Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements June 12, 2017
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. _______________________________________ Swindles and Seductions: The Curious Affinity of Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer A lecture by Dr. Miriam Udel, sponsored by the Dorot Jewish Division Wednesday, July 5, 2017 6:30 PM Mid-Manhattan Library 455 Fifth Avenue (at 40th St.) New York, NY, 10016 Wheelchair accessible Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer are each household names, and together, their writing careers spanned virtually the entire twentieth century. Their deep affinity transcends their shared celebrity, though. They defined the Yiddish response to modernity by taking a stance against progress and the other developmental ideals that had powered the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment). Drawing on the speaker’s award-winning book Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque, this talk will explain the central role of various deceptions—the swindle in the case of Sholem Aleichem and the seduction in that of Bashevis Singer—in illustrating a rapidly changing world newly devoid of even secular pieties. Miriam Udel is associate professor of German Studies and Jewish Studies at Emory University, where her teaching focuses on Yiddish language, literature, and culture. She holds an AB in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, as well as a PhD in Comparative Literature from the same institution. Her research interests include Yiddish modernism, genre studies, Jewish children’s literature, and American-Jewish literature. She is the author of Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque (University of Michigan Press, 2016), winner of a National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience. She is preparing an annotated, translated anthology of Yiddish children’s literature called Honey on the Page, slated to appear with New York University Press. The lecture is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, visit: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nypl.org_events_programs_2017_07_05_swindles-2Dand-2Dseductions-2Dcurious-2Daffinity-2Dsholem-2Daleichem-2Dand-2Disaac&d=DwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=hgSCSvtHqNOp40iT6T4uKyOHqvQreUPfVso-KO1Kgto&m=V-aMYjDcDPkMxos9-OI1sMZEOvamoezfvNSIIyeUWJQ&s=Fq39QiyhuKdsQHbY-lmyaKEhTd2vZgdbBnLh5okSSNg&e= -- Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel Librarian Dorot Jewish Division, Room 111 The New York Public Library Stephen A. 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