Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements May 14, 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. Please report formatting problems to [email protected], since mail programs mechanics still under development _______________________________________________________________________ From: Jordan [email protected] Date: May 12, 2012 Subject: Yiddish poetry or fiction by authors younger 35 Are you the next Sholem Aleichem or Avrom Sutzkever? We’re looking for young emerging Yiddish writers and poets who need a modern literary platform suited to their unique voices. That’s because Yugntruf – Youth for Yiddish is reviving its Zhurnal – its Yiddish-language literary journal of poetry, short stories, editorials and articles. Debuting this August 2012, our new Zhurnal, co-edited by Jordan Kutzik and Leyzer Burko, will be available to Yugntruf members and to subscribers worldwide in both full-color hard copy and online download. So, if you’re 35 years of age or younger, you’re invited to submit your original, unpublished Yiddish poetry or fiction to our ZHURNAL YIDDISH LITERATURE COMPETITION to win cash awards — and publication in our new Zhurnal! Submissions will be judged by Professors Dov-Ber Kerler (Indiana University) and David E. Fishman (Jewish Theological Seminary). Winning poetry and prose entries will each receive a $500 prize and be published in the 2012 Zhurnal. (Other submissions will be published based upon merit and space available.) Deadline for Zhurnal Competition entries is Monday, June 11, 2012. Please send entries in yidishe oyses (not transliteration) and in html format within the body of your email (not as Word or pdf attachments) to [email protected]. No snail mail or hard copy submissions will be accepted. Include full contact information (name, email, phone & address) with your submission. All entries must be original and previously unpublished in print media. Prose entries are limited to 2,500 words; poetry is limited to 60 lines. Winners will be announced at the new Zhurnal’s launch in mid-August 2012. Yugntruf is also accepting original photography, graphics and artwork by young visual artists for our new Zhurnal. Please send all submissions (black and white or color) in jpg or tiff format to [email protected]. For more information, email us at [email protected]. Express yourself in mame-loshn to a global audience of readers, and help us foster a new generation of Yiddish writers! __________________________________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
