From victor.bers at yale.edu Sat Dec 5 21:38:46 2020 From: victor.bers at yale.edu (Victor Bers) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 21:38:46 -0500 Subject: [Mendele] Mendele Personal Announcements-- Message-ID: Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements December 5, 2020 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as ple text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments;and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. 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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) to: victor.bers at yale.edu (in the subject line write Mendele Personal) Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language,i.e.inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: mendele at mailman.yale.edu IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation, grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele From victor.bers at yale.edu Mon Dec 7 12:58:01 2020 From: victor.bers at yale.edu (Victor Bers) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 12:58:01 -0500 Subject: [Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements--Autobiographies, in Yiddish, of people who made aliyah Message-ID: Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements Date: Dec. 7, 2020 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material 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: sczucker at aol.com Date: Dec.4, 2020 Yiddish follows English Dear Mendelyaner, I am looking for autobiographies of people who went to Israel, not just as tourists or world travelers but with the intention of settling; made aliyah; lived in Israel, written in Yiddish, by either a man or woman. I am also looking for autobiographies of women who went to Argentina and became prostitutes. I would also not look askance at an autobiography written by a pimp, if such exists. If you have any recommendations on either topic , please let me know. Thanks. Sheva Zucker sczucker at aol.com Tayere Mendelyaner, Ikh zukh oytobyografyes fun mentshn vos zaynen geforn kin Yisroel, nit stam vi turistn oder velt-arumforersnor mit der kavone fun bazetsn zikh/hobn oyle geven/gevoynt in Yisroel, geshribn in Yidish, oder fun a man oder a froy. Ikh zukh oykh oytobyografyes fun froyen vos zaynen geforn keyn Argentine un gevorn prostitutkes. An oytobyografye fun an alfons, oyb aza zakh eksistirt, volt oykh geven ongeleygt! Oyb ir hot rekomedatsyes af eyner oder beyde fun di temes, zayt azoy gut un lozt visn. a dank, Sheve Tsuker sczucker at aol.com _______________________________________________________________________ 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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A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.yivoinstitute.org_about_index.php-3Ftid-3D57-26aid-3D275&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=D8C0VFGQIMfNsn7w8b0vfE3r3ePhWQ7ssdhDNAOIA7Y&m=i6OcOKQ3Y-dhocgtTbH6EgLZXR8Fm0SrlKQV_-7t2F8&s=5k_1G7ZAw1bKPhg69xsN2IRMOQRw-h8_bqZzGe0jlw0&e= All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele