MENDELE Personal Notices and Announcements Sept. 9, 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. _______________________________________________________________________ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:53:15 -0400 From: Steven Lasky <[email protected]> Subject Line: Lilke Majzner's Lifetime Achievement Award Speech Now Online Lilke Majzner, who sadly passed away some nine months after the International Association of Yiddish Clubs conference, was a Holocaust survivor from the ghetto of Lodz, Poland. While living in Los Angeles, California, she gave of herself quite willingly to works that were involved with the preservation of the Yiddish language. She served as the Director of the Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club and was a member of the Board of the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language and Yiddishkayt LA. She will be sorely missed by all who came to know her. At the IAYC Conference last year in La Jolla, California, Lilke received the society's Lifetime Yiddish Achievement Award. Her acceptance speech was soley in Yiddish; it was video recorded by the society. I have placed online, within the realm of my virtual museum of Jewish family history both the video of her acceptance speech, and have provided an audio-only alternative just in case an interested party can't play the mp4 video. Also there is a very good English translation of her speech on the same web page. The aforementioned web page can be found at www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/iayc2008-majzner.htm. The video will begin playing as soon as the web page opens. More talks from the La Jolla conference has been and will be presented in different forms in the near future. Currently one can read (and hear audio excerpts of) the transcript of the talk given by Dr. Julius Scherzer on growing up in Czernowitz. A talk about Yiddish poets will be appearing next. You can also hear poems as recited by Itzhak Manger (in Yiddish), as well as read the text in both Hebrew fonts, Yiddish transliteration, and English translation. www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/czernowitz-voices-manger.htm. More announcements re Yiddish material at the Museum will be made on the Museum's blog at http://museumoffamilyhistory.blogspot.com . Steven Lasky New York www.museumoffamilyhistory.com blog: http://museumoffamilyhistory.blogspot.com [email protected] _____________________________________________________________ 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 (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 in the body of the message, 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 . 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/ The Mendele webpage currently gives access to issues starting with the inauguration, dated May 15, 1991 up to Vol. 16.027 (April 5, 2007). Issues starting with Vol. 18.004 (July 3, 2008) up to the most recent.can be found at http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/mendele/ We are now working to fill the hole between those two sets. 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
