Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements Dec.22, 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; 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. _______________________________________________________________________ Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:33:36 -0500 From: John and Goldie Sigal <[email protected]> Subject: New Yiddish/English comic book Stingy Buzi and King Solomon / Der karger Buzi un Shloymeh Hameylekh, written and illustrated by Goldie Sigal. Montreal: Lomir Hofn Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9811085-0-6. 80 p.: col. ill.; 28 cm. ______________________________________________________________________ Lomir Hofn Press is pleased to announce the publication of a Yiddish/English comic book, Stingy Buzi and King Solomon, or, Der karger Buzi un Shloymeh Hameylekh, by Goldie Sigal. Each page features an illustration in full color, with Yiddish script in the dialog balloons, and transliteration and English translation beneath. The book will be enjoyed by children from about 4 to 10 years old, their parents and grandparents, and anyone who wants to learn or practice Yiddish while having fun doing so. Alphabet and vocabulary charts are included, and the balloon dialogue is presented in the format of a play at the end of the comic section. An optional 9-page workbook supplement, Lomir itster shpiln tsuzamen, by Batia Bettman and illustrated by Goldie Sigal, is also available on request. The book is the recipient of a grant from the Aaron and Sonia Fishman Foundation for Yiddish Culture for new projects that aim at strengthening Yiddish among children and adolescents, and the book has been praised by leaders in the field: Sayer bikhele iz beemes zeyer interesant un klug tsunoyfgeshtelt un talantir gemolt~E Ikh bin zikher az dos bikhl vet brengen a sakh freyd say di kinder un say zeyere eltern.Your book is truly very interesting and cleverly put together and drawn with talent I am certain that the book will bring much joy both to children and to their parents. ---Boris Sandler, author, and Editor-in-Chief of the Forverts. Sayer bikhl ~E gefelt mir zeyer: Di bilder zaynen lebedik un filfarbik un di mayse leynt zikh gring. Ikh vel dos iy~Rh leynen mit mayne kinder.I like your book very much: The illustrations are lively and colorful and the story reads easily. God willing, I will read it with my children. --Zackary Sholem Berger, Yiddish and English writer and poet, publisher, and Yiddish translator of Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat and other Dr. Seuss books. For orders, samples of pages, or other information, please contact Goldie Sigal: [email protected] Price:$18 plus postage & handling. (Discounts for group orders); Workbook Supplement: $2. ________________________________________________________ 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 (IMPORTANT: 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 and add a search routine 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
