Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 3.015 May 28, 1993 1) Glick (Hershl Berman) 2) Jerusalem Yiddish Culture Club (Yohanan Weininger) 3) Introduction (Jay Lee) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon May 24 22:38:22 1993 From: BERMAN E-MAIL Subject: Glick (a response) Glick is also the last name of the composer Srul Irving Glick, a Canadian who's wife was in one of my Yiddish classes. Glick composes a lot of music, some of it Jewish, some of it even Yiddish. He's well known here in Toronto, but I don't know how well outside Canada. Hershl Berman. 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue May 25 05:22:52 1993 From: Yohanan Weininger Subject: Jerusalem Yiddish Culture Club, June Calendar As is known, the "yiddishe Kultur-Gezellshaft" is Jerusalem's Yiddish speaking club, with a very special level of activities and events, including the publication of the "Yerusholemer almanekh" (excuse my transcription but meanwhile ILAN-H has not agreed on a standard Hebrew fix for internet - and mendele?). Their schedule may be of practical news or at least of exemplary interest to yiddish lovers everywhere - the capital club's doings for June. June may have more guest lecturers, academic friends from abroad, but this is general high level of club, which meets year round except in August. In part sponsored by the Municipality, their monthly scheudle can also be picked up at Tourist Info offices.) The following is quick abridged, translation of the June 1993 bulletin (apologies to mistrranscribed...) Meeting place: Bet Naamat, 10 Sholem Alekhem St., Jerusalem 92148 Weekly meeting time: Monday at 5pm Mon. 31 May, 5 p.m, Bet Naamat In close of the Yiddish month, a meeting with the "yiddish oditzia in kol-yisrael" the yiddish radio staff (undzer Broadkast djzzournalists, "aristocrats and artists of the air", each and every one of them, an artizt. By the way, I hear tell that they did not tape the Sutskever evening at hebrew Univ. on Jerusalem Day, only the prior Sutzkever party ... my mistake. Still if you don't have access to Yiddish radio, their shortwave broadcasts are valuable.) Mon. 7 June, 5 p.m, Bet Naamat Evening devoted to Leibu Levin za'l, composer and reciter. Taking part; Yitzhak Artzi Meir Haratz - the poet and close friend nahama Lifshitz, "zingerin and retzitorin" Zimra Orna, zingerin rut Levin, "zingerin" and daughter Mon. 14 June, 5 p.m, Bet Naamat Prof. Shikl Fishman, ... "who is among the founders of the club in Jerusalem 22 years ago...", on "85 years since Chernovitz" Mon. 21 June, 5 p.m, Bet Naamat Dr. Arthur Hertzberg, ... on "current problems of American Jewry" Mon. 28 June, 5 p.m, Bet Naamat Evening with the poet Bracha Kopshtein, who will read Prof. Dov Noy will respond and discuss her poems an artistic part, "forssitser: Eli Beeder" for those in vicinity able to make their Monday late afternoon meetings, the gezellshaft is a warm and lively Yiddish place, where the real thing can be heard from the mostly elderly native speakers. A gut yuntuv, gut yohr -- Yohanan Weininger 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue May 25 14:05:39 1993 From: Placid Venus Subject: A Short Introduction My name is Jay Lee and I am two courses away from completing degrees (BA) in Germanic and Russian literature and an Area Certificate in Russian and East European Sudies at Indiana University. There are two reasons why I subscribed to Mendele. First, I am greatly interested in Yiddish folklore, but have had little ex- posure to the literature. I joined this list in hopes that I might expand my reading list (So far I have read only Scholem Alechem, Isaac Bashevis Singer, then branching off from only Yiddish writings, Elie Wiesel and Bruno Schulz). Secondly, I only have a passive knowledge of the Yiddish language. I understand it when I read it or it is spoken to me, but I cannot reconstruct it or speak it. I hope that by reading it on e-mail, seeing it transliterated, I might be able to turn my passive knowledge to active. A sheynem dank, Jay Lee ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 3.015