MENDELE Yiddish Language and Literature Personal Notices and Announcements
Feb. 16, 2009 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. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. Announcing the publication of Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse, ed. Justin Cammy, Dara Horn, Alyssa Quint, Rachel Rubinstein. (Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies and Harvard University Press, 2008). This volume, celebrating the scholarship of one of our leading teachers of Yiddish literature, features more than thirty essays on modern Jewish literature. Readers of Mendele will be especially interested in its contributions to the field of Yiddish literature, which include: Dan Miron on Sholem Aleichem's "A Nisref" Justin Cammy on Sholem Aleichem's The Judgment of Shomer (including the first-ever annotated translation into English of this early example of Yiddish literary criticism) Marc Caplan on Abramovitsh's Di Klyatshe Avraham Novershtern on Yankev Glatshteyn's Ven Yash iz gekumen Dovid Roskies on Bashevis Singer's Gimpel Tam Miriam Udel-Lambert on Bashevis Singer's seductions and disputations Susanne Klingenstein on Bashevis Singer's short story "Androgynous" Ken Frieden on Yiddish, Hasidic Hebrew, and translation Marion Aptroot on the first modern Yiddish comedy Jeremy Dauber on Comedy and Yiddish drama Alyssa Quint on Goldfaden's The Fanatic or the Two Kuni-Lemls Jed Wyrick on Yiddish canon consciousness and music Rachel Rubinstein on James Joyce and Yiddish Janet Hadda on Anger in the Jewish poetic canon Mikhail Krutikov on Meir Viner's historical fiction Beatrice Lang Caplan on Shmuel Nadler's Besht-Simfonye Goldie Morgentaler on Chava Rosenfarb's The Tree of Life The volume features many other essays on Hebrew, American, and modern Jewish literature by leading scholars and critics of Jewish literature. For a full bibliography, visit http://www.hup.harvard.edu/ ************************ Dr. Justin Cammy Program in Jewish Studies Smith College Seelye Hall 203 Northampton, MA 01063 Tel. (413) 585 3639 Fax: (413) 585 3393 ________________________________________________________________ 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, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: victor.bers at yale.edu <http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele> (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 <http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele> 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. 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, which are explained in summary form at http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 <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 <http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele> Mendele on the web: http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/index.htm <http://shakti.trincoll.edu/%7Emendele/index.htm> To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
