Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements October 21, 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, 11 Oct 2010 11:46:34 -0700 From: Miri Koral, CIYCL Director <[email protected]> Announcing the CIYCL 2010-11 Sixth International Yiddish-Into-English Poetry Translation Contest! Der 2010-11 Zekster Internatsionaler Yidish-tsu-English Poezye Iberzetsungs Konkurs >From - Miri Koral, CIYCL Director The California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language (CIYCL) is calling all poetry mavens! Do you have a favorite Yiddish poet or a poem that has yet to reach the English-speaking masses? Or have you come across a published translation of a wonderful Yiddish poem that perhaps mangles the poetic intentions of its creator? This is your chance for redemption. Find that very special poem that you would like shared with a much wider audience and make it come alive. Just as the Golem rose to life by the sacred words of its creator, breathe new life into your Yiddish poem of choice. Dazzle us with your cross-cultural understanding of the Yiddish and English languages. Impress us with your knowledge of the delicate intricacies and nuances of the mameloshn. First place winners will receive $360, plus publication on the CIYCL website and newsletter. It also will appear in Der Bay. Second place winners will receive $50 plus publication on our website. This contest is sponsored by Lee Chesnin, CIYCL Board Member Stephen O. Lesser and the IAYC. Winners will be announced at the CIYCL Yiddish poetry event on April 10 in Los Angeles. Contest Rules: Your single entry of up to two pages must include the original Yiddish poem (in Yiddish characters) and your own, never before published English translation. Entries over the required length will be disqualified. Submissions must be received no later than January 17, 2011. For submissions by mail: CIYCL 333 Washington Blvd., #118, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 For submissions by e-mail: [email protected] Editor~Rs note: The Fifth CIYCL Contest First Place Winner was Michael Steinlauf who translated Avrum Sutzkever's "Poem From a Diary" (1974) It can be found on CIYCL~Rs website at: http://yiddishinstitute.org/firstplace2010.html _______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 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
