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: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:54:06 -0700 From: Sarah Moskovitz <[email protected]> Subject: Poems from the Ringelbaum Archive, now translated Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 9:01 PM Sarah Traister Moskovitz announces the website http://poetryinhell.org which contains the Yiddish poetry unearthed from the milk can known as the Ringelblum Archive dug up in Warsaw in 1946 and finally now translated by Moskovitz from Yiddish to English. There are 153 poems grouped within 5 themes 1.Nature 2.Home, Love, Life 3. Ghetto,Struggle, Hunger 4.Death, Anger, Mourning 5.Tradition, Protest, Faith. There are poems by poets famous in their time Yitskhok Katsenelson, Zusman,Shayevitch, Hershele and Miriam Ulinover as well as many lesser known poets and a number who remain anonymous. This work is introduced in Forward and Introduction by two stellar scholars and authors in Holocaust study,Michael Berenbaum and Samuel Kassow.There are brief biographies of the known authors at the end in an Appendix as well as a few poems known to have been written in the ghetto such as Katsenelson's Introduction to an Evening of Tanakh but not found in the Ringelblum Archive. The poems have been burried treasure and are now freely available to be downloaded from the website by anyone interested. The URL is poetryinhell.org _______________________________________________________ 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
