Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 1 no. 243 May 7, 1992 1) Vergelis (Bob Werman) 2) Summer course announcement (Markham J. Geller) 3) Domestic affairs (Noyekh Miller) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 May 92 2:21 +0300 From: RWERMAN%HUJIVMS.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 1.242 Sid Resnick argues about Vergelis's record as an editor and that he should be forgiven any "sins" for his success in sustaining Yiddish culture in the USSR. And Critical Inquiry is also a fine literary journal I am told. But it publishes Edward Said's unscrupulous attacks against Israel and non-Israeli Jews and other supporters of Israel, all under the guise of literary scholarship. Are we to forgive that journal? Joyce raised the question of the nature of an object of beauty created by a man hacking in fury with no intention of making art. Are we to judge Vergelis by his intentions? Which was stronger? Preserving Vergelis? Or preserving Jewish values and art? Certainly not a clear issue. I suggest other means of judging him, not on his personal evaluation of his accomplishments, not on his telling us how hard it was under Breznev. Did he strike out for freedom with Breznev's death? I see no sign of it. Do you? Bob Werman 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 06 May 92 14:52:22 +0100 From: Dr Markham J Geller Subject: Summer Course Announcing an intensive Yiddish Summer Course at University College London 3-28 August, teaching from Eugene Orenstein, Carrie Friedman, and Marion Aptroot, with Yiddish drama workshops from Eleanor Reissa. Markham Geller 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 06 May 92 From: nmiller@trincc Subject: Fun'm shames Der shames fort avek af a vokh kdey gevoyre(1) vern vos far a vinter hobn gehot di feygelekh fun brek-yam vos kumen ersht on fun azelkhe mkoymes vi Durem-Amerike un afile Antarktik. Zey shteln zikh op bloyz af a por teg, un bald forn zey vayter in der velt arayn. Vil ikh zey opgebn azoy a sholem-aleikhem, a fort gezunt. Un ir oykh, mayne fraynt, zayt mir gezunt. Noyekh (1) Yo, Mikhl, s'gramt zikh mit kapoyre. ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 1.243 Submissions: mendele@vax1.trincoll.edu Business: nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu Please sign your articles.