The
Mendele Review: Yiddish
Literature and Language
(A Companion
to MENDELE)
Volume 5,
2001
Contents of Vol. 05.001,
31 January 2001
1) Words and Names (ed.)
a. "vi got in frankraykh"
b. odes or ades? [as "vi got in
odes/ades"]
c. di GOT-l-ak-es [=4 syllables] not di
got-LAK-es [=3 syllables]
d. The Jewish name Gordon/Gordin
e. From Kass to Cohen at Ellis Island
f. Toplpunkt and daytshmerish
g. 6 hard words from Radzin, Poland -- a
call for help
2) Jaffa Arab boatmen speaking Yiddish in 1931 (ed.)
3) A Note on Isaac Metzker's "To the New World"
[Project Onkelos
editors]
4) Books and Journals Received (ed.)
a. Khone Shmeruk, Ayarot ukhrakhim...
b. The Ben Uri Story from Art Society
to Museum...
c. Jiddistik Mitteilungen [Jiddistik in
deutschsprachigen Laendern]
d. Grine medine; a yidishe,
literarishe tsaytshrift
Contents of Vol.
05.002, 25 February 2001
1) Peintres Juifs a
2) A New Edition and Translation of Mendele's Peyrek Shire
(ed.) ( )
3) More on Odes / Ades (Shaya Mitelman)
Contents of Vol.
05.003, 31 March 2001
1) On Shalom Asch's short story "kidesh ha-shem" (ed.)
2) "kidesh ha-shem" (Shalom Asch)
3) On the Yiddish word korzhel / korshel 'coachbox' (Meyer Wolf)
Contents of Vol.
05.004, 13 April 2001
TMR 4th Anniversary Issue
[Volume 1, No.
1 of The Mendele Review appeared on
1) A Note on "dreyfus in kasrilevke" (ed.)
2) "dreyfus in kasrilevke" (sholem-aleykhem)
3) From Hugo Blumberg to Ugo da Montefeltro (ed.)
4) kozles 'coachman's box' (Lucas Bruyn)
Contents of Vol. 05.005,
[ondenk tog
fun umkum un gvure]
['Holocaust and Martyrs' Remembrance Day']
1) A note on "fir vos
zenen gegangen" (ed.)
2) "fir vos zenen gegangen"* (yeshayohu shpigl)
3) Thomas Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree and Yiddish (Louis
Fridhandler )
4) Readers comment on "Dreyfus in Kasrilevke" [TMR 5.004]
a.
Louis Fridhandler on nakidke;
b. Shaye Mitelman on tshesuntsha;
c. Michael Steinlauf on Labori; d. Poles in Ukraine; e. Errata
Contents of Vol. 05.006,
21 May 2001
1) On this issue of TMR (ed.)
2) Joshua A. Fishman's Can Threatened Languages be Saved? (reviewed by
Sholem Berger)
3) Excerpt from Joshua A. Fishman's introductory chapter in Joshua A. Fishman,
ed. Can threatened languages be saved?
4) Excerpts from "Hebrew After a Century of RLS Efforts" by B.
Spolsky and E. Shohamy in Joshua A. Fishman, ed. Can threatened languages be
saved?
5) A joke about liking lokshn in Yiddish and Hebrew versions (ed.)
Contents of Vol. 05.007,
26 June 2001
1) About This Issue (ed.)
2) "A note on the language of this book" [from Ron Kuzar, Hebrew
and Zionism; A Discourse Analytic Critical Study]
3) Journals Received (ed.) Toplpunkt; Lebns-fragn; Jiddistik
Mitteilungen.
Contents of Vol. 05.008, 31
July 2001
1) About This Issue (ed.)
2) A Note on the Hebrew-Aramaic Component in Yiddish (ed.)
3) "gegesene teg" (Lamed Shapiro)
3) "gegesene teg" (Lamed Shapiro) [continued]
3) "gegesene teg"
(Lamed Shapiro) [continued]
Contents of Vol.
05.011, 31 August 2001
Rosheshone/Yonkiper
Numer
[High Holidays Issue]
1) makhzor/lerosh hashono
veyom hakipurim, Hebrew Publishing Co., 1926
2) tvey yonkiper lider [Two Day of Atonement Poems] (Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl)
Contents of Vol.
05.012, 30 September 2001
Sukes Numer
[Sukkot Issue]
1) Mendele Moykher-Sforim's
"di kliatshe" and the Palestinians (ed.)
2) A selection from "Di kliatshe" (Mendele Moykher-Sforim)
3) Mendele on "Yidishe parnoses" ['Jewish occupations'] -- A view
from
4) A Note on Shmuel Izban (ed.)
5) Shmuel Izban's Umlegale: yidn shpaltn yamen (Samuel Z. Klausner)
Contents of Vol.
05.013, 29 October 2001
1) In this issue (ed.)
2) The Implications of a New Bergelson Translation (Lawrence A. Rosenwald)
3) Journals Received (ed.)
a. Lebns-fragn
593-4 (Sept-Oct 2001)
b. Toplpunkt 3 (2001)
Contents of Vol. 05.014,
5 November 2001
The Crisis at
the Hebrew National Archives "Gnazim"(1)
1) About this issue (ed.)
2) A Petition to save the National Archives "Gnazim"
("signed" by Khayim Bialik, Uri Tsvi Grinberg, and Shaul
Tshernikhovski) [PLEASE SIGN AND FAX TO "GNAZIM"!] 3) Howe-Greenberg
and the Proletpen poets (ed.)
4) Frume Halpern: A "Proletarian" Writer (ed.)
5) "Proletarian" Prose Illustrated: "Blume" by Frume
Halpern
6) Publications Received:
a. Forverts
b. Yugntruf
ERRATUM:The email address of
Lawrence Rosenwald given in the last issue of TMR was erroneous. It
should be lrosenwald@wellesley.edu.
Contents of Vol.
05.015, 16 December 2001
1) Ezra Lahad's Bibliography of Printed Yiddish Plays (ed.)
2) Yiddish and "Yidishkayt" in a British Provincial Town (ed.)
3) shatkhen and "Shot Gun" (ed.)