Re: belz

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

Dear Listers,

As far as the song is concerned --- it is pronounced "Bells".   While
someone who comes from Belz (either one) would be called a Belzer or Beltzer
with the ts sound.

Sylvia Schildt
Chair, IAYC
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on 5/12/03 5:03 PM, Lori Cahan-Simon at l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org 
wrote:

> So, is it pronounced "belz" or belts"?
> Lorele
> 
> Bill Barabash wrote:
> 
>>>> In 5.179 David Herskovic asked which Belz was the subject of "Mayn
>>> shtetele
>>>> Belz"--the one near Lviv (Lemberik) in Ukraine or the one in Moldova
>>>> (historical Bessarabia).  I don't have a definitive answer, only some
>>> clues.
>>>> The song was written by Jacob Jacobs (words) and Alexander Olshanetsky
>>> (music)
>>>> for William Siegel's 1932 play _Dos lid fun geto_ (_Song of the
>>> Ghetto_).
>>>> Jacobs was born in Hungary; Olshanetsky, in Odessa.  (I wasn't able to
>>>> establish a birthplace for Siegel.)  This circumstancial evidence
>>> suggests
>>>> Bessarabia over Galicia.  The Bessarabian Belz is really Belts (and
>>> that's the
>>>> official Yiddish form as well as the Moldavian/Romanian form), but
>>> there's a
>>>> tradition of using _Belz_ in Yiddish for both places.
>> 
>> 
>> The song was written for, and introduced by Isa Kremer, who was a
>> native of Belz, Bessarabia.
>> 
>> -- Bill B.
>> 
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