The Mendele Review: Yiddish Literature and Language
(A Companion to MENDELE)
Volume 12, 2008
Contents of Issue 12.001, 17 January 2008
1) This issue of TMR (ed).
2) Obituary for Professor
Rashid Kaplanov
3) Front cover
of Yidishe heftn
121 (Paris, January 2008)
4) Yiddish conversation group in Leyvik House, Tel
Aviv
5) A flyer announcing courses in Yiddish in Haifa 2008
6) Leyvik as guest of the Pinskis
in Haifa
7) Front cover of pamphlet of Leyvik's six Carmel
poems
8) Table of Contents of pamphlet
9) Leyvik's "Dos harts fun der
nakht": text and Hebrew translation
10) "The Heart of the Night" [English translation of above]
11) Yiddish text of "Salutn in Kheyfe"
12) English translation of "Salutn in Kheyfe"
Contents of Issue 12.002, 24 January 2008
1) This issue of TMR (ed).
2) Robert Goldenberg on Cantor Louis Danto's Goldfadn
songs
3) Kheyfe un ir hinterland ('Haifa and Its Hinterland')
4) An algemeyner
bild fun der shtot ('General Picture of the City')
5) Dertsiyung/Hadar
HaKarmel/Har HaKarmel
('Education…Mt.Carmel')
6) Andere fiertlen [kvartaln]/Handl…('Other
Neighborhoods, Commerce')
7) Mir boyen ('We are building')
8) Di alte shprakh…di naye shul…Daytshe yidn ('Old Language'…'New
School' … 'German Jews')
9) Postcard photo of Yafo
[Jaffa] St. in the 1930s.
10) Photo of
Contents of
Issue 12.003, 31
January 2008
1) This issue of TMR (ed).
2) Yossel Birstein Project
3) Goldfaden's Bar-Kokhba
[Yiddish: Bar-Kokhbe]
4) "Dos milkhl" (in various versions) /
Regina Prager
5) A Kind of Yiddish Rip Van Winkle
6) „àÇ àéã ôÏåï éòðòø Ôòìè"
by Gershon
Levin
7) Hebrew translation of Levin chapter
8) Tel-Aviv University & Leivick House
Conference: "The Ashkenazim" on 27-28/2/08
9) How to subscribe to Yidishe heftn
Contents of Issue 12.004, 10 February 2008
On Waiting for Godot in Yiddish
1) This issue of TMR (ed).
2) Kalman Juvelier [Leksikon fun yidishn teater, 1934]
3) a. Score cover of "A mentsh zol men zayn"
b. Enlarged half-view of score cover
of "A mentsh zol men zayn"
c. Score cover 1 of "Dos emese yidishe harts" as sung by Juvelier
d. Score cover 2 of "Dos emese yidishe harts" as sung
by Juvelier
e.
Kalman Juvelier
sings "A mentsh zol
men zayn" (MP3 download)
4) Samuel Beckett's Lucky in Yiddish: Two Translations Compared
5) Portrait of Gizela Shkilnik
6) Gizela Shkilnik's
Yiddish translation of Lucky's monologue
7) Portrait of Rina Yosifon
8) Rina Yosifon's Yiddish
Translation of Lucky's monologue
9) A Yiddishpiel flyer
Contents of Issue 12.005, 20 February 2008
Partisans Issue (Part One)
1) This issue of TMR (ed).
2) “Der oyfrays fun a soldatn-heym” (Part One) ('The Demolition of a Soldier's
Home') [Moyshe Gildenman (Dyadya/Diadia Misha, pseud.)]
3) About the brochure Oyfn veg
tsum zig ('On the Way
to Victory')
4) Yiddish Partisan Songs: Multiple versions of
"Zog nisht keyn mol az du geyst dem letstn
veg"
Contents of Issue 12.006, 2 March 2008
Partisans Issue (Part Two)
1) This issue of TMR (ed).
2) Letters to the editor from Hershl Hartman and Leybl Botwinik
3) "Der oyfrays fun a soldatn-heym" ('The Demolition of a Soldier's Home')
[M. Gildenman (Diadya Misha, pseud.)], Part Two
4) Yiddish Partisan Songs: "Shtil di nakht" and "Yid du Partizaner"
5) Meredith CD Covers
Contents of Issue 12.007, 16
March 2008
1) This issue of TMR (ed).
2) Yelena Shmulenson on vizgen
3) Holocaust, Shoah, Khurbm
4) Jewish Heroism in the Khurbm Period
5) More on “Zog nisht …”
6) More on Yiddish Partisan Songs (Hershl Hartman)
7) Regina Prager (Sholem Secunda [Sekunde])
8) "Regina Prager, di rebitsn oyf der
bine" (Yoysef Rumshinski)
9) Regina Prager Sings “Von die Zweigen
die Fidelach”
Contents of Issue 12.008, 27
March 2008
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“
1) This
issue of TMR (ed).
2) mentsh revisited
3) khurbn or khurbm?
4) TMR Issue No. 200: Invitation to Readers to Comment
5) Mendele Moykher-Sforim's
Peyrek Shire [Perek
Shira]
6) Moyshe Taykhman's adaptation
of Noent
fun vaytns
7) Solomon Marshak's Di post translated into Yiddish by Moyshe Taykhman
8) "Motele fun Varshever
geto" – lyrics
9) "Motele fun Varshever
geto" – audio
10) "Remember the Children" cd cover
Contents of Issue 12.009, 13
April 2008
11th Anniversary & 200th Issue
1)
This issue of TMR (ed).
2) Introducing the Editor
3) Letters to the editor re mentsh and khurbm (to be continued)
4) Anniversary messages (selection)
Prof. Dov-Ber
Kerler (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Prof. Joseph Sherman (Oriental
Institute, Oxford)
Prof. Seth Wolitz
(University of Texas, Austin)
Prof. Yechiel
Szeintuch (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Morrie
Feller (Phoenix, Arizona)
Dr. Zelda Newman (Lehman College,
New York)
Prof. Avrom Novershtern
(Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Bet Shalom Aleichem,Tel-Aviv)
Dr. Ian Young (Lingua Medica, London)
Dr. Heather Valencia (The Stirling University, Scotland, UK)
Dr. Boris Kotlerman
(Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan,
Israel)
Dr. Yael Chaver
(University of California, Berkeley)
Andrew Firestone (Monash Univerity, Melbourne,
Australia)
5) The Oldest Review of a Yiddish Play
in America (New York Sun, 1885)
6) Nathan Birnbaum
[Nosn Birnboym] Delivers
Opening Speech at Czernowitz 1908
Contents of
Issue 12.010, 11
May 2008
1) This issue of TMR (ed).
2) Anniversary messages (continued) [See TMR 12.009]
Professor Lawrence A. Rosenwald (Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA)
FRIDA (Grapa
de) CIELAK (Mexico City, Mexico)
Dr. Marcos Silber (Department
of Jewish History, University of Haifa)
Boris Sandler, Ed./ Itsik Gottesman,
Asst. Ed., Forverts (New York)
The Yiddish Leyen-Krayz
of Buffalo, New York
3) Review: Miriam Hoffman's Shlisl – a New
Yiddish Textbook (Heather Valencia)
4) Review: Mirjam Gutschow's
Inventory of Yiddish Publications From the Netherlands (c. 1650-cc.1950)
5) Uriel Birnbaum's
"Yosele in Kheyder"
and "Yankev Dinezon"
6) Dutch klezmer group play "Holland terkisher"
Contents of
Issue 12.011, 18
May 2008
1) This issue of TMR (ed.).
2) Yiddish periodicals (ed.)
3) Kadya Molodowsky:
Clearing the Mist (Zelda Kahana-Newman)
4) Table of Contents of Khulyot, Volume 11 (ed.)
5) Periodicals Received: Gilgulim 1 (Paris); Davka 4 (
Contents of
Issue 12.012, 30
June 2008
1) This
issue of TMR (ed.).
2) A Century of Yiddish, Czernowitz 1908 to
Jerusalem 2008: An International Conference at the
3) Reading an American Yiddish medical
advertisement
4) An American Yiddish dental advertisement and the secularization of a Hebrew
text
5) Rina Yosifon [see TMR 12.004] reads her Yiddish translation
[see TMR 12.004] of the Lucky monologue in
Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
Contents of
Issue 12.013, 16
July 2008
1) This
issue of TMR (ed.).
2) Century of Yiddish Conference in
3) The advertisements in Yidish af yidish (see TMR 12.012) (Hershl
Hartman)
4) Images of Yiddish in the Newly Established State of
5) New Journal: Israel Studies in Language and Society.
6) Disappearing Languages.
Contents of
Issue 12.014, 25
July 2008
1) This issue of The Mendele Review
2) "The Jerusalem Conference: A Century Of Yiddish 1908-2008" (Yechiel Szeintuch)
3) A Note on Avrom Karpinovitsh
(ed.)
4) "Zikhroynes fun a farshnitener
teater heym" [Part One
– Yiddish Text] (Avrom Karpinovitsh)
5) "Memoirs of a Lost Theatre Home" [Part One – English Translation
by Shimen Yofe] [Shimon Joffe]
6) First Afro-American to Earn Ph.D. in Yiddish Studies (Jennifer Hambrick)
7) "Gerekhtikeyt" ('Justice') from Y.-Y. Shvarts' Epic Kentuki (Robert
Goldenberg)
8) Yiddish Versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Robert Goldenberg)
9) Periodicals Received: Yidishe heftn no. 127/8 [July/August 2008]. Issue theme:
10) Cover of songbook, Mir trogn a gezang [includes Gebirtig's
"Motele"] (Eleanor Mlotek)
11) "Motele" lyrics and score (Eleanor Mlotek)
12) "Motele" sung by Menakhem
Bernshteyn
13) Portrait and biographical sketch of Menakhem Bernshteyn [Menachem Bernstein],
Haifa-based folksinger and reciter.
Contents of
Issue 12.015, 12
August 2008
12 AUGUST 1952
1) This issue of The Mendele
Review
2) "The Jerusalem Conference: A Century of Yiddish 1908-2008"
3) The tishebov of Yiddish Literature
4) Yerushalayimer Almanakh
28, ed. Dov-Ber Kerler
a. Cover; b. Table of Contents
5) balebos and Solzhenitsyn
6) Zikhroynes fun a farshnitener
teater heym (Part Two
[Yiddish])
7) "Memories of a Lost Theater Home"
(Part Two –English translation).
8) Dovid Hofshteyn's
"In rusishe felder"
(Yiddish)
9) Dovid Hofshteyn's
"In rusishe felder"
(English translation)
10) "In rusishe felder"
sung by Emil Gorovets
Contents of Issue
12.016, 27
August 2008
Abraham Brumberg,
1926 - 2008
1)
This issue of The Mendele Review
2) "The Jerusalem Conference: A Century Of Yiddish 1908-2008"
3) In memory of Abe Brumberg (1926-2008)
4) Paul Robeson, Itsik Fefer
and Yiddish
5) "Zikhroynes fun a farshnitener
teater heym" [Part
Three – Yiddish Text] (Avrom Karpinovitsh)
6) "Memories of a Lost Theater Home" (Part Three – English
translation)
7) Yiddish Film Made in Israel; Hebrew Translation of a Bashevis Novel; Yung Yidish
Calendar
8) Lyrics and Score of "Oy dortn,
dortn" and "Shvartse
karshelekh"
9) "Oy dortn, dortn" and "Shvartse karshelekh" sung by Abe Brumberg
Contents of Issue
12.017, 28
September 2008
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àÇ âåèÎéàÈø! ***
1) This issue of The Mendele
Review
2) Letters
to the Editor from Leonard Fox and Meyer Wolf.
3) "The Jerusalem
Conference: A Century Of Yiddish 1908-2008"
4) "A mayse iber a mayse"
from Dos vintshfingerl (
bilingual edition edited by Shalom
Luria,
5) Portrait of Mendele
by H. Inger
6) Mendele's
fictive title page of (4) above.
7) Title page of Ayzik-Meyer
Dik's Judaized adaptation
of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vilna: Rom, 1887.
8) Bibliographic Note on Dik's adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
9) "Der kremer": Lyrics, Score
and Notes (ed., Eleanor Mlotek)
10) Sidor Belarsky, Leibele Jinich and Menakhem Bernstein each sing "Der
kremer".
Contents of Issue
12.018, 12
October 2008
Avraham Greenbaum, 1925 – 2008
1)
This issue of The Mendele Review
2) What a few colleagues and friends say about Avraham
3) Avraham summarizes his career
4) Avraham Greenbaum's Publications*
5) Excerpts from one of Avraham's publications
6) "The Jerusalem Conference: A Century of Yiddish 1908-2008"
Contents of Issue 12.019, 23 October 2008
1)
This issue of The Mendele Review (ed.)
2) "The Jerusalem Conference: A Century of Yiddish 1908-2008"
(Carrie Friedman-Cohen)
3) "Di mayse aleyn"
and "Zhid davay roshi" ['Jew, Give Money'] (Mendele Moykher-Sforim)
4) Portrait of Avrom Lyesin
[Avraham Valt-Lyesin]
5) Title page of vol.1 of Lyesin's three-volume Lider
un poemen (1938)
6) "Der kremer"
[Lider un poemen
vol.1, pp. 225-228] (Avrom Lyesin
)
7) Drawing of "Der kremer"
[opposite vol. 1, p. 224] (Marc Chagall)
8) On Chagall's drawing of "Der kremer" (ed.)
9) A Note on Chagall's Yiddish Book and Journal Illustrations (David Mazower)
Contents of Issue 12.020, 26 November 2008
1)
This issue of The Mendele Review (ed.)
2) Kafka's Friend Dora Diamant Pays for the Shtentsl Mendele Brochure
(ed. and Professor Kathi Diamant)
3) Dora Diamant and A.-N. Shtentsl
at a British Seaside Resort, Summer 1950 (photo)
4) Undzer Mendele
[
5) "A freylekhs" ["opgedrukt lekoved dem zeydn"] – A.-N.S. [Yiddish]
6) "A freylekhs" printed in Standard
Yiddish
7) ('Joyous Dance [or Tune'], translation of "A freylekhs"
(ed.)
8) A Reading of "A freylekhs"
(ed.)
9) "The Jerusalem Conference: A
Century of Yiddish 1908-2008" (Carrie Friedman-Cohen)
Contents of Issue
12.021, 21
December 2008
Khanike/Hanukkah
Issue
Leonard Prager z"l
Foreword by David Mazower
1) This issue of The Mendele Review (ed.)
2) Signed Marc Chagall Aquarelle (Zvi Mann and
David Mazower)
3) Accompanying Chagall note to Mendl Mann, original,
romanized and translated (Zvi
Mann; tr. –ed.)
4) Mann and Chagall in a
5) Four menoyres [menorot]
from the private collection of Zvi Mann (Zvi Mann and David Mazower)
6) "Mayn tatns menoyre" (A.- N. Shtentsl)
[Yiddish, transliteration, and translation (ed.)]
7) A Folkshul Certicate
from Philadelphia, 1938
8) A Folkshul Teaches About Hanukkah, Philadelphia,
1938
9) "The Jerusalem Conference: A Century of Yiddish 1908-2008" (Carrie
Friedman-Cohen)
10) "Borekh ate" [Khanike
song based on Avrom Reyzn
poem], Lyrics and Song (Robert Goldenberg)
11) Some comments on the Hanukkah theme
Contents of Issue
12.022, 2
December 2009
Leonard Prager, 1925 –
2008
Foreword by Noyekh Miller
1) This issue of The Mendele Review
2) Leonard Prager – Biography (Barbara Prager)
3) Leonard Prager – List of publications (David Mazower)
4) Leben iz kedayer (Leonard Prager, 2007)
5) Leonard Prager z"l (Noyekh Miller,
2008)
6) My friendship and collaboration with Leonard
(Itsik Goldenberg)
7) My Acquaintance with Leonard (Tsvi Mann)
8) The honor to have known Leonard (Dafna
Sheinwald)
9) The University of Haifa Library’s Blog Entry (Riki Greenberg)
10) Funeral and unveiling of the tombstone
(Dafna Sheinwald)
11) The Jerusalem Conference: A Century of Yiddish 1908-2008 (Carrie Friedman-Cohen)
Editor,
Leonard
Prager
Editorial
Associate, Robert Goldenberg
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