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Leonard Prager, who wrote "Shakespeare in Yiddish" (Shakespeare Quarterly, 1968, vol.19, no.2, pp.149-163) will probably answer better, but meanwhile there are at least two translations of Hamlet: by Israel Schwartz (New York: Forverts, 1918) and by Itshe Goldberg (Minsk: Melukhe-farlag fun Vaysrusland, 1934).

About performance see paper by Iska Alter "When the Audience Called 'Author! Author!': Shakespeare on New York's Yiddish Stage" (Theatre History Studies, 1990, vol.10, pp.141-162).

Iosif Vaisman

Ikh hob far zikh a shas tkhine, aroisgegebn durkh der Hebrew Publishing Company in yor 1926. es iz in ir gedrukt an azkore far izidor un aida shtraus, di bakante filantropn, vos zenen dertrunken gevorn ven di shif titank iz untergegangen.

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Moishe Kijak

Mendele has grown beyond any reasonable expectations and the volume of contributions has kept pace. So has the number of communications between subscribers and the shames, some of these dealing with submitted articles, others with subscription questions.

Opgeredt, Mendele is the only worthwhile thing on the internet and your shames takes his responsibilities seriously. Nevertheless books need reading, gardens need tending, eyniklekh need zeydes. Something has to change.

Beginning at once, the shames will _not_ any longer enter into negotiations with contributors and will _not_ answer their notes as to why their pieces have not appeared in Mendele. Here are some of the reasons why they may have been rejected.

1. The post largely duplicates what has already been run. This happens most often in answer to a query. All such posts will however be forwarded to the questioner.

2. The post deals is not primarily about Yiddish but instead a political or religious gloss that takes us beyond our common interests.

3. The post requires more editing than the shames deems appropriate. This includes correcting typos, changing BLOCK LETTERS to a more civilized way of writing, eccentric layouts, shameless self-promotion, ad hominem attacks, lengthy quotes, yoo-hoo messages and the like.

4. The post is irredeemably trivial. This does _not_ refer to questions raised by subscribers who are unsure of their Yiddish. These questions will be treated respectfully and where appropriate forwarded to a knowledgable member of our khevruse to be answered.

5. The post is either not signed (full name please) or does not carry a usable Subject: line.

I hope that Mendele's friends and readers will understand the need for this new arrangement. Who knows: it may even improve things.

Noyekh Miller