The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language

(A Companion to MENDELE)

 

Volume 1, 1997

 

 

Vol. 01.001,  April 13, 1997

Contents:

1) Introductory remarks (Leonard Prager)

2) The Stories of David Bergelson (Larry Rosenwald)

 

Vol. 01.002,  April 20, 1997

Contents:

1) Farvos lakht di kale? (Leonard Prager)

 

Vol. 01.003,  April 27, 1997

Contents:

1) Current Yiddish bibliography (Iosif Vaisman)

 

Vol. 01.004,  May 4, 1997

Contents:

1) "Traduttore, traditore" (Leonard Prager)

2) Pru urvu and not peru urevu (Leonard Prager)

3) An identifying footnote to TMR.001 (Leonard Prager)

 

Vol. 01.005,  May 13, 1997

Contents:

1) Reflexions on the Yiddish lexeme mentsh (Leonard Prager)

 

Vol. 01.006,  May 15 1997

Contents:

1) Versions of Ashkenaz by Seth L. Wolitz

 

Vol. 01.007,  June 12  1997

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)  Reading "Evigingo": ed.

 

Vol. 01.009,   June 12  1997

Contents:

1)  Additions to Iosif Vaisman's "Yiddish Bibliography (1996-)"   by Hugh Denman

 

Vol. 01.010,  June 22  1997

Contents:

1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor

2) Chulyot: English abstracts*

 

Vol. 01.011,   4 July 1997

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]

 

Text Box: In Memory of
Professor Chone Shmeruk

1921 - 1997

 

 

 

 

 

Contents:

1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)

2) Motl Peyse dem Khazns Part I, chapters 7 and 8 (Sholem-Aleykhem)  Yiddish

 

Vol. 01.013,  17 July 1997

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

 

Vol. 01.017,  19 August 1997

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

 

Vol. 01.018,  1 September 1997

Contents:

1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)

2) Review of Michael Steinlauf, Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust (Samuel Kassow) [Yiddish and English]

 

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)

 

Vol. 01.020,  1 October 1997

Contents:

"Dos porfolk" issue

1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)

2) "Dos porfolk" (Sholem-Aleykhem)  Yiddish

 

Vol. 01.021,  1 October 1997

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)

 

Vol. 01.022, 15 October 1997

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]

 

Vol. 01.024,  31 October 1997

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

 

Vol. 01.025,  16 November 1997

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)

 

Vol. 01.026,  30 November 1997

Contents:

1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor (Leonard Prager)

2) The Languages of Jerusalem by Bernard Spolsky and Robert L. Cooper (Leonard Prager)

3) Der motiv fun "toytn-tants" in der traditsye fun literatur bay yidn:  (David Katz [Dovid Kats])

 

Vol. 01.027,   14 December 1997

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

 

Vol. 01.028,  21 December 1997

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)

 

All Issues of TMR Vol 1, 1997, in sequence