[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements--*Mumme Loohshen : An Anatomy of Yiddish*, by Joseph Witriol

[Victor Bers]

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Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements

July 23, 2012

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From: Philip Witriol philip.witriol at gmail.com
Date:July 20, 2012
Subject: Mumme Looshen-An Anatomy of Yiddish*

Mumme Loohshen - An Anatomy of Yiddish, by Joseph Witriol (1912-2002)
has now been published online by his son and can be read here:

http://mummeloohshen.wordpress.com/

It is a linguistically oriented book on the Yiddish language. The
words and expressions recorded are those actually spoken by the
author's mother.

I quote from one of his letters to a publisher in 1974:

“[Mumme Loohshen] is a comprehensive survey of the Yiddish language
[with] a strong linguistic bias. The book is discursive in style and,
I hope, makes pleasurable reading. Inevitably, however, there are a
few parts which are of a text-book nature. The book contains a great
deal of solid linguistic information which I believe can be found in
no other English book, certainly not in Leo Rosten’s Joys of Yiddish
or Lilian Mermin Feinsilver’s The Taste of Yiddish..."

You can read more about the book at
http://philipwitriol.wordpress.com/author/philipwitriol/  which is
where any comments may be directed.

Many thanks

Philip I Witriol

 Any comments, feedback, or inquiries regarding this project can be
directed to jkutzik at bikher.org

Jordan Kutzik
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Subject: Mumme Looshen-An Anatomy of Yiddish*









Mumme Loohshen - An Anatomy of Yiddish, by Joseph Witriol (1912-2002)
has now been published online by his son and can be read here:

http://mummeloohshen.wordpress.com/

It is a linguistically oriented book on the Yiddish language. The
words and expressions recorded are those actually spoken by the
author's mother.

I quote from one of his letters to a publisher in 1974:

“[Mumme Loohshen] is a comprehensive survey of the Yiddish language
[with] a strong linguistic bias. The book is discursive in style and,
I hope, makes pleasurable reading. Inevitably, however, there are a
few parts which are of a text-book nature. The book contains a great
deal of solid linguistic information which I believe can be found in
no other English book, certainly not in Leo Rosten’s Joys of Yiddish
or Lilian Mermin Feinsilver’s The Taste of Yiddish..."



You can read more about the book at
http://philipwitriol.wordpress.com/author/philipwitriol/  which is
where any comments may be directed.

Many thanks
Philip I Witriol

Any comments, feedback, or inquiries regarding this project can be
directed to jkutzik at bikher.org

Jordan Kutzik
_________________________________________________________

Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead,
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