Mendele: Yiddish literature and language
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Contents of Vol. 4.325
February 16, 1995

1) Mentsh words (Neyekh Zide)
2) Another piece of mentsh (Michael Steinlauf)
3) Yidl mitn Fidl (Yankel Lantz)
4) Yidishe farlagn (Meylekh Viswanath)
5) Shtetl wedding simulation (Soreh Benor)
6) An ofenem briv tsu Yugntruf (Leybl Botvinik)
7) NY Times article on Yiddish (Barry Walfish)
8) Paul Garvin (Vera Szabo)

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 20:50:41 CST
From: n-zide@uchicago.edu
Subject: Mentsh words

How about (Meylekh Vishvanath ? ) Urdu insaan ?

Less esoterically, in a memoir of (the short story writer and poet)
Raymond Carver, someone  (this is from rough memory) referred to Carver
as a (real) mentsh - or 'as he would have said ..a (real) sweetheart'.A
little closer to the mark I think (Carver was from the Northwest) than
'human being' ?

Neyekh/ Norman Zide

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 15:23:59 -0500 (EST)
From: m_steinlauf@acad.fandm.edu
Subject: Another piece of mentsh

The expression I've always liked in relation to that word, one that says
a whole lot, I think, about the nature of Ashkenaz, is: A goy ken oykh
zayn a mentsh.

Al dos guts to Louis and everyone else.

Michael Steinlauf

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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 21:55:28 -0500
From: rlantz@globalcom.net
Subject: Yidl mitn fidl

I can't shed any light on the lyrics, but I have a question.  Is there
another version?  It seems to me that I remember an old Jan Bart
recording with a similar, but different text.

Yankel Lantz

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 95 12:45:59 EST
From: pviswana@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Subject: yidishe farlagn

Ikh volt gevolt makhn a reshime fun yidishe farlagn.  Voltn mendelnikes
gekent mir shikn di nemen fun di farlagn un vos far bikher zey geben oys?

I am compiling a list of yiddish publishers.  Could mendelnikes send me a
list of publishers (that they might know of) and the type of books they
publish.

I know bobby getsoff is on our list.  Perhaps she could email me; also
ellen prince wrote of marion wright (?) the oxford person (who was
mentioned in the english article that she posted, as a yiddish
publisher).

Meylekh Viswanath

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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 17:17:13 -0500 (EST)
From: seb28@columbia.edu
Subject: Shtetl wedding simulation

The newly founded Columbia University Yiddish Club is proud to announce
its first annual Yiddishkeit Festival -- A Shtetl Wedding, Thursday,
February 16th at 8pm in John Jay Lounge. The purpose of this event is to
expose Columbia students to Yiddish language and culture. Mendelyaner (or
Mendelniks) Soreh Benor, Sam Juni, Ruvn Millman, Aren Portnoy, and
Binyomin Weiner will speak only Yiddish in their "roles" as members of
the wedding party. Music by Uptown Klezmer, kosher catering by Maadan.
Sponsored by Columbia Deutsches Haus - Germanic Languages Dept., Columbia
Jewish Student Union, Columbia Yiddish Studies Program, Hillel Irving and
Sarah Pitt Institute for Student Leadership, North American Jewish
Students Appeal, Jody and Marc Polevoy, and YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research. Anyone is welcome, and admission is free! Contact Soreh at
(212) 853-6641 with any questions. Mir viln az ale zol lib hobn yidish.

Soreh Benor
New York

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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 18:28:24 IST
From: leybl@telecomm.tadiran.co.il
Subject: an ofenem briv tsu yugntruf

khosheve fraynd,

in a februar numer mendele vern ibergegbn interesante informatsies vegn
yugntruf aktivitetn, far velke ikh dank aykh. halevay volt ikh gekent
kumen. un khotsh ikh bin a getrayer yugntrufnik, iz dokh fun netanya keyn
NY nit keyn katsn-shprung.

ikh hob ober a tayne tsu aykh, vos keyn informatsies oyf yidish vern dort
nit gegebn.

lozt mir dos oyfklern andersh:

1) oyf mendele zaynen do a sakh vos kenen nit keyn yidish. farshtey ikh,
   az far zey darf men _oykh_ shraybn oyf english (ober me tor nit
   fargesn yidish);

2) oyf mendele zaynen do a sakh vos kenen davke ye yidish;

3) oyf mendele shraybt men tsu veynik oyf yidish... a shod.

4) di yugnt far yidish bavegung "yugntruf" darf zayn a bayshpil far
   andere az me zol zikh ye banutsn mit yidish.

5) a groyser rov hot amol gezogt: "im eyn ani li, mi li".  andere kenen
   dos taytshn farkert: oyb yugntruf meldet nit oyf yidish, farvos zoln
   mir?...

ikh bet aykh, afile ir git nit iber alts oyf yidish (un dos iz
gevuntshn), muzt ir epes ye gebn.

mit beste erets-yisroyldike grusn, ayer yugntrufnik,

leybl botvinik
netanya

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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:09:25 EST
From: walfish@vax.library.utoronto.ca
Subject: NY Times article on Yiddish

Does anyone still have a copy of the NY Times article on
Yiddish in Williamsburg? I would like to get a copy for
myself.

Barry Walfish
Toronto

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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 12:44:30 -0500 (EST)
From: vs55@columbia.edu
Subject: Paul Garvin

I am looking for Paul Garvin, linguist, who did some research on
Hungarian Yiddish. Does anyone know where he can be reached these days?

Vera Szabo

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