Mendele: Yiddish literature and language
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Contents of Vol. 6.062
September 12, 1996

1) A git gebencht yor (David Herskovic)
2) Haifa Yiddish group (Ariela Krasney and Dvora Groman)
3) Yiddish off the Internet (Morrie Feller)
4) _Dictionary-Mixtionary_ (Leah Zazulyer)

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Date: 11 Sep 96 17:15:52 EDT
From: 100114.750@compuserve.com
Subject: A git gebentsht yor

Mir halten shoyn vider bay deym sezon ven kom di oygen kleybn zikh tsi
in men darf zay shoyn ofkleybn in loyfn of slikhes; der tsat ven der hon
shtayt of ale vinklekh in beyt zikh men zol mit em shlogen; der tkife
ven di post kestel iz ongeshtopt mit ale erlay loy olaynis; dem piriod
vos der shoyfer klingt in di oyren, di shnorers klingen mit di hent in
di ngidim klingen mit di keshenes. Der zman fin chive iz do in es hot a
shreklikhe natur fin makhen a groyse timel baym onkimen.

Azoy lang vi chive drayt zikh in di liftn ligt menikhe farakshent inter
der bank in kayner ken tsi ir nisht tsikimn.

Men gayt nor aros finem tir in men tsit dem arbel, 'a talmid toyre', 'a
koylel', 'hakhnoses kale', 'orime yesoymim', 'nebekh an almone'. Zol
zikh ver nor amol shmekn vern a yosem tsi an almone zol er mir folgen in
zikh ersht megayerzan. Yo, ikh vays az es iz shver tsi zan a yid ober es
iz a klayner praz tsi tsolen of tsi kenen zan a yidishe almone oder a
yidisher yosem'l.

Zent ir shoyn azoy gliklekh in ir zent shoyn a yid hert mikh tsi in vert
a bal chive. In gemore shtayt az dort vi bale chive shtayn kenen
tsadikim gornisht onkimen. Frayt akh nokh nisht val es hot tsi deym der
kotsker tsigelaygt 'val es shtinkt fin zayre avayres' in memayle zol der
bal chive nisht ervarten a matnes yad vi a tsadik ober a bord iz verd
gants abisl in es hot nokh kayner bay deym nisht tsi gelaygt.

Az ir zent imgliklekh in ir zent a bal chive zolt ir shoyn vern a
khosid. A haymishe yid get men mer vi aza ayner vos darf aran kikn in
sider tsi zogen yehay shmay rabo. Koyft zikh a groysn hit mit nokh a
greser labs-tsidekel, lot zikh arop di payes in gayt azoy ofen
shtreyzel. In zog akh tsi ir vet nisht kharote hobn.

Tomer es laynt dos a khsidisher yid hob ikh far eym nor ayn aytse. Er
miz vern a rebishe aynikl. (Zorgt akh nisht, dos miz men nisht geboyrn
vern men ken es vern.) Tsi deym miz ikh ober tsi laygn az vifil es iz
verd a rebe in di erd iz er fil mer verd leybedigehayt. Iz tsi deym
loynt zikh nisht faryosemt tsi vern es iz git stam azoy.

In diyer teyg hot men nisht kan menikhe fin kan ayner fin zay. Michern
kenen zay ale aynig. Yeyder hot zikh a medresh farvos zan tsvek is di
vikhtigste, yeyder ayner iz hopt mekhiten in kaynem iz gornisht genig.

Men krikht shoyn endlikh aros finem gas in aran in a gesheft iz do a
frishe dileray. Men vil akh farkoyfn yanover esroygim in tsfaser hadsim,
lilovim fin arizone, skhakh finem vald in aroves finem vaser, makhzoyrim
in kitlekh, yamulkes in gartlekh, tsene renes in mane loshens.

In ayn vinkel probirt ayner di shoyfer, nokh ayner dingt zikh ibern
praz, men vast a flek ofen makhzer in memayle kimt zikh es biliger, der
gartel iz farknipt di tsitsis posil in ales kost a farmeygn. Es shtayt a
kreyml in dingt zikh iber di asroygim. Ayner shrayt s'iz a limene, a
tsvayter zogt s'iz gor a kartofel, a brokhe levaltole, kimt on nokh
ayner in koyft es lehakhis.

Endlekh kimt men a haym, es iz bloyz do apor sho biz lekht tsinden in
men vil zikh abisl onleynen iz es ober erev rosh hashone. Kom zikh
tsigelaygt, darf di vab honig far a leykekh, ay of a tort, eplekh far
simonim. Gayt aros ofen gas nokhamol, vider in gesheft aran in vider
ahaym. In dos iz alts erev yom tev.

Menikhe, menikhe kim shoyn aros of di velt of etlikhe miniten. Yo men
gayt chive tin, men gayt zitsen in shil on a sof, men gayt fasten yom
kiper, men gayt zikh panigen ober abisl, a prichkele menikhe.

Es iz shoyn tsi mazel yom tev, men gayt shoyn in shil, ir treyt nor vos
iber dem shvel in es shmaykhelt tsi akh dem shokhen ayre. Er glakht os
dem tishtekh in rikt arop zan makhzer. Probirt nor eym tsi ignorirn rikt
er akh inter a hant. Rosh hashone bay nakht vet ir eym opzogen?

Kom ir zetst zikh avek darf yener aros gayn. Er klapt akkh ofen playtse,
'zat moykhel' in get a shlep dem tish in a shtip der bank. Yeydes mol ir
drimelt an, 'zat nisht broygez', baglayt mit a dzokh oder a zets. Vos
zolt ir em tin? Er iz akh a beste frand, ayre ayniklekh tsipt er os di
baken (zan aygene dervagt er zikh nisht), er vil visen vos bay akh tit
zikh, er zikht nor gits.

Afile ven ir zolt fargesn chive tsi tin veln di ale peynimer akh
dermanen. Menikhe hot angedrimelt in zi plant nisht oftsishtayn far
motse simkhes toyre. Es iz do ayn aytse, vinchen a ksive vakhsime toyve
in a git gebencht yor, leshono toyve tikosayv vesaykhosaym, and hope for
the best.

David Herskovic

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:19:31 +0300 (IDT)
From: keli@techunix.technion.ac.il
Subject: Haifa Yiddish group

We should like to remind our friends that the next meeting of the
Yiddish Group Carmel, Haifa will be held on 12 Oct. 1996 . 19.00 p.m. at
Dr. Krasney's house: 15 Yehuda Gur, Haifa.

For further information please phone:  Israel, 04-8343492;   04-8374157
All mendalyaners are invited.

We wish all a happy new year.

Ariela Krasney and Dvora Groman

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:37:48 -1000
From: feller@indirect.com
Subject: Yiddish off the Internet

Last night at our leyenkrayz I was able to supply all the Yiddish
reading material from real Yiddish which I had downloaded from the Web.
This included two issues of Tam-Tam, Yiddish script from a letter,
Yiddish proverbs posted by Magdalena Sitarz from Cracow, a bunch of
poems, the first page of the autobiography of Chaya Rochel Andres, which
apparently has about a hundred pages altogether, and one of her poems.
Most of this Yiddish downloaded as received. However, the Tam-Tam
requires an Adobe decompressor to be properly received.

As an additional treat, I played the three minute reading by Sholem
Aleykhem who read from his "Ven Ikh Bin Rotshild" and "A Freylikher Yon
Tev" which was posted on the Web by a Boston radio station. The fidelity
was not great, but just being able to hear Sholem Aleykhem, himself, was
very exciting.

Morrie Feller
Phoenix

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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 12:19:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: watson@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
Subject: _Dictionary-Mixtionary_

Am looking for a book allegedly named Dictionary-Mixtionary, l983, Paul
Hoffman and M. Freedman/Friedman.  Purportedly a dictionary of Yiddish
words that have come into English.  Ring any bells?   Thanks.

Leah Zazulyer

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