Hello I have been inactive from the Yidish-Loshn group for sometime now. I would like to let the group know about a new web site I set up myoyvey.com Please...
Hello, everyone! I enjoy listening to the daily Yiddish radio news presented by REKA, and I can imagine most of you will like to have the address. Go to the...
Thanks for that announcement. It seems like Kol Israel/Voice of Israel finally got around to making their daily twenty-someodd minute Yiddish language...
I hope everyone had an enjoyable Summer. Things tend to get pretty quiet on this list in the Summer and get busy after the Jewish Holidays. Those interested...
Tayerer fraynd! Mir farbetn aykh gor hartsik oyf der efn-program funem letstn sezon in undzer langyoriker heym baym Atran-tsenter far der Yidisher kultur. Mir...
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnY1Qm_JR1Y&feature=related_ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnY1Qm_JR1Y&feature=related) Yiddish song as you've never seen...
Beginning and Intermediate classes at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville got started last night. On account of the small class...
(The following is an excerpt from a talk on "Czernowitz and Yiddish— Random Reminiscences" by Prof. Meinhard E. Mayer, first published in the online...
Way to go, Lee! See you next Thursday, Ela ... Beginning and Intermediate classes at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville got started...
Elzbieta L Pelish
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Sep 19, 2008 5:58 pm
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Event: Sunday, Sept. 28th, 1:30pm Tshernovitser konferents Monday, September 22, 2008 5:17 PM From: "Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center" <info@...>Add...
For next class (7:30 on Thursday evenings, from now on), please prepare to do the following: Beginners: -Show a picture of a family member (or a pet, or a car,...
The following announcement, in transliterated Yiddish and English translation, advertises a documentary film made by the Yidish-Lige (League for Yiddish): ...
I forgot to give the Intermediate students the handouts I brought with me and to deliver the mini-lesson I intended on the past tense of verbs like KUMEN, GEYN...
I am a beginning Yiddish student learning from College Yiddish. While I understand the idea of Yivo-izing Yiddish, there are certain words I prefer non-Yivo...
Max Rothman
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Oct 1, 2008 4:02 am
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Hi Glad to be a member here. :-) My knowledge of Yiddish is very scanty but I am hoping to help a friend with the words of a few Yiddish folksongs for a small ...
A gut yontev alemen! Just wondering if there is a difference in meaning between az and azh. I seem to remember reading somewhere there was, but I cannot...
MIT A NODL ('with a needle') is a song about sewing (the life of a poor tailor who performs his work with dignity, whether he can afford the tools of his...
... azh. I seem to remember reading somewhere there was, but I cannot recall where or what. ... Gut yontef, gut yor, Leyele, un a gmar-khasime-toyve far aykh...
Welcome, Max. I think you're right to resist conforming to the standards of YIVO (to mean that's mainly a matter of spelling and choice of words, rather than a...
Hi Leybl Many thanks (again) I did reply earlier but the reply appears not to be included on the list so I'll try again. (If it was simply delayed because of...
Hi Leybl Thanks for the info so far - (Glad I never asked for a plate of needles in a restaurant! LOL) That would be most kind if you could transcribe those...
What Moyshe (Max) wrote reminds me to ask if in some dialects it is correct to say nit for "not" (and gornit for "not at all") and nisht for "nothing" (and of...
azh is a Polish word, spelled in Polish: az, with a dot over z. So you can just look it up in a Polish-English dictionary. As Leybl said, it serves to put...
Elzbieta L Pelish
epel@...
Oct 2, 2008 12:37 pm
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I can't recall anyone actually using the word NISHT to mean "nothing" in Yiddish (except in certain relic expressions like A NISHTIKE ZAKH, 'a trifling thing',...
Leybl, in my Lublin family the use of NISHT was a constant as in : NISHT IZ NISHT ! (with the right intonation and hand gestures for emphasis) NISHT/NISH'...
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