[Avodah] D'zabin vs. Diz'van

[Simon Montagu]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Baker <jjbaker at panix.com> wrote:

> I did a short survey of some early haggadot on Hebrewbooks.org, picking
> 1740 as a cutoff date (dates less than taf-kuf are easy to recognize in
> a table of contents).
>
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>
> which bears out my hypothesis - it was D'zabin before Roedelheim, and
> Dizvan afterwards, but it didn't catch on right away (viz the Metz 1814
> haggadah).
>
>
Thank you for doing the research -- this is exactly what I suspected but
didn't have time to check the data. By the way, there are a lot of earlier
Haggadot at http://aleph500.huji.ac.il/nnl/dig/books_hag.html, but I
couldn't get the DjVu plugin to work in my browser.

If all the evidence is that the text was always D'zabin before Roedelheim, I
am going to continue singing D'zabin. (This year the question didn't arise,
because we had a family from Peru with us who sang it in Spanish -- "un
cabrito, un cabrito"). If any grammarian disagrees with me, I will point
them to the following passage by R. Kenneth Grahame:

The Toad, having finished his breakfast, picked up a stout stick and swung
it vigorously, belabouring imaginary animals. `I'll learn 'em to steal my
house!' he cried. `I'll learn 'em, I'll learn 'em!'

`Don't say "learn 'em," Toad,' said the Rat, greatly shocked. `It's not good
English.'

`What are you always nagging at Toad for?' inquired the Badger, rather
peevishly. `What's the matter with his English? It's the same what I use
myself, and if it's good enough for me, it ought to be good enough for you!'


`I'm very sorry,' said the Rat humbly. `Only I *think* it ought to be "teach
'em," not "learn 'em."'

`But we don't *want* to teach 'em,' replied the Badger. `We want to
*learn*'em -- learn 'em, learn 'em! And what's more, we're going to
*do* it, too!'

`Oh, very well, have it your own way,' said the Rat. He was getting rather
muddled about it himself, and presently he retired into a corner, where he
could be heard muttering, `Learn 'em, teach 'em, teach 'em, learn 'em!' till
the Badger told him rather sharply to leave off.
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