From victor.bers at yale.edu Wed May 2 20:25:29 2018 From: victor.bers at yale.edu (Victor Bers) Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 20:25:29 -0400 Subject: [Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements--The Pickwick Papers, The Lord of the Rings, Shacklton's Endurance, and The Winter Journey *af idish* Message-ID: Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements Date: May 2, 2018 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text to victor.bers at yale.edu as plain text (no HTML, other coding, or attachments) and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ______________________________ From: Barry Goldstein Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements Date: May 16, 2018 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text to victor.bers at yale.edu as plain text (no HTML, other coding, or attachments) and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ______________________________ From: Rukhl Schaechter Date: May 16, 2008 BENYUMEN SHEKHTER FOUNDATION NOW ACCEPTING GRANT PROPOSALS The Benyumen Shekhter Foundation for the Advancement of Standard Yiddish is now accepting grant proposals. We are seeking well-structured initiatives that encourage people to actively speak, read and write in Yiddish. Previous projects have included online Yiddish classes, Yiddish immersion retreats, dictionaries and textbooks. Grants generally range from $1,000-3,000. The deadline to submit applications is no later than Thursday, May 31, 2018. All applications should be written in Yiddish and include the following information: 1) a summary of the project 2) the names (and brief bios) of the individuals who are involved in the project 3) a budget (including other projected sources of funding) 4) sources of other subsidies already received 5) the requested amount of funding Please e-mail your application to: rukhls at gmail.com ======== ?? ?????????? ????? ???????? ????????????? ??? ?????? ?????? ???? ???? ??? ????????????? ???? ????????? ?? ?????????? ????? ???????? ????????????? ??? ?????? ?????? ???? ???? ???? ??? ????????????? ???? ?????????. ??? ???? ??? ???????????? ?????????? ????? ????? ?????? ?????? ??????? ?? ????, ??????? ??? ?????? ???? ?????? ?????????? ????? ?? ?????????? ???? ??? ???? ???????: ????????????? ???? ??? ?????????, ?????????????? ???? ?????? ?? ???? ????? ??????, ???????????? ??? ????????? ?? ????????? ????????? ?????? 1,000 ??? 3,000 ???????. ??? ?????? ???? ?? ?????????? ????????????? ??? ???? ??????? ???? ??????????, ??? 31??? ??? 2018 ???? ????????????? ??????? ???? ?????????? ???? ?????? ??? ??????????? ? ?? ????? ?????? ????????? ? ?? ????? (??? ????? ?????????????) ???? ?? ?????? ?????? ?????????? ??? ????? ????????? ? ?? ??????? (????????????? ??????? ??????? ??? ?????? ?? ???? ?????? ???????) ? ??????? ????????? ????? ?? ???? ???? ???????? ????? ??? ????????? ? ?? ???????? ???? ???? ????? ???, ???? ????? ???????????? ?? rukhls at gmail.com From jap2220 at columbia.edu Fri May 18 08:43:13 2018 From: jap2220 at columbia.edu (Josh Price) Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 08:43:13 -0400 Subject: [Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements--Workmen's Circle Yiddish Classes Message-ID: Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements Date: May 18, 2018 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text to victor.bers at yale.edu as plain text (no HTML, other coding, or attachments) and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ______________________________ From: Nikolai Borodulin Date: May 17, 2018 New: Summer 4 week Yiddish in-person and online classes at the Workmen?s Circle in July. Join our international community of Yiddishists online, or take an in-person class at our Midtown Manhattan Headquarters, featuring an all-star lineup of teachers including Avraham Lichtenbaum, Michael Wex, Yankl-Peretz Blum, Eve Jochnowitz and Kolya Borodulin. Click here for a full description and schedules: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__circle.org_what-2Dwe-2Ddo_yiddish-2Dlanguage_&d=DwIFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=KFdMoVltD30fB3xX9CwkvpLnjsCKLbjq2VjXofNmowU&m=KW2aO2VrP_zKNaJq-RXmRwW_rDSATOBmfoV5HOaBQ0w&s=HYqE90mS1ueCIrdqSk8TjrfW60l7dWez4gHSrOP1vs8&e= Register online today: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__circle.org_what-2Dwe-2Ddo_yiddish-2Dlanguage_yiddish-2Dregistration_&d=DwIFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=KFdMoVltD30fB3xX9CwkvpLnjsCKLbjq2VjXofNmowU&m=KW2aO2VrP_zKNaJq-RXmRwW_rDSATOBmfoV5HOaBQ0w&s=Fs0BhyZk4SCtz0BnEobqgAr2iwveEFCwlfmxLdISXiQ&e= Spaces are going quickly. Register soon! Questions? Contact Kolya Borodulin, Workmen?s Circle Director for Yiddish Programming: nborodulin at circle.org, (212) 889-6800 ext. 806. Nikolai Borodulin Associate Director for Yiddish Programming 247 West 37th Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10018 212.889.6800, Extension 806 NBorodulin at circle.org www.circle.org From jap2220 at columbia.edu Fri May 18 13:54:09 2018 From: jap2220 at columbia.edu (Josh Price) Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 13:54:09 -0400 Subject: [Mendele] =?utf-8?q?Mendele_Personal_Notices_and_Announcements--?= =?utf-8?q?Conference=3A_Thinking_Europe_in_Yiddish=2C_June_4?= =?utf-8?b?4oCTNiAyMDE4?= Message-ID: Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements Date: May 18, 2018 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text to victor.bers at yale.edu as plain text (no HTML, other coding, or attachments) and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ______________________________ From: Marion Aptroot Date: May 3, 2018 Conference: Thinking Europe in Yiddish, June 4?6 2018 International Conference, Haus der Universit?t, Dusseldorf, 4?6 June 2018 In contrast to most national cultures in Europe, modern Yiddish culture came into being in geographically disconnected landscapes and without the support of a nation state. Despite many differences, this culture maintained its unity throughout disparate majority cultures and beyond the borders of nation states. Internationally acknowledged scholars will explore different blueprints of a European culture conceived by Yiddish speaking intellectuals and artists between 1890 and 1939. The geographically fragmented cultural space and the idea of ?Yiddishland?, the linguistic and the ideological connections of this transnational community will be sketched and the question how Yiddish visions of ?culture? and ?nation? compare to other programs and utopias of the period will be addressed. The Jewish Renaissance in Europe emerged in close contact with the reigning cultures, especially those of Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary. The polyglot Jewish Europeans understood Yiddish culture to be transcultural: beyond a conflict between their own and other cultures. They were engaged in favor of a transnational vision of a ?culture nation without a state? and at the same time took part in different European social, political and cultural movements. Increasingly nationalistic and anti-Semitic majority cultures predominantly dismissed and rejected the contribution of the Yiddish-speaking community. The conference draws attention to the cultural forms of expression of?Yiddish Europe?. It is intended to suggest considering the Yiddish concepts as an integral part of the European history of ideas and to enrich the image of Europe shaped by the historical canon with a little known but significant narrative. Organisation: Marion Aptroot, Efrat Gal-Ed (Yiddish Studies, Institute for Jewish Studies) and Andrea von H?lsen-Esch (Institute for Art History), Heinrich Heine University D?sseldorf. Contact: jiddisch(at)hhu.de June 4, 2018 09:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks 09:45 ? 10:45 Keynote David E. Fishman (Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York): How Yiddish Became a European Culture 11:15 ? 12:45 Early Concepts and Visions Fran?ois Guesnet (University College London): Places and Spaces of Eastern European Jewish Identity ? the Impact of the 19th Century Kenneth B. Moss (Johns Hopkins University): Europeans, Israelites, Indigenes, or African-Americans: the Yiddish Intelligentsia, the European Horizon, and Other Horizons Good and Bad, 1900?1939 14:30 ? 16:00 Concepts in Literature Marc Caplan (Yale University): Y. L. Peretz, Beyond a Boundary: Warsaw as Border Between ?Shtetl? and ?Europe? Sabine Koller (Universit?t Regensburg): Dovid Hofshteyn?s Early Poetry Between Yidishkayt and Eyropeishkayt 18:00 ? 19:00 Exhibition (Goethe Museum) Opening of the Exhibition ?J?dische K?nstler in jiddischen B?chern und Zeitschriften. Russische K?nstler aus der Sammlung LS des Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven? Reception 19:00 Public Lecture (Goethe Museum) Efrat Gal-Ed (Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf): Jiddischland ? Verhei?ung einer Zugeh?rigkeit June 5, 2018 09:30 ? 11:00 The First World War and Its Aftermath Samuel Kassow (Trinity College, Hartford): Yiddish Europe from a Vilna Perspective, 1915?1921 Karolina Szymaniak (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw): Debates on Poland and Europe in Yiddish Literary Discourse in the Interwar Period 11:30 ? 12:30 Keynote Mikhail Krutikov (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor): Reading Europe in Yiddish: A Literary History of Space 14:00 ? 15:30 Avant-Garde Movements Andrea von H?lsen-Esch (Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf): The Impact of Transnational Yiddish Culture on Jankel Adler?s Artistic Expression and His Struggle for Jewish Art in the Rhineland Inna Goudz (D?sseldorf): Kultur-lige ? Jewish Art between Zionism and Yiddishism 16:00 ? 17:30 Yiddish Periodicals Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw): The Interwar Yiddish Press: A Pan-European Network? Aleksandra Geller (Rehovot): Literarishe bleter ? Mapping an Intellectual Community 19:30 Concert Zwischent?ne ? Poetry and Songs from Yiddishland Bavat Marom (mezzo-soprano) Eyal Bat (piano) June 6, 2018 09:30 ? 11:00 On the Eve of the Second World War Nick Underwood (University of Colorado Boulder): The Kultur-lige, the World?s Fair, and the Making of Yiddish Paris Gennady Estraikh (New York University): The Controversies of the 1937 Yiddish Congress in Paris 11:30 ? 13:00 Marion Aptroot (Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf): Reflections on the Conference Discussion: Gennady Estraikh, Andrea von H?lsen-Esch, Mikhail Krutikov, Kenneth B. Moss Venues: - Haus der Universit?t, Schadowplatz 14, 40212 Du?sseldorf - Goethe Museum Du?sseldorf, Schloss J?gerhof, Jacobistra?e 2, 40211 Du?sseldorf (Monday evening) The conference, the exhibition and the concert were made possible through the generous support of Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Heinrich Heine University, Gesellschaft von Freunden und F?rderern der HHU D?sseldorf, Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, Goethe Museum D?sseldorf, Landeshauptstadt D?sseldorf, NRW Kultursekretariat, Ministerium f?r Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. From jap2220 at columbia.edu Tue May 22 08:43:02 2018 From: jap2220 at columbia.edu (Josh Price) Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 08:43:02 -0400 Subject: [Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements--Avrom Sutzkever, Still my Word Sings Message-ID: Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements Date: May 22, 2018 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text to victor.bers at yale.edu as plain text (no HTML, other coding, or attachments) and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ______________________________ From: Heather Valencia Date: May 20, 2018 I am delighted to announce the publication of Avrom Sutzkever. Still my Word Sings. Poems. Yiddish and English. Edited and Translated by Heather Valencia. D?sseldorf: D?sseldorf University Press, Dec. 2017. ISBN 978-3-95758-058-0. Price 29,50 euros. This is the first bilingual edition of Sutzkever?s work to present a substantial selection of poetry from all periods of his creative life. A previously unpublished lecture by the poet sheds light on his poetic credo and a literary-biographical essay by the translator, Heather Valencia, together with notes on the poems, make this literary oeuvre accessible to a wide readership. Heather Valencia