April 12, 2015 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 victor.bers at yale.edu 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. __________________________________ [The untershames apologizes for the *very *late appearance of this announcement] From Patricia Gould <[email protected]> Tolmitch E-Books is bringing the works of the great Yiddish writer Sholem Asch to a wider audience through their publication in English in E-Book format of "Mottke, The Thief." “In 1936, the novelist and critic Ludwig Lewisohn was asked to name the world’s ten greatest living Jews. The resulting list, which ran in The New York Times, included Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, and Louis Brandeis. Lewisohn deemed only one writer great enough to be included in this illustrious company: Sholem Asch.” —Ellen Umansky, Tablet Magazine Long before “Little Caesar” and “Public Enemy,” Sholem Asch challenged the sensibilities of theYiddish audience with this womb-to-tomb tale of the rise and fall of a Jewish gangster. Deprived of his mother’s milk, beaten by his father, Mottke is driven by hunger and fear into a life of thievery, pimping and murder. He becomes the king of the Warsaw sexual underworld where gullible girls are promised romance and prosperity only to be shipped off to a life of degradation in the brothels of Buenos Aires. In the end he is brought down by the same belief in “pure” love that enticed his victims. Asch’s naturalistic depiction of the callous brutality of the Jewish criminal class shocked a readership that was used to folktales, humor and melodramas. He was criticized for revealing the unsavory underside of Jewish life. But the novel was a huge success and a stage version played all over the world. Mottke The Thief Visit our website for our complete list of E-Books www.tolmitchebooks.com Contact Patricia Gould [email protected] _______________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like). Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e. inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: 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: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.yivoinstitute.org_about_index.php-3Ftid-3D57-26aid-3D275&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=D8C0VFGQIMfNsn7w8b0vfE3r3ePhWQ7ssdhDNAOIA7Y&m=i6OcOKQ3Y-dhocgtTbH6EgLZXR8Fm0SrlKQV_-7t2F8&s=5k_1G7ZAw1bKPhg69xsN2IRMOQRw-h8_bqZzGe0jlw0&e= All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu Mendele on the web [interim address]: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sites.google.com_site_mendeledervaylik&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=D8C0VFGQIMfNsn7w8b0vfE3r3ePhWQ7ssdhDNAOIA7Y&m=i6OcOKQ3Y-dhocgtTbH6EgLZXR8Fm0SrlKQV_-7t2F8&s=1Pr-EYaznmiZ-2v8DlOIJP6Xhwkq1KY6GL3tnK_h0xM&e= To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
