Mendele Personal Notices & Announcement Feb. 9, 2012
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: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:53:55 +0000 From: yermiyahu taub <[email protected]> Subject: Living Yiddish Poetry, Washington, D.C., Sunday, Feb. 12 Living Yiddish Poetry With Sholem Berger and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub Introduced and moderated by Miriam Isaacs Sunday, February 12, at 7:30 p.m. Tifereth Israel Congregation 7701 16th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20012 Admission: $10 Members/$12 non-members Yiddish of Greater Washington and Tifereth Israel present two poets who write in English and Yiddish. They will read their poems and discuss what it means to write in Yiddish and the nature of today's audience for Yiddish literature. Zackary Sholem Berger, of Baltimore, is a physician, poet, and translator. Best known for translating Dr. Seuss into Yiddish, his first chapbook, Not In the Same Breath, was named among the Best Reads of 2011 by Jewschool. Yermiyahu Ahron Taub is the author of three books of poetry, Uncle Feygele (2011), What Stillness Illuminated /Vos shtilkayt hot baloykhtn (2008), and The Insatiable Psalm (2005). A Pushcart Prize nominee, Taub was honored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage as one of New York's best emerging Jewish artists. Advance reservations not necessary :just come and enjoy! ______________________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Responses to Mendele Personal Notices & Annoucements should be sent directly to the person whom or organization which posted the item. Material for posting in Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements,typically ,announcements of events, commercial publications, and questions not of general interest to the membership, should be sent to: : [email protected] (IMPORTANT! 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:and likely to interest the membership in general, should be sent to [email protected] 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: [email protected] Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ To read issues of Mendele not yet archived on the website (see above), or 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
