The
Mendele Review: Yiddish
Literature and Language
(A Companion
to MENDELE)
Volume 1,
1997
Contents:
1) Introductory remarks (Leonard Prager)
2) The Stories of David Bergelson (Larry Rosenwald)
Contents:
1) Farvos lakht di kale? (Leonard Prager)
Contents:
1) Current Yiddish
bibliography (Iosif Vaisman)
Contents:
1) "Traduttore, traditore" (Leonard Prager)
2) Pru urvu and not
3) An identifying footnote to
TMR.001 (Leonard Prager)
Contents:
1) Reflexions on the Yiddish lexeme mentsh (Leonard Prager)
Contents:
1) Versions of Ashkenaz by Seth L. Wolitz
Contents:
1) "Evigingo" by Leyzer Volf
Vol. 01.008,
June 12 June 1997
Contents: From Kalevala to "Evigingo":
Background Materials for Leyzer Volf's "Evigingo":
1) About Leyzer (born Mekler)
Volf (Lazer Wolf) (1910-1943)
2) The "Finnish trochee": M.L.
Gasparov
3) The trochaic foot in English: D.S. Parker
4) Kalevala: excerpt from the Yiddish
translation by Hersh Rozenfeld
5) Henry David Longfellow's "The Song of
Hiawatha" (13:1-23; 18:1-21)
6) Yehoyesh's translation of "The Song of
Hiawatha": (13:1-23;18:1-21)
7) Shmuel Halkin's revision of Yehoyesh's
"Song of Hiawatha":(as above)
8)
Contents:
1) Additions to Iosif Vaisman's "Yiddish Bibliography (1996-)" by Hugh Denman
Contents:
1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor
2) Chulyot: English abstracts*
Contents:
1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) "Tsi darf men lernen
yidish?" (Nokhem Shtif)
3) Yivo-bleter (n.s.) III English abstracts (Dovid
Eliyohu Fishman) Yiddish
4) On the Standard Yiddish
Orthography (SYO) (Seth Wolitz)
Vol. 01.012,
7 July 1997 [Dedicated to
the Memory of Chone Shmeruk]
Contents:
1) Yiddish Matters: From the
Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) Motl Peyse dem Khazns Part I, chapters 7 and 8 (Sholem-Aleykhem) Yiddish
Contents:
1) Yiddish Matters (From the Editor): Leonard Prager
2) Vos iz yidishizm? An entfer
Filologosn: Dovid-Eliyohu Fishman
3) The Yiddish Poem
Itself--"Di tsvey lukhes": Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl [Abraham Nahum Stencl] Yiddish
Vol. 01.014,
24 July 1997 [Arn Tseytlin Pre-Centennial Issue, Part One]
Contents:
ARN TSEYTLIN
[Aaron Zeitlin] 1898-1973(1)
Part One
1) Yiddish Matters: From the
Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) Biografye: (Yekhezkl
Lifshits) [Ezekiel Lifschutz] Yiddish
3) Arn Tseytlins Eseyen:
Yitskhok-Bashevis Zinger [Isaac Bashevis Singer] Yiddish
4) Arn Tseytlin
z[ikhrono]"l[ivrokho]: Eli Vizel [Eli Wiesel] Yiddish
5) Arn Tseytlin on Himself:
Arn Tseytlin [Aaron Zeitlin] Yiddish
6) Bamerkungen funem tsuzamenshteler: (Y. Lifshits) [Ezekiel
Lifschutz] Yiddish
** Endnotes
Part Two (Vol. 01.015)
7) "Dernenterung un
noentkayt tsvishn yidish un hebreish:
Paraleln un batrakhtungen" (Arn Tseytlin) Yiddish
**Endnotes (continued)
Vol. 01.016,
19 August 1997 [Special
Lokshn Issue, Part One],
Contents:
Special Lokshn Issue, Part One
1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) "Lokshn" (Noyekh
Prilutski) [Noah Prilutski] Yiddish
Contents:
Special Lokshn Issue, Part Two
1) Lokshn Additions to Prilutski
(Moyshe Lerer)
2) Lokshn (Ignacy
Bernstein)
3) Lokshn (Yulyan
Shvarts)
4) Abbreviations in Dos
gevet (Noyekh Prilutski)
5) Endnotes to First Dialog in
Dos gevet (Noyekh Prilutski)
6) Editor's Notes
Contents:
1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) Review of Michael Steinlauf, Bondage to the Dead:
Vol. 01.019,
15 September 1997
Contents:
1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) "Der yoyred" (Ayzik-Meyer Dik) [Isaac Meir Dick]
3) Review of Gennady Estraikh,
Intensive Yiddish (Avraham Greenbaum)
4) Bookmart: Oyfgekumener
Productions (Jack Kurland); Want List (Leonard Prager)
Contents:
"Dos porfolk" issue
1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) "Dos porfolk"
(Sholem-Aleykhem) Yiddish
Contents:
Symposium on Sholem-Aleykhem's "Dos porfolk"
1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) Symposium on "Dos
porfolk" by Sholem-Aleykhem (Louis Fridhandler; Dan Leeson; Marjorie Schonhaut Hirshan; Ron
Robboy; Harvey Spiro; Sholem Berger; Ariela Krasni)
Contents:
Uriel Weinreich's Dictionary Issue -- Part One
1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) "Dos porfolk"
Symposium continued (Dan Leeser, Louis Fridlander)
3) Tsum yidish fun morgn (Mordkhe Schaechter)
Uriel Weinreich's Dictionary Issue -- Part Two (Vol. 01.023)
1) Tsum yidish fun morgn (Mordkhe Schaechter) [continued]
Contents:
1) Yiddish Matters: a. Whose Vilna? b. Romanization in the The Mendele Review (Leonard Prager)
2) The Yivo Autobiographies
(Michael Steinlauf and Rachel Wizner)
3) "Oytobiografye" (Leyzer Volf) Yiddish
Contents:
1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) "Der baybak"
(Mendele Moykher-Sforim) Yiddish
3) Bookmart: Yosef Guri, Vi kumt der kats ibern vaser?
Toyznt yidishe idiomen fartaytsht oyf hebreish, english un rusish. (Leonard
Prager)
Contents:
1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) The Languages of
3) Der motiv fun "toytn-tants" in der traditsye fun
literatur bay yidn: (David Katz [Dovid
Kats])
Contents:
1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) "Oy hot er
gedavnt" (Yitskhok Ikht) Yiddish
3) "Nile in gehenem" (Yitskhok-Leyb Perets) Yiddish
Contents:
1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)
2) Review of Massorot IX-X-XI (1997) (Meyer Wolf)
3) "geven iz dos geven oyfn verk tse..." (Tsvi
Kanar)