Re: [Cz-L] Steinbarg Memorial plate

Hardy raised the question about the whereabouts of the Steinbarg memorial
plaque. In reading the Yiddish text, I noticed that the word "painfule"
(engl. painful) was used. I do not believe that this word would have been
used in Czernowitz in the 1930s. Since Cz. Yiddish speakers were often
accused of daitschmerism (excessive German influence), I consulted several
German and Yiddish dictionaries. Indeed, the German word "Pein" is
translated as pain, anguish, suffering but there is no corresponding German
word "Peinvoll". So here is the mistery: who wrote the text of the plaque?
Was it done in the U.S.? (Steinbarg had a sizable following in the Americas,
especially in Argentina) or was the writer someone in Cz. who had been
exposed to anglisized Yiddish? We shall never know....
So, from the city where "Gone with the Wind" originated (I have lived in
Atlanta for nearly four decades), comes the assurance that the memory of
Steinbarg and his Fables has not gone with the wind...

Regards,

Alfred (Fred) Schneider

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From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 1:02 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] Steinbarg Memorial plate

> http://home.earthlink.net/~drift/images/shteinbarg-shpitol.jpg
>
> Memorial plate of Eliezer Steinbarg at Jewish Hospital
> where he died after an appendix operation . It reads:
>
> " Here Eliezer Steinbarg spent the last painful
> days of his life and met his death in the midst of poor suffering
> people.
> It happened Sunday night of the 27 - th of March 1932. "
>
> Where is the plate ?
> Gone with the wind,
> Hardy

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