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[Victor Bers]

Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements

March 25, 2012

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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:39:59 -0500
From: Rochelle Zucker <joeroc at shaw.ca>
Subject: Yiddish Stories and Poems on U of Manitoba Judaic Studies Website

Recordings of Yiddish Stories and Poems by Women Writers  - read by 
members of the Winnipeg Yiddish Women's Reading Circle are now available 
on the University of Manitoba Judaic Studies website.
(recorded in 2011 and 2012).

Have a look and a listen here:
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/judaic_studies/2878.html

Included are works by Chava Rosenfarb, Kadya Molodowsky, Sarah 
Hamer-Jacklyn, Fruma Halpern, Bella Goldworth and Rikudah Potash.

The Winnipeg Yiddish Women's Reading Circle meets monthly in order to 
read, hear, and discuss stories and poems by female Yiddish authors that 
would otherwise be forgotten. By rescuing the stories of these writers, 
the participants in the Reading Circle are also able to enjoy listening 
and speaking their mameloshn, or mother-tongue.

The Winnipeg Reading Circle has been remarkably active since its inception 
in 2001. In 2007, the group published an anthology of English translations 
of their favourite stories, Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish 
Women Writers, edited by Rhea Tregebov (Toronto: Sumach Press and New 
York: The Feminist Press CUNY). The Reading Circle was also recognized by 
the UNESCO and was included in its Register of Good Practices in Language 
Preservation.

The stories and poems presented here have been translated into English, 
but the women who read these stories for you hope that by listening to the 
original Yiddish, even those who do not understand the language will get 
an impression of the humour, linguistic musicality, and emotional depth in 
the Yiddish language and Yiddish literature.


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