[Mendele] MENDELE Personal Notices and Announcements--Yidishe Geshikhte fun Long Island, New York/forsher gezukht

[Victor Bers]

MENDELE Personal Notices and Announcements

July 1, 2009

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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:20:41 -0400
From: Ross Perlin <ross.perlin at gmail.com>
Subject: Yidishe Geshikhte fun Long Island, New York

Tayere Mendelyaner,

Nisht lang hob ikh gehat a gelegnheyt tsu bazukhn di hundert-yor-alt shul 
in Greenport, Long Island, a historisher handel-hafn afn "North Fork", 
tsvey sho fun shtot Nyu-York. S'iz prekhtik sheyn, an alter vayser binyen 
gemakht fun holz, mit a sakh originele obyektn ineveynik, a gortn 
oyserveynik, un gute mentshn.

Di shuls a mitglid, Dr. Micah Kaplan, hot mir bavayzn di "minutes" vos di 
ershte grinders fun der shul hobn farshribn af Yidish, farshteyt zikh, 
tsvishn 1902-1914 (nokh dem tsum badoyern iz alts af english). Hagam s'iz 
a bisl shver tsu leyenen di hantshrift, meyn ikh az s'iz do zeyer a sakh 
vegn vos an historiker ken zayn farinteresirt. Di grinders zaynen geven 
imigrantn (sokhrim, "pedlars", un poshete arbeters oykh), say rusishe yidn 
say daytshishe yidn, un di "minutes" kenen dertseyln a protimdike mayse 
fun undzer Amerikanishe Yidishe geshtikhte, der iker fun a derfele.

Dr. Kaplan un di shul zaynen greyt tsu hobn an ernster forscher ton a kuk 
af di "minutes", oder perzenlekh oder mit an elektronishe kopie vos zey 
hobn, un efsher a teyl fun zey ibertsuzetsn, un zey tsu banitsn in 
emetsers forshung.

Oyb du bist farinteresirt, shikt mir a blitspost far mer informatsies, 
oder lozt visn ayere fraynt vos voltn efsher farinteresirt---

beste vuntshn alemen,
Shmuel (Ross) Perlin
ross.perlin at gmail.com

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