Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements June 30, 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: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:37:18 -0700 From: Isaac Bleaman <[email protected]> Subject:Yitskhok Niborski's lecture at Stanford now online Yitskhok Niborski: "Sutskever: Der lebediker poet" [Abraham Sutzkever: The Living Poet] Translated by Zachary M. Baker Monday, June 7, 2010 at 8 PM, Stanford University Click here to watch the lecture online: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/video/yitskhok-niborski-lecture-sutskever-der-lebediker-poet-abraham-sutzkever-living-poet All the images of morning Rise in wise awareness In the tapestry of my words. - Abraham Sutzkever, from "In a Summer's Morning" (trans. Barbara and Benjamin Harshav) In memory of the celebrated Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever, who passed away in January, this Yiddish-language lecture focuses on the poet's early works and his second collection Valdiks (From the Forest, 1940) in particular. Professor Yitskhok Niborski discusses these early writings in light of Sutzkever's biography and contextualizes them within an analysis of the later periods of his literary creativity. Zachary M. Baker (Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections, Stanford University Libraries) translates the talk into English. Monday, June 7, 2010 8 PM Koret Pavilion at the Ziff Center (Hillel at Stanford). This lecture was organized by Stanford University student Isaac Bleaman as the final event of his National Yiddish Book Center Cultural Fellowship. This program enables former Book Center interns to bring cultural programming back to their own campuses, and is funded in part by the Righteous Persons Foundation, the Covenant Foundation, and the Estate of Ruthe B. Cowl. This event was co-sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, with support from the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Comparative Literature. Yitskhok Niborski (Medem Biblyotek and Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris) was born in Buenos Aires in 1947 and raised in a Yiddish-speaking home. Since settling in Paris in 1979, Professor Niborski has been a key figure in the development and leadership of the Paris Yiddish Center-Medem Library. He has taught language and literature courses at the Universit Paris VII and intensive Yiddish programs in Brussels, New York, Oxford, and Vilnius. His books include the Diccionario yidish-espaol (1979), Verterbukh fun loshn-koydesh shtamike verter in yidish (1999), Dictionnaire yiddish-franais (2002), and Vi fun a pustn fas (1996), a collection of his prose and poetry written between 1964 and 1995. For more information, please contact Isaac Bleaman at [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] (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, 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 read issues of Mendele not yet archived on the website (see above), or 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
