Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements Date: May 29, 2019 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests:
1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text to victor.bers at yale.edu 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: Ruth Murphy <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2019, 7:40:46 PM CDT Subject: Latutshener, oftsiares Dear Mendele, I am looking for the English meanings for two words found in a Yiddish story written by a 19th-century Polish writer. The two words are latutshener and oftsiares. It's been suggested by the Russian groups that Latutshener is a variant of the Ukrainian town of Letychiv (Polish "Latyczow"), which I think is a pretty good guess. Oftsiares would be healers or miracle workers of some kind that a woman would go to when she was unable to conceive, as with the character in the story. Here they are in the sentence, plus a rough translation: — װאָס זאָגן נעבעך גוטע ייִדן? גאָט װעט העלפֿן, זאָגן זײ! אַ האַלדז קמיעות טראָגט זי – זי װאָלט שױן פּערל געהאַט דערפֿאַר! דער לאַטוטשענער, האָט נעבעך מיט איר מיטגעװײנט! „איך זאָל אַזױ זען גאָלד, װי איך האָב אַלײן געזען, װי אַ טרער איז אים אַראָפּ פֿון די הײליקע אױגן אױף דער הײליקער באַק. “What do the holy rabbis say, poor thing? ‘God will help,’ say they! She wears neck amulets — she should already have a pearl necklace for the money spent! The Latutshener rabbi had, poor thing, wept with her! May I see gold as I have seen with my own eyes, how a tear dropped from his holy eyes to his holy cheek. נײן! זי מוז זיך ראַטעװען! נאָך אַ מאָל רבײם, רופֿאים, אָפֿציאַרעס, ציגײנער ... אַלץ װעט זי טאָן! No! She must save herself! Once again to the Hasidic rabbis, healers, [leeches? herbalist?], gypsies ... She would do it all! I'd appreciate any and all suggestions! A sheynm dank, ruth ________________________________________________________________________ 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). 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 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: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.yivoinstitute.org_about_index.php-3Ftid-3D57-26aid-3D275&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=D8C0VFGQIMfNsn7w8b0vfE3r3ePhWQ7ssdhDNAOIA7Y&m=i6OcOKQ3Y-dhocgtTbH6EgLZXR8Fm0SrlKQV_-7t2F8&s=5k_1G7ZAw1bKPhg69xsN2IRMOQRw-h8_bqZzGe0jlw0&e= All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu Mendele on the web [interim address]: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_site_mendeledervaylik&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=D8C0VFGQIMfNsn7w8b0vfE3r3ePhWQ7ssdhDNAOIA7Y&m=i6OcOKQ3Y-dhocgtTbH6EgLZXR8Fm0SrlKQV_-7t2F8&s=1Pr-EYaznmiZ-2v8DlOIJP6Xhwkq1KY6GL3tnK_h0xM&e= To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
