Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements May 15, 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: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:31:06 -0400 (EDT) From: [email protected] Subject: SHOLEM ALEICHEM YIDDISH MEMORIAL WHAT: SHOLEM ALEICHEM YIDDISH MEMORIAL WHEN: Sunday, May 22, 2011, 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, 6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville, MD SPONSOR: Yiddish of Greater Washington ADMISSION: Tickets at the door. $8 general public, $5 for members of JCCGW, YGW, Arbeter Ring. MORE INFO: 301-348-3864 Sunday, May 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center in Rockville, the 95th anniversary of the great Yiddish writer's death will be marked by a program of humor and learning. Washington cultural treasure Murray Horwitz will read from Beryl Isaac,one of Sholem Aleichem~@~Ys funniest stories. George Washington University professor Max Ticktin will discuss the writer's work. The Yiddish-fluent and the Yiddish-challenged alike are welcome. Horwitz has won three Peabody awards and many others in a career that includes performing, directing, script writing, and managing cultural programs at NPR,National Endowment for the Arts, and the Silver Spring American Film Institute. His one-man show on Sholem Aleichem at the New York Shakespeare was widely acclaimed. Professor Ticktin is Associate Director of the Judaic Studies Program at George Washington University. He has taught Hebrew, Yiddish and Judaic studies to generations of students in the DC area. The program will conclude with a reading of Sholem Aleichem's will, one of the great "ethical" wills in history, in both Yiddish and English, and a performance by Natalie Wexler of his haunting lullaby, "Shlof, Mayn Kind." _________________________________________________________ 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
