Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements June 31, 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: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:34:34 -0400 Subject: Poem: "A Voice calls out: 'You must!'" From: Yehuda Berger <[email protected]> I would very much appreciate seeing a copy of the original Yiddish of the poem translated by Cynthia Ozick which reads: A Voice calls out: "You must!" Must what? O voice, explain! Instead of an answer I hear that voice again. I peer behind the door, I dash at every wall; I search, though no one strange Has sent that call. I've known them all my life, The caller and his call, Yet it seems to me I hear What I never heard at all. It cries:"You must! You must!" And only God can tell Whether *must* is my redemption, Or *must* will be my hell. _________________________________________________________________ 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: i _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
