Mendele: Yiddish literature and language
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Contents of Vol. 20.010
November 16, 2010

1) Jewish peddlers in Yiddish literature (Miriam Isaacs)
2) geshribene fasolyes (Rukhl Schaechter)
3) Internationale (Gilda Brodsky)
4) "a goy af dir" (Sholem Ber)
5) Jewish Wit Website (Sonia Kovitz)

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Date:  October 27, 2010
Subject:  Jewish peddlers in Yiddish literature

Tayere Mendelyaner,

Hasia Diner (NYU) is collecting information on Jewish peddlars, and 
wonders if
Mendelyaners know of places she can search in Yiddish literature.

  Miriam Isaacs
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Date: October 28, 2010
Subject: geshribene fasolyes

Emetser hot amol gehert funem termin "geshribene fasolyes"? Ikh zukh a 
yidish vort af
black-eyed peas (oykh bakant vi cow peas). Loyt "Di geviksn-velt in 
yidish,", heysn zey
"lubye." Ober ergets hob ikh oykh gehert di fraze "geshribene fasolyes," 
nor kh'bin aleyn
nisht zikher vos dos iz.


Rukhl Schaechter
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Date: October 22, 2010
Subject: Internationale

I want to thank Leybl Goldberg for his response.  I already have that 
version of the song.
I am still looking for the version that starts with the lines I noted -

Der arbet iz der tags gezangen

Der ruh, der troime fun der nacht...

  Any help in this would be appreciated.

Gilda Brodsky
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Date: October 25, 2010
Subject: "A goy af dir"

Tayre Fraynd:

I am looking for the meaning of an unkind phrase that my mother-in-law 
would use when
someone coughed, not when they sneezed.  When they sneezed she would, of 
course, say
tsu gezunt, or gezuntheyt, but when they coughed she would say, "A goy af 
dir."  I have
no understanding what she meant by that. I know what the words mean, just 
not why
they were used.  Has anyone else used the expression, or heard it used, 
and can they say
what the origin and/or meaning is?

Sholem Ber
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Date: November 11, 2010
Subject: Yiddish Wit Website

Please visit and enjoy this new website of illustrated Yiddish Wit created 
by my sister,
and recommend to others or link to it as you see fit.

www.yiddishwit.com

a groysn dank,
Sonia Kovitz
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