Re: Yahrzeit

[Lionel Mrocki <amrocks...>]

Ask the candlemakers themselves!  Check this label...

 http://members.optushome.com.au/daynele/yahrzeit.jpg

note the "eyn shomer shabes fabrik"  Definately a german
influence here.


Lori Cahan-Simon wrote:

> But perhaps we could all try to adopt the YIVO transliterations
> which have become the standard in most of the Yiddish world.
>
> I. Oppenheim wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Robert A. Rothstein wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Let the word go out from this list that the
>> > macaronic, mostly German and partly English spelling
>> > "yahrzeit" for the Yiddish word "yortsayt" should be
>> > swept into the dustbin of history!
>> >         Bob Rothstein
>> >
>> The German "Jahrzeit" has the same meaning as the
>> Yiddish "yortsayt" so I think both forms are
>> acceptable. I personally can live with it that in an
>> English context "Jahrzeit" is transcribed as
>> "Yahrzeit".
>>
>> Irwin
>>
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