The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language

(A Companion to MENDELE)

Volume 4, 2000

Contents of Vol. 04.001, 31 January 2000

1) Yiddish Matters: from the editor (Leonard Prager)
    a. Is Yiddish a "kultur-shprakh"?
    b) Yekhezkl Kotik on Hasidim
    c. Books Received

2) "khsidim" (from mayne zikhroynes) (yekhezkl kotik)

Contents of Vol. 04.002, 29 February 2000

1) Yiddish Matters: from the editor (Leonard Prager)

    a. An exchange of letters on translating Sholem-Aleykhem
    b) The dissolution of a family -- Kotik's opening chapter of the
         second volume of his memoirs.

2) Project Onkelos (Noyekh Miller and Leonard Prager)

3) Volume Two, Chapter One, mayne zikhroynes (yekheskl kotik)

Contents of Vol. 04.003, 17 March 2000

1) Yiddish Matters: from the editor (Leonard Prager)
    a. Yekheskl Kotik's introductions to his first and second volumes
    b. Yekheskl Kotik writes of his father, a hasid who yearned for his rebbe with all his soul
    c. Reprints Received

2) Yekheskl Kotik's introductions to his first and second volumes
    a. bimkem hakdome, ershter teyl, mayne zikhroynes (yekheskl kotik)
    b. hakdome, tsveyter teyl, mayne zikhroynes (yekheskl kotik)

3) Chapter 2, pp. 15-26, Volume Two mayne zikhroynes (yekheskl kotik) (the chapter will be concluded in The Mendele Review vol. 4.004)

Contents of Vol. 04.004, 31 March 2000

1) Yiddish Matters: from the editor (Leonard Prager)
    a. Sholem-Aleykhem's letter to Yekheskl Kotik
    b. ["dem rebns makht iber zayne khsidemlekh"] (Yekheskl Kotik)

2) Letter to Yekheskl Kotik (Sholem-Aleykhem)

3) ["dem rebns makht iber zayne khsidemlekh"] Volume 2, Chapter II, pp. 26-32, mayne zikhroynes (yekheskl kotik) (continuation from The Mendele Review, vol. 4.003)

Contents of Vol. 04.005, 13 April 2000

1) Yiddish Matters: From the Editor -- Aaron Zeitlin's letters (Leonard Prager)
2) "oylem habe" (sholem-aleykhem) [first of four installments] Yiddish

Contents of Vol. 04.006, 30 April 2000

1) "nisht fun tog [= tok?], nor fun shok" (Leonard Prager)
2) "oylem habe" (sholem-aleykhem) [hemshekh] [2nd of 4 installments] Yiddish

Contents of Vol. 04.007, 14 May 2000

1) more on "nisht fun tog [= tok?], nor fun shok" (Leonard Prager)
2) Table of Contents of Khulyot ('Links') vol. 6
3) "oylem habe" (sholem-aleykhem) [hemshekh] [3rd of 4 installments] Yiddish

Contents of Vol. 04.008, 30 May 2000

1) Books Received: Pinye Plotkin's poems (Leonard Prager)
2) The Music of the Mountain Jews: A Review (Leonard Prager)
3) Strasbourg Conference Notice (Daniel Galay)
4) "oylem habe" (sholem-aleykhem) [4th of 4 installments] Yiddish

Contents of Vol. 04.009, 8 June 2000

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[Shavuot Issue]

1) On Original and Translated Texts (ed.)
2) Velikie Luki and Rzhev [correction of error in TMR 04.008]
3) Pinye Plotkin
4) Uncle Pinya and Auntie Raissa (Sholem-Aleichem)


Contents of Vol. 04.010, 30 June 2000

1) The Curious Publication History of the Text of the Russian Constitution of 1905 (Aharon Ariel)
2) THE NEWBORN, OR RASL (Sholem Aleichem)

Contents of Vol. 04.011, 30 July 2000

1a) "A tate mit bonim" by Itshe-Meyer Vaysnberg Yiddish
1b) On "A tate mit bonim" by Itshe-Meyer Vaysnberg (Leonard Prager)
2) "The Treasure" by Sholem Aleichem (translated by Louis Fridhandler)

Contents of Vol. 04.012, 18 August 2000

1) Herzl's Judenstaat in Yiddish -- the section on language (ed.)
2) Reflections on a Widespread View of Kotik's My Memoirs (Lucas Bruyn)
3) Books Received:

(a) Antologye fun yidishe folkslider [band 5] der Mortkhe Gebirtig band, [redagirt fun] Sini Laykhter, Yerushalaim: HaUniversita HaIvrit, 2000.

(b) Catalog of Out-of-Print Yiddish Books, Amherst: National Yiddish Book Center, n.d. [ed.]

Contents of Vol. 04.013, 31 August 2000

1) Reading Kotik (ed.)
2) My Memoirs, Vol. 2, Chapter 1 (Yekheskl Kotik)
3) Expanded Table of Contents of Vol. 1 of My Memoirs (Yekheskl Kotik)

Contents of Vol. 04.014, 20 September 2000

1) Reading Kotik: "der reyekh fun a yid" ['the smell of a Jew'] (ed.)
2) Mayne zikhroynes, band 2, kapitl 2 [My Memoirs, Vol. 2. Chapter 2] by Yekheskl Kotik, translated into English by Lucas Bruyn

Chapter Two of Volume Two of Kotik's memoirs in the Yiddish original is archived in both romanized and Yiddish-letter form. Romanized Yiddish(missing)

Contents of Vol. 04.015, 27 October 2000

1) a. On Sholem-Aleykhem's "Hodl" (ed.)
    b. Y.-Kh. Ravitski remembers Sholem-Aleykhem (ed.)
2) "The First Years of My Friendship with Sholem Aleichem" (Ravnitski)
3) "der reyekh fun a yidn" and other olifactory matters touched on in the last issue of TMR with comments by David Assaf (ed.)

Contents of Vol. 04.016, 12 December 2000

1) In Memoriam: Yoysef Kerler and Shmuel Bat
2) "Er lebt vi got in frankraykh" (ed.)
3) "Konkurentn" (Yoyne Roznfeld)[Jonah Rosenfeld]

All Issues of TMR Vol 4, 2000, in sequence