Mayer in Yiddish: The Hunchback's Wedding

Mayer Kirshenblatt, b. 1916, Opatow/Apt, Poland. Recorded in NYC, May 2009. Recorded May 2009, NYC. First installment of Mayer in YIddish. To hear the story in English: http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/site/pages/mayer-july-onlinefeature.html From: They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust. http://www.mayerjuly.com

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[Nadav34]

ok, vos darfn mir iz a verterbikhl fun onnemendike un nitslekhe daytshmerizmen vos in haynttsaytike yidish bashteyt. Tsum bayshpil, verter vi: bite, farloymdung, farloymdn, fardekhtikn, farurzakhn, farheyratn(efsher dos vort hot an opshtamung fun loshn-koydesh: harey at).. vos nokh?? hmm.. antshteyn, di antshteyung, farfaser, farefntlekhn, alzo, un andere vos af mayn gemutsheter kop ken ikh nit trakhtn.

[Nadav34]

I guess its time for a new dictionary. What dictionary can you recommend for me to speak real authentic Yiddish?? I guess Weinreich's is inaccurate then?

Let see.. I have Der Oytser fun dem Yidisher-klal shprakh by Stutchkov, and also Harkavey's dictionary.. I also have a Russian-Yiddish/Yiddish-Russia­n dictionary. Tsulib fun dos, bin ikh a bisl gemisht vegn vos tsu ton.. Bite, rekomendir mir vos tsu ton?

[ikhveysnit]

@Nadav34 Why, because the Weinreich dictionary says so? That's the normal word in Yiddish. I've met people who grew up in Poland, Romania, Lithuania and went to Yiddish schools and that's the word they use. People say "zayt azoy gut" but that means "would you be so kind as to...", not "please." Please is bite in Yiddish.

[Nadav34]

ביטע= ווי מען זאגט אויף יידיש, פליז’?

ביטע איז דייטשמעריש, ברודערקע.



[ikhveysnit]

זײער שײן. ער איז זײער אַ טאַלאַנטירטער מאָלער און ס'דאַכט זיך אױך זײער אַ טאַלינטירטער דערצײלער פון מעשיות און היסטאָריקער אױך צו גלײך

ביטע, שטעל אַרײן מער מעשיות.

[Yiddishists]

אַ גוטע מעשׂה!