Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements May 22, 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. ________________________________________________________________ Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:08:35 +0200From: [email protected] Subject:International Summer Seminar in Yiddish Language Dear All, We would like to inform you that for the first time in its 8-years long history the The Shalom Foundation Yiddish Summer Seminar will be organised in Warsaw. Applications are accepted until 31st May. For more information see below. Hoping to see some of you in Warsaw. Best regards, Anna Szyba The Shalom Foundation The 8th International Summer Seminar in Yiddish Language and Culture Warsaw, 4-16 July 2010 Submerge yourself in our intensive Yiddish summer course and a variety of language-related ctivities in our newly opened, modernly equipped Yiddish center. Participate in a wide range of afternoon cultural events, lectures and workshops. Discover the pre- and postwar history of Yiddish culture in Poland. Get to know contemporary Jewish life in Poland. Meet native Yiddish speakers from Poland and learn their stories. Visit the once vibrant center of Yiddish culture. Explore the resources of Warsaw archives, libraries and visual collections documenting Jewish life n Poland. What do we offer? 40 hrs of language instruction. 10 hrs of afternoon language tutorial. Afternoon lectures and various workshops (Yiddish song, theater, Jewish cuisine, traditional and modern Jewish calligraphy, reading Yiddish manuscripts), evening screenings. Guided tours in Warsaw (the Jewish cemetery with tombstones of Y.L. Peretz, Chone Shmeruk and thers; the Jewish quarter of Praga on the right bank of Warsaw, the Warsaw ghetto), visits to the ewish Historical Institute and other institutions and museums. Accommodation in a student drmitory (breakfast included). It is also a rare opportunity to meet native Yiddish speakers from Poland and learn about, among ther topics, the history of postwar Yiddish culture from the best specialists in the field. The lecturers will be given by specialists from various institutions, including IWO, Argentina, Warsaw University, Jagiellonian University, Wroclaw University, University of Southampton, University of California, Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw), Polish Academy of Science nd Jewish Historical Institute. Fees: Regular fee: $500 Student fee: $300 How to apply? Please fill out the application form (downloadable from the Foundation'sebsite: www.shalom.org.pl) and send it to [email protected] Scholarships: We offer a limited number of partial scholarships. Please inquire. For more information, write to: [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, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: [email protected] (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, as responses will be posted for all to read. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. 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. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: 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/ 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
