Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements May 1, 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, 20 Apr 2011 22:03:08 -0700 From: Isaac Bleaman <[email protected]> Subject:Avraham Novershtern @ Stanford: Thurs., May 12, 8PM Save the date! A special lecture in the Bay Area. "The Criminal Underworld in Yiddish Literature" Professor Avraham Novershtern, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 8PM, Thursday, May 12, 2011, Koret Pavilion at the Ziff Center (Hillel at Stanford) 565 Mayfield Avenue, at the corner of Campus Drive East The Jewish criminal underworld has been a recurring motif in modern Yiddish literature, from its beginnings in the mid-19th century to stories written in modern-day Israel. Some of the works devoted to this topic became popular even beyond the realm of Yiddish letters. Sholem Asch's play "God of Vengeance," for instance, was the first Yiddish play to enjoy considerable success on the world stage, being produced in German, Russian, and English, among other languages. In more than one case, the actors in these productions were put on trial for charges of obscenity. What are the reasons for this unrelenting interest in the Jewish underworld? How was this topic shaped in Yiddish literature? How did it present the range of Jewish criminals-thieves, prostitutes, and gangsters? This talk offered by Prof. Avraham Novershtern of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will address these questions, while situating them in their larger cultural and literary contexts. Sponsored by the National Yiddish Book Center with support from the Jack & Ruthe B. Cowl Center for Jewish Culture and the Righteous Persons Foundation. Co-sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the Jewish Student Association, the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and Hillel at Stanford. This event is free and open to the community. Closest parking at Tresidder For directions see http://hillel.stanford.edu/content/view/24/47/ For more information, contact Isaac Bleaman ([email protected]) yiddish.stanford.edu ______________________________________________________________________ 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. nouncements 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
