Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements January 29, 20100
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: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:25:04 -0500 From: Shaul Moshe Seidler-Feller <[email protected]> Subject: Mendele Personal: Orthodox Jewish Attitudes towards the Yiddish Language in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:25:04 -0500 From: Shaul Moshe Seidler-Feller <[email protected]> Subject:Orthodox Jewish Attitudes towards the Yiddish Language in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe Tayere Mendelyaner, I am currently researching the differences in attitude, between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews and among different groups of Orthodox Jews, toward the Yiddish language in late 19th- and early 20th-century Eastern Europe. My hope is to analyze how various Jewish groups used the language differently to achieve their specific goals and whether Orthodox use in particular shifted with the rise of secular Hebraism and Yiddishism in this period. Did this pseudo-"loshn koydesh" lose favor in the eyes of the Orthodox once it became the linguistic medium of secular Yiddishists? I plan on addressing this and similar questions in my work. One of the main types of primary sources I would like to look at is the publications of the Orthodox Yiddish presses of Eastern Europe. If any Mendelyaner have suggestions of which publications I might search for, or any other pertinent information, I would very much appreciate receiving them: [email protected]. Thanks in advance for your help. A gutn, Shaul Seidler-Feller Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University ________________________________________________________________ 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: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
