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Contents of Vol. 20.001 May 15, 2010 [Moderator's note: haynt vert Mendele alt 20 yor!] 1) I.B. Singer story sought (Marc Caplan) 2) I.B. Singer story sought (Cedric Ginsberg) 3) I.B. Singer story sought (Pearl Solomon) 4) Yiddish cooking -songs and text(Milna Kartowski) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: April 26, 2010 Subject: I.B. Singer story sought Russell Block seeks information on an I.B. Singer story about a Holocaust survivor invited to a ball in New York City. It seems to me that the story he refers to is translated as "A Wedding in Brownsville," which appears in the 1965 collection "Short Friday" (pp.190-206) but NOT in the "Collected Stories" published in 1996. It doesn't appear in any of the Yiddish collections of Bashevis's writing that I possess. The main character of the story, Solomon Margolin, also appears in roughly the same contours in Bashevis's novel "Shadows on the Hudson" (1998) and so one might consider this story an "outtake" from the longer novel-which certainly would not have suffered from judicious editing! I agree with Mr. Block that it's one of Bashevis's best ghost stories. I hope this helps, Marc Caplan [Moderator's note: A similar response was sent by Sheva Tsuker.] 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: April 26, 2010 Subject: I.B. Singer story sought In the collection of Singer's short stories called "The Sance" (my copy is published in London by Jonathan Cape, 1970), there is a story "Two corpses go dancing." It does not exactly fit the description, but seems to be in a similar vein. As an author's note, I.B. Singer wrote that the story was originally published in Yiddish in 1943 - presumably in the "Forverts." Cedric Ginsberg 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: April 25, 2010 Subject: I. B. Singer story sought I am answering a question from Russell Block about an I.B. Singer story. I may have already sent this answer; your system of answering queries is a mystery to me. The story is "A Wedding in Brownsville." It was published in Commentary, March, 1964; also in a short story collection called Short Friday. I believe it was written in English. It is, in my memory, a very great story. Pearl Solomon 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: May 9, 2010 Subject: Yiddish cooking Hello, I'm Milna Kartowski, a French actress-singer. For my new Yiddish creation I'm looking for some texts and songs about the Yiddish cooking tradition. a groysn dank, Milna Kartowski ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 20.001 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: [email protected] (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: [email protected] 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. Please send postings always in plain text (no HTML or the like). 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: [email protected] 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
