On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:11:33 +0000 (UTC), Eric Gill
<ericvgill@yahoo.com> wrote:
>"Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote in news:buttes$csv$0@pita.alt.net:
<snip>
>> There are many more elevated uses of Yiddish phraseology.
>Yes, we're all fans of the mighty Yiddish epics in literature. They are
>right up there with the bombastic Klezmer symphonies.
Oy vey! While I have no inclination to agree with UD, your reply does
seem rather anti-semetic.
From: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/GivenNames/yiddish.htm
"This process can be summed up and its sources highlighted, from a few
piquant stanzas from a poem written by Leon Feinberg, called
'Yiddish,' and translated into English by Joseph Leftwich:
'In the grey night of the middle ages,
Amid the flame of auto-de-fe,
Along roads chill and stormy
A people wandered on its way.
As a heart craves for joy that is quenched,
As parched throats for water long,
The dumb people sought a language,
Yearned with a chattering tongue,
Borrowed the yeast from the French,
From the Bible a measure of honey,
That after the fermenting and rising
Some sweetness should be.
A little corn from the Slavs,
A deep bowl from Germany,
And motherly hands kneaded the dough
From which Yiddish came to be.
From words simple as small copper coins,
From plain speech straight from heart and head,
The Yiddish mother-tongue emerged
Like good new crisp home-made bread.'"
Also see: Kiddush ha-Shem (1648) and The Aqedath Jishaq (1500's)
- Sev
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