Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 10.040 December 22, 2000 1) position in New Jersey (Yael Zerubavel) 2) position in Philadelphia (Arieh Lebowitz) 3) position in Amsterdam (Shlomo Berger) 4) Seminar for advanced students in Duesseldorf (Marion Aptroot) 5) YIVO Yiddish Summer Program Alumni (Yankl Salant) 6) Fishman-fundatsiye premirt proyektn af dray kontinentn (Joshua Fishman) 7) dokumentazie-archiw far jiddische kultur un geschichte (Chaim Frank) 8) Salomo-Birnbaum-Gesellschaft fuer Jiddisch (Wilfried Kuehn) 9) New Web Guide to Yiddish Collections at IISH (Karin Hofmeester) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:40:12 -0500 (EST) From: Center for the Study of Jewish Life Subject: position in New Jersey Rutgers University Announces a Search for an Assistant Professor in Yiddish Literature and Culture The Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, announces the opening of a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor of Yiddish Literature and Culture. The position is open to candidates who have received their Ph.D. degrees in Yiddish Studies or related fields and have academic publications in this area. The candidate will be expected to teach courses on Yiddish literature in the original and in translation, and courses on the society and culture of Ashkenazic Jews from historical, ethnographic, and comparative perspectives. The candidate's responsibilities will include the supervision of Yiddish language instruction. Please send applications, including curriculum vitae, a list of references, publications, and proposed course syllabi, by January 30, 2001 to Professor Yael Zerubavel, Chair, Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, 12 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Rutgers University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. For further information about the Department of Jewish Studies and the Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers, see our website: http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu. Yael Zerubavel 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:50:26 -0500 (EST) From: AriehNYC@prodigy.net Subject: position in Philadelphia Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center Oral Historian, Project Director The Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center is seeking an oral historian to design, manage, and implement a funded oral history project. The project concerns the southern New Jersey community of Woodbine, NJ, a utopian agrarian settlement founded by Russian Jewish immigrants in the 1890's. Our objective is to preserve the Woodbine experience through the recollections of surviving original settlers and their descendents still living in the south Jersey/Philadelphia region. The Project Director will be responsible for developing a project plan; designing the interview format; contacting and securing the participation of subjects; recruiting, training and supervising other interviewers as needed; engaging transcription services; quality control; tracking and periodic reporting. The project term is expected to be 6- 12 months, beginning as soon as possible. Materials (audio/video tapes and transcriptions) resulting from the project will become part of the Jewish Archives Center's collection. The Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center was founded in 1972 to gather and preserve the records of the Jewish communities in the Philadelphia region, and to make them available to researchers and the general public. It is today the major repository of those records, including 2,500 collections and 7,500 photographs. Nan Wallace, Executive Director Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center 18 South 7th Street, Philadelphia PA 19106 Phone: 215-925-8090 ext. 228 Fax: 215-925-4413 Email: pjacexec@balchinstitute. org Website: http://www.libertynet.org/pjac Arieh Lebowitz 3)---------------------------------------------------- From: berger@hum.uva.nl Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 04:09:49 EST Subject: position in Amsterdam The Menasseh ben Israel Institute for Jewish Social and Cultural Studies and the Department for Yiddish Culture, Language and Literature of the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf are conducting a research program on "Yiddish in the Netherlands: an expression of Ashkenazic culture". For one of the research projects within the framework of this program, entitled "YIDDISH CHRONICLES AND HISTORY BOOKS IN THE NORTHERN NETHERLANDS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO JEWISH HISTORIOGRAPHY" the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research will provide means for the position of junior researcher in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. A junior researcher will be engaged in research and take courses, working towards a Ph.D. degree (the project will result in a doctoral thesis to be published in book form). The aim of the proposed research is an investigation of the nature, content and influence of Yiddish historical literature, composed in the Northern Netherlands in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Following a detailed study and classification of the various compositions, attention will be paid to the relative position of these writings within the larger framework of the Jewish tradition of historical writing, re-assessing its role as a possible missing link between medieval chronicles and modern, critical historiography. The researcher must have a degree in history and a good command of Yiddish and Dutch and must be able to read secondary literature in Hebrew. The application should be accompanied by a CV, a list of publications (if any), and letters of recommendation and should reach us before 15 January 2001. A decision will be made around 7 February 2001, the researcher will start to work on 1 March 2001. Send your application to Drs. Paul Koopman, Institute for Culture and History, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For further information contact: Menasseh ben Israel Institute, Dr. Emile G.L. Schrijver, PO Box 16737, NL-1001 RE Amsterdam; tel.: + 31 (0)20 626 9945; fax: + 31 (0)20 624 1721; e-mail: , Prof. Irene E. Zwiep (Universiteit van Amsterdam); tel.: + 31 (0)20 525 2353; e-mail: i.zwiep@hum.uva.nl or Prof. Marion J. Aptroot (Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf); + 49 (0)211 811 3228; e-mail: . Shlomo Berger Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:58:20 -0500 (EST) From: aptroot@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de (Marion Aptroot) Subject: Seminar for advanced students in Duesseldorf, 26- 30 March 2001 Seminar for advanced students 26- 30 March 2001 The Program in Yiddish Studies at the Heinrich Heine University (Duesseldorf, Germany) and the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies are offering a one-week intensive seminar in Yiddish Studies for advanced students from 26 to 30 March 2001. Topics: 1) The Kiev group of Yiddish writers in general and Dovid Bergelson in particular -- Dr. Gennady Estraikh 2) Der Nister's novel "Di mishpokhe Mashber": Text and context -- Dr. Michail Krutikov 3) Nokhem Shtif and the "Institut far yidisher kultur" in Kiev -- Holger Nath The three daily seminars will be held in Yiddish. Participants can attend all three seminars. More detailed information can be found on the homepage of the Program in Yiddish Studies in Duesseldorf. Abteilung fuer Jiddische Kultur, Sprache und Literatur Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Universitaetsstr. 1 / Geb. 23.03 40225 Duesseldorf Tel. 0211- 81 13228/14292/14293 Fax 0211 - 81 12027 E-mail: jiddisch@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de Homepage: http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/jiddisch/ Marion Aptroot 5)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:22:16 -0500 (EST) From: Yankl Salant Subject: YIVO Yiddish Summer Program Alumni CALLING ALL ALUMNI OF THE YIVO ZUMER-PROGRAM ! (including students, instructors, workshop leaders, speakers) It's almost here--an alumni newsletter for the YIVO zumer-program! The first issue of "Zumer in nyu-york" will soon be published. Finally, a network for zumer-programnikes. Please help us with this worthy project. If you did not receive an alumni questionnaire from YIVO this past summer, send your address today to Yankl Salant, < ysalant@yivo.cjh.org > and he will send you a questionnaire. OR YOU CAN FILL OUT THE QUESTIONNAIRE DIRECTLY ON THE WEB. Go to the following URL: < http://www.yivoinstitute.org/courses/courses_fr.htm >, then follow the link on the left for the Uriel Weinreich Program and then the link for the alumni questionnaire. If you are in contact with people from your year(s) in the zumer-program and you have a minute, please send Yankl Salant their name and address or e-mail address. Aid us in tracking people down, so that we can have the most complete picture possible of those who have been a part of our zumer-program! Thanks for your help, Yankl Salant A RUF ALE GEVEZENE BATEYLIKTE FUN DER YIVO ZUMER-PROGRAM ! (arayngerekhnt talmidim, lerers, varshtat-firers, redners) Kimat do: a buletin far gevezene bateylikte fun der YIVO-zumer-program! Der ershter numer "zumer in nyu-york" vet bald aroys. Sof-kol-sof a nets far zumer-programnikes. Zayt azoy gut un helft undz aroys mit dem verdikn proyekt. Oyb ir hot dem fargangenem zumer nisht bakumen dem fregboygn fun YIVO, shikt haynt tsu ayer adres Yankl Salantn, < ysalant@yivo.cjh.org > un er vet aykh shikn a fregboygn. ODER IR KENT DEM FREGBOYGN OYSFILN DIREKT AFN INTERNETS. Geyt af dem URL: < http://www.yivoinstitute.org/courses/courses_fr.htm >, dernokh folgt di bindung af links farn Uriel Vaynraykh-program un dernokh di bindung farn fregboygn. Oyb ir zayt in farbindung mit mentshn fun ayer yor(n) in zumer-program un ir hot a minutkele, zayt azoy gut un shikt Yankl Salantn zeyer nomen un adres oder blitspost-adres. Helft undz unter oyftsuzukhn alemen, kedey mir zoln hobn a fulshtendik bild fun ale vos zaynen adurkh undzer program! A sheynem dank far ayer hilf, Yankl Salant New York, NY 6)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:54:24 -0500 (EST) From: Joshua Fishman Subject: Fishman-fundatsiye premirt proyektn af dray kontinentn Yedn harbst kumt for a konkurents far di lefi-erekh kleyne nor fort bekovedike fondn vos di "fishman-fundatsiye far yidisher kultur" tseteylt demolt in shaykhes mit proyektn letoyves yidish tsvish kinder un yugnt. Hayntiks yor tret di fishman-fundatsiye arayn inem 35stn yor fun ir arbet. Biz aher hot zi shoyn oysgeteylt an erekh $100,000, kumendik tsu hilf dos tsugreytn kinder-bikher, plates, kontsertn, teater-forshtelungen, klubn un lern-programen beferish gemeynt far kinder. Hayntiks yor, 2000/tashs"a, iz zikh di farvaltung fun der fundatsiye tsunoyfgekumen yod-alef khehvon, ven es falt oys i der yortsayt fun arn fishman o"h, i der geboyrntog fun sonye fishman, oa"h, tsvey fun di ibergegebnste yidishe kultur-tuers vos di yidishe amerike hot farmogt, un bashlosn, inem zekorn fun arn un sonye fishman, tsu shtitsn: 1. dem studentitshn yidish-klub bay der hillel fundatsiye in moskve (uri vedenyapin, mit-forzitser), 2. a vayterdikn yidish-tekstbukh far der frumer svive, in der seriye vos es halt in tsugreytn dvoyre kosman fun yerushelayem, un 3. dos grindn un onfirn kinderklubn vos hobn dem tsil ayntsufirn yidish in di togshuln in totonto (forgeleygt durkh nekhame miler-turek un rokhl gerlok). Di farvaltung hot oykh bashlosn az in meshekh funem 35stn yor fun ir arbet vet zi aroysvayzn a preferents far proyektn vos farnemen zikh mit lerer-tsugreytung un materiyaln-tsugreytung in shaykhes mit yidish in togshuln in amerike un iber der velt. Nokh mer informatsiye, klingt 718-796-8484. der termin far naye aplikatsiyes (5 kopiys) iz oktober 31, 2001. Men ken zikh vendn in byuro fun der fundatsiye tsu bakumen a kontrolirke vos vayzt on pinktlekh loyt velkhe printsipn (agev: a bisl andershdike vi in friyerdike yorn) proyektn vern opgeshatst. Der adres funem byuro iz "Fishman Foundation for Yiddish Culture, 3616 Henry Hudson Parkway, Apt. 7B-N, Bronx, NY 10463". Joshua Fishman 7)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:21:08 -0500 (EST) From: Chaim Frank Subject: dokumentazie-archiw far jiddische kultur un geschichte ge'erte damen un hern ich find ajer archiw a sejer a wichtike un sejer interesante arbet. In-gichn hob ich schoin gelejent a por oiágobn fun di schjurnaln inem inter-net un gefunen sejer schejne tekátn un informazieá. Majn nomen is Chaim Frank, un fir - noenter 16 jor - in minchn (germany) a dokumentazie-archiw far jiddische kultur un geschichte. Unter der adreá: --- www.hagalil.com/doku-archiv/ kent ir oichet gefinen a por sajtn zulib majn archiw un in di dosikn web-sajtn sajen oichet faran etleche informazieá (un sajtn) zulib undser mameloschn. ich wel sich schtak gefrajen zu haltn mit ajch wajter kontakt. schalom ve-kol tuv Chaim FRANK 8)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 06:29:55 -0500 (EST) From: kuehn@ifm.uni-hamburg.de Subject: Emigration of East European Jews Dear Mendelyaners, the 'Salomo-Birnbaum-Gesellschaft fuer Jiddisch' (S. Birnbaum society for Yiddish) in Hamburg (perhaps somebody has heard of us) is among others responsible for a yiddish library, the Salomo Birnbaum library. The problem is a. to catalogue about 1000 books, b. to sharpen the profile of this library. We are doing this in close cooperation with the 'Institut fuer die Geschichte der deutschen Juden' (Institute for the history of German Jews). We feel a natural topic of this Hamburg library could be literature about the emigration of Easteuropean jews because most of them took their way via Hamburg. Some of them also remained in Germany, at least for some time. So we are looking for literature dealing with this topic, e.g. memories, fictional literature, but also scientific works. In principle we need only the titles of corresponding books, for we have money to buy them e.g. in the NYBC. But, of course, we would also appreciate kind gifts which could help to make the library more attractive for interested people. The contact e-mail address is: kuehn@ifm.uni-hamburg.de. And now a personal question. Does anyone know the meaning of the yiddish saying of 'me darf greytn zukhares'? I found it in a short novel by Alexander Lisen, the well-known yiddish writer from Lemberg/Lviv who died last year. The context suggests something like 'Look ahead! You have to be careful!'. Thanks a lot. mit hartsike grusn, Wilfried Kuehn Hamburg 9)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:34:06 +0200 Subject: New Web Guide to Yiddish Collections From: "Karin Hofmeester" We are happy to inform you that the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam published a Guide on its website to the unique and manifold collection of Yiddish material of the Institute. The Yiddish collection of the IISH consists of books, brochures, periodicals and pamphlets of the early Jewish socialist and anarchist movement in Eastern and Western Europe. In addition to this printed material the Institute has a large collection of Bundist (election) posters, photo's and prints, mainly from interbellum Poland. Next to this printed and visual material the IISH owns part of the Bund-archives viz. the incoming material from the Bund Foreign Committee in Geneva as well as material from the Central Office of the Bund in Geneva. The website contains information on the history of the collection; on how to search it; it shows highlights from the collection in five digital exhibitions and it gives links to Yiddish collections elsewhere. Please see: http://www.iisg.nl/collections/yiddish/index.html if possible, please add this site to your list of links and spread the news! yours, Karin Hofmeester ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 10.040 Address for the postings to Mendele: mendele@lists.yale.edu Address for the list commands: listproc@lists.yale.edu Mendele on the Web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu http://ibiblio.org/yiddish/mendele.html