In response to Etta Gold'as query re: kishkes (i.e., the anatomical feature), there are numerous books about Yiddish proverbs and phrases. One of the major caveats here, though, is that these are not all necessarily in Yiddish. Thus, knowledge of Yiddish (in particular) may prove beneficial. One of the works I have used in the past for Yiddish proverbs is: Yudishe shprikhverter. יודישע שפריכווערטער.
Ignatz Bernstein 1836-1909 ed. בערנשטײן, איגנאץ, 1836-1909 רעד. Warschau 1912 This is available at the YIVO Institute in NY (and elsewhere). Other possibilities may be: A dictionary of Yiddish slang & idioms. Fred Kogos New York : Citadel Press 1968, c1967 Hooray for Yiddish! : a book about English Leo Rosten 1908-1997. New York : Simon and Schuster 1984, c1982 Born to kvetch : Yiddish language and culture in all its moods Michael Wex 1954- New York : St. Martin's Press 2005 Just say nu : Yiddish for every occasion (when English just won't do) Michael Wex 1954- New York : St. Martin's Press 2007 I would also recommend consulting the online catalogs of the YIVO Institute in NY or the National Yiddish Book Center in MA. Both of these institutions specialize in Yiddish language, culture, and related matter. Best wishes,Rivka Schiller ------------------------------------------------------ Rivka Schiller, MLIS, [email protected] www.rivkasyiddish.comTel. 347-554-8980, 917-209-6717 On Sunday, January 4, 2015 12:01 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: Send Hasafran mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Hasafran digest..." Today's Topics: 1. strange question re kishkes ([email protected]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 16:45:39 -0500 From: <[email protected]> To: Hasafran <[email protected]> Subject: [ha-Safran] strange question re kishkes Message-ID: <E95482F39DC644F9A48F779BCF9DACF5@CQ5110F> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Greetings and Happy New Year to all my colleagues. I have a very intelligent patron who has posed this question: I'm looking for anything about kishkes (the body part, not the food). I seem to remember some sage comment about Jewish culture being located symbolically in the kishkes, but that's as much as I can remember about it. Where would I look for rumination on Jewish culture and guts? Please help me direct him to some good sites ? All I can find is recipes. Thank you very much! Etta Gold, MLS, RJE Congregational Librarian Temple Beth Am The Janet z?l and Richard Yulman Campus 5950 N. Kendall Drive, Pinecrest, Florida 33156 Direct 786.264.6543 Main 305.667.6667 or 305.665.6228 ext. 128 Fax 305.662.8619 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.osu.edu/pipermail/hasafran/attachments/20150103/d142d57b/attachment.html> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran ------------------------------ End of Hasafran Digest, Vol 159, Issue 5 ****************************************
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