Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements June 6, 2012
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;and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. _______________________________________________________________________ From: [email protected] Date: May 30, 2012 Subject: Identifying a song Tayere Leyeners, I was wonder if anyone recognizes the expression "ruf mikh nar un gib mir lekakh" as a song, probably from right around the turn of the century? Do you know which one? I looked on the internet but didn't find anything. The line is from the play Mirele Efros, written about 1898. Here is the text it appears in: Hannah Devoire: Afilu in der linker peyah ligt es mir nisht. Vi zogt men: ruf mikh nar un gib mir lekakh . . . Ikh vil zen beser di kallah-matones. Ir hot tzugezogt dimentene oyeringlekh, mit a brosh, mit a bronzshelet, nomikh akorsht zen . . . ir meynt nisht, az ir vet opkumen mit shieh-pieh. I'd appreciate any suggestions! Also, I've seen various translations for "lekakh" (cinnamon cake, honey cake). Any thoughts on this word? A sheynm dank, rus (Ruth Murphy) [email protected] ___________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Responses to Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements should be sent directly to the person whom or organization which posted the item. Material for posting in Mendele Personal Notices & announcements,typically ,announcements of events, commercial publications, and questions not of general interest to the membership,should be sent to: [email protected] (IMPORTANT! 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:and likely to interest the membership in general, should be sent to [email protected] 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. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. 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. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: [email protected] Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
