Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements Dec. 8, 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: [email protected] Their Stories, Our Stories: Yiddish Women Writers Discover the rarely explored works and lives of Yiddish women authors of the 20th century. Rescued from oblivion by feminist scholars and translators, these short stories, memoirs and novel extracts will bring to light our foremothers’ experience and history in Eastern Europe, North America, and Israel. Recurring themes include family and gender relations, work, education, political life, migration and the Holocaust. Texts will be available in translation and in the original Yiddish. Frieda Forman has been a teacher, writer and scholar in the fields of Jewish Studies and Women’s Studies for over four decades. She was the founder and coordinator of the Women’s Educational Resources Centre at OISE/ University of Toronto, where she is currently an associate She was the researcher, co- editor, and a translator of Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers, the first collection of Yiddish women’s literature in translation. More recently, she edited The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers. Details at this URL: http://www.meetup.com/N <http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Yiddish-Women-Writers-Meetup-reading-translating/> ew-York-Yiddish-Women-Writers-Meetup-reading-translating/ <http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Yiddish-Women-Writers-Meetup-reading-translating/> _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Please direct your response 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 Mendele on the web [interim address]:https://sites.google.com/site/mendeledervaylik _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
