MENDELE Yiddish Language and Literature Personal Notices and Announcements
Feb. 9, 2009 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. Dear Mendele readers, I'm looking for the source and text of a Yiddish poem that an elderly acquaintance recalls reciting on stage as a pupil in the International Workers Order Yiddish school in the Bronx around 1939. I'm transcribing her perhaps imperfect recitation of this poem from memory: In Brooklyn in a shtibl on vent un on a dar [sic.] [dakh? tir?] hot dort gevoynt an eydl man mit kinderlekh a sakh. un dort iz nit geven keyn broyt der oreman vet oyfshteyn.... velt un geyt baym fus in Nyu-york fardinen a bisl gelt... The children ask their mother plaintively when the father will return, which he does, carrying sacks filled with goodies, including chocolate. A sheynem dank, Kathryn Hellerstein [email protected] -- Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein Associate Professor of Germanic Languages Undergraduate Director, Jewish Studies Program University of Pennsylvania Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures 745 Williams Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 (215) 898-7103 [email protected] ________________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: victor.bers at yale.edu <http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele> (in the subject line write Mendele Personal) Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e. inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: mendele at mailman.yale.edu <http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele> IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation,grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters, which are explained in summary form at http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 <http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275> . All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu <http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele> Mendele on the web: http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/index.htm <http://shakti.trincoll.edu/%7Emendele/index.htm> To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
