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Contents of Vol. 23.018 April 27, 2014 1) shabash (Yale Strom) 2) shabash (Ron Manheim) 3) book sought (Jenna Ingalls) 4) Twitter oyf yidish (Peter Guttman) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: March 7 Subject: shabash A "shabash - nik" is what I heard several Ukrainian gentile women near Sokol call a hearth, a kind of stove which people slept on in the winter for warmth. They said they called it this because of it being on all time during the "Shabes" in Jewish homes. These gentile women would come in and relight the "shabashnik" when the fire went out, acting as the "shabes goy." Yale Strom 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: March 7 Subject: shabash In connection with Murray Woldman's answer: In one answer there is mentioned Kurdistan. Well, in Kurdish shaf bash (good light) means hallo, have a good day, a gutn tog, maybe it changed to an expression of excitement, as like as in Dutch goeie dag (good day) is used for excitement at positive surprise! Ron Manheim 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: April 2 Subject: Twitter oyf yidish tayere mendele fraynd, nekhtn hob ikh geleyent mayne tviter aynshtelungen, un ikh hob oysgefunen me ken iberzetsn tviter. yidish ken nokh nisht vern oysgeklibn, ober me ken es forleygn. bin ikh aleyn mit mayn gedank, a yidish tviter volt geven a sheyne zakh? Dear fellow Mendeleyaners, When I reviewed my Twitter settings, I discovered the opportunity to join the ranks of volunteer-translators to translate Twitter into other (i.e. non-English) languages. Yiddish was not on the list, but it could be suggested/requested. Would I be the only one who thinks a Yiddish Twitter interface might be nice to have? Peter Guttman 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: April 2 Subject: Book sought I am desperately seeking a copy of: "A Distant Voice: an autobiography of Samuel Lewin" translated by Joseph Leftwich, New York: Cornwall Press (1997). According to Worldcat records, no listed library in the world owns the book, and the publisher, Cornwall Press, appears to be no more. I have been working with the Jewish Studies Librarian at UC Berkeley, but neither of us has had any success. Any help or leads would be greatly appreciated! Please email me at: [email protected] a sheynem dank! Jenna Ingalls [Moderator's note: Paul Howard Hamburg, the librarian assisting Jenna Ingalls, provides the same information but with a publication date of 1996 based on a citation that appeared in the Mendele Review on May 4, 1997.] ________________________________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 23.018 Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: 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. 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. 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) 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 [interim address]: https://sites.google.com/site/mendeledervaylik 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
