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Oct. 1, 2013 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1.Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text to [email protected] 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. * __________________________________________________________________* For all those who are living in or near Toronto, I would like to announce the launch of Chava Rosenfarb's book of poetry, Exile at Last. The launch will take place at 2pm on Sunday, Oct. 6th at the Workmen's Circle, 471 Lawrence Avenue. Chava Rosenfarb wrote several of the poems that are included in this book in the Lodz ghetto, where she was a member of the writers' group. The poems were taken from her at Auschwitz, but she managed to recreate some of them from memory at the forced labour camp in Sasel. She wrote them in tiny letters on the ceiling above her bunk, so that they could not be seen from below. She then memorized them. They were published in Yiddish after the war. Exile at Last contains some of these poems in Rosenfarb's own English translation. It also contains an essay by the author outlining her experiences during the Holocaust and especially at Sasel. However, most of the poems are taken from her anthology, Aroys fun gan-eydn, published in 1965, and deal with the joys and sorrows of Rosenfarb's post-Holocaust life in Canada. > The launch will feature readings in English by the poet and essayist Ken Sherman and in Yiddish by the noted Yiddishist Rivka Augenfeld, as well as singing by Henri Oppenheim of those of the poems that he has set to music. An example of one such composition can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6np0RErgWko > Goldie Morgentaler, Professor, Dept of English, University of Lethbridge 4401 University Drive Lethbridge, AB. Canada T1K 3M4 Phone: 403-329-2365 Email: [email protected] __________________________________ 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. 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 We are hoping to update this website to restore its full functionality. For interim access to Mendele’s archives and PDF library, please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/mendeledervaylik/ _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
