Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 6.043 July 29, 1996 1) Yiddish Festival in Amsterdam, Holland (Marjon Veerkamp) 2) Lodzer Yizkor-buch (Nikki Halpern) 3) Oyfn pripetshik (Hershl Hartman) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 09:27:25 +-200 From: ideorg@knoware.nl Subject: Yiddish Festival in Amsterdam, Holland The second International Yiddish Festival in Amsterdam will be held from November 24-December 1 1996. We are planning a program with music, theatre, a storytellingpiece, workshops, films, documentaries, roundtablediscussions with participants from around the world. dos tsweyte internatyonale yidishe festival in amsterdam vet forkumen funem 24tn november bizn 1tn detsember 1996. Themes of the festival will be: shtetl and ghettoization; revolutionary movements (e.g. the Bund); yiddish in the world; women and yiddish; assimilation, a choice?; transformation; future. temen funem festival veln zayn: dos shtetl un geto; revolutyonere bawegungen (bundistn, anarchistn); nayes in yidishland; froyen un yidish; asimilatye; transformatye; tsukunft. One of the programs that will be developed especially for the festival wants to show aspects of yiddish oral culture of 1996 by gathering stories. Some ten yiddishspeaking storytellers will present them in a storytelling collage. spetyel farn festival viln mir shafn a teaterpyese. efsher tsen yidishredendike dertseyler veln dertseyln mayses vos hobn a shaykhes mit yidish in undzer tsayt un di temen funem festival. We are collecting stories related to the themes of the festival. We are interested in contributions of stories from yiddishspeakers around the world. -Our interest is not necessarily in existing folktales, but in new stories, autobiographical or other, that can be told best in yiddish, orally. Even though we are looking for stories to be told, not written, we invite you to contribute e-mail stories in writing. yets fregn mir aykh, elektronishe leyener oyf der gorer velt, tsi ir ken onshraybn a kurtse mayse vos mir voltn gekent dertseyln in undzer program. -nisht keyn bakante bubemayses oder folkstimleche geshikhtn, ober naye mayses, vos men hot zay gehert oder iberlebt. mayses vos dertseyln zikh gikher balpe. - We are interested in yiddish stories about life now in different cities around the world. lemoshel: -yidishe mayses vegn lebn in farshidene shtet un shtetlekh oyf der gorer velt. - stories in which people tell about their relationship to yiddish language and culture. - farvos ir interesirt zikh in der yidisher shprakh un kultur. - we can imagine that certain 'untranslatable' yiddish words bring up a story. E.g. the word 'mentsh', 'mitsveh', 'yiches', etc. We are certain that many other words can be added. We'd be interested in your additions to this list. - s'zeynen faran yidishe verter vos men ken zey nit iberzetsn on heores un vos brengen aroys a mayse. lemoshel verter vi: 'mentsh', 'mitsveh', 'yikhes', vekhule. ikh bin zikher az yedereyner hot a reshime.efsher kent ir undz shikn ayer reshime fun uniberzetzlikhe yidishe verter. un efher a mayse dertsu. - A program of the festival will be send into space in September. - hofentlikh veln mir far rosh hashone kenen awekshikn in di elektronishe luftn a program funem festival. Artistic director of the festival is Mira Rafalowicz. mira@euronet.nl The storytelling piece will be compiled by Anne van Delft (dutch theatre director) Organization: Ideeel Organiseren. Marjon Veerkamp 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 16:51:37 -0400 From: 101762.3705@compuserve.com Subject: Lodzer Yizkor-buch For predoctoral work at a Parisian university, I am researching and preparing a monograph (60-100 pages) on the *Lodzer Yizkor-buch*, first published in New York in December, 1943. I am eager to hear from any one who can provide information, first-hand or at some remove, as to the production and distribution of this memorial book. Also, I have yet to find any secondary or critical sources which address this yizkor-buch, nor, in fact, any in-depth analysis of any one yizkor-buch. (I except the sensitive and far-ranging presentation of Itzhok Niborski's and Annette Wieviorka's, because their analysis relies on exemplary passages from numerous yizkor-bicher.) If any of you can furnish information or citations -- or whatever suggestions you think might helpful -- please communicate with me privately. Thank you. Nikki Halpern P.S. I have passed on the gratifying remarks about *Tam Tam* to some staff members. I agree it's an exciting enterprise. 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 21:28:16 -0400 From: hershl@aol.com Subject: Oyfn pripetshik Warren Winkelman (and others) can find all the lyrics to Mark Varshavski's classic in the original Yiddish and in English translation, as well as the music, in "Apples & Honey: Music and Readings for a Secular Humanistic Observance of the Jewish New Year Festival," just published by the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations, 19657 Villa Drive North, Southfield, MI 48076. e-mail: rchf51a@prodigy.com Hershl Hartman ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 6.043