MENDELE Yiddish Language and Literature Personal Notices and Announcements
May 20, 2009 To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 21:17:35 +0200 From: Viola Höll" <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Book ANN: Bundistinnen. Women in the Bund Recently a book about women in the Bund (1897-1939) has been published at Universitätsverlag Potsdam. It is written in German (quotations in Yiddish) and has a detailed English summary. The book is published in a printed version (10?) or in a free fulltext version. To download it just follow the link: http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/2788/ If you have interest in the printed version you can order it here http://info.ub.uni-potsdam.de/cgi-bin/publika/view.pl?id=472 or in any (online) bookstore. Denz, Rebekka: Bundistinnen : Frauen im Allgemeinen Jüdischen Arbeiterbund ("Bund") dargestellt anhand der jiddischen Biographiensammlung "Doires Bundistn" (=Pri ha-Pardes 5, hg. von Nathanael Riemer im Auftrag der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. in Verbindung mit dem Zentrum für Jüdische Studien der Universität Potsdam), Universitätsverlag Potsdam, Potsdam 2009, 169 S. ISSN 1863-7442 ISBN 978-3-940793-58-4 The Publisher's Descripton In this publication the history of women active in the General Jewish Workers Bund (Bund) is outlined from its foundation 1897 up to 1939. The taken main sources are the women biographies of "Doires Bundistn", a collection of biographies written in Yiddish by members of the Bund. Through the prism of these texts the work and importance of women in this socialist, Yiddishistic movement in Eastern and Middle Europe are presented. Furthermore a first attempt is made to read this part of Bundist party history concerning its principles of (re-)construction. The publication consists of two parts which are based on the Bundist self-concept and the geographical dislocation of its main field: Women in the "Russian Bund" (1897-1918) and women in the "Polish Bund" (1918-1939). The impact of the different historical contexts on lifestyle aspects, activities in the movement or rather in the party, the complex of themes concerning the way of living of female Bundists are pointed out in three comparative chapters. In other chapters it is dealt with themes specific for the different periods. The instability of the living conditions for the members of the illegal "Russian Bund" or the larger stability in the time of the "Polish Bund" as a legal party generates important, up to now neglected factors while examining the paradigms of female life styles. :____________________________________________________________________ Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: victor.bers at yale.edu <http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele> (in the subject line write Mendele Personal) Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e. inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: mendele at mailman.yale.edu <http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele> IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request thatcontributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation,grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters, which are explained in summary form at http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 <http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275> . All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu <http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele> Mendele on the web: http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/index.htm <http://shakti.trincoll.edu/%7Emendele/index.htm> To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
