Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 5.286 March 24, 1996 1) _Chulyot_ (Leonard Prager) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 96 22:52:02 IST From: rhle302@uvm.haifa.ac.il Subject: _Chulyot_ ('Links') No. 3 (1996) Mendelyaner will be interested to know that the third number of the Hebrew-language Israeli journal _Chulyot_ will be appearing shortly after Passover and can now be ordered. Devoted exclusively to the study of Yiddish language, literature and folklore, the journal also includes stories, essays and poems in Yiddish as well as in Hebrew translation. The special prize of No. 3 is the original Yiddish poem "Evigingo" by the Vilna poet Leyzer Volf, accompanied by a remarkable Hebrew translation by the editor Shalom Luria. The journal can be ordered from _Chulyot_, Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa, Haifa 31 999, Israel. There are still copies of No. 2 availabe. No. 1 is now out-of-print (and eagerly sought after if you happen to have a copy you don't mind selling). Each issue costs twelve US dollars. Checks can be made out to _Chulyot_. Here is the Table of Contents of No. 3: "The chicken and the egg" (_Avot_ 5,6): A Word From the Editor Mendele Moykher-Sforim Reb Faytl [Yiddish original] Mendele Mocher Sefarim Reb Faytl [Hebrew translation] Avidov Lipsker The Mirror in Which Rabbi Simon the Great of Mainz Did Not See Clearly Shmuel Werses From Language to Language: Characteristic Traits of the Yiddish Version of Yosef Perl's _Megale tmirin_ ('Revealer of Secrets') Avraham Lis Sholem-Aleykhem's Epistolary Estate Ilanit Yaakov The Plan for Publication of Sholem-Aleykhem's Works by the Moriah Publishing Co. Jacob Weitzner Women in Sholem-Aleykhem's _Tevye the Dairyman_ David G. Roskies S. Anski and the Paradigm of Return Avraham Greenbaum Bergelson's "A Witness" as a Parable on the Fate of Soviet Jewry Benjamin Harshav The Role of Language in Modern Art: Texts and Sub-Texts in Marc Chagall's Paintings Khone Shmeruk Isaac Bashevis Singer as Children's Storyteller Michael Astour Leyzer Volf [Lazar Wolf] Avrom Sutskever To Leyzer Volf [Yiddish original] Avraham Sutskever To Leyzer Volf [Hebrew translation] Leyzer Volf Evigingo [Yiddish original] Leyzer Volf Evigingo [Hebrew translation] Katherine Hellerstein A Yiddish Poet's Response to the _Khurbm_: Kadya Molodowsky in America David E. Fishman The Politics of Yiddish in Tsarist Russia Avraham Greenbaum Yevgeni Kagarov -- A Forgotten Soviet Yiddishist Yechiel Szeintuch The Underground "Bund" Press in Warsaw Documents Zelik Kalmanovitsh Pages Torn from an Essay Y.-L. Perets Hebrew and Yiddish Perets Markish The Esthetics of Struggle in Modern Poetry Shifra Epstein The First_Purim-shpil_ of the Bobover Chasidim in New York after the Shoa Dov Noy Proverbs Spoken by Shalom Katz of Toronto Avraham Keren Hebrew Elements in Shalom Katz's Yiddish Proverb Collection Leonard Prager ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 5.286 Mendele has 2 rules: 1. Provide a meaningful Subject: line 2. Sign your article (full name please) Send articles to: mendele@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu Send change-of-status messages to: listserv@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu a. For a temporary stop: set mendele nomail b. To resume delivery: set mendele mail c. To subscribe: sub mendele first_name last_name d. To unsubscribe kholile: unsub mendele Other business: nmiller@mail.trincoll.edu ****Getting back issues**** 1. Anonymous ftp archives are available. ftp ftp.mendele.trincoll.edu in the directory pub/mendele/files A table of contents is also available, along with weekly updates. 2. Mendele archives can also be reached as follows: via WWW: http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/mewais.html via gopher: gopher://sunsite.unc.edu/11/../.pub/academic/languages/yiddish/mendele via ftp: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/languages/yiddish/mendele