Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements June 22, 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: June 22, 2011 From: Victor Bers <[email protected]> Subject: New book by Kalman Weiser--note the dioscount prixe Jewish People,Yiddish Nation Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland Kalman Weiser Approx. 416 pp / 6 x 9 / Summer 2011 16 illustrations Paper ISBN 978-0-8020-9716-3 $29.95 Discount Price $23.96 Noah Prylucki (18821941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis for Jewish collective identity in the twentieth century. Prylucki' dramatic path from russified Zionist raised in a Ukrainian shtetl, to Diaspora nationalist parliamentarian in metropolitan Warsaw, to professor of Yiddish in Soviet Lithuania uniquely reflects the dilemmas and competing options facing the Jews of this era as life in Eastern Europe underwent radical transformation. Using hitherto unexplored archival sources, memoirs, interviews, and materials from the vibrant interwar Jewish and Polish presses, Kalman Weiser investigates the rise and fall of Yiddishism and of Prylucki' political party, the Folkists, in the post-World War One era. Jewish People, Yiddish Nation reveals the life of a remarkable individual and the fortunes of a major cultural movement that has long been obscured. Kalman (Keith) Weiser is the Silber Family Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in the Centre for Jewish Studies at York University. In Europe: University of Toronto Press c/o NBN International Airport Business Centre 10 Thornbury Road Plymouth, Devon PL6 7PP UK Tel: +44 (0) 1752 202301 Fax: +44 (0) 1752 202333 Orders & Customer Service Please send orders to appropriate address below. All orders except Europe and U.S: Order Department University of Toronto Press 5201 Dufferin Street North York ON M3H 5T8 Tel: 1-800-565-9523 or 416-667-7791 Fax: 1-800-221-9985 or 416-667-7832 U.S. Orders: University of Toronto Press 2250 Military Road Tonawanda NY 14150 USA Tel: 716-693-2768 Fax: 716-692-7479 Desk Copies Professors requesting desk copies should write on departmental letterhead and indicate the course name and the approximate # of students. Please send to: Desk Copy Requests, University of Toronto Press, 10 St. Mary Street, Suite 700, _______________________________________________ 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. anouncements 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
