Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 2 no. 29 July 14, 1992 1) Maurice Schwartz (Bob Werman) 2) Introduction (Carole Marmell) 3) Universal Yiddish (Sigrid Peterson) 4) Serious songs (Sigrid Peterson) 5) Mickey Katz (Susie Curtiss) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 92 20:53 +0300 From: RWERMAN%HUJIVMS.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 2.28 Ellen Prince writes: re maurice schwartz, he's been dead for many years- [deleted] don't know of tapes of his theatre work, but there are certainly videotapes of at least some of his movies. even my local little video store around the corner carries 'tevye der milkhiker' (i *think* that's the title) and a few others. if yours doesn't, request them! **************** Tevye der Mikhiker is a classic, with Hershel Bernardy playing the grandson. Of course he played Tevye years and years later on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof. Schwartz can be seen to be the great actor we saw at the Second Avenue Theatre years later, after his arriving in the States. __Bob Werman rwerman@hujivms.bitnet rwerman@vms.huji.ac.il Jerusalem 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 92 12:51:48 CDT From: carole marmell Subject: Introduction Just signed onto mendele after seeing the reference in the Forward (yes, we get the Forward in Houston!). I confess to a proxy interest; I'll be sharing the posts with my friend Susan Ganc, who's our resident Yiddish teacher/scholar/musician. I, too, am fascinated by the juxtaposition of Yiddish and computers. As a newcomer to computer culture, I am very much drawn to the establishment of norms and community over e-mail, and am currently working on a study of computer groups (hi, Cal!). I'm a grad student in social work at the University of Houston (euphemistically called a non-traditional student, which means I'm older than most of the professors). I'll mostly be lurking on mendele, at least until I get my computer project going. Carole Marmell/socwlr @ uhupvm1 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1992 12:49 MST From: Sigrid Peterson Subject: Universal Yiddish After this week, you could tell me Swedish is Yiddish, and I wouldn't bat an eyelash. When Mt. Holyoke, which I attended back in the circle-pin days, is the location of the National Yiddish Book Center and its Summer Camp; when Garrison Keillor's radio show mixes Minnesota with Klezmer, originating from the Upper West Side in New York City, then somehow this (in name only) Swede has found a home in Yiddishkeit. zay gezunt, Sigrid Peterson sigpeter@cc.utah.edu --> UPenn 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1992 13:03 MST From: Sigrid Peterson Subject: Serious songs When Noyekh Shames expressed his dislike of borscht belt music, it reminded me of a conversation about the "good" music in Yiddish, which amounted to Rozhinkes et Mandeln [sp?] which was a lullaby, remade into a love song. One person was holding forth that the reason was the paucity of songs, particularly love songs, in Yiddish. There is one beautiful song in Yiddish that I know from an Album of Theo Bikel's--Love Songs of Many Lands--called "Ikh bin a maydl in di Yoren." That one song, plus Romania, perhaps, was all I knew to counter the assertion of a paucity of worthwhile Yiddish songs. This dying language/culture that is lively enough to stretch from Mt. Holyoke to Minnesota in one week, surely there are some good and singable songs, nu? zay gezunt, Sigrid Peterson sigpeter@cc.utah.edu 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 92 10:07 PDT From: Susie Curtiss Subject: Mickey Katz Hello Mendele readers! I'm delighted to be in touch with you. Vicki Fromkin forwarded your recent discussion on Mickey Katz to me, knowing I would be interested in it, as I am his niece, the daughter of Mickey's younger sister. I noticed a couple of factual errors, so want to correct them. Mickey was born in 1909, and graduated from Central High in 1927. I, too, have a collection of his recordings, including one 78-studio re- cording which was never released, and I would be happy to "share" what I have or know. I also want to mention a terrific, relatively new Klezmer band called, "Brave Old World". Bandmembers are: Michael Alpert, Alan Bern, Stuart Brotman, and Joel Ruben. They have a CD/tape, entitled "Brave Old World", put out by Flying Fish Inc. Ben Bazyler joined them for the record- ing. For those reading this message, some of these names will be familiar to you and will probably be strong recommendation in itself. For the rest, it's worth a listen and makes a great gift. Again, glad to be on line. Susie Curtiss ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 2.29 If your message is intended for MENDELE, please write to: mendele@vax1.trincoll.edu If you want to discuss personal business or have a shmues with the shames, please write to: nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu Please sign your articles.