Mem û Zîn, a Kurdish romance - II

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Versions Mem û Zîn [İstanbul, 1968-01-01] Mem et Zîn [Paris, 2001-01-01] Mem û Zîn, a Kurdish romance - I [Michigan - USA, 1991-01-01] Mem û Zîn, a Kurdish romance - II [Michigan - USA, 1991-01-01] Mem and Zîn [İstanbul, 2008] Ehmedê Xanî, Mem û Zîn [İstanbul, 2010] Studies on "Mem û Zîn", a Kurdish romance - II Michael Lewisohn Chyet UMI Collected by gym and Socin in May 1869 in Damascus, Syria, from Jano (" Dschano-), a Jacobite Christian who had migrated to Damascus three months earlier with a group of his compatriots from the town of Midyat ("Midhjat") in the region of Tûr `Abdin, in what is today in the province of Mardin in Kurdistan of Turkey. A plague of locusts which befell Midyat for six consecutive years forced Jano's people to leave their homes. Although in Midyat he worked his own piece of land, in Damascus Jano was reduced to being a simple handyman. He could neither read nor write, but was endowed with the wonderful memory peculiar to the illiterate; he also had good common sense and was a quick learner. .....


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Mem û Zîn: Table of Contents Volume II Appendix Texts 1. illustrations / 1 Translations 2. PN 11869) Eugen Prym and Albert Socin, from "Dschano" / 9 3. PS (1870) Eugen Prym and Albert Socin, [from unknown raw! in Zakho] / 19 4. HM (1896) Hugo Makas from Mohammed Emîn bin Shemdîn et-Mendîlkanî / 44 5. LC-I (1901) Albert von Le Coq from Jafar Oğlu Seidi Bīyā / 53 6. OM (1903) Oskar Mann, from Rafîmanî Bekir / 86 7. SHa-1 (1904) S Haykuni, from Oskar Ohanian / 176 8. SHa-2 (1904) S. Haykuni, from Onbashi Mehon / 185 9. GNa (1904) G. Nzhdehian, [from unknown informant in Eleşkirt – Alashkerd] / 199 10. FK-2 (1926) E. Evdal, from Fekoê Mraz / 216 11. FK-1 (-1936) E. E'vdal, from Xudoê Qaşo / 233 12. EP-2 (C. 1938) O. L. ViI'chevskiī, [informantinknown] / 283 13. EP-1 (1955) Hajie Jndi, from E'tarê Şêro / 300 14. ZK-3 (1959) Ordikhan & Dzhalil Dzhalilov?, from Hovhannîsyan Karapêt / 350 15. HR-1 (1960) Besim B. Akdemir (for Hellmut Ritter), from Yûsuf Malke Asmar / 391 16. HR-2 (1961) Hellmut Ritter, from Slêman Manna Maskobi / 416 17. ZK-1 (1963) Ordikhan & Dzhalil Dzhalilov?, from E'gîtê Têcir / 428 18. ZK-2 (1970) Ordikhan & Dzhalil Dzhalilov?, from Ohanyan Israêl / 460 Text and translation 19. MC-1 (c.1988) [tape acquired by Michael L. Chyet], (name withheld) / 506