Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements March 20, 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. _______________________________________________________________________ From: "Steven Lasky" [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:56 PM Subject: List of biographies found within Zylbercweig's and Reyzen's "Lexicons" now completed I have been working diligently to complete my data entry for the four volumes of Zalmen Reyzen's "Lexicon of the Yiddish Literature, Press and Philology" (1926-1930). If anyone needs look-ups, e.g. if a particular person has his or her biography in these volumes, or what page one may find a particular biography, please contact me with your specific request. The list includes the following information (when available): surname, given name, other names (pseudonyms, adopted names, Americanized names,etc.),town/city/gubernia/region of birth, as well as the real book page numbers and pdf page numbers (see www.archive.org) on which the biographies are located. I have adopted the YIVO transliteration rules in my data entry of the individual names. This database, as well as a similar database I have previously created for Zalmen Zylbercweig's seven-volume "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" (1931-1969), is not searchable online -- thus I must be contacted for information from the databases -- as I have no one who will volunteer to create a database for me. The Zylbercweig database contains more than 2,800 biographies, and I have actually translated about 1,700 of them from Yiddish to English. These translations will be online within the next month or two, as part of a larger Zylbercweig online exhibition. How close I come to translating the remaining Zylbercweig biographies will no doubt depend on whether any volunteers come forward to assist me in this effort. I hope to make an announcement regarding the onsite availability of these translated Zylbercweig biographies within the next month or two. I have no plans to translate any of the biographies found in the four Reyzen volumes. Regards, Steven Lasky [email protected] www.museumoffamilyhistory.com blog: http://museumoffamilyhistory.blogspot.com _____________________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Responses to Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements 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
