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der Yugntruf shraybkrayz treft zikh donershtik dem 10tn oktober, 6:00, n"m in undzer byuro (200 West 72 St. #40). kumt leynt fir ayers a lid, tsi an esey, tsi a dertseylung, oder hert zikh nor tsu tsu vi andere leynen.

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Bill Clinton: amerikes stolts oder shand?

der shmueskrayz, ongefirt fun undzer mitglid Shakhne-Godl Zunenshprots, vet araumredn ot di kontroversyele teyme.

zuntik, dem 20stn oktober, 2:00 n"m in Beit Ephraim, 535 West 112 Street, tsvishn Amsterdam and Broadway, in Manhattan. kibed vet servirt vern. arayngang: mitglider $2, nisht-mitglid $3, ale studentn $1. entfert, zayt moykhl, bizn 19tn oktober: Brukhe 212-280-1168

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der Sholem Aleykhem Kultur-Tstenter (Bronx, New York) farbeyt aykh:

Brokhe Kipnis, gekumen aszh fun Kiev, vet dertseyln zikhroynes vegn tatn, dem groysn Yididshn shrayber Itsik Kipnis tsu zayn 100stn geboyren-tog.

zuntik, dem 27stn oktober 1:30 n"m. 3301 Bainbridge Ave., Bronx.

arayngang...umzist.

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Koyshbolistn! mir organizirn nokhalts koyshbol shpiln af Yidish...shpilt zshe mit! klingt Ruvn Millman 718-237-0961 oder ruvn@aol.com

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"Too jewish!"...fun hinter di kulisn

a pikantn shmuses vegn Avi Hoffmans nor vos oysgeshpilter review. Benyumin Shaechter, pianist, yidishist, kompozitor, muzik-direktor, un Hoffmans shutef in spektakl vet dertseyln anekdotn - mit muzikalisher bagleytung - vegn di glitshn in di intriges. vos hobn zikh opgeshpilt say af der bine. say hinter di kulisn.

zuntik, dem 10tn november, 2:00 n"m bay Shekhtern: 321 vest 24ste gas, #6B, glekl 327. 212-989-0212...ir muzt rezervirn!... klingt Brukhe, 212-280-1168 far dem 7tn november.

arayngang: mitglid $4, nisht-mitglid $7, studentn $3.



Yugntruf's Yiddish Writers' Circle will meet Thursday October 10, 6:00 pm in our office (200 West 72 St. #40). Come and read your latest poem or short story, or just come and listen.

*** Bill Clinton: America's Fame or Shame?

The Yugntruf Discussion Circle, led by our member Shakhne-Godl Zunenshprots, will debate this controversial subject on

Sunday, October 20, 2:00 pm

at Beit Ephraim, 535 West 112 Street, between Amsterdam and Broadway, in Manhattan. (Take the #1/#9 train or the M4/M104 bus to 110 Street and Broadway.) Refreshments will be served. Admission: Yugntruf members $2, non-members $3, all students $1. RSVP by October 19: Brukhe Lang (212) 280-1168.

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The Sholem Aleichem Cultural Center in the Bronx invites you to a special meeting:

Brokhe Kipnis is coming all the way from Kiev to talk about her father, the Yiddish writer Itsik Kipnis, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Sunday, October 27, 1:30 pm, 3301 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx. (Take the #4 train to Mosholu Pkwy. or the D train to 205 St., and walk to Bainbridge Ave. and 206 St.) Admission : free for students/Yugntruf members.

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"Too Jewish!" -- The Inside Story a behind-the-scenes look at Avi Hoffman's recent Jewish-Yiddish musical revue.

Binyumen "Ben" Schaechter, the noted composer, musical director, pianist and Yiddishist, was the "other" mentsh on stage for this "one-mentsh" musical, and he will be relating anecdotes--with musical demonstrations thrown in--about the faux pas and the intrigue that occurred both offand on-stage. Sunday, November 10, 2:00 pm at Schaechter's apartment, 321 West 24 St., #6B, buzzer #327, between 8th and 9th Aves., in Manhattan (212 989-0212). (Trains: E & C to 23rd/8th; #1 to 23rd/7th; Buses: M10, M11 , M23.) Refreshments will be served Admission: Yugntruf members $4; non-members $7; all students $3. There is limited space. You must RSVP by Thursday evening, November 7: Brukhe Lang (212) 280-1168.

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Yugntrufistn are still playing basketball in Yiddish. Why not join them? Details: Ruvn Millman (718) 237-0961.^Z

Ruvn Millman

I am not referring here to the general type of virus, the simple, microscopic organism that is smaller than a bacterium, capable of invading the human body, and causing discomfort and disease. For this type of virus Yiddish accepted the medical term virus, but pronounces it _vIrus_, with a khirik yud.

My question concerns the specific type of virus that invades a computer.

For the term _computer_ itself, I do not believe we need in Yiddish another word. It is by now an internationalism, and _compyuter_ may as well be incorporated in Yiddish.

But for the term virus in the restricted sense when it enters a computer, I propose the short and sharp Hebrew-Yiddish word _shed_ [ghost].

If such a shed should, khas vekholile, make its quarters in your "makheray'ke" -- an endearing diminutive term for your computer that in many ways can do so many remarkable things --, it is capable of damaging or completely destroying your hardware, software, and built-in memory, and erase all your stored documents. It will have itself a jolly fine time of a panDEMONium, an uproarious _sheydim tants_ [ghosts' dance].

I deeply regret that, in my limited wisdom, all I can do is offer an appropriate term in Yiddish for a computer virus, but, unfortunately, not an antidote for it.

Zellig Bach Lakehurst, NY

Shalom Goldberg asked [6.074] about Yiddish programs and libraries.

According to the Less Commonly Taught Languages Project at the U. of Minnesota National Language Resource Center, Yiddish is taught in 19 institutions in North America:

Baltimore Hebrew U, Brandeis, Columbia, Duke, Emory, George Washington U, Harvard, Hebrew Union College, JTSA, Los Angeles Valley College, Rutgers, Temple U, Touro College, UCLA, U of Chicago, U of Maryland at College Park, U of Pennsylvania, U of Toronto, and U of Texas at Austin. Details, including some course description (courtesy of Mendele subscribers Janet Hadda, Ellen Kellman, and others) are available in Shtetl (http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/school.html). Some course descriptions were submitted a year or two ago and might be not current. Updates would be greatly appreciated.

Libraries with significant Yiddish collections and on-line catalogs include (in an approximate order of the collection size): Library of Congress, Harvard, JTSA, McGill University, Hebrew University, University of Texas at Austin, Brandeis University, University of Toronto, University of California Libraries, Yale University, New York Public Library, University of Haifa, Oxford University. Links to these catalogs are provided from the Shtetl's library http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/catalogs.html

Iosif Vaisman

I have been trying to find out what became of the writer A. Pomerants after the mid-1930s. He was born in Grodne in 1901, came to the U.S. in 1921 (N.Y.), got a teaching certificate for the Arbeter-Ring. He was very involved in left-wing literary/journalist scene of 1920s: member and secretary of yunger arbeter shrayber farayn, assistant to Moishe Olgin at journal _Hamer_ and on editorial board of the _Frayhayt_. Avade, member of the Communist Party. In 1932 he returned to the Soviet Union. In 1935, published a book _Proletpen_ (Kiev). It seems he also used pseudonyms in his publications, i.e. Yehoyshe Grodner)

Do any Mendelniks know more?

A sheynem dank aykh,

Kathleen Rose

Mendelyaner may be interested to know that in the Modern Language Association's most recent (Fall, 1995) census of credit-bearing foreign language enrollments in 2,772 two- and four-year institutions of higher education, Yiddish joined many Asian, American Indian, and other nonEuropean less commonly taught languages (e.g., Persian, Hausa, Tagalog; also American Sign Language) in showing a marked increase over the enrollments recorded in 1990. 15 students were enrolled in Yiddish language classes (or languages in which reading and discussion were conducted primarily in Yiddish) in 2-year institutions, 614 in such classes in four year institutions, 27 in graduate courses (1995). In 1990, there were 3 two-year college enrollments reported and 344 four-year and graduate (combined) enrollments.

David Goldberg