Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 2 no. 95 November 10, 1992 1) Mood in Yiddish (Moshe Taube) 2) Coming attraction (Max Stern) 3) Ansky (Bob Werman) 4) Our productive subscribers, cont. (Harriet Ottenheimer) 5) Review of Polin, Vol.6 (Ira Robinson) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 10:42:57 EST From: Moshe Taube Subject: mood in yiddish For Martin Haase: If a baker is allowed to advertize his own pastry: "Le developpement d'un auxiliaire modal en yiddish: lozn 'laisser'" in: J. Fisiak (ed.) Papers from the 6th Int'l Conference of Historical Linguistics, (= Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science IV, CILS 3 4) 1985, 499-514. Moshe Taube 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 10:59:16 PST From: Max Stern 310-524-6152 Subject: Performance of Shulamis by Goldfaden Perhaps some mendelniks will be interested in the following performance, to be presented by Friends of Jewish Music of Southern California: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- 8:00 Saturday, Jan. 23, at Irvine Barclay Theatre, Irvine 8:00 Wednesday, Jan. 27, at U.J. Gindi Auditorium, Los Angeles Shulamis Yiddish Operetta The romantic operetta *Shulamis* was written in 1880 by Abraham Goldfaden, the Father of the Yiddish Theater. We present this rare revival of one of his greatest works with songs sung in the original Yiddish, but with dialogue in English translation. Goldfaden's musical style derives from synagogue chant, folk song, and French and Italian opera. The song "Rozhinkes mit Mandlen," one of over twenty musical numbers in *Shulamis,* has earned a lasting place in Jewish folklore. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- For an electronic or hardcopy ticket order form, contact me or write to Friends of Jewish Music 35 Timberline Irvine, CA 92714 Max.Stern@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 11:55 +0200 From: RWERMAN%HUJIVMS.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Subject: RE: Ansky Sarah Stein: If you're interested in Anski's Ethnographic Expedition, you will find some of the material translated from the Yiddish by Golda Werman in Schocken's new Anksy volume. __Bob Werman rwerman@hujivms.bitnet rwerman@vms.huji.ac.il 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 08:01 CST From: Harriet Ottenheimer Subject: RE: Our productive subscribers Another contribution in another field is the blues singer's autobiography which I "edited:" Pleasant Joseph and Harriet Ottenheimer, COUSIN JOE: BLUES FROM NEW ORLEANS, University of Chicago Press. Harriet Ottenheimer Anthropology and American Ethnic Studies Kansas State University 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:34:57 EST From: MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA> Subject: FULL TEXT REVIEW: Robinson on POLIN, Volume 6 ===================================================================== The Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS Volume 1.109A REVIEW -- Full Text ISSN 1188-5734 ===================================================================== November 9, 1992 POLIN: A JOURNAL OF POLISH-JEWISH STUDIES Volume 6. Blackwell Publishers for the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, Oxford, 1991. The study of Polish Jewry is at once fascinating and complex. It involves an arduous set of languages (Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew, just for starters) as well as the knowledge that nearly everything one touches can be fuel for some rather incendiary political and ideological disputes, of which the holocaust of European Jewry during the Second World War is merely the most prominent. Because of these difficulties, Polish Jewry, though long recognized as of great importance to our understanding of Jewish history and thought, has tended to be relatively neglected. POLIN is the result of a concerted attempt to rectify this neglect. The journal is truly a cooperative effort on the part of scholars in Poland, Israel and other countries and attacks the subject matter from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives. The articles published tend to shed light not merely on the "state of the art" of research on Polish Jewry, but also on resources available which could be brought to bear on that subject. The present volume deals with a unified subject: the Jews of Lodz, 1820-1939. It is largely the result of a cooperative effort on the part of the Institute of History of the University of Lodz and, with but one major exception, all the articles are written by scholars from that university. What becomes eminently clear is that Lodz, the second-largest city in Poland after Warsaw should be of great interest to researchers, not least because, unlike Warsaw, the city and its governmental archives was not destroyed during the War. This means that archival sources, utilized by nearly all the authors and painstakingly described in Jacek Walicki's "Sources for the History of the Jewish Community in Lodz in the Years 1918- 1939" (pp. 119-132) may be employed in a number of ways to help determine the nature and character of Lodz Jewry. The articles by the Polish scholars are almost uniformly good. The only real caveat is that most treat the Jewish community of Lodz from the outside looking in. They are less able in general to give a picture of the Jewish community from the "inside". This makes Robert M. Shapiro's article, "Aspects of Jewish Self-Government in Lodz, 1914-1939" so important. Professor Shapiro made the Lodz Jewish community the subject of his doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. He has the necessary linguistic preparation and scholarly sensitivity to deal in a serious manner with issues internal to the Lodz unity. His article is in a sense a precis of his dissertation and makes one impatient for its publication in full. The studies published in this volume constitute a promising beginning for the study of Lodz Jewry prior to the Second World War. The studies stop with the year 1939, when Polish Jewry literally began to cease to exist. No studies dealing with the Lodz Ghetto or any other aspect of the Nazi holocaust were dealt with in this volume. The only contemporary article is Natan Gross' "Requiem for the Jewish People (Polish Literary Judaica in the Years 1987-1989)" (pp. 295-308) which chronicles the fascinating resurgence of the publication of Judaica in a Poland almost without a Jewish population. POLIN should be recommended reading for anyone interested in European Jewish history in modern times. It has the fascination of an archaeological dig as remnants, saved from destruction, are utilized to create an image of a community which is no more. Ira Robinson Department of Religion Concordia University ROBINSO@Vax2.Concordia.CA ============================================================================ Copyright (C) 1992 by Ira Robinson. All Rights Reserved. Single copies of this document, may be made for internal purposes, personal use, or study by an individual, an individual library, or an educational or research institution. 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