RE: Yiddish on List

[Dick Rosenberg <drosenberg...>]

Yiddish, yiddish, yiddish, yiddish, yiddish,
Zol zayn yidn yiddish,
Yiddish zol zayn, yiddish zol zayn,
Yiddish af der gantse velt.

Yiddish, yiddish, yiddish, yiddish, yiddish,
Jews should have Yiddish,
Should have yiddish, should have yiddish,
Yiddish over the whole world.

Approximate translation and play on words on a nice tune our
Chazzanit (Rosalie Gerut) sings every Friday night. It goes:
Shabos, shabos, shabos, shabos, shabos,
Zol zayn yidn shabos...

Dick Rosenberg

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>From:  Solidarity Foundation[SMTP:svzandt (at) igc(dot)apc(dot)org]
>Sent:  Thursday, February 26, 1998 3:09 PM
>To:    World music from a Jewish slant.
>Subject:       Yiddish on List
>
>I'd just like to request that poster either limit their use of Yiddish or
>translate it. There's an awful lot of people on this list simply not
>bothering - most of us (i daresay) don't speak Yiddish. If you want to
>have a private conversation you *can* take it offlist.
>Thanks. (BTW, this should probably be true for other languages as well.)
>
>        Sheesh. What if I started sending all my posts in transliterated
>Russian?
>
>Alana
>_________
>
>Alana, haven't you picked up on the fact yet, that we're trying to get
>you to learn Yiddish?
>Itzik-Leyb
>