Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements October 5, 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. _______________________________________________________________ From: Zackary Sholem Berger <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:34 PM Subject: Support Sholem Berger's Yiddish-English book of poetry! Dear Mendelyaner, In the 15 years or so that I have subscribed to Mendele, you have taught me a lot about Yiddish. Now I'm asking for your help and involvement in the next phase of Yiddish poetry (at least, the phase under my direct control). If you become prenumerantn (subscribers) of my Yiddish-English poetry manuscript, tentatively titled "Not in the Same Breath/Zog Khotsh Lehavdl," you'll get one of a number of exciting benefits: * A birthday poem written just for you * A role in deciding on cover art and title * A Yiddish or English rhyming couplet * A Yiddish or English poem written for you every day for a month. My project is hosted, for now, at the site Kickstarter, which helps artists of all kinds find support for their creative projects. I need to hear from you by October 31st. We're off to a great start with almost 20% of needed funds pledged! How do you do this? Go to this website: http://kck.st/9eQzVU Here' s the link again, in long form: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1618508245/not-in-the-same-breath-a-yiddish-and-english-book-0 Thanks in advance! Sholem Berger http://kck.st/9eQzVU _____________________________________________________________ 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., and 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
