Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 6.060 September 11, 1996 1) Book shops in Israel (David Herskovic) 2) Sholom Aleichem Place (Joel Maxman) 3) David Edelshtadt (Diane Rabson) 4) Request for Zionist songs (David Robboy) 5) Yiddish In the Smithsonian (Bernard Katz) 6) Ksive v'khsime toyve (Noyekh Miller) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: 09 Sep 96 16:55:11 EDT From: 100114.750@compuserve.com Subject: Book shops in Israel I will be in Israel next week and would appreciate if somebody could recommend Yiddish book shops in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. Many thanks, David Herskovic 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 08:56:00 -500 From: jmaxman@rosenman.com Subject: Sholom Aleichem Place The block of East 33rd Street between Park and Madison Avenues in Manhattan will be renamed Sholom Aleichem Place. A ceremony is to be held on the street on Sunday, September 29th (the writer's 80th yortseit), from 11 to 1. There will be a reading (in Yiddish and in English) from a Sholom Aleichem story, a perfomance by a klezmer band, and Bel Kaufman and others are scheduled to speak. Joel Maxman New York City 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 08:14:17 -0600 (MDT) From: rabson@meeker.ucar.edu Subject: David Edelshtadt The revolutionary poet, David Edelshtadt, is buried in the historic Golden Hill Cemetery in Denver (actually Lakewood), Colorado. Recently, I drove out to the cemetery to photograph his gravestone, which is inscribed with his famous poem, "Mayn Tsavoe" ("My Testament"). I would like to feature the poem in the next issue of our vinkl's newsletter ("The Vinkl's Voice"). Can anyone direct me to a good English translation of this important four stanza poem? A sheynem dank! Diane Rabson Boulder, Colorado 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 96 15:34:00 PDT From: robboy@co.intel.com Subject: Request for Zionist songs This request is on behalf of a friend who is preparing a performance of songs of the Zionist movement for next Yom Ha-atzmaut. She is looking for songs from non-European and non-North-American places, such as Latin America. Not necessarily in Yiddish or Hebrew, any language. She prefers sheet music, not recordings. If anyone has suggestions for sources, please email them to me (or to mendele if of general interest) and I will pass them on. If anyone wants to send copies of music, please send them directly to: Barbara Slader 3217 N. E. 18th Ave. Portland OR 97212 A shaynem dank, David Robboy 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 19:19:26 -0400 (EDT) From: bkatz@uoguelph.ca Subject: Yiddish In the Smithsonian Here's a post that first appeared on H-Judaic. I am posting it to Mendele with the approval of the author. ========================================== Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 08:38:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Remy Landau Because of the current thread on Yiddish may I be allowed to share a rather intriguing experience? Buried in one of the Smithsonian Museum's exhibits are the remains of the ENIAC. Being in the computer field professionally, I decided to make the dutiful pilgrimage to its shrine, which may be found in the basement of the Museum of American History. [This was in summer, 1994. bk] Just before turning the corner where some of its relics lay I saw another scene. This showed a living room in the late 30's (?) with a mother (?) handing over a telephone to a sitting daughter (?) while at the very front was a grandfather (?) sitting down holding a newspaper to read. Since I'm the type of person who can never resist the temptation of peeking into someone else's newspaper I quietly tip toed over to the grandpa and craned over his shoulder so as to see what the paper headlines might read. Imagine my absolute surprise when I read the paper's banner which stated "Forverts" in the Hebrew alphabet. The ENIAC's remnants were a real let-down after this experience! Now, can anyone suggest the reasons why the Smithsonian chose a copy of the Forverts to use in that particular communications display? Shana Tova!!!! [Remy Landau, North York/Toronto] ================================= Bernard Katz Guelph, Ontario 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 From: nmiller@shakti.trincoll.edu Subject: Ksive v'khsime toyve Mitamol iz gevorn oys zumer, un s'iz shoyn erev-yontef. In nomen fun ale mendelistn shikt der shames tsu ale mendelistn, zeyere mishpokhes, kroyvim un tayere vareme vintshevanyes. Zol undz ale zayn a zis un an oysgebentsht yor. Noyekh Miller ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 6.060