Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 5.250 February 11, 1996 1) The Yiddish canon (Meyer Wolf) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 01:45:21 -0500 From: wolfim@chelsea.ios.com Subject: The Yiddish canon [This post is in response to a query in 5.210 which asked for suggestions toward compiling a more authoritative Yiddish canon than the one found in Harold Bloom. nm] One of the subprojects of the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language was the capture of selected texts on a computer-readable medium. These texts were to be used to generate concordances that would provide a source for the systematic documentation of lexical elements which made it into the written language. A list of works was drawn up which would provide coverage of the language from the earliest times the present (roughly 1985). When our genial moderator suggested that it would be interesting to make a stab at formulationg a Yiddish Literary Canon, it occurred to me that the list could be a starting point for a collective attempt, if others were interested. Allowing for the original purpose of the list, consider it a first draft of the codification of the Yiddish Literary Canon, that is a body of great works of Yiddish literature and literary critical work in Yiddish with which a literate Yiddish speaker would be expected to be familiar in order to qualify for being well-read (that's the precritical notion of literary canon, I believe). I have taken the liberty of adding to the list a couple of items that were not included since, for instance, a concordance already existed. I have omitted irrelevant items, such as translations of the sidur and additional editions. First Literary Language ================ Brantshpigl Cambridge Codex Elia Bohur's works: Bovo D'antono (Bove-bukh), Paris un Viena, short poems Hamisho Humshei Tora (Cremona) Krovets Lev Tov Ma'aseh-bukh Seyfer Doniel Seyfer Maseh uMmeriveh Seyfer Melokhim (Melokhim-bukh) Seyfer Midos Seyfer Shmuel (Shmuel-bukh) Seyfer Yehoshua Simhas haNefesh Tseno uRe'eno (Tsene-rene) Tsukhtshpigl Yosifon Second Literary Language (to Mendele) ============================ Aksnfeld, Y. Dos shterntikhl Der ershter yidisher rekrut R' N. Bratslever Sipurey-mayses Etinger, Sh. Ale Verk Fishelzon, E. Teater fun khsidim Gadles R' Volf Lefin, M. Mishley, Koheles (bible translations) Linetski, Y.Y. Dos poylishe yingl Markuse, M. Di genarte velt Second Literary Language (Mendele and after) ============================ Ash, Sh. Motke ganef Farn mabl Kidesh-hashem Baal-Makhshoves Ale verk Bashevis, Y. Der sotn in goray Der kuntsn-makher fun Lublin Der shpigl un andere dertselungen Di familye mushkat Mayses fun hintern oyvn Bergelson, D. Arum vokzal Baym Dnyeper Mides-hadin Nokh alemen Shturemteg Bialik, Kh. N. Yidishe verk Der Nister Gedakht Di mishpokhe Mashber Glatshteyn, Y. Fun mayn gantser mi Ven Yash iz geforn Ven Yash iz gekumen In tokh genumen Kredos Yidishtaytshn Goldfaden, A Bar-Kokhve Di beyde Kuni-Leml Di kishef-makhern Shulames Grade, Kh. Der mames shabosim Der shulhoyf Musernikes Tsemakh Atlas Grinberg, U. Ts. Yidishe verk Halpern, M.L. Di goldene pave In Nyu-york Katsnelson, I. Al naharoys Bovl Dos lid fun oysgehargetn yidishn folk Dos lid vegn Radziner Kulbak, M. Lider un poemes Montik Zelmenyaner Lerer, Y. Mayn heym Leyeles, A. Baym fus fun barg Lider un poemen Leyvik, H. Der goylem Dramatishe poemes Eseyen un redes Litvakov, M. In umru Manger, I. Dos bukh fun gan-eydn Lid un balade Medresh Itsik Markish, P. Di kupe Farklepte tsiferblatn Milkhome Pust un pas Mendele Moykher-Sforim Di klyatshe Di takse Dos kleyne mentshele Dos vintshfingerl Fishke der krumer In a shturemtsayt Masoes Binyomen hashlishi Seyfer Gilgulim Shloyme R' Khayims Tsurik aheym Yidl Niger, sh. (selections) Opatoshu, Y. Aleyn A roman fun a ferd-ganef In poylishe velder Perets, Y. L. Dertseylungen, mayselekh, bilder Folkstimlekhe geshikhtn Khsidish Perle, Y. Yidn fun a gants yor Shapiro, L. Di yidishe melukhe Shekhtman, E. Erev Sholem Aleykhem Alt-nay Kasrilevke Ayznban geshikhtes Blondzhende shtern Funem yarid Gants Tevye der milikhiker Kleyne mayselekh Mayses far yidishe kinder Menakhem-Mendl Monologn Motl-Peysi dem khazns Sender Blank Stempenyu Yosele Solevey Shteynbarg, S. Mesholim Sutskever, A. Griner Akvarium, dertselungen (poetishe verk) Trunk, Y.Y. Der freylekhster yid in der velt Di velt iz ful mit nisim Poyln Simkhe Plakhte fun Narovke Tsunzer, E. Elyokim Tsunzes verk Varshavski, O. Smuglyares Vaynraykh, M. Araynfir in psikhoanaliz (translation of Freud) Geshikhte fun der yidisher shprakh Vaysnberg, Y.N. A shtetl un nokh dertseylungen Geklibene verk Yehoyesh Tanakh (translation) Zinger, Y.Y. Brider Ashkenazi Di mishpokhe Karnovski Fun a velt vos iz nishto mer Yoshe Kalb Meyer Wolf ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 5.250