Magen David, Oi Vey (1901)

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IDYLS OF THE GASS
by Martha Wolfenstein
1901
Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, NY
1969 reprint

   OED read this book and came away with three citations (shegetz, tsores,
and Yiddishkeit).


Pg. 15:  ...you would wonder at the joy with which one feeds for days on a
bit of Talmud wisdom, a "good word" which the rabbi gives forth in his weekly
_Shiur_ (Talmud lecture).

Pg. 21:  "What nonsense, the way she makes herself _meshugge_ (crazy) with
that _Yungel_ (little lad)!"

Pg. 25:  She has, _nebbich_, not much, and must work hard for her little bite
to eat.

Pg. 35:  ..._Backstub_ (bake-room)...

Pg. 36:  Odd times, when betrothals, weddings, and _Bar Mitzvahs_ were not
pressing, she filled in with the baking of small cakes, _Kuchele_, made of
almonds and hard-boiled eggs.

Pg. 48:  "_Mehlsupp' mit Spitzgerl_ (flour soup with mushrooms)," announced
his well-trained nose.

Pg. 52:  ..._Matzos_ (unleavened bread)...

Pg. 53:  ...rise and thus become leaven, in other words, _chometz_, unfit.

Pg. 53:  Each new group has a manner of its own, some running sbout and
shrieking like mad during the process; but good-natured ones let you help,
even to the punching of little (Pg. 54--ed.) holes with a _Radlech_ (little
rolling cog-wheel) into the unbaked cakes.

Pg. 62:  "Don't talk _Shtuss_ (nonsense), child!"

Pg. 65:  That's all very well, but his mother's nice holiday cheese--"_Ai,
wai!!_" and indignation got the upper hand.

Pg. 78:  "I'm struck dumb, O _wai!_" he thought.

Pg. 79:  "Oi!"

Pg. 90:  ,,,"She is a whole _Maggid_ (scholar, preacher)."
(OED has 1892, then 1901 for "Maggid"--ed/)

Pg. 108:  "_Shalet_, eggs, and +Kugel_!  Is that all?  Hm!  Reb Noach is also
one of those who lives only to eat!"

Pg. 111:  "Thou canst also sniff a little whether they have baked their
_Barches_ (Sabbath bread)."

Pg. 140:  "Now let her come and bake _Taschkerln_with this stuff!"

Pg. 170:  ..'Yes, 'tis the same one, of velvet, with the _Mogen Dovid_
(SHheld of David_worked in it...
 (The revised OED has 1904 for "Magen David"----ed.)