[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--Frakes, *Yerusholayim d'lite: di yidishe kultur in der lite (Jerusalem of Lithuanian)

[Victor Bers]

Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements

February 19, 2012

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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:16:27 -0500
From: Jerold C. Frakes <jcfrakes at buffalo.edu>
To: mendele at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: new Yiddish text anthology

Mendele readers might be interested in the following new collection of 
Yiddish texts:

Yerusholayim d'lite: di yidishe kultur in der lite (Jerusalem of 
Lithuania: A Reader in Yiddish Cultural History)/ by Jerold C. Frakes 
contains cultural, literary,and historical readings -- in Yiddish -- that 
vividly chronicle the central role Vilnius (Lithuania) played in Jewish 
culture throughout the past five centuries. It includes many examples of 
Yiddish literature, historiography, sociology, and linguistics written by 
and about Litvaks and includes work by prominent Yiddish poets, novelists, 
raconteurs, journalists, and scholars. In addition, Frakes has 
supplemented the primary texts with many short essays in Yiddish that 
contextualize Yiddish cultural figures, movements, and historical events.

Designed especially for intermediate and advanced readers of Yiddish (from 
the second year of instruction), each text is individually glossed, 
including not only English definitions, but also basic grammatical 
information that will enable intermediate readers to progress to an 
advanced reading ability.

Because of its unique content, Yerusholayim d'lite will be of interest 
not only to university students of Yiddish language, literature, and 
culture, but it will be an invaluable resource for scholars and Yiddish 
reading groups and clubs worldwide, as well as for all general readers 
interested in Yiddish-language culture.

The publisher's webpage shows the bookcover and includes the table of 
contents and a few sample texts (click on the blue text "read excerpts 
from the book")

http://www.ohiostatepress.org/books/Book%20PDFs/Frakes%20Jerusalem.pdf


All best,

J. Frakes
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