Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements June 23, 2015 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests:
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Thursday, July 23, 2015 6:30 PM Mid-Manhattan Library, New York Public Library Fifth Avenue and 40th Street, New York, NY Fully accessible to wheelchairs The illustrated lecture - "What's Jewish About Jewish Folklore?" - examines the specific traits of Jewish, and particularly Ashkenazic and Yiddish folklore, to see whether they are indeed unique or rather part of a broader European folklore. At the end of the 19th century folklore was considered "irrational" and "imaginative" and since "Jews are a rational people", some scholars concluded that the Jewish people have no folklore. Today of course, we see that it is in fact the Yiddish writers who used folklore in their works, such as I. B. Singer and Sholem-Aleichem that have drawn the largest readerships. By taking into account various genres of Jewish folklore such as folksong, folktale, amulets, humor and custom, the talk will consider how Jewish history has shaped the folklore of its people and how that folklore reflects the characteristics of the Jews in the diaspora. About the presenter: Itzik Gottesman is a Senior Lecturer of Yiddish Language and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin. He has previously taught Jewish Folklore and Yiddish at the YIVO/Bard program on Ashkenazi Civilization, and at the University of Pennsylvania. He has a Ph.D in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of the book Defining the Yiddish Nation: The Jewish Folklorists of Poland. For 13 years he was the Associate Editor of the Yiddish Forward Newspaper in the New York - the Forverts, where he wrote weekly columns on Jewish art, music, culture and folklore. He also served as editor of the oldest Yiddish publication the Zukunft, founded in 1893. As a folklorist he has a special interest in East European Yiddish folksong, folktale, folklife and custom. He directs the blog - "Yiddish Song of the Week" under the auspices of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance in NYC. This site highlights unknown field recordings of traditional Yiddish singers. He has lectured and given workshops on Yiddish folksong and Jewish folklore at Klezkanada, Klezkamp, Yiddish Summer Weimar and throughout Europe. Itzik Gottesman grew up in a Yiddish speaking household in the Bronx and is the son of the Yiddish poet and songwriter Bella Gottesman. He produced three CDs of her original songs. For more information, please visit: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nypl.org_events_programs_2015_07_23_whats-2Djewish-2Dabout-2Dfolklore&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=hgSCSvtHqNOp40iT6T4uKyOHqvQreUPfVso-KO1Kgto&m=B8TjSgObsCdHjYniP74ty6vdSGnQTucXDYYOR-pNndM&s=IBpoY7zG0_6crMWSS_yeIl58F_4pdmWOo0r4UX2sfho&e= Sincerely, -- Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel Librarian Dorot Jewish Division, Room 111 The New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Reference Desk: 212-930-0601 Fax: 212-642-0141 Email: [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). 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