Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements June 27, 2014
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. __________________________________ *From: Rochelle Zucker <[email protected] <[email protected]>>*Date: June 25, 2014 Sholem Aleykhem Tayere Frandt, The International Association of Yiddish Clubs (IAYC) will hold its 16th conference in November 14 - 17 2014 in Boca Raton, Florida at the Boca Raton Marriott Hotel Town Center. The theme of this year's conference is "Yidishe Heldn" - Yiddish Heroes. We will be honoring Troim Katz Bliacher Handler with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The organizers of the conference have been working hard at engaging speakers and entertainers and taking care of other details to make the conference a success. Our plenary speakers are always a highlight of the conference. This year we are delighted to welcome the following scholars: Sarah Bunin Benor, Hasia Diner, Gennady Estraikh, Mikhail Krutikov and Maxine Schackman. Our conference attendees always delight in our high class entertainment. This year we are proud to present: Cookie Blattman, Alejandra Czarny, Joathan Geffner, Naomi Miller, Jane Peppler, Shira and David Presler and Yale Strom and Elizabeth Schwartz. We will have daily morning and afternoon hour-long breakout sessions on varied and fascinating topics. These will be lectures, discussions, or workshops. They will be in Yiddish, English, or a mixture. Our presenters will be Dror Abend-David, Claire Rolnik Aloof, Refoyl Finkel, Riva Ginsburg, Etta Gold, Ruth Glasberg Gold, Karen Goodman, Ruth Fisher Goodman, Frank (Fayvl) Handler, Marlis Humphrey, Genia Kutner, Abraham Luski, Dorothy (Dvoyre) Marden, Naomi Miller, Caren Schnur Neile, Roberta Newman, Jane Peppler, David Presler, Hilda RubinFriday afternoon, Eddie Shraybman, Elizabeth Schwartz, Yale Strom, Harold Ticktin, Iosif Vaisman, Leon Weissberg, Rochelle (Rekhl) Zucker, Barney Zumoff. Our Tribute Book lets you sponsor a talk or place a tribute to honor your favorite hero, whether a public figure, a writer, or your parents/spouses/children. Registration for the conference is open! The cost is $330 ($350 after July 31, 2014). Registration covers all meals from dinner Friday through lunch Monday. There are also other registration options For more information about the conference and the presenters and entertainers, and for registration and sponsorship forms please go the our website: http://www.yiddishclubs.org We can be reached by email: [email protected] Mit vareme grusn Rochelle Zucker (Conference Committee member) Conference committee: Barbara Goldstein, Dorothy (Dvoyre) Marden, Annalee Odessky, Rochelle (Rekhl) Zucker. Local committee: Genia Kutner, Susan Ganc. http://www.yiddishclubs.org _________________________________ 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
