[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--Looking for source and text of a song "in brooklyn in a shtibl..."
Victor Bers
victor.bers at yale.edu
Mon Feb 9 14:29:13 EST 2009
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Dear Mendele readers,
I'm looking for the source and text of a Yiddish poem that an elderly
acquaintance recalls reciting on stage as a pupil in the International
Workers Order Yiddish school in the Bronx around 1939. I'm transcribing her
perhaps imperfect recitation of this poem from memory:
In Brooklyn in a shtibl
on vent un on a dar [sic.] [dakh? tir?]
hot dort gevoynt an eydl man
mit kinderlekh a sakh.
un dort iz nit geven keyn broyt
der oreman vet oyfshteyn.... velt
un geyt baym fus in Nyu-york
fardinen a bisl gelt...
The children ask their mother plaintively when the father will return, which
he does, carrying sacks filled with goodies, including chocolate.
A sheynem dank,
Kathryn Hellerstein
khellers at sas.upenn.edu
--
Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages
Undergraduate Director, Jewish Studies Program
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
745 Williams Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
(215) 898-7103
khellers at sas.upenn.edu
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