[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--Leksikon fun yidishn teater--name transliteration project

[Victor Bers]

Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements

Feb. 11, 2011

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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:16:20 -0500
From: Steven Lasky <steve at museumoffamilyhistory.com>
Subject: Leksikon fun yidishn teater--name transliteration project for all 
six volumes completed

I have taken it upon myself to transliterate from Yiddish to English 
(using for the most part YIVO orthographic standards) the names of 
individuals and organizations listed within Zalmen Zylbercweig's "Leksikon 
fun yidishn teater." The full list is comprised of more than 2,700 names.

Not only have I included the surnames, given names and alternate names for 
each person listed in these volumes, but I've also added into my database 
(when available) the individual's dates of birth and death and 
town/city/country of their birth. I also have them arranged by page 
number, i.e. not only the number of the page in the original Yiddish 
language book, but also the pdf page number (which is the easiest way to 
find a particular listing in the book itself.)

Did you know that all six volumes of the "Leksikon" are available for free 
online at www.archive.org? If you just search this site using the words 
"leksikon fun yidishn", you will arrive at the links to all six volumes.

I hope to have the Leksikon data freely available online within the 
confines of my virtual Museum, searchable via a database, sometime in the 
future. In the meantime, please feel free to write to me if you need a 
lookup.

I am also translating (as best as I can, though I am not a Yiddish 
speaker/translator per se) the nearly four hundred captions listed under 
the other photographs and illustrations included in these six volumes.
Regards, Steven Lasky www.museumoffamilyhistory.com blog: 
http://museumoffamilyhistory.blogspot.com steve at museumoffamilyhistory.com
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