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: Jerold C. Frakes <[email protected]> Date: June 26, 2014 *Now Available* *Early Yiddish Epic <http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2014/early-yiddish-epic.html>*, Edited and Translated by Jerold C. Frakes http://www.amazon.com/Early-Yiddish-Judaic-Traditions-Literature/dp/0815633556/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1403824902&sr=1-2&keywords=frakes - "A major contribution to the study of Old Yiddish literature, Jewish culture in Ashkenazi society and many other fields of research. This book undoubtedly has the potential to become the reference book to Early Yiddish epic and the classic anthology for further research and study."—Jean Baumgarten, author of Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature - - Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them. Not until the late medieval period, beginning in the fourteenth century, did an extensive and thriving epic tradition emerge in Yiddish. Among the few dozen extant early epics, there are several masterpieces, of which ten are translated into English in this volume. Divided between the religious and the secular, the book includes eight epics presented in their entirety, an illustrative excerpt from another epic, and a brief heroic prose tale. - - - These texts have been chosen as the best and the most interesting representatives of the genre in terms of cultural history and literary quality: the pious "epicizing" of biblical narrative, the swashbuckling medieval courtly epic, Arthurian romance, heroic vignettes, intellectual high art, and popular camp - - - *Jerold C. Frakes* is SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of *The Politics of Interpretation: Alterity and Ideology in Old Yiddish Studies* and editor of *Early Yiddish Texts, 1100–1750* and *The Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe*. - _________________________________ 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/ <http://mailman.yale.edu> <https://sites.google.com/site/mendeledervaylik/> _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
