Re: Help: looking for a word

[Joe Kurland <ganeydn...>]

I like Yidishn ta'am, but I wonder if that's descriptive enough.  I 
mean, I know what it means, but you have to know what Yidishn ta'am 
feels like from experience to get an idea of what the phrase 
expresses, so it doesn't say to an outsider what you mean.  If "soul 
music" were called music with an African-American flavor, you 
wouldn't know what that means unless you had experienced 
African-American culture. But to call it soul music, is to say 
something about the universally human source of what gives the music 
its character. So, for what it's worth, I might suggest a phrase from 
the song, Shpil-zhe mir a lidele in Yidish, "mit harts un mit gefil," 
"with heart and with feeling."


Zayt gezunt (be healthy),

Yosl (Joe) Kurland
The Wholesale Klezmer Band
Colrain, MA 01340
voice/fax: 413-624-3204
http://www.WholesaleKlezmer.com


At 2:44 AM +0000 10/18/02, <elliott_simon (at) dca(dot)net> wrote:
>Thanks for all the responses and help....I like yidishn ta'am....I was
>hoping Cantor Weiss would respond....IMHO he is the "neshomeh" of the
>list ...plus his phrase reminds me of flavorful crackers......elliott
>

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