queries/An-sky LYUBKAMI

[Lewis B. Sckolnick]

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On 12/17/2010 9:57 AM, Goldberg, Stuart H wrote:
> One of the definitions of "liubok" in Dal' is: Любок, однократное действ. глаг. любить.
>
> So perhaps the father means serial/ephemeral "loves" or affairs.
>
> In number 3, isn't this simply an imitation of agrammatical Jewish-Russian speech?
>
> Stuart Goldberg
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> Тема: Re: [SEELANGS] queries/An-sky
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> Maybe the word “lyubkami” is a typo of the word “lyuchkami”.
>
>
> EW
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>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Katz, Michael R.<mkatz at middlebury.edu>wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues:
>>
>> I am finishing my annotated translation of S. An-sky's novel "Pionery"
>> (1906) and am mystified by three phrases:
>>
>> 1) An irate father says to his daughter (who is refusing to marry the man
>> he has picked out for her):
>>
>> "Tebe, mozhet byt', okazhetsya bolee podkhodyashchim zhenikh s belymi
>> pugovitsami i s 'lyubkami'"?
>>
>> What could "lyubki" mean in this context?
>>
>> 2) A yeshiva boy studying read Russian is given a simple story (fable?) to
>> read entitled:
>>
>> "Priznatel'nyi Vanya."
>>
>> I can't find a source. Any ideas?
>>
>> 3) One of the lads sings a sad song that begins:
>>
>> Chto ty, glupyi, coloveika,
>> Pod moim zapel oknom?
>> Al', ne znaesh', chto evreika
>> Obitaet etot dom?
>>
>> I would be grateful for any hints, suggestions, clues you might have to
>> help solve one or more of these puzzles.
>>
>> Michael Katz
>> Middlebury College
>>
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