Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements Feb. 14, 2011
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: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 18:49:05 -0500 From: Bernard D. Cooperman <[email protected]> Subject: Two-Year Visiting Position in Yiddish Language and Culture The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center and Program for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland is pleased to announce a two-year visiting position in Yiddish Language and Culture. The position carries a teaching load of five courses per year, at least two in Yiddish language instruction at the introductory to intermediate level. Other courses will reflect the area of the applicant~Rs scholarly expertise and research interests. Visiting rank and salary will be assigned in accordance with previous experience and appointments. The University of Maryland, College Park is a Research-I university that attracts a strong student body from a wide geographic area. We are proud of our long tradition of instruction in Yiddish language, literature, and culture as part of our program in Jewish Studies. Our campus and the Greater Washington area offer candidates a rich variety of colleagues, strong library holdings of Yiddish and Judaica, a wealth of scholarly resources, and an enthusiastic community of Yiddish devotees. . Applicants are asked to submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae (resum), a list of any relevant publications, and sample syllabi from previous teaching contexts. Candidates who have already completed their Ph.D. are preferred, though applications from current doctoral candidates are also welcome. For best consideration please submit materials by March 15, 2011 to Yiddish Search Committee, Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, 0142 Holzapfel Hall, College Park, MD 20742. For further information, please contact Professor Bernard Cooperman ([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: victor.bers at yale.edu (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: mendele at mailman.yale.edu 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: mendele at mailman.yale.edu 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
