Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements August 6, 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: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 14:16:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Yivo Events <[email protected]> Subject: August 12 Memorial Special YIVO Event with the Congress for Jewish Culture, the Yiddish Forward, the Workmen's Circle, and the Jewish Labor Committee Memorial for Soviet Yiddish Writers THURSDAY 12 AUGUST 2010 | 6PM LOCATION: Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street MORE: Program in English and Yiddish. Program should last an hour to an hour and 15 minutes. Admission is free to the public with reservation. RSVP [mailto:[email protected]] by Tuesday, Aug. 10 On August 12, 1952, Stalin's regime executed many of the finest Soviet Yiddish writers. Each year, on the anniversary of their executions, we remember those writers and other artists who suffered under the Soviet regime then, during other purges, and through constant repression. This year we are pleased to offer a program in English and Yiddish, featuring: Jonathan Brent Executive Director of YIVO,who will speak in English on "The Relationship Between August 12th and the 'Doctor's Plot'"; and Boris Sandler,Editor of the Yiddish Forward,with a series of short video interviews with and readings in Yiddish by the Soviet Yiddish writers: Yoysef Kerler Chaim Beider Khayem Maltinsky and im tsu lengere yor Mishe Lev Admission: Free All events take place at theYIVO Institute for Jewish Research | 15 West 16th Street,New York | NY | 10011 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, 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
