The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language
(A Companion to MENDELE)
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Contents of Vol. 09.10 [Sequential No. 162]
Date:
1) This issue (ed.)
2) Bergelson and Chekhov: Convergences and Departures (Joseph
Sherman)
3) Periodicals Received (ed.)
4) Books Received (ed.)
5) Publisher's Announcement
6) Response to Menke Review
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Vol. 9, No. 10
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From: Leonard Prager, ed.
Subject: This issue:
-- Today's The Mendele Review continues and amplifies the
preceding issue (Vol. 9, No, 9), the two issues together constituting a
close deliberation on the work of one of our greatest Yiddish modernists, Dovid
Bergelson. Vol. 9, No. 9 gives the entire Yiddish text -- in the Standard
Yiddish Orthography (SYO) -- of the short story "Yordim" (Declasse),
and a complete translation of the story by Joseph Sherman, who for several
years now has been particularly interested in Bergelson. The present essay is a
comparative study of our Yiddish author and the Russian short fiction master
Anton Chekhov, with the story "Yordim" serving as prime exemplary
material for
--Readers will note below an announcement of a new book on Sabine
Spielrein by Sabine Richebaecher. Most of the interest in Sabine Spielrein has
centered on the Spielrein-Jung-Freud story, much dwelt upon as the first
scandal in the then young psychoanalytic movement. In contrast, Sabine
Richebaecher studies Sabine Spielrein herself, examining especiallly her Jewish
background and family life. TMR readers have been interested in
the far less famous brother of Sabine, Itshe-Meyer Shpilrayn [Isaac Spilrein,
1891-193?], the first to lecture on Yiddish in Yiddish at the Moscow Second
State University and author of a conspectus of Yiddish studies [see TMR vol. 3,
no. 1 (14 January 1999)]. Richebaecher's new study may help us better see
Itshe-Meyer Shpilrayn in the setting of his remarkable family.
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Date:
From: Joseph Sherman
Subject: Bergelson
and Chekhov: Convergences and Departures
Click below for the text of this essay:
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Date:
From: Leonard Prager
Subject: Books Received
-- Zalman Vendrof. When It Comes to Living;
Selected Stories.
--Aleksander Shpiglblat. Krimeve; an
altfrenkishe mayse.
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Date:
From: Leonard Prager
Subject: Periodicals Received
-- Khulyot vol. 9 (Summer 2005), ed. Shalom Luria and Haya Bar-Ytzhak, 438+xviii
pp. May be ordered from Khulyot, Dept. of Hebrew and Comparitive Literature, University
of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel. Price: 50 shekels in
-- Jiddistik Mitteilungen; Jiddistik in
deutschsprachigen Laendern Nr. 33 (April 2005). This issue features three
short studies dealing with 1) verbs with prefix on- in selected works of
Sholem-Aleykhem [e.g. onnemen, onmestn] by Kyrill A. Schischigin, 2) the still
current German slang term Tinnef (cf. Yiddish tinef) [an ongoing
study by Hans Peter Althaus] and 3) early German efforts at constructing
glossaries of Jewish commercial terms [Zur "Juedischen
Geschaeftssprache" by Wolfram Windolph]. Simon Neuberg reviews Alfred
Klepsch's Westjiddisches Woerterbuch. Auf der Basis Dialektologischer
Erhebungen in Mittelfranken (Tuebingen: Niemeyer, 2004, 2vols.) and Ane
Kleine reviews Heather Valencia's anthology with 8 cds (!) Mit
groys fargenign (
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Date:
From: Doerlemann Verlag AG
Subject: Publisher's Announcement
Sabine Richebächer
Sabina Spielrein – »Eine fast grausame Liebe zur Wissenschaft«
Biographie
400 Seiten.
Gebunden mit Schwarzweiß-Abbildungen
€ 24.90 / SFr. 42.–
ISBN 3-908777-14-3
Erschienen: 29. August 2005
Am Abend des 17. August 1904 wird eine junge Russin mit allen Anzeichen einer
Hysterie ins Burghölzli, die Zürcher Irrenheilanstalt, eingeliefert.
Für C.G. Jung bietet sich die Gelegenheit, an Sabina Spielrein zum ersten
Mal Freuds Methode auszuprobieren. Die Therapie schlägt an, und noch aus
dem Burghölzli heraus nimmt die wissensdurstige Patientin ein
Medizinstudium auf. Als Jung und sie ein leidenschaftliches
Liebesverhältnis beginnen, hat die Psychoanalyse ihren ersten Skandal.
Diese große Biographie Sabina Spielreins erzählt, wie aus dem
jüdischen Mädchen aus Rostow am Don eine eigenständige
Wissenschaftlerin ersten Ranges wird, eine Pionierin in der Erforschung der
kindlichen Seele. Ein unruhiges, mutiges und bewegendes Leben, das unter
Hitlers Mordkommandos ein frühes und tragisches Ende nimmt.
Die Geschichte von Sabina Spielrein und Jung ist in Italien unter dem Titel
Prendimi l’anima verfilmt worden, und der berühmte englische
Dramatiker Christopher Hampton hat darüber ein Theaterstück mit dem
Titel The Talking Cure, deutsch Die Methode, geschrieben.
Über das Leben von Sabina Spielrein drehte Elisabeth Martón einen
Dokumentarfilm: Ich hiess Sabina Spielrein.
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From: Leonard Prager
Subject: Response to Menke Review
Readers are alerted to Frank Handler's response (in Mendele Vol. 15, No. 25) to the review of Menke in TMR vol. 9, No. 8. Further responses are invited.
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Editor, Leonard Prager
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