Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements Aug. 16, 2011
To save wear and tear on the untershames, please comply with these four requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments. 3. Write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 4. To respond, contact the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ____________________________________________________________________ Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:47:58 -0400 From: Stacie Greenhouse <[email protected]> Subject: Yiddish Diary translation LOOKING FOR A YIDDISH TRANSLATOR While living in Paris in 1920, my grandfather Solomon, wrote a 274 page "memoir" of his life in Yiddish. He was born in Bendzin, Poland in 1898 and by the time he was 15 he was orphaned. In 1914, with no money or employment prospects, he walked out of his hometown to try to give himself a better life. He already had other family members living in America. It took him 6 years to get to the U.S. via Hungary, Germany and France. He lived in Paris for several years before arriving at Ellis Island in New York on June 4, 1921. Of course my family would love to read his words and learn details of his story.We also have no doubt that many others will want to hear his story as well. If you are a Yiddish translator or know someone who may be interested in participating in this project, please contact me at: [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. 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
