Yiddish Mailing List, Issue #49 February 7, 1992 182 lines =============================== Es lebt nokh! (David Sherman) Berl Shmerl (Rob Levene) Yidishe vitzn, klules, un folktales (Moishe Nussen Eytan) Yiddish evening in Toronto Feb. 19 (David Sherman) ---------------------------- Digest-Message: 49/1 From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman) Subject: This list is still alive I haven't sent out an issue since October, but I'm still here. I've have a few bits and pieces collected and will try to get issues out on a regular basis. The serious discussion continues in MENDELE, which has had some amazing contributions recently. For those of you who are in the Toronto area, please note the announcement below about February 19. We're trying to get a group of young (whatever that means!) Yiddish speakers together on a regular basis. ---------------------------- Digest-Message: 49/2 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 91 10:44:17 -0500 From: levene@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Robert A. Levene) Subject: Berl Shmerl [Followup to a Jewish-subjects mailing list which used "Berl Shmerl" as the sample name to be subscribing to the list with. - DS] I wrote to Dov Viner about "Berl Shmerl." It wasn't obvious to me which was the first name and which was the last. I suggested that he instead use a more obvious example, like SUB Theodore Herzl or SUB Golda Meir Berl seems to be a variant of Beryl or Berel, which is usually an Anglicized Boruch, I'd guess. Sort of like all those Isadores and Charlies and Martys, who are really Yitzchak, Chaim, and Moshe/Mordecai Rob (really Refoel) ------------------------------------- Digest-Message: 49/3 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 91 09:03:17 -0500 From: levene@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Robert A. Levene) Subject: Berl Shmerl Maybe Berl Shmerl is common in Yiddish circles (like Reuven and Shimon in Talmudic) but if few Jews can parse the name, it's not useful as a sample. [Where does the name come from? - DS] ------------------------------------- Digest-Message: 49/4 Date: Wed, 1 Jan 92 11:28:56 GMT From: me@suzuka.u-strasbg.fr (Michel Eytan LILoL) Subject: vitzen Reply-To: eytan@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr Are you people having a special Yiddishe vitsen section? I would like to see one. [ I'll be happy to publish any that you send in. I'm sure you must have some that are too low-grade for MENDELE. :-) - DS ] Cheers, Michel (Moishe Nussen) ------------------------------------- Digest-Message: 49/5 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 92 18:08:55 GMT From: me@suzuka.u-strasbg.fr (Michel Eytan LILoL) Subject: Re: Yiddish Folktales [This is a followup to mail.yiddish #16 and #26, in which Seth Rosenthal (seth@attunix.att.com) submitted translated Yiddish folktales. - DS] Seth, > I did post the folktales some while ago. The interest > wasn't high so I discontinued. Sorry to disappoint, but > they were tales from Yiddish, I posted them in English. > Its been a while, but what d'var Torah were you talking > of? And also soc.culture.jewish.kabbalah would probably > be less culture and more religion. Although I am not 'religious' by Orthodox standards, I believe Jewish culture is meaningless if you eliminate the religious aspects: they are part and parcel of our history and the nazis want(ed? -- nay, want more than ever) to eliminate. As for kabbalh, it's fascinating: have you ever studied the Sefer Esser Hasefiroth? It's much more interesting than the Tao that Frijthof Capra sees in Modern Physics. > I can e-mail you some of the tales in English if you want. Let > me know. If the tales you have are interesting from either the stylistic (ie literary) or cultural point of view, I am interested indeed. > Better yet, YIVO (the Institute for Yiddish Studies, > once in Vilna, now in New York) has a researcher, > Dr. E. Weinreich who has published a book containing > a large variety of tales. I have heard about YIVO, but it is too far from here. > Really charming, and sad. > Suprising how much superstition crept into their lives. > Superstition was as frequent among jews as among the people they lived in the midst of. [further exchange about Jewish history and Strasbourg deleted - DS] ------------------------------------- Digest-Message: 49/6 Date: Mon, 20 Jan 92 14:30:40 GMT From: me@suzuka.u-strasbg.fr (Michel Eytan LILoL) Subject: Yidishe klules Yidishe klules #1 Zolst mir vaksen vi a tsibele: mitn kop indrerd. [The version I know goes: Zolst vaksn vi a tsibele, mitn kop in d'rerd un di fis arof. - DS] Yidishe klules #2 Zolst mir zajn vi a lomp: hengen batug in brennen banakht. Yidishe klules #3 Es zollen dikh stendig zibn mentshen baglaiten: tsvai sollen dokh trugen, tsvai zollen dokh bagruben, tsvai zollen nukh dir kaddish in ajner umajn zugen. ------------------------------------- Digest-Message: 49/7 From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman) Date: Fri Feb 7 01:10:05 EST 1992 Subject: event for people in/near Toronto This flyer has been mailed out by the Canadian Jewish Congress Committee for Yiddish: A Yiddish Evening of Film, Discussion & Song For Young Yiddishists The Film: MAME LOSHN A film on Yiddish in modern life Stimulating discussion Yiddish sing a long Refreshments Wednesday evening, February 19, 1992, 7:30 pm. Lipa Green Building, 4600 Bathurst St., Toronto All young people who have a love of Yiddish and wish to be a part of the revival of Yiddish are specially invited. Admission Free For further information call: Gloria Morris, 416-635-2883 Ext. 139, or Sylvia Lustgarten, 416-635-2883 Ext. 155. ------------------------ SOF FUN NUMER 49 ------------------------ David (Daniel Moishe) Sherman, Toronto Moderator, mail.yiddish dave@lsuc.on.ca (416) 889-7658