Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements Feb. 5, 2010
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. ______________________________________________________________ **Another long-delayed posting** From: [email protected] Subject: Ps.137-motives in Yiddish literature? Received: Thu Dec 17 07:03:14 2009 Tayere Mendelyaner, (see below for English) tsi hot emetser an eytse far a khaverte mayne, vos zi hot in zinen ontsushraybn ir magistra vegn dem kapitl thilim 137 in der yiddisher literatur? Zi zukht nokh verk, vos zenen farbundn mit dem kapitl oder mit di motivn fun - an instrument in a boym (a harf / a fidl in a verbe) - zitsn bam taykh, veynendik. Vos zi hot shoyn gefunen: - Glatshteyn, Undzer tsikhtik loshn - Glants-Leyeles, Bay di taykhn fun NY - Katsnelzon, Lid funem oysgehargetn yidishn folk - Uri Tsvi Grinberg, Bay di toyern fun trern shteyt a yid in gedenkshaft - Kushnirov, Hazkore - Itsik Manger, Betler-legende; Oktober; Ikh, der prints - Perets Markish, Tsu a yidisher tentserin - Reyzl Zikhlinsky, Ikh vil nokh amol ibern groz Shoyn itst a hartsikn dank far ayer hilf! Janina Wurbs Dear Mendelyaner, a friend of mine is looking for Yiddish literature connected to Psalm 137.She wants to write her Magisterarbeit / Thesis on that and is currently searching for Yiddish literature that includes/uses/ these themes: - an instrument in a tree (might be a harp or a violin, in a willow) - sitting by the waters, weeping=85 Here is what she already found: Vos zi hot shoyn gefunen: - Glatshteyn, Undzer tsikhtik loshn - Glants-Leyeles, Bay di taykhn fun NY - Katsnelzon, Lid funem oysgehargetn yidishn folk - Uri Tsvi Grinberg, Bay di toyern fun trern shteyt a yid in gedenkshaft - Kushnirov, Hazkore - Itsik Manger, Betler-legende; Oktober; Ikh, der prints - Perets Markish, Tsu a yidisher tentserin - Reyzl Zikhlinsky, Ikh vil nokh amol ibern groz Thanks so much for adding more works that might help her! Janina Wurbs _________________________________________________ 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 (Apri l 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 ,add a search routine, and repair (where possible) damaged portions 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
