Mendele: Yiddish literature and language
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Contents of Vol. 3.116
October 8, 1993

1) Introduction (Andrea Most)
2) A retenis (Arre Komar)
3) Introduction (Ben Alpers)
4) Introduction (Steve Jacobson)
5) Re: Nazalised "ayin" (Khaim Bochner)

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Date: Tue Oct  5 11:07:55 1993
From: MOST@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU
Subject: Introduction

I just found out about this subscription from Lillith magazine.  I
am a graduate student at Brandeis, studying American Jewish History
and Literature (and some film) with a focus on Jewish Women's
Studies.  I also am a member of a book club devoted to studying
Yiddish women writers.  I can give more info on that to anyone
interested (it has bases in Boston and New York).

I am currently writing on Chady Molodowsky and Anna Margolin and
would appreciate any information on sources (especially at Yale).

Andrea Most

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Date: Wed Oct  6 12:11:29 1993
From: "Dr. Arthur Komar" <komar@yu1.yu.edu>
Subject: A retenis

  Ich hob gerade gehert fun Mendele un vill mich shnell aynshraybn.
Vie azoy tut men dos?

  Aychet vill ich eppis fregn fun al die chochim do: Ich such dos
urgrund fun dos vort "pergern" oder "paygern" (Ihr vayst, vie a
hunt!). Es hert sich oys vie daytch, ober kayn daytcher ver ich hob
gefregt vayst dos vort. Aychet kan ich nisht dos finden oyf Ivrit.
Azoy fun vuhin kumt es?

 Drittens: Mich hot men gerade ertsaylt az dos Polneshe vort
"Kielbasa" kumt fun dos Ivrit "kol bosser". 'siz dem emmis?  Efsher
aymetsen vays?

 A shaynem dank,

 Arre (Yitchok-Aharon) Komar

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Date: Thu Oct  7 12:49:26 1993
From: "Benjamin L. Alpers" <BLALPERS%PUCC.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
Subject: Introduction

My name is Ben Alpers.  I'm a 6th year graduate student in U.S.
history at Princeton.  I am just starting to take Yiddish this year,
so I look forward, at first, to reading more than contributing to
Mendele.  Nonetheless, I tend to be an active participant in e-mail
lists, so you may well hear from me in the future . . .

-- Ben

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Date: Thu Oct  7 13:51:21 1993
From: STEVEN A JACOBSON <FFSAJ@acad3.alaska.edu>
Subject: Introduction

I'm Steve Jacobson, by trade I teach and research the Yupik Eskimo
language at the Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks. I've been interested in
Yiddish for several years now and have learned to read the language
fairly well. My speaking skills are somewhat behind the reading.
Last summer I attended the Oxford program. in Yiddish.

Steve Jacobson

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Date: Thu Oct  7 17:55:58 1993
From: bochner@das.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: Nazalised "ayin"

Tuvya-Moyshe Shtern shraybt:

> 1) me leygt oys dos vort "bansher," beyz, _alef_, shin, reysh,
> khotsh me ret aroys in an andern oyfn.  In dem fal, vert alef
> nasalirt.

Nokh dugmes: day(n)ge, oykh mit an alef, un yandes, yud, hey, daled,
vov, sof.

> in pidmont, me flegt aroysredn a hebreyisn "ayin" vi a
> "nun." lmoshl, "to'eva," vert "toneva."  Tsi iz do a farbindung?

Nu, ikh meyn az nisht, vayl me hot do tsu ton nisht nor mit ayin,
nor oykh mit alef un hey.

Nor mir hobn dem inyen hipshlekh arumgeredt mit a tsvey yor tsurik,
un nisht gefunen keyn entfer vos zol alemen tsufridn shteln. Efsher
hot emetser a naye idee? Ikh nisht.

-- Khaim

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