From victor.bers at yale.edu Sun Jun 9 09:41:06 2019 From: victor.bers at yale.edu (Victor Bers) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 09:41:06 -0400 Subject: [Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements-- Ri J. Turner from Paris Medem Yiddish Scene on Yiddish Voice, Weds June 12 2019 Message-ID: Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements Date: June 9, 2019 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: Mark H. David via messagingengine.com Fri, Jun 7, 10:39 PM (2 days ago) Ri J. Turner from Paris Medem Yiddish Scene on Yiddish Voice, Weds June 12 2019 The Yiddish Voice will begin a series of interviews with activists on the Yiddish scene around the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library starting Wednesday June 12 2019 at 7:30 PM with an interview with Ri J. (Reyze) Turner. All interviews will air in the coming weeks on the Yiddish Voice radio show in Boston on WUNR 1600-AM Wednesdays at 7:30 PM and live-streamed via yv.org. Ri J. Turner is a translator and Yiddish language teacher at the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library, as well as an MA candidate in Yiddish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a three-time alumna of the Uriel Weinreich Summer Program at YIVO in New York, and was a Translation Fellow of the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA, in 2014 and 2018 and the National Endowment for the Arts and the PEN/Heim Fund in 2018. Her translations and original writing have appeared in In Geveb, Pakn Treger, the Forverts, Afn Shvel, and elsewhere. Interviews in the series will continue in following weeks with Yitskhok Niborski and Gilles Rozier, with announcements to follow. The interviews are conducted by Sholem Beinfeld, He is Professor Emeritus of History at Washington University in St. Louis, and is perhaps best known as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary (Arumnemik Yidish-English Verterbukh), as well as a translator of Yiddish texts and creator of new subtitles for classic Yiddish movies. The Dictionary is based on the Yiddish-French Dictionary edited by Yitskhok Niborski and published by the Medem Library/Paris Yiddish Center. Sholem's connection with the Medem Library goes back many decades, beginning with his Fulbright Fellowship in Paris as a graduate student. The Yiddish Voice (Dos Yidishe Kol / ???? ??????? ???), Boston's weekly Yiddish-language radio show, is heard in the Boston area every Wednesday on WUNR 1600 AM from 7:30 to 8:30 PM (Eastern) and live-streamed on the Internet at www.yiddishvoice.com, and via Apple Podcasts at the following URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-yiddish-voice-podcast/id915622071?mt=2 For more information visit www.yiddishvoice.com, email radio at yv.org, follow @TheYiddishVoice on Twitter, or call 617-730-8484. ________________________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like). 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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: Kadimah Reception Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements Date: June 25, 2019 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: Mark David Date: June 25, 2019 Yitskhok Niborski from Paris Medem Yiddish Scene on the Yiddish Voice, Weds June 26 2019 Yitskhok Niborski from Paris Medem Yiddish Scene on the Yiddish Voice, Weds June 26 2019 The Yiddish Voice continues its series of interviews with Yiddish activitsts at the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library on Wednesday June 26 2019 at 7:30 PM with an interview with Yitskhok Niborski, airing in Boston on WUNR 1600-AM Wednesdays at 7:30 PM and live-streamed via yv.org. Yitskhok Niborski was born in Buenos Aires in 1947 and raised in a Yiddishist, secular family. He attended the Yiddish schools that then thrived in Buenos Aires and the Yiddish teachers' training academy (Lerer-Seminar) with specialization in Yiddish literature. He moved to Paris in 1979 to take up a position as Director of the Medem Library while also teaching at the prestigious Ecole Nationale des Etudes Orientales. He remained at the head of the Medem Library for over thirty years, helping to turn the Medem Library-Paris Yiddish Center into one of the most active Yiddish institutions in the world. He has devoted his entire adult life to Yiddish education: in elementary schools, in classes for adults, and in universities. He participated in publishing several Yiddish dictionaries and textbooks, nobably the "Verterbukh fun Loshn-koydesh shtamike verter in Yidish" (first edition 1997) and the "Dictionnaire Yiddish-Fran?ais" ("Yiddish-French Dictionary") (2002), both published by the Medem Library-Paris Yiddish Center. He has also written and published over twenty poems in Yiddish. Other interviewees in this series are Ri J. (Reyze) Turner, whose interview was aired on June 12 2019, and Gilles Rozier, whose interview will be aired on an upcoming program, to be announced. The interviews are conducted by Sholem Beinfeld, He is Professor Emeritus of History at Washington University in St. Louis, and is perhaps best known as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the "Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary" ("Arumnemik Yidish-English Verterbukh"), as well as a translator of Yiddish texts and creator of new subtitles for classic Yiddish movies. The Dictionary is based on the "Yiddish-French Dictionary" edited by Yitskhok Niborski and published by the Medem Library/Paris Yiddish Center. Sholem's connection with the Medem Library goes back many decades, beginning with his Fulbright Fellowship in Paris as a graduate student. The Yiddish Voice (Dos Yidishe Kol / ???? ??????? ???), Boston's weekly Yiddish-language radio show, is heard in the Boston area every Wednesday on WUNR 1600 AM from 7:30 to 8:30 PM (Eastern) and live-streamed on the Internet at www.yiddishvoice.com, and via Apple Podcasts at the following URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-yiddish-voice-podcast/id915622071?mt=2 For more information visit www.yiddishvoice.com, email radio at yv.org, follow @TheYiddishVoice on Twitter, or call 617-730-8484. -- Mark David ________________________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like). 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