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Contents of Vol. 21.004 August 26, 2011 1) "biz keyn dants" (Rochelle Eissenstat) 2) Race and Humor in Yiddish jokes (Eli Rosenblatt) 3) Yiddish email group in London (Daniel Nemenyi) 4) "A kind on a heymele" sought (Michael Steinlauf) 5) General inquiry about heirs/estates of Yiddish writers and other cultural figures (Roberta Newman) 6) halb yokish, halb fayvish (Sholem Berger) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: August 3, 2011 Subject: "biz keyn dants" Is it possible that this phrase is actually about the vaser going biz Keidan? There was a city in Lithuania called Keydan in Yiddish. The current name in Lithuanian is Kedainiai. Wikipedia says: The city has been known by other names: Kiejdany in Polish, Keidan in Yiddish, and Kedahnen in German. Its other alternate forms include Kidan, Kaidan, Keidany, Keydan, Kiejdany, Kuidany, and Kidainiai. Rokhele Rochelle Eissenstat 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: August 4, 2011 Subject: Race and Humor in Yiddish jokes Dear Friends, I am currently in search of Yiddish jokes or sayings that contain some element of racial or racist thinking. For example, this could be a regrettable racist joke, but my hope is that such jokes could be about something more complex about Jews and Goyim. My general request is that the joke deal with some aspect of racial difference, either as we understand it today or as it was understood in the past. mit frayndlikhe grusn, Eli Rosenblatt 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: August 24, 2011 Subject: Yiddish email group in London Dear Mendele, Some of you might be interested in a new email group for Yiddish in London, UK that has been recently set up. It's part of a push to increase Yiddish-loshn events, research and other activities in and around the London area. To subscribe, please visit https://groups.google.com/group/yiddish-london zayt mir gezunt! Daniel Nemenyi 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: August 8, 2011 Subject: "A kind on a heymele" sought I am looking for downloadable recordings of "A kind on a heymele/ An opgekhakt beymele." Can anyone help? A sheynem dank, Michael Steinlauf 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: August 21, 2011 Subject: General inquiry about heirs/estates of Yiddish writers and other cultural figures YIVO would like to display unpublished letters from the following writers, actors, and communal activists on a new web site now in development, the Gruss-Lipper Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland. As such, we'd greatly appreciate any contact information for their literary estates or family members: Shalom Asch Moyshe Broderzon Chewel Buzgan Shimen Dzigan Zishe Kats Esther Kreitman Avrom Morewski Ignacy Schwarzbart Yisroel Shumakher Diana Blumenfeld Turkow Oyzer Warshavskii Michal Weichert Mark (Markus)Yuviler Thanks very much for any leads anyone out there might have! Roberta Newman Content Producer/Gruss Lipper Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: August 3, 2011 Subject: halb yokish, halb fayvish Meg ikh rekomendirn Stutshkovs verter-oytser (vos a dank Refoyl Finkel un Shimen Neuberg ken men nitsn afn internet, http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/searchOytser.cgi ? Unter pozitsye 388 ("umbashlosnkayt") shteyt: - *lemekh, lemeshke, [vulgarizm] drek, *meheykhe-teyse-mentsh, ahin-un-aher-mentsh, vaklmentsh - halb faytl halb traytl <shmerl>; - halb *khayim (*yokish*) halb fayvish Sholem Berger ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 21.004 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, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: [email protected] (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: [email protected] IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. 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