Mendele: Yiddish literature and language
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Contents of Vol. 6.189
January 7, 1997

1) Lomir zikh iberbetn (Moishe Kijak)
2) Microwave oven oyf yidish (Perl Teitelbaum)
3) Transliterated Yiddish-English dictionary (Morrie Feller)
4) Yiddish/English postings (Refoyl Finkl)
5) Man/woman duets in Yiddish theatre (Lisa Tomlinson)
6) Yehoash's poetry (Lisa Tomlinson)

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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 08:15:33 ARG
From: kijak@einstein.com.ar
Subject: Lomir zikh iberbetn

tayere mendelyaner,

nisht, kholile vi a psikhoanalitiker, nor vi a prost-posheter yid, vil
ikh zikh durkhredn mit aykh. a mentsh iz take nisht mer vi a mentsh,
un a mol ken er zikh aroyskhapn mit an oysdruk vos kon a tsveytn
baleydikn.

vosszhe darf men ton in azelkhe faln? koydem kol nisht blaybn
farakshnt un nisht veln onnemen az men iz take dervaksene un kluge
mentshn, ober men ken amol oykh bageyn a toes. tveytns, nisht nemen
zikh tsu fil tsum hartsn epes vos tsulib dem iz nisht keday es zol
kumen tsu a broyges.

ober der iker iz, az mir torn nisht fargesn az mir kumen zikh ale
tsunoyf, tsulib a vikhtike sibe: undzer libe tsu undzer shprakh un di
kultur-oytsres vos zi farmogt.

in der onfang-shule vu ikh hob gelernt, di tsentrale sholem aleykhem
shul in buenos aires, hot a lererke ayngefirt aza mineg: ven kinder
flegn zikh tsekrign, hot zi geheysn zikh ale nemen bay di hent un
zingen: "lomir zikh iberbetn, koyf a por marantsn, lomir zikh
iberbetn, lomir geyn tantsn". mir zenen nisht kayn kinder, darfn mir
avade un avade farshteyn az es iz poshet nishto kayn tsayt zikh
optsugebn mit kayn krigerayen.

zayt mir moykhl far di por verter un nemt zey nisht on far umgut. es
iz nor an aynladung vayter ontsugeyn mit undzer sheferishe un
ayngenemene arbet.

zayt ale gezunt.

moishe kijak

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Date: 06 Jan 97 22:43:38 EST
From: 74031.775@compuserve.com
Subject: Microwave oven oyf yidish

Doodie Ringelblum fregt vi zogt men "microwave oven" oyf yidish. Vos
vegn mikro-khvalye oyvn ? Azoy rufn mir es bay undz in Queens.

Perl Teitelbaum
Queens, NY

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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 21:42:03 -1000
From: feller@indirect.com
Subject: Transliterated Yiddish-English dictionary

In response to the request of Icek Mozes in Mendele 6.187, there is a
dictionary such as he is looking for.  It is: " The Yiddish Dictionary
Sourcebook: A Transliterated Guide to the Yiddish Language" by Herman
Galvin and Stan Tamarkin (Ktav Publishing, 1986).  However, I'm afraid
that it would have a very limited usefulness for his purposes.

Morrie Feller
Phoenix

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Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 11:03:50 -0500 (EST)
From: raphael@cs.uky.edu
Subject: Yiddish/English postings

khotsh an englishe iberzetsung tsum sof fun a brivl vet helfn a sakh fun
di mendelyaner, bet ikh shtark ir zolt oykh, vi fil meglekh, oykh
shraybn af yidish!  kemat yedn artikl vos men shraybt af yidish leyg ikh
arayn in mayn yidishn shraybmashin, kedey ikh zol fargresern di reshimes
i fun rikhtiker oysleyg i fun loshn-koydeshdike terminen.  di lengere
artiklen brengn mir an erekh tsen-fuftsn naye verter, vos farshtarkn un
farbesern mayne reshimes.

shraybers vos ir vilt iberkukn ayer yidisher oysleyg eyder ir shikt
arayn artiklen in mendele:  git a pruv mit

	http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/makeyiddish.html

Although an English translation appended to a note can help lots of
Mendelyaner, I want to strongly urge you to write in Yiddish, too!
Almost every Yiddish article in Mendele goes into my Yiddish Typewriter
program to improve my dictionary and respelling lists.  I get about
10-15 new entries for each article.  If you want to try out the spelling
checker, try the URL listed above.

Refoyl Finkl

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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 23:06:09 -0800
From: ltomlins@direct.ca
Subject: Man/woman duets in Yiddish theatre

I need to find several excellent Yiddish duets for a man and a woman
(tenor/soprano). I would be especially pleased to find and revive
pieces that have not been performed for a while, perhaps from Yiddish
theatre.

I hope to find a humorous piece with a lot of tongue in cheek lyrics,
much like Finjan's "I need a man". I also hope to find a more emotional
love duet.

Please help.

Lisa Tomlinson

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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 23:09:29 -0800
From: ltomlins@direct.ca
Subject: Yehoash's Poetry

Many thanks to all the kind writers who helped me find Yehoash's
translation of the Tanakh.

I have not gotten any responses to my question about Yehoash's poetry, so
here I try again. I know that there exists a "facing page" (Yiddish/English)
edition of some of Yehoash's poetry. Who published it? Where can it be
found?

Also, does there exist an Yiddish translation of (parts of) the Talmud?

Lisa Tomlinson

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