MENDELE PERSONAL NOTICES & ANNOUNCEMENTS Feb. 2, 2016
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. _______________________________________ Tayere Mendelyaner, Please mark your calendars for a free public program at the Mid-Manhattan Library of The New York Public Library, sponsored by the Dorot Jewish Division. "Seasoned with Song: Sacred Music of the Ashkenazic Sabbath Meals" with Dr. Eve Jochnowitz Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6:30 p.m. PROGRAM LOCATION: Mid-Manhattan Library, 40th St. and 5th Avenue Fully accessible to wheelchairs Free and open to the public First come, first served Generously sponsored by the Dorot Jewish Division The Sabbath meals and their songs are repeatedly cited as being among the chief pleasures and obligations of the Sabbath, codified with the Talmudic injunction that on the Sabbath Jews should eat, drink, discuss Torah, and sing songs. Two traditions connect the Sabbath Zmires with Sabbath foods: the belief that the songs alone are nourishment, and the mystical tradition that food is itself a form of worship. This presentation examines some of the surprising cultural phenomena of the genre of zmires within and outside their traditional setting. Eve Jochnowitz has been teaching Yiddish Language, Culture, and Literature, as well as Yiddish Foodways and Dance for twenty years. She worked for several years as a cook and baker and received her Ph.D. on the subject of Jewish culinary ethnography in the department of Performance Studies from New York University. She has lectured both in the United States and abroad on food in Jewish tradition, religion, and ritual as well as food in Yiddish performance and popular culture. She blogs in English and Yiddish at inmolaraan.blogspot.com and is the co-host with Rukhl Schaechter Ejdelman, of Est Gezunterheyt! a cooking show in Yiddish. The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook, translated, annotated, and adapted for the modern kitchen, was published this year. Dr. Jochnowitz is the chocolate lady. For more information, please visit: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nypl.org_events_programs_2016_03_31_seasoned-2Dsong-2Dsacred-2Dmusic-2Dashkenazic-2Dsabbath-2Dmeals-2Ddr-2Deve-2Djochnowitz&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=hgSCSvtHqNOp40iT6T4uKyOHqvQreUPfVso-KO1Kgto&m=HkMnjaWJKrWYIa4SZtJXyPrH-jzDcP_2Ag6HTypIh4Y&s=qqJZ6nN02KKdK6cDNqBwOyL91jMe8tkwj18Nv3req2o&e= Sincerely, Amanda -- 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 ______________________________________________ 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
