, wednesday, November 16. The program airs each wednesday from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m on WUNR 1600 AM/Brookline, MA. Rhoda Bernard received her Bachelor's Degree in Political Philosophy from Harvard University in 1988. She went on to study jazz voice performance at New England Conservatory of Music from 1990 to 1994. In 1992, she was introduced to Yiddish music a has been performing Yiddish music professionally ever since. She has appeared as guest vocalist with members of the Klezmer Conservatory Band and with the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra and appears regularly with The Boston Kleztet and The Barry Shapiro Orchestra, as well as in concerts of Yiddish song with piano or guitar accompaniment. For this performance, she'll be joined by her guitarist, Tom Pendergast, to share traditional Yiddish folksongs and Yiddish folksongs with jazz harmony. The Yiddish Voice, which began broadcasting last July, features music, poetry, comedy, interviews, news, commentary, and announcements of current events, all of it in the Yiddish language. This is the first time a live musical event takes place on the show, though others are planned for the future. For further information, mail, telephone, or email to: Mark David 47 Stetson Street Brookline, MA 02146 Phone: (617) 738-1870 Email: yv@world.std.com (Yiddish Voice Radio WUNR1600AM/Boston) 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 00:55:08 -0500 From: sroolik@aol.com Subject: Di bubeshkale iz gegangen Tzu ale... Ikh hob amul gefregt: Efsher ken eymitzer die verter fun dos maysele: Amul iz geven a Bobishkale iz ze gegangen in vald arayn kloibn shpeyndelakh....." Mayn mame hot dos mir dertzelt in ikh ken dos nisht gedenken... Mendy Fliegler 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 94 09:51:00 PST From: bakern@dbisna.com Subject: Moishe Pipik and Chaim Yankel On another list, someone wrote: There is a writer, based in Israel, who writes a regular weekly column for the NYC English language Jewish Weekly Forward. His byline is Philologos. He writes on derivations in Hebrew and Yiddish and although I can't remember the exact history, he dedicated an entire column to the Moishe Pipik question. The discussion was as to the origins of "Moishe Pipik" and "Chiam Yankel". Does any one have information in this regard. Neil Baker 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 12:25 EDT From: harpaz@binah.cc.brandeis.edu Subject: Minken un kikhelekh I'm having such an interesting experience I must share...however trivial: Some weeks ago, after having spoken on the phone with a friend in Yiddish before bed, I awoke with the phrase "patshi patshi kikhelekh" in my head. I couldn't quite remember what it was or why it was in my thoughts. I could tell that it was a Yiddish rhyme of sorts, but that was it. Later in the day I recalled "something something shikhelekh" (the somethings just standing in for rhythm). I told a friend and he said that it was a well known nursery rhyme in Yiddish. I asked him not to tell it to me, I wanted to try and remember it on my own...to live with it a bit. I did not grow up in a Yiddish speaking family, although it was my mother's first language; we spoke Hebrew and English. However, my paternal grandmother did speak some Yiddish around me (with her sister) and my mother had a repetoire of Yiddish songs to which I remembered mostly melody with little vocabulary. Anyway, perhaps it was seeing the words on Mendele the other day, or perhaps it was showing the film "yidl mitn fidl" to my Yiddish students, but something set my brain in motion and I woke up yesterday remembering my father's mother playing with me when I was very young to the words of the "patshi kikhelekh" rhyme! I remembered almost all of them, and then my maternal grandmother (the other is unfortunately no longer living) filled in the blanks--her version is a bit different from my "Sapta's" (that's what I called her). My mother told me yesterday that she also used to play it with me, but partly in English: patshi patshi kikhelekh Aba's gonna' get you shikhelekh Mommy's gonna' make you sockilekh red red rosy bekelekh ...or something like that. Almost done! One last note: I also remembered my "Sapta" telling me a favorite English joke of hers: (Imagine a heavy Polish-Yiddish/Israeli accent) Vat dit eyn mink say to de udder von? See you in shul! Daniella HarPaz 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 94 12:09 PST From: ime9jfk@mvs.oac.ucla.edu Subject: Dmitri Shostakovich Re: S and the Jews: The Borodin Quartet, Jews, knew DS and worked with him and recorded him, and some of them are still traveling and performing. They might be an excellent means of getting information about this music of S's. Jascha Kessler ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 4.186 Mendele has 2 rules: 1. Provide a meaningful Subject: line 2. 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