Mendele: Yiddish literature and language
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Contents of Vol. 1 no. 41
July 9, 1991
 
1) Query (David Sherman)
2) Slogn kapores (Melekh Viswanath)
3) Yiddish in Belgium (Johan van den Auwera)
4) Mendele in English (Yankel Kessler)

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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1991 11:27:25 -0400
From: David Sherman <dave@lsuc.on.CA>
Subject: RE: Vol 1.36 Intro; usage; various

> From: Jeff Kaimowitz (jkaimowi@trincc)
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> except for certain rather questionable epithets  fa-
> vored by my grandfather (i.e., mazik for me,
> katshkedreidl for my  sister), I heard little Yiddish
> when growing up.

Katshkedreidl?  Ikh veis, vus iz a katchke un vus iz
a dreidl.  Vus meint katchkedreidl?  A kind vus hert
nisht oif arumtsuloifn?

David Sherman

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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 91 16:03 EDT
From: VISWANATH@DRACO.BITNET
Subject: RE: Vol 1.37 Responsa; geography

mikhl,
slogn kapores?  I always understood shlogn (shlugn)
kapores (kapures). I am 99% sure that this is a typo,
but this being mikhl, there's a chance there's another
explanation (i.e. that slogn is completely bekivn).
melekh (viswanat@draco.rutgers.edu)

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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 91 10:19:09 EST
From: auwera@ccu.UIA.AC.BE
To: mendele@Vax1.Trincoll.Edu

To Zogur@cuvmb.bitnet
 
I can't really give a good answer to the question of
WHAT variety of Yiddish is spoken in Antwerp. I assume
the variety is at least primarily based on geographic
origin. There are various relligious groups, but I
don't know whether it matters. Another determining
factor, I have been told, is whether the language used
to converse with the non-Jewish Flemish population is
primarily French (older generation and some of the
younger) or Dutch (part of the younger population). I
am afraid I am neither a Yiddish dialectologist nor a
sociolinguist nor a Yid. Last year, we had a graduate
student from New York visiting, who was all three, and
who was here to study the contact Dutch-Yiddish situa-
tion, but he found it very hard to get enough contacts
to do the work.
Johan van der Auwera

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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 91 12:08 PDT
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: RE: Vol 1.40 "Isaac", a story by Jascha
Kessler

Dear Mendele: I rescind my halfbaked remarks on oif
tseluckhes, and on Kapoyre too. I got them straightened
out at a wedding on Saturday, by a professor who is
bringing out this year an anthology of Mendele himself!
translations. A big one. Marvin Zuckerman, and the book
will be from Joe Simon, a private publisher,  formerly
Ward Ritchie, the art books man of Santa Barbara. It
will be good to have a lot of that in new English.
Marvin is Chair at Valley City College in Van Nuys.
More of that later. JK
 
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