Klarinet Archive - Posting 000162.txt from 2005/01

From: "sarah elbaz" <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: Simeon Bellison library /archive
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:14:31 -0500

Dan,
Yiddish means Jewish in every sense. Yiddish, Jewish and Yehudi are
exactly the same thing. ("Yehudi Menuhin" means- the Jew will rest)
And I don't mind at all getting into this discussion!
Sarah

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> From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
> Subject: RE: [kl] RE: Simeon Bellison library /archive
> Sent: 12 Jan 2005 15:52:17
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> In the sense in which I used the term "Yiddish," it means
> "Jewish."  So the title could also be "Overture on Jewish
> Themes." It also means a specific language.  So it serves as both
> a noun (the language) and an adjective (religious
> identification).
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> And Sarah never thought she'd get into this discussion when she
> posted on Bellison's Israeli archive!!
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Niethamer [mailto:niethamer@-----.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 4:25 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Simeon Bellison library /archive
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> On Jan 11, 2005, at 2:27 PM, dnleeson wrote:
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> > Sarah, the Prokofiev has always been called by the wrong name
> > because the themes are not Hebrew as you well know.  They were
> > supposedly written for Prokofiev (or suggested to him) by
> > Bellison, and the original title of the work is "Overture on
> > Yiddish Themes." Being a Yiddishist myself, I always played it
> > under that title.
> >
> Dan, for those of us who aren't familiar with the finer points -
> could
> you explain (in 25 words or less - the "eingang", not the
> cadenza!) the
> difference between Hebrew and Yiddish in this context?
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> Thanks,
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> David
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> David B. Niethamer
> dnietham@-----.edu
> http://members.aol.com/~dbnclar1/index.html
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