Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 6.007 May 29, 1996 1) Norman Fishman (David Fishman) 2) Introduction (Abe Brumberg) 3) Introduction (Kees Booy) 4) Yisroel Pollak's _In a shturmisher tkufe_ (Michael-Moshe Schein) 5) Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club (Keyle Goodman) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:02:05 -0700 From: feesh@ix.netcom.com Subject: Norman Fishman I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum to send an obituary, but since my father was such an avid Mendele reader, I felt it was the best way to contact his on-line friends. Norman Fishman spoke fluent Yiddish and always enjoyed conversing with others about it, both in person and in correspondence. "Pop" would frequently print out articles and share with family and friends who did not have access to computers. Since there are so many wonderful people he maintained email relationships with, it would be nearly impossible to notify everyone individually. My father was my hero...the perfect role model of generosity, humor, integrity, and intelligence. Pop insisted on telling the truth and doing the right thing in all situations. Norman had an enormous impact on everyone who knew him, and the thousands that he helped indirectly through anonymous contributions to Jewish charities. Norman Fishman was truly a mensch and will be fondly remembered. Below is the funeral announcement we placed in the San Jose Mecury News and the San Francisco Chronicle, for those of you not living in the SF Bay Area. An announcement will also be sent to the Jewish Bulletin. Please feel free to forward this to anyone who might have known Norman. Norman Fishman -- Died on May 25, 1996 at the age of 72, due to complications related to leukemia. Norman was born on July 18, 1924 in Petaluma, California to Tova and Max Fishman, Russian immigrants. He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII, graduated from UC Berkeley, and retired from SRI International in 1988 after a 34 year career as a chemical engineer and consultant. Norman was an active member of the Jewish community, serving three terms as president of the South Peninsula Jewish Community Center; founder of the Palo Alto School for Jewish Education; and treasurer of the Sino-Judaic Institute, where he spent considerable time researching Asian Jewry. Norman is survived by his wife Lillian of Menlo Park; son David, daughter-in-law Mitzi, grandson Max of San Jose; daughter Devora of Redwood City; sister Lily Krulevitch of Petaluma, and many relatives and friends in the United States, Europe, and Israel. Norman will be greatly missed by his family, friends, associates, and the community. Friends are invited to attend a celebration of Norman's life on Sunday June 2, 1996 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Albert l. Schultz Jewish Community Center, 655 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, California. Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, American Technion Society, ORT, or the Hebrew Free Loan Association. David Fishman and family 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 May 96 11:27:39 EDT From: 102142.2545@compuserve.com Subject: Introduction Ershtsns, lomikh zikh forshteln. lange yor tetik oyfn idish gebit. eyner fun di ershte redaktorn, tsuzamen mit uriel vaynraykhn, funem zhurnal Yugntruf. oykh a gevise tsayt forzitser fun der "idisher yugnt federatsye." gezindikt mit etlekhe lider, geshribn farn "tog morgn zhurnal," rezhisirt etlekhe pieses oyf idish. Abe Brumberg 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:43:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: booybrcl@worldonline.nl Subject: Introduction Recently I subscribed to this list, now I would like to introduce myself. I am living in a small, rather isolated village in the Netherlands near the German border. I have been working during forty years as a scientist in industry. Since I retired I am studying the cultural history of Central- and Western-Europe in the XIX and XX centuries. I am preparing now a biography of a fast forgotten author from Galicia, his name is Salamon Dembitzer. He was born in 1888 in Krakov, at that time belonging to Austria. He wrote his poems in Yiddish, his prose was published in German, English and Dutch. He died 1964 in Lugano, Switzerland. Dembitzer lived in exile in New York from 1941 up to 1947. There are a few letters to him from this period in the archive of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. That is all the information I have on his stay in the USA. These letters are from Julian Tuvim, Rudolf Rocker, Leo Jung, Ludwig Lewisohn, H.E.Jacob and D.Marianoff. Who knows where I could find more about Dembitzer's stay in New York? Of course any information on Dembitzer is very, very welcome ! Kees Booy 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:27:18 -0500 (CDT) From: mschein@comp.uark.edu Subject: Yisroel Pollak's _In a shturmisher tkufe_ I am trying to obtain a copy of Israel Pollak's autobiography, _In a shturmisher tkufe: oytobiografye_ (Tel-Aviv: Farlag Y.L. Perets, 1988). I would be very much grateful for any suggestions about how to go about doing this and whom to contact. Thank you very much. Michael-Moshe Schein Fayetteville, Arkansas 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 08:05:56 -0700 From: ac939@lafn.org Subject: Los Angeles Yiddish Culture Club Es freyt mir zeyer tsu lozn visn fraynd mendelniks az undzer 70 yoyvel fun der etablirung fun der klub geyt on mit rekhtn fus. Zuntig, 2 yuni, 2:00 nokh mitog veln mir fayern undzer groysn simkhe in der zal fun der federatsye, 6505 Wilshire Blvd. A shod az der zal ken nor araynnemen 250 mentchen. Mir hobn farkoyft ale biletn un mayn telefon klingt k'seder. Mir zenen shtolts mit dem vos yidishe lib-hober zenen azoy interesirt in undzer tkume. Ir zayt ayngelaydt kumen tsu undzere asifes yeder shabbos baynakht. Mir veln zayn farmakht far dem zumer ober mir veln onfayngen in oktober far dem nayem yor. Ven ir geyt durkh Los Angeles, kumt un nasht fun undzer literarishn tish. Oyb ir voynt in Los Angeles, iz avade gut. Keyle (Kay) Goodman ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 6.007