Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 1 no. 231 April 29, 1992 1) Another kosher story (Ellen Prince) 2) Bubelekh (Mina Graur) 3) Review of Harshav (Arnold J. Band) 4) The International (Mikhl Herzog) 5) Introduction (Moishe Koppel) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 92 12:22:24 -0400 From: "Ellen F. Prince" Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 1.227 [Jascha Kessler says:] >Joke about ham? Here is true story.... great story. and here's another, tho it's not about food. a few years ago, the university of pennsylvania dept of romance languages held its first Cultural Diversity Sensitivity Training Session, complete with a professional Cultural Diversity Sensitivity Training Session Facilitator. and they held it on yom kippur... (of course the jews on the faculty were too Sensitive to Cultural Diversity to point it out.) Ellen Prince 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 92 17:42:08 IST From: Mina Graur Subject: Bubelekh Re: Khaim Bochner's request for a recipe for "bubelekh." The following is my mother's. The quantities are for a single serving. 1 egg 2 teaspoons matzo mehl (kemakh matza) 1 teaspoon of cognac or a sweet liqueur powdered or regular sugar Beat the egg-white till firm. Add yolk. Mix with flour and cognac. Heat oil in a small skillet. Fry (covered) over a very low heat on both sides. (It is supposed to come out fluffy.) Sprinkle with sugar. Serve hot. As with many childhood memories, "bubelekh" are also overrated. I also remembered a taste of "gan eden." The result is no more than OK. Best wishes, Mina Graur 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 00:28 PDT From: "Arnold J. Band" Subject: review In Mendele 1.222 someone (Noyekh ?) suggested we submit reviews of recemt works on Yiddish. Harshav's MEANING OF YIDDISH was mentioned. I have just submitted a review of that book to MODERN PHILOLOGY (Chicago). If the editors of MENDELE are interested, I will try to send it along. Arnold J. Band (UCLA) 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 09:17 EDT From: ZOGUR%CUVMB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 1.229 To Vicki Fromkin: Great story about your father. If you don't mind, I'm going to pass it on to a friend who's doing a piece on Chagall for the Guggenheim in connection with a show of his newly discovered murals for the Moscow Yiddish Art Theater (in September). Seymour Axelrod: Here goes "Shteyt oyf/uf ir ale, ver vi shklafn in hunger lebn muz, un noyt der gayst, er ruft un vekt tsum vafn in shlakht undz firn iz er greyt. Di velt fun gvaldtatn un laydn tseshterrn veln mir un dan fun frayhayt, glaykhayt a gan-eydn bashafn vet der arbetsman; un dos vet zayn shoyn der letster un antshjetydener shtrayt; mit dem internatsyonal shteyt oyf/uf ir arbetslayt. (Repeat last two lines) Mikhl Herzog 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 12:01:18 -0400 From: koppel@cs.cornell.edu Subject: Introduction/bobelekh I was born in NYC in 1956 and heard some Yiddish at home and some in Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim on the West Side of Manhattan. My Yiddish is idiomatic but grammatically shvach, very Poilish, and heavy on Gemorrah Lashon. I'm a mathematician at Bar-Ilan University currently on sabbatical at Cornell. Several mendelers expressed interest in bobelekh. As a first offering I give you my mother's recipe for bobelekh: 1.separate 6 eggs 2.beat whites until stiff 3.mix yolks with pinch salt + 2 TBP sugar + 4TBP ground walnut or almond (can also be done using matza meal;khasidim dont cook with matza meal on pesach but litvaks do) 4.FOLD yolks into whites (my mother says it is critical to fold, not mix; i certaintly don't know the difference) 5.heat oil in frying pan (oil should be approx. 1/2 inch deep) 6.pour in mixture and fry on very low flame 7.when bottom is firm, flip Ess gezunteheit! Moishe Koppel ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 1.231 Submissions: mendele@vax1.trincoll.edu Business: nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu Please sign your articles.