Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 4.115 September, 1994 1) Klezkamp '94 ('eynekh Sapoznik) 2) Tzenter far yidish: barikht #1 (Leybl Botvinik) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 11:33:12 EDT From: Sapoznik@aol.com Subject: KlezKamp '94 Living Traditions, Inc. is proud to announce the tenth annual Yiddish Folkarts Program/KlezKamp which will be held this December 25-30 at the Paramount Hotel in Parksville, New York. Since 1985 KlezKamp has presented the finest teachers and performers in the Yiddish world to over 3,000 participants of all ages from around the globe. Four full days of classes in Yiddish and English are presented in klezmer music, folk and art song, dance, language arts and etymology, theater, calligraphy, papercutting, history, film, literature, culinary arts and folklore not to mention a full children's and teen's program (ages 2-17). This year our staff of over 30 includes singer Adrienne Cooper, linguist Dr. Mordechai Schaechter, singer/dance instructor Michael Alpert, folklorist Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Kapelye's clarinetist Ken Maltz, writers Irena Klepfisz and Michael Wex, musician Binyumen Schaechter, Klezmatics trumpeter Frank London, music historian Mark Kligman, film and photo historian Roberta Newman, calligrapher Peggy Davis, foodways folklorist Devorah Sperling, cartoonist Ben Katchor, writer/radio commentator Daniel Pinkwater and international Yiddish theater star Lillian Lux, who will be the recipient of our 1994 Lifetime Acheivement Award. After classes participants are offered a wide array of evening programs including lectures, films, dancing to live bands, jam sessions, a late-night cabaret and more. To kick off this year's new sponsorship of KlezKamp, Living Traditions is hosting a gala concert at New York's Symphony Space on Sunday October 30 at 2:00 P.M. "KlezmeRama" will aid our Scholarship Fund and will feature performances by many of KlezKamp's staff members including the bands Kapelye and the Klezmatics, Lillian Lux, Sid Beckerman, Herb Gardner, Irena Klepfisz, Michael Wex, Judith Sloan, Jeff Warschauer, Ben Schaechter and more! Tickets are $20. For more information about KlezKamp and/or KlezmeRama please send your name and address to: Living Traditons 430 W. 14th St #514 NYC 10014 (212) 691-1272 Living Traditions, Inc. is a tax-exempt non-profit organization. 'eynekh Sapoznik 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 94 08:00:28 IST From: leybl@telecomm.tadiran.co.il Subject: tzenter far yidish un tekhnologishe nayvarg :: barikht # 1 nu, zumer vakatzie iz adurkh, un di yomtoyvim zaynen ariber besimkhe un besholem. me darf zikh tzurik nemen tzu der arbet. iz koydem kol, vil ikh badanken ale vos hobn zikh durkh "mendele", durkh i-post (elektre-post) un durkh k-post (krikh-post) zikh opgerufn oyf mayn/undzer proyekt. ikh shrayb do "mayn/undzer", derfar vos khotsh der initziativ iz mayner, vil ikh az vos mer yekhidim un organizatzies zoln vern shutfim tzu der vikhtiker arbet. ruft zikh op. ikh breng far aykh do a kurtzn barikht fun der ongeyendiker arbet: 1) khotsh ikh farnem zikh nit fultzaytik mitn proyekt, hob ikh bemeshekh fun di letzte 5 khodoshim aroysgeshikt un oysgeteylt an erekh 90 briv tzu yekhidim un organizatzies ibern land (yisroyl) un iber der velt. der briv bashteyt fun an araynfir briv (vos iz nit aroysgeshikt gevorn durkh mendele) un der proyekt-iberblik (zet mendele V.4.043). 2) opgerufn hobn zikh a gute tzol 'shlisl' mentshn un forshteyers fun institutzies (zet untn, di itztike reshime). ikh hob afile bakumen a basheydene, kleyne, bashtayerung vos ikh veys nokh nit vos tzu ton mit dem, vayl keyn gelt hob ikh be'etzem nit gebetn. dos vos ikh hob ye gebetn iz (az s'vet kumen tzu dem), tzi m'ken dermonen dem yokhid tzi organizatzie vi an ofitzieler shtitzer in a pirsem-broshur. a teyl zaynen maskim geven, a teyl hobn nit gezogt nit neyn un nit yo. ikh hob ober ye, bakumen tzugezogt gevise (oykh basheydene) finantziele shtitze fun yekhidim un organizatzies, un fundatzies. dos zaynen nit keyn mamoshesdike sumes, ober s'iz gut tzu visn az mentshn zaynen farinteresirt tzu helfn. a dank di vos hobn zikh biz itzt opgerufn, hob ikh naye adresn tzu vemen ikh darf nokh shikn briv. 3) takhles, akhutz far di aroysgeshikte briv un a bisl korespondentz arum dem proyekt, hob ikh ongehoybn plener un ershte kontaktn oyf di vayterdike 6 proyektn: i) der ershter fun a serie kultur-farvaylerishe video-filmen; ii) lern un shpil programen farn kompyuter; iii) televizie/video far kinder; iv) dertzierishe/araynkuk ("referentz") material farn kompyuter; v) an avansirter kompyuter proyekt benogeye yidishe shprakh; vi) a fuler-leng farvaylerisher film oyf yidish. - far di ershte tzvey proyektn hob ikh shoyn gefunen farinteresirte, meglekhe investirer/shtitzer; - vegn televizie/video far kinder vel ikh ersht onheybn di ershte kontaktn in di kumendike vokhn; - vegn di letzte dray proyektn, hobn di shlisl mentshn vos kh'hob biz itzt kontaktirt, zikh not nit opgerufn... 4) mit vos kent ir helfn? --- mit informatzie. eyne fun di ershte frages vos mentshn bekhlal, un meglekhe investirers befrat, fregn, ven se kumt tzu yidish iz: vos iz der matzev fun der 'merk' (potentziele koynim, genisers un banutzers) fun yidish. do neytikt zikh in a min merk-iberblik ("market-survey"). di dozike informatzies vel ikh zamlen, tzuzamenshteln un tzurikshikn in an organizirter prezentatzie. dos veln mendele khaveyrim kenen oysnutzn far zeyere eygene klubn un 'yidish-pirsum', un stam genisn fun a min velt-iberblik fun der matzev fun yidish. *** in a kumendikn i-briv vel ikh aroysshikn a preliminarer versie fun azan-o iberblik, un khvel betn ayere komentarn un eytzes. reshime fun di vos hobn biz itzt zikh pozitiv opgerufn/oysgedrikt: 1) ORGANIZATZIES: Hemshekh Dor Ohavei Yiddish, Israel Federation of Jews from Vilna in the USA, "Nusakh Vilne", Inc. 2) YEKHIDIM: Israel: Dvorah Atzmon, Chairwoman, Hemshekh Dor Ohavei Yiddish Mordkhe Dunitz, Chief Inspector for Yiddish, Ministry of Education Daniel Galay, Secretary, Hemshekh Dor Ohavei Yiddish Adam Gruzman, Director, Kol Yisrael Yiddish Radio Program Rabbi Dr. Heshil Klepfish Aaron Korzen, Chairman of AACI Netanya Isaac Luden, Editor "Lebns Fragn" Meyer Noy, Musicologist Alan Schneider, Bnai Brith World Center Mordkhe Tzanin, Yiddish Writers & Journalists Union Prof. Isaac Warshavski, World Council for Yiddish Prof. Gershon Winer, Tel Aviv University, Touro College Canada: David Botwinik, Musician Prof. William Shaffir, McMaster University USA: Paul (Hershl) Glasser, Yugntruf Naomi Kadar, Education Dept., Workman's Circle Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky, Kultur Kongress Phil (Fishl) Kutner, Yiddish Computer Network Coordinator Khava Lapin-Reich, Cultural Dept., Workman's Circle Yosl Mlotek, "Forwards" Alan Nadler, YIVO Dr. Danny Newman, Lyric Opera of Chicago Shimon Palevsky, Nusakh Vilne Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University Dr. Sheva Zuker, Professor of Yiddish Australia: Soreh Zylberman, Sholem Aleichem College leybl botvinik ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 4.115 Mendele has 2 rules: 1. 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