Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 6.191 January 8, 1997 1) Yiddish duets (Chane Honig) 2) Talmud in Yiddish (Mikhl Herzog) 3) Transliterated Yiddish-English dictionary (Roger Harris) 4) Transliterated Yiddish-English dictionary (Bernard Katz) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 16:25:01 -0500 (EST) From: ahonig@mailbox.syr.edu Subject: Yiddish duets lisa Tomlinson hot geshribn [6.189] as zi volt lider vos zaynen yidishe "duets". di ayntsike vos ich zing zaynen die retinesh songs. Such as the following: bokher: du meydele du fayns, du meydele du sheyns. ikh vil dir epes fregn a retenish a kleyns vos is hekher fun a hoyz ? un vos iz flinker fun a moyz? meydele: du narisher bokher, du narisher khlop! hostu nit keyn seykhel in deyn kop! der roykh is hekher fun a hoyz, a kats is flinker fun a moyz. bokher: du meydele du sheyn, du meydele du fayns ikh vil dir epes fregen a retenish a kleyns: vos far a keynig iz on a land? on vos far a vaser is on zamd? meydele: du narisher bokher, du narisher khlop! hostu nit keyn sakhel in dayn kop! der keyser fun kortn iz on a land, vaser fun di oygn iz on samd. bokher: du meydele du feyns, du meydele du shayns, ikh vil dir epes fregen a retenish a kleyns: vos moyert on tsigel? on vos flit on fligl? meydl: du narisher bokher, du narisher khlop! hostu nit keyn seykhl in deyn kop der frost moyert un tsigl. der shney flit on fligl. more verses are available ...but the tone of intellecutal superiority of the female bleybt shtark in each verse in disen retenish gezang! from second ave, there are also wonderful duets to be found in the second ave. songs from shows. I bought a valise full of these songsheets from the Yiddish book center in Amherst Mass. they are a great source of such songs! a groyse dank tsu ale mendelyaner vos ken shriben gut oyf YIddish.. Siz a selcher mechiya yedn tog when i turn on my email machine..un vos iz! a neye briv fun mendelyane. got tsu dank! Alice Honig (Chane) 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 97 16:41 EST From: zogur@cuvmb.columbia.edu Subject: Talmud in Yiddish Lisa Tomlinson asks [6.189] for a Yiddish translation of (parts of) the Talmud? I don't have the precise reference at hand but, look for Petrushka's excellent _Mishnayes_. I'm sure that YIVO can provide precise bibliographic detail. Mikhl Herzog 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 23:02:43 +0000 (GMT) From: rwsh@dircon.co.uk Subject: Transliterated Yiddish-English dictionary Icek Mozes asks (6.187) for a Yiddish-English dictionary arranged according to English characters. The dictionary he seeks may perhaps be the following: Title: Romanised English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary Author: David C. Gross. (C)1992. Publisher: Hippocrene Books, Inc., 171 Madison Avenue, New York, : NY 10016, USA. ISBN: 0-87052-969-2. Format: Paperback. 11.1cm W x 17.7cm H. Pages: ix, 118. Sample listings: ---------------- English -> Yiddish Yiddish -> English ----------------------- ----------------------- abandon farlozen a'bee so long as; any abdomen boych acht eight ability fe'eekeit acht'tsen eighteen about veguen; arum acht'tsik eighty above i'ber; oyben a'dank thanks ----------------------- ----------------------- A small shirt-pocket-sized Romanised Eng-Yid/Yid-Eng glossary is: Title: English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Author: Michael Janes (a lexicographer who is best known for Harrap's : Mini English <-> French Dictionary). Publisher: Abson Books, Abson, Wick, Bristol, England. ISBN: 0-902920-59-6. Format: Paperback. Landscape: 15.8cm W x 9cm H. Pages: 39. A further title, but which does not fit Icek Mozes' specification, is: Title: Transliterated English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary. Author: David Mendel Harduf. Publisher: Harduf Books, 11 Plum Treeway, Willowdale, Ontario, : Canada, M2R 3J1. ISBN: 0-920243-22-3. Format: Paperback. 14.9cm W x 22.7cm H. : Pages: Eng-Yid: viii, 471. Yid-Eng: vii, 185. For each semantic pair David Harduf uses Roman letters for the English words and Hebrew letters for the Yiddish words. The Yiddish words are also spelled phonetically in Roman letters. David Gross, the author of the first dictionary listed above, has also produced a Romanised English-Hebrew Hebrew-English Dictionary. Title: English-Hebrew Hebrew-English Conversational Dictionary. Author: David C. Gross. (C)1991. Publisher: Hippocrene Books, Inc., 171 Madison Avenue, New York, : NY 10016, USA. ISBN: 0-87052-625-1. Format: Paperback. 11.1cm W x 17.7cm H. Pages: ix, 151. Roger Harris 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 21:24:54 -0500 (EST) From: bkatz@uoguelph.ca Subject: Transliterated Yiddish-English Dictionary In Mendele 6.187 Icek Mozes asked about the availability of acquiring a transliterated Yiddish-English dictionary. Such a dictionary does indeed exist. It was compiled and published by David M. Harduf of North York, Ontario (in Metropolitan Toronto), another of whose works was mentioned recently on Mendele. Harduf published his "Transliterated Yiddish-English dictionary [filed] according to the English alphabet" in 1992. It is 270 pages long, and may be obtained from the author at 11 Plum Treeway, North York, Ontario, Canada M2R 3J1. I have no idea as to the cost, but any interested parties could call him at (416) 663-5467. Mr. Harduf also has published other transliterated dictionaries for Yiddish and Hebrew. 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