The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language

(A Companion to MENDELE)

 

Volume 10, 2006

 

Contents of Vol. 10.001,  30 January 2006

1) This issue (ed).
2) Yet More on kvetsh (Hugh Denman)
3) knie or kneye (ed.)
4) Hebrew Poets on the Jewish-Arab Conflict (Haggai Rogani)
5) Coming Issues: Artists' Portraits of Yiddish Writers presented by David Mazower

 

Contents of Vol. 10.002,  7 February 2006

1) This issue of TMR  (ed). 
2) Artists' Portraits of Yiddish Writers, 1st Series (David Mazower)
3) Yitskhak Laor calls Biblical Hebrew a foreign language to Israeli Youth (ed.)
4) Is "Mit ale zibn finger" a Yiddish idiom? (ed.)
5) Adina Bar-El's Grininke beymelekh (ed.)

 

Contents of Vol. 10.003,  27 March 2006

1) This issue of TMR  (ed). 
2) Artists' Portraits of Yiddish Writers, 2nd Series (David Mazower)      
3) Two languages locked in embrace: Hebrew and Yiddish (Zelda Kahan Newman)
4) A Reply to Ghil'ad Zuckermann on "Israeli" (Amitai HaLevi)
5)  Remembering Sophie Tucker (1884-1966)
  a. A general description of Sophie Tucker's life
  b. "Mayn yidishe mame" in Yiddish by Sophie Tucker, 1928 – audio file (Jan Hovers)
  c.  Yiddish text of "Mayn yidishe mame" (ed.)
  d. Romanized text of "Mayn yidishe mame" (ed.)
  e. "Mayn yidishe mame" in English by Sophie Tucker, 1928 – audio file  (Jan Hovers)
  f.  Sophie Tucker's 1928 Dutch "Mayn yidishe mame" record illustrated (Jan Hovers)
  g.  Leo Fuld's Dutch record of "Mayn yidishe mame" illustrated (Jan Hovers)
6) Adina Bar-El's Grininke beymelekh – a further notice (ed.)

 

Contents of Vol. 10.004,  12 April 2006   -- NINTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

1)   This issue of TMR  (ed.)
2)   A bintl briv from  the Forverts  [1928] (Robert Goldenberg)
3)   English translation of A bintl briv from 1928 (ed.)
4)   Review of Nancy Sinkoff's Out of the Shtetl  (Adam Teller)
5)   Titular song of stageplay "Mayn yidishe mame" (ed.)
6)   Men meynt nit di hagode nor di kneydlekh
7)   100th anniversary of poet Menke Katz (1906-2006)
8)   Letter to the Editor re "Mit ale zibn finger" (Joseph Sherman)

 

Contents of Vol. 10.005,  31 May 2006

1) This issue (ed).
2) Review of Jerold Frakes' Early Yiddish Texts (Marion Aptroot)
3) "Die fragen [di frages], vos men shtelt baym veren [vern] a sitizen [birger]"
4) Books Received
    a) Shalom Luria, Vilna Shelanu-Ir VoEm
    b) Mordkhe Schaechter, Di geviksn velt in yidish

 

Contents of Vol. 10.006,  30 June 2006

1) This issue of TMR (ed.)
2) Selections from Seyfer Lutsk ('Lutsk/Luck Memorial Volume')
      (a) "Eygn blut" ("One's Own Flesh and Blood") by Yoyl Perel  
      (b) "Vitold Fomienko -- Mayn Reter" ('Witold Fomienko -- My Rescuer') by Shoshana Yakubovitsh           
3) Artists' Portraits of Yiddish Writers, 3rd Series / Irma Stern and Alva (David Mazower)

 

Eli Katz   (1928 – 2006)
 
Contents of Vol. 10.007, 31 July 2006




1) This issue of TMR (ed.)
2) "I spit blood…" Avrom Goldfadn writes to Shomer (N.-M. Shaykevitsh) Yiddish text (RG and LP)
3) Review of Mordkhe Schaechter's Plant Names in Yiddish (Leonard Prager)
4) "Oyfn shtengl" (Yoysef Kerler) [Yiddish text]
5) Books and Periodicals Received (ed.)
6) Coming Issues

 

Contents of Vol. 10.008, 31 August 2006

1) This issue of TMR  (ed). 
2) Yehoyesh Shpil [Yehoash Game]: Play Way to Learn Yiddish and Tanakh (ed.)
3) Artists' Portraits of Yiddish Writers, 4th Series [Aleksander Mukdoyni]  (David Mazower)
4) Two new poems by Boris Karlov:  "Brivele" ; "Kh'ob gehert meshiekhs yidish"
5) Comments on Boris Karlov's ELABREK; lider fun nayem yorhundert (ed.)
6)  Form and Meaning: Variations on the Word mishpokhe (ed.) 
7) Books and Periodicals Received
8)  On the horizon: *** The tenth volume of Khulyot;
9)  ***     - ùôÌøéðöò, ë'÷åí ôÏåï àøõ-éùÒøàì. âéá îéø àÇ áéñì ôÏìÕîòï-öéîòñ...
      ["Shprintse, kh'kum fun erets-yisroel. Gib mir a bisl floymen-tsimes…"
      (Sara Retter reads Bashevis's "Tayves")          

 

Contents of Vol. 10.009,   31 October 2006

1) This issue of TMR (ed). 
2) A colored Yiddish postcard by H. Goldberg, Jehudia Publishers Warsaw (1912-1918) [From the National Library, Warsaw]
3) Berlin-printed Postcard with three verses of a popular folksong "Gey ikh mir shpatsirn" ('I go walking') 
4) Vi azoy hob ikh gevunen oyf der loterey? fun B. Yeushzon. [First installment, Yiddish  text]

 

Contents of Vol. 10.010,  28 November 2006

1) This issue of TMR (ed). 
2) Oyfn shpits tsung; 500 yidishe shprikhverter
3) Vi azoy hob ikh gevunen oyf der loterey? fun B. Yeushzon. Warsaw:  Farlag A. Gitlin, 1912. [Second installment, Yiddish text]

 

Contents of Vol. 10.011,  3 December 2006

1) This issue of TMR (ed). 
2) Vi azoy hob ikh gevunen oyf der loterey? fun B. Yeushzon. [Third (and last) installment, Yiddish text]
3) Afterword on Vi azoy hob ikh gevunen oyf der loterey? (ed.)

 

Contents of Vol. 10.012,  31 December 2006

1) This issue of TMR (ed). 
2) "Hayntike yunge layt" by Dovid Pinski [Yiddish text prepared by Itsik Goldenberg]
3) Cairo Yiddish Theater postcard (ed.)
4) Artists Portray Yiddish Authors, Series 5: Dovid Tushinski's Portrait of Moyshe Knapheys (David Mazower)
5) Illustrated Books Received   : Shmuel Liberzon's Kasrilevke Drawings (ed.)
6) Isyu Sharf [Isiu Schaerf]: Graphic Interpretations of Yiddish Idioms (ed.)

 

Editor, Leonard Prager

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