"Severian" <severian@chlamydia-is-not-a-flower.com> wrote in message
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> 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
Whilst I have no inclination to agree with you either, that was beautiful,
man.
Uncle Davey
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