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Feb. 19, 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. ______________________________________________________________ IN MEMORY OF AVROM SUTZKEVER: A Public Program Monday, February 22, 2010 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Admission: Free FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (February 12, 2010) Avrom Sutzkever was a great Yiddish poet and a hero of the Jewish people. He was born near Vilna, spent most of his youth in the city, survived the Holocaust there, and then settled in Israel. From 1949 to 1995, Sutzkever edited the prestigious Yiddish literary journal Goldene keyt. In the wartime ghetto, Sutzkever was drafted by the Nazis to work on a team sorting books from plundered Jewish libraries, including YIVO's; the most valuable of the books were to be shipped to an institute in Germany devoted to "Jewish studies without Jews," the rest destroyed. He and some of his colleagues, who were nicknamed the "Paper Brigade," risked their lives by removing rare books from the selection and burying them. After the war, he and others returned to Vilna to dig up their cache and send much of it to YIVO in New York. Avrom Sutzkever died on January 20. On the occasion of his shloyshim (one-month anniversary of his death), YIVO is holding a public program to pay tribute to his memory. Participants include: Benjamin Harshav: Sutzkever's Poetry (Yiddish-English) David Fishman: Sutzkever's Life (Yiddish) Benjamin & Barbara Harshav: poetry reading (Yiddish-English) Boris Sandler: a few words on behalf of the family of Yiddish writers (Yiddish) Hy Wolfe, Shane Baker & Barney Zumoff: poetry reading (Yiddish-English) Adrienne Cooper: two songs by Sutzkever (sung in Yiddish) Recording of Avrom Sutzkever reading one of his poems (Yiddish) Recording of Dan Miron lecturing on Sutzkever (English) The program is sponsored by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Congress for Jewish Culture-CYCO, the Forverts and the Workmen's Circle. Dr. Paul (Hershl) Glasser Associate Dean, Max Weinreich Center Senior Research Associate, Yiddish Language [email protected] 212-294-6139 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 15 West 16 Street New York, New York 10011 212-246-6080 (ph) 212-292-1892 (fax) www.yivo.org _______________________________________________________________ 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
