Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 3.234 February 13, 1994 1) Disraeli said it first (Arre Komar) 2) Benjamin said it first (Hirsh Schipper) 3) Math books, card games, etc. (Holger Nath) 4) Introduction (Meyshke Alpert) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat Feb 12 12:56:28 1994 From: "Dr. Arthur Komar" Subject: Disraeli said it first Eyn mol in parliament hot Disraeli gezogt tsu an antisemit vos hot gegen di Yidden eppis shlekht gezogt (az zay zaynen nisht azoy fayn un hobn nisht azoy gute yikhes vie Englander) : "Di eltern fun di Yidden hobn di verter fun Got shtudiert an di zelber tsayt ven ayer eltern hobn immer nokh geshoykhelt in di baymer." Er hot dos gezogt a bissl friyer fun GBShaw. Disraeli hot gekemft az Yidden sollen dos rekht hobn tsu zayn mitglieders in Parliament. Arre Komar 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat Feb 12 14:32:59 1994 From: BB7M000 Subject: Benjamin said it first Judah P. Benjamin did say in the US Senate prior to 1861 in a reply to another senator," The gentleman will please remember that when his half-civilized ancestors were hunting the wild boar in the forests of Silesia, mine were the princes of the earth". This putdown may or not have carried across the Atlantic, but probably the seminary quotation was the reply made by Benjamin Disraeli (1801 -1881) in the House of Commons when taunted by Irish Daniel O'Connel, "Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon". George Bernard Shaw was certainly aware of that putdown, and adopted it in his play "Caesar and Cleopatra". Viper-tounged, mini-brained Henry Mencken(1880-1956) probably saw the play and adapted it to his anti-semitic insult. Vi a tzibeleh. Hirsh Schipper (I have not checked Caesar and Cleopatra) 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat Feb 12 14:12:07 1994 From: Holger Nath Subject: math books, card games, Yiddish wordprocessing/database To Ted Alper re math books: Lebedintsev, K.P. 1924. Algebre. ibergezetst fun A.Zaretski. Vilne: B.A. Kletskin. 184 p. [at Harvard: Widener: Y 8512.5] Lebedintsev, K.P. 1923. Algebre: ershte teyl. Idish: A.Spivak. Kiev: Alukrainisher melukhe-farlag. [at Harvard Microfilms: Film A 373.249] [BTW, unlike most of the Harvard Libraries, Government Docs and Microfilms (which has a number of Yiddish titles on microfilm) are open to the public/unaffiliated. They can be accessed through Pusey Library]. To Neach Zide re card games: check also out: Shmuel Vinters article "Kortn-shprakh" in Filologishe Shriftn 1 (1926): 319-324 It gives terms for card-playing and explains them briefly. It has mostly references to "oke" Query: Yiddish wordprocessing/database: A while ago I got Nota Bene 4 and I tried using its Cyrillic/Hebrew fonts for its database (Ibid/Ibid Plus). Unfortunately, I don't get the entire entry on the shorter browse-screen and it can't search for Cyrillic/Hebrew and has some problems with diacritics (it works, though, in the word processing program). NB told me it should work, but couldn't help so far (they are working on it, I was told). Does anyone have an idea or has had similar problems? Holger Nath 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat Feb 12 15:11:24 1994 From: meyshke@aol.com Subject: Introduction Heysn heys ikh Meyshe Yeysef bereb Elye-Meir bereb Meyshe Aba der Likayers. Bay di goyim ober, (sheyn opgeredt bay di hayntike idn) heys ikh Michael Alpert. A muziker bin ikh a klezmer, dertsu a shtikl visnshaftler af dem gebit, farbundn mitn YIVO, olev hasholem. Mitglid bay di klezmerishe kompanyes "BRAVE OLD WORLD" un "THE KRAKAUER TRIO", un geshpilt a fule yorn bay "KAPELYE". Shraybn shrayb ikh amol idishe lider, fun inhalt epes hayntsaytik gepregt. In mitn drinen bin ikh mit-direktor funem yerlekhn tsuzamenfor "A BUFLOKS AFN DAKH" (Buffalo on the Roof) in West Virginia, vos farnemt zikh a yedn zumer mit idishe muzik, tents, folklor un andere kultur-inyonim. Amol bin ikh afile in der heym ekhet tsu pakn. Azeyvi mayn idish shtamt sheyn fun di amolike tsaytn, bin ikh zeyer a baln zikh tsu bakenen mit der hayntiker kompyuter-terminologye, vos me hot zi aroysgetrakht in der letster tsayt. Deriber bet ikh aykh, khevre fakhlayt, zikh tsu yaven bay mir mit etlekhene azelkhe termines, ikh zol kenen zayn a moderner a progresiver mit alemen glaykh. A greysn dank, un hot mir ale a gutn shlitvegs! 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