[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements--seeking translators (into English or French) for works of Y. Keitelman

[Victor Bers]

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Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements

September 1, 2013

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From: esther.achenbaum at sfr.fr

Dear readers,

My name is Esther Keitelman Achenbaum and my father was Yecheskel
Keitelman a yiddish writer born in Mielec, Poland.

We lived in New York and perhaps some of you have heard of him.  He
also worked for the Forward.

He past away in 1969 and left his 3 published books in my possession.
Yiddish was our “Mameh Lushen” at home and we were bathed in Yiddish
from morning to night.  My father would spend hours behind his Yiddish
typewriter absorbed in his stories and memories – unfortunately
nightmares of the past  of his wanderings during the war in Siberia,
Tashkent,  the loss of loved ones, and his encounters.  These books
are the only things that I can pass on to my children and
grandchildren as their heritage.  I’ve spent several years learning to
read Yiddish, and have tried in vain to translate some of his stories.
 The books are short stories.  Unfortunately, I am not a translator
and have not succeeded in doing them justice.  My grandchildren have
asked me time and again “What did he write about? “

I know there is a list of translators, but I don’t know whom to
contact and I would so much love to transmit this heritage to my
grandchildren.   I would appreciate any advice as to who to contact,
or if there is someone who would be willing to translate one or two
stories – of course I would pay.  I live in France and the
translations could be in English or French.  I thank you in advance
for any advice or help you can provide.

Esther Keitelman Achenbaum

Texts are online at these URLs:

http://archive.org/details/nybc209867

http://archive.org/details/nybc201715

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