________________________________ Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements
July 23, 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: Philip Witriol [email protected] Date:July 20, 2012 Subject: Mumme Looshen-An Anatomy of Yiddish* Mumme Loohshen - An Anatomy of Yiddish, by Joseph Witriol (1912-2002) has now been published online by his son and can be read here: http://mummeloohshen.wordpress.com/ It is a linguistically oriented book on the Yiddish language. The words and expressions recorded are those actually spoken by the author's mother. I quote from one of his letters to a publisher in 1974: “[Mumme Loohshen] is a comprehensive survey of the Yiddish language [with] a strong linguistic bias. The book is discursive in style and, I hope, makes pleasurable reading. Inevitably, however, there are a few parts which are of a text-book nature. The book contains a great deal of solid linguistic information which I believe can be found in no other English book, certainly not in Leo Rosten’s Joys of Yiddish or Lilian Mermin Feinsilver’s The Taste of Yiddish..." You can read more about the book at http://philipwitriol.wordpress.com/author/philipwitriol/ which is where any comments may be directed. Many thanks Philip I Witriol Any comments, feedback, or inquiries regarding this project can be directed to [email protected] Jordan Kutzik _________________________________________________________ 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 and announcements,typically ,announcements of events, commercial publications, and questions not of general interest to the membership,should be sent to: victor.bers at yale.edu (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 mendele at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Mumme Looshen-An Anatomy of Yiddish* Mumme Loohshen - An Anatomy of Yiddish, by Joseph Witriol (1912-2002) has now been published online by his son and can be read here: http://mummeloohshen.wordpress.com/ It is a linguistically oriented book on the Yiddish language. The words and expressions recorded are those actually spoken by the author's mother. I quote from one of his letters to a publisher in 1974: “[Mumme Loohshen] is a comprehensive survey of the Yiddish language [with] a strong linguistic bias. The book is discursive in style and, I hope, makes pleasurable reading. Inevitably, however, there are a few parts which are of a text-book nature. The book contains a great deal of solid linguistic information which I believe can be found in no other English book, certainly not in Leo Rosten’s Joys of Yiddish or Lilian Mermin Feinsilver’s The Taste of Yiddish..." You can read more about the book at http://philipwitriol.wordpress.com/author/philipwitriol/ which is where any comments may be directed. Many thanks Philip I Witriol Any comments, feedback, or inquiries regarding this project can be directed to [email protected] Jordan Kutzik _________________________________________________________ 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 and announcements,typically announcements of events, commercial publications, and questions not of general interest to the membership,should be sent to: victor.bers at yale.edu (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 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. 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