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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: odin on July 10, 2004, 04:48:47 PM
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Does anybody know what the following means: Iisgadal rejiiskadisch schemel robo. It's a line from Karen Blixen's/Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales. In the story The Dreamers the jew Marcus says this when Pellegrina dies at the end. I guess it's Yiddish or Hebrew. :-?
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'Yiddish' as it's called in English according to wikipedia :-).
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It's the Kaddish prayer, mourning the dead. " May His great Name grow exalted and sanctified"
http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/kaddish.htm
(Not sure about the funky spelling though :-), makes googling impossible, must be different method of conversion to our alphabet )
Iisgadal rejiiskadisch schemel robo == Yeetgadal v'yeetkadash sh'mey rabbah
(http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/ytgdl.gif)
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Cheers mate! :pint: A mourning prayer does indeed make sense. Yeah I googled every word separate and was surprised that I got exactly zero hits :-).
One question though, is it Yiddish or Hebrew? :inquisitive:
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odin wrote:
Cheers mate! :pint: A mourning prayer does indeed make sense. Yeah I googled every word separate and was surprised that I got exactly zero hits :-).
One question though, is it Yiddish or Hebrew? :inquisitive:
Aramaic :-)
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Eh?
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Ah. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_language) Aramaic is a language spoken in the Levant and Mesopotamia from perhaps 700 BC until the present day. It is a member of the Semitic languages group.
Today Aramaic is spoken among about 500,000 native speakers(with varying degrees of fluency) in scattered communities across the Fertile Crescent.
Gods, I love Wikipedia :afro:.