Re: Berlin from Siberia

On Jul 3, 10:36 pm, Tadas Blinda <tadas.bli...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 4, 7:41 am, "Ostap S. B. M. Bender Jr."

<ostap_bender_1...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1cQxg6TXyAhttp://www.youtube.com/watc....
Puttin' on the Ritz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvT9E9lCKHU
My Walking Stick

Good stuff.  Meanwhile, Al Jolson was born in Seredžius, Lithuania:


I have an even more interesting Lithuania story for you. One of the
most popular children's books in Russia is the fairy tale/poem "Doctor
Aybolit and Barmaley" by Korney Chukovsky about a selfless Doctor
Aybolit who travels to Africa to cure sick monkeys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Aybolit

Doctor Aybolit (Russian: Доктор Айболит, Aibolit) is a fictional
character from the childrens' poems Aybolit and Barmaley by Korney
Chukovsky. The name may be translated as "Ow, it hurts!" Aybolit's
antagonist, an evil robber Barmaley, became an archetypal villain in
Russian culture. Barmaley debuted in Chukovsky's book Crocodile in
1916, 13 years before the first appearance of Aybolit. . The poems
found their following in the films Doktor Aybolit (black and white,
1938), Aybolit 66 (Mosfilm, 1967, English title: Oh How It Hurts 66)
[a real film classic by Roland Bykov] Doctor Aybolit (animated film,
Kievnauchfilm, 1985)). The doctor's appearance and name are used in
names, logos, and slogans of various medical establishments, candies,
etc.

But very few know who was the prototype for Doctor Aybolit. So, here
he is:

A living prototype of the character was Chukovsky's acquaintance,
Vilnian Jewish doctor Zemach Shabad (1864-1935),[1] to whom a monument
was uncovered in Vilnius on 16 May 2007.

http://jjew.ru/index.php?cnt=11726

Tsemah Shabad, a Jewish doctor Aybolit

The life of this remarkable physician and a major public figure is
inextricably linked to Vilnius. Truly the people's doctor was the
prototype of the good doctor Aybolita from tales Korney Chukovsky.
Today - the day of birth Tsemaha Shabad.

In his memoirs Kornei Chukovsky wrote: “There was this very kind man,
whom I knew in life. When he saw a skinny girl, he would say to her:
«Do you want a prescription? No, only milk can help you. Come to me
every morning to receive two glasses of milk ». And in the mornings
there were a huge queues of children. There children also brought sick
animals for him to cure, which he gladly did “

Born in Vilna 5 Feb, 1864, this future doctor of medicine, social
activist, journalist and editor, one of the founders of the secular
Jewish secondary schools Tsemah Shabad graduated from the Medical
Department of Moscow University. He also studied in Vienna, Heidelberg
and Berlin Universities. He actively participated in the revolution of
1905, was arrested six months prosidel in prison, then was exiled to
Europe.

Back in Vilna in 1907, over the next three decades, Shabad was a
director of dozens of Jewish organizations, including Wilno Jewish
community, one of the founders of «Yiddish People’s Party», member of
the Wilno City Council, member of the Polish Sejm.

His literary activity began with natural science articles, since 1922
- the editor of popular magazine «Volks Gesund» (People's Health)..
His grandson Uriel Weinreich became an outstanding linguist, founder
of the popular series of language books. He is known as one of the
pioneers of sociolinguistics and founder of the so-called «contact
linguistics». Second grandson, Gabriel Weinreich /Vaynrayh became a
physicist, one of the largest specialists in musical acoustics.

Doctor Tsemah Shabad died Jan. 20, 1935 from infected blood. More
than 30 000 Wilno residents came to his funeral. With funds from the
urban children's hospital in Antakalnis, a monument was built. At the
beginning of the Second World War, the hospital guard hid Shabad’s
bust and after the war returned it to Shabad’s colleagues. Now the
bust is in the Jewish Museum in Vilnius.

The bronze stature of Doctor Aybolita and a small girl with a kitten
in her armsnow stands on his street in the former Jewish quarter of
Vilnius. Its author - the famous Lithuanian sculptor Romas Kvintas -
once observed that today in Lithuania, the name “Aybolit” is known
much more by people than the name of doctor Shabad.

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Here is this statue, you can visit it:

http://www.travel-images.com/photo-lithuania220.html
Vilnius, Lithuania: Cemah Shabad monument - Jewish doctor - photo by
A.Dnieprowsky - image is part of Travel-Images.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriel_Weinreich

Uriel Weinreich (Yiddish: אוריאל ווײַנרײַך‎; 1926 – 30 March 1967) was
a linguist at Columbia University. Born in Vilnius (then part of
Poland and now capital of Lithuania), he earned his Ph.D. from
Columbia, and went on to teach there, specializing in Yiddish studies,
sociolinguistics, and dialectology. He advocated the increased
acceptance of semantics, and edited one of the most influential
Yiddish-English dictionaries.

Weinreich was the son of the linguist Max Weinreich, and the mentor of
both Marvin Herzog, with whom he laid the groundwork for the Language
and Cultural Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ), and William Labov.

Weinreich is also credited with being the first linguist to recognize
the phenomenon of interlanguage 19 years before Larry Selinker coined
the term in his 1972 article "Interlanguage". In his benchmark book
Languages in Contact, Weinreich first noted that learners of second
languages consider linguistic forms from their first language equal to
forms in the target language. However, the essential inequality of
these forms leads to speech which the native speakers of the target
language consider unequal. He died of cancer prior to the publication
of his Yiddish-English dictionary.

Max Weinreich is often cited as the author of a criterion for
distinguishing between languages and dialects: "A language is a
dialect with an army and navy" ("a schprach is a dialekt mit an armey
und a flot"),


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