Showing posts with label Yiddish House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yiddish House. Show all posts

4/22/09

Why Yiddish Translations of Kids Books?

Hurting for translations? Come hear me talk tomorrow at 7pm, at Temple University Student Center (Philadelphia Center City, 13th and Montgomery) on why we publish Yiddish translations of kids' books. It's in English and free; books for sale!

1/14/09

It's not harder to rhyme in Yiddish

Did I say that to the reporter? I certainly didn't mean that. What I meant was, that given a source text in simple rhyme it's hard to maintain such an elementary level in the target language.

Still and all, it's a complimentary article about our menagerie.

12/4/08

11/6/08

Cat and Hat Don't Rhyme in Yiddish: Translating Children's Classics into Mame-Loshn...but for Whom?

Buy our books - and hear about why we translate them - in Philadelphia!

a talk in English by Zackary Sholem Berger, co-publisher at Yiddish House
Thursday, December 4th, 2008, 9:30am
Drexel University
Stern Judaic Studies Seminar Room, Room 302, Hagerty Library
33rd and Market Streets, Philadelphia, PA (map)

All Yiddish House books (including our new Eyn Fish Tsvey Fish) will be available for purchase and signing.

Sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program of Drexel University, Dr. Rakhmiel Peltz, Director.

9/4/08

Fresh fish for sale!

From there to here
From here to there
New Yiddish fish are everywhere!

Now available:
Eyn Fish Tsvey Fish Royter Fish Bloyer Fish
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
Yiddish translation by Sholem Berger
978-0-9726939-3-6
$15 + shipping (and tax in NY State)
yiddishcat.com

Don't forget:
Di Kats der Payats, The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, in Yiddish--$15
George der Naygeriker, Curious George by H. A. Rey, in Yiddish--$18
Colorful alef-beys poster by Stephen Cohen--$12

5/27/08

A bright-eyed fish (or: how do you write "ghoti" in Yiddish?)

I had the pleasure just now of holding in my hot little hand a sample copy of Eyn Fish Tsvey Fish Royter Fish Bloyer Fish, our new Yiddish translation of Dr. Seuss's ichthian classic. It looks yellow and lovely and typo free. (Jinx!) More details when the whole shipment wends its way to us from Singapore. Save up your pennies!

(The cat and the monkey you already have, yes?)

3/15/04

12/24/03

Is there a Chinese speaker in the house?

If so, can you tell me what this says? Especially the part near the bottom that mentions a certain Yiddish-speaking hatted cat.

Please e-mail me if you have any idea at all. Thanks!

8/8/03

Buy my book!
Di Kats der Payats - The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, in Yiddish
If you prefer to read your Yiddish in Yiddish letters, as I do, go to my Yiddish blog.

The Cat is now here! Di Kats der Payats iz shoyn do!

DI KATS DER PAYATS, The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss in a new
Yiddish translation, is available for purchase NOW at
www.yiddishcat.com for $15 plus shipping and handling.
Includes the eye-catching colors, illustrations, and rhyme
scheme of the original, in Yiddish letters and
transliteration (English letters), plus an alphabet chart in
the back.

See us this Sunday from 12 to 4 at the Klezmer Meets Jazz
street fair on Madison between 42nd and 57th!

DI KATS DER PAYATS, The Cat in the Hat af yidish, ken men
SHOYN koyfn af www.yiddishcat.com far 15 dolar plus
shikgelt. Dos bikhl nemt arayn di kolirn, ilustratsyes, un
gramen fun original, af yidishe un lataynishe oysyes, plus
an alef-beys-tabele bam sof.

Mir veln zayn afn "Klezmer Meets Jazz"-gasn-yarid dem
zuntik, fun 12 biz 4, af Medison-evenyu tsvishn 42ste un
57ste gasn. Khapt zikh tsu tsu undzer tish!

Di kats der payats
Iz shoyn do mit gramen.
Er vil me zol koyfn
un leynen tsuzamen.

There once was a Cat.
His hat was divine,
but Seuss-rhyming Yiddish?
He hadn't the time.

Vu koyft men? A shayle?
Ot zogt undz der lets:
"S'iz www.yiddishcat.com
afn oylem-hanets!"

But Di Kats der Payats?
Right out of the box
He speaks mame-loshn!
He changes your lox!

"S'iz nor fuftsn dolar
plus shikgelt. Ir hert?
A vilde metsie!
S'iz keday un s'iz vert!"

He ticks off your fish!
Your rake is long gone!
Just $15 plus shipping
at www.yiddishcat.com.

Git do oybn a klik.
Koyfts yidn, un koyft!
Nisht rut zikh, nor aylt zikh!
Nisht vart tsu, nor loyft!

Support feline Yiddish.
Come buy it! Why not?
You'll like it just fine.
You'll love it a lot.

DI KATS DER PAYATS
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, in Yiddish