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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. _______________________________________ From: Helen Mintz <[email protected] Date: Jan. 22, 2016 Now Available! Vilna My Vilna: Stories by Abraham Karpinowitz Translated from the Yiddish by Helen Mintz Foreword by Justin Cammy. "Thanks to this wonderful volume, expertly translated by Helen Mintz, Abraham Karpinowitz will finally get the attention he deserves. His stories are funny, well-crafted and suffused with the special atmosphere of Jewish Vilna." - Samuel D. Kassow, Northam Professor of History Trinity College. “Karpinowitz is a master storyteller with a talent for blending fact and fiction, an eye for detail, a finely attuned ear for slang – and an abiding affection for the colorful characters who inhabit the lost world of prewar Vilna... It’s all brilliantly rendered in this first-ever translation.” - Ellen Cassedy, author of We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust. “Criminals, dreamers and performers . . . make their way through Karpinowitz’s pages in pungent, unforgettable characterizations. - Jeremy Dauber, Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, Columbia University. Abraham Karpinowitz (1913–2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories. He survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and, after two years in an internment camp on the island of Cyprus, moved to Israel, where he lived until his death. In this collection, Karpinowitz portrays, with compassion and intimacy, the dreams and struggles of the poor and disenfranchised Jews of his native city before the Holocaust. His stories provide an affectionate and vivid portrait of poor working women and men, like fishwives, cobblers, and barbers, and people who made their living outside the law, like thieves and prostitutes. This collection also includes two stories that function as intimate memoirs of Karpinowitz’s childhood growing up in his father’s Vilna Yiddish theater. Karpinowitz wrote his stories and memoirs in Yiddish, preserving the particular language of Vilna’s lower classes. In this graceful translation, Mintz deftly preserves this colorful, often idiomatic Yiddish, capturing Karpinowitz’s unique voice and rendering a long-vanished world for English language readers. 6 x 9, 216 pages, 7 black-and-white illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography In the U.S., contact Longleaf Services to order by calling 800-848-6224 In Canada, you can contact Scholarly Book Services to order by calling 800-847-9736 ______________________________________________ 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__ _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
