Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 5.122 September 27, 1995 1) Women & Yiddish Conference (Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 16:41:31 -0400 From: reyzl@aol.com Subject: Women & Yiddish Conference The following is going to be a wonderful conference. We just found out that Ruth Whitman, who is listed below, will not be able to come. We are trying to find a replacement. When and if that happens, I will put a notice on here. Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky Member of the conference organizing committee DI FROYEN: WOMEN AND YIDDISH TRIBUTE TO THE PAST DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE The conference will bring together women activists, academics, and artists committed to mame-loshn and to documenting women's past and present contributions to Yiddish culture. It will strengthen women of different generations and communities in their efforts to ensure women's participation in preserving a living and vibrant contemporary yidishkayt. October 28, 1995--8 p.m. at Hunter College Auditorium, 695 Park Avenue, NYC (enter on East 69th St.) and October 29, 1995 - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jewish Theological Seminary, 3080 Broadway (at W.122 St.), NYC Saturday Evening, October 28, 1995, Hunter College Auditorium KEYNOTES: Irena Klepfisz - A yid, ober froy/A Jew, but a Woman: Why is This Conference Different? Frieda Forman - Shifsheverster/Sister-voyagers: The Feminist Passage to Yiddish Culture PERFORMANCE: Adrienne Cooper Joyce Rosenzweig Suzanne Toren in "Zeyre eygene verter/Their Own Words: Yiddish Women's Voices" A Yiddish/English performance of women's poetry, stories and songs about their lives, passions, and dreams Conceived and written by Irena Klepfisz, Song research and musical arrangements by Adrienne Cooper and Joyce Rosenzweig (Group Sales prices are available for the Saturday night event.) Sunday October 29, 1995 - Registration 9 a.m. Session I - 10 :00 - 11:15 a.m. PANELS A. Women and Traditional Yidishkayt Chair: Chava Lapin-Reich Dorothy Bilik - Women Role Models in The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln, scholarship or Folk Practice: Contrasting Chava Weissler - Views of Women as Religious Subjects in the Tkhines of Leah Horowitz and Sara Bas Toyvim Shifra Epstein - Joseph Is Still Alive: Tradition, Modernity, and Feminism in a Hasidic Women's Piremshpil B. Women and Yiddish Literature: Some Historical Perspectives Chair:Judith Baskin Ellie Kellman - Women as Readers of Sacred and Secular Literature: An Historical Overview Naomi Seidman - The Sexual Politics of the Yiddish Language Wars Sheva Zucker - The Fathers on the Mothers and Daughters: Women in the Works of the Klasiker/ Classical Writers C. Women and Translation Chair: Annette Bialik Harchik Ruth Whitman - The Woman Translator: Some Personal Reflections Kathryn Hellerstein - Yiddish Translation: Feminist Concerns Goldie Morgenthaler - Translating into Yiddish from the French: Les Belles Soeurs Judith Friedlander - Yiddish Literature in French Translation: The Pioneering Role of Rachel Ertel WORKSHOPS D. Ellen Rifkin - The Non-Yiddish Speaker and Di goldene keyt: How Do I Forge a Link in the Golden Chain? E. Amy Beth - Di lezbiankes un dos folk: Identity Politics and the Role of Lesbians in the Renewal of Secular Yiddish Culture F. Naomi Kadar and Rukhl Schaechter-Ejdelman - Organizing a folkshule G. Sarah Blacher Cohen - The Ladies' Locker Room: Living and Writing The Jewish American Play READING/COMMENTARY/PERFORMANCE H. Reading/Commentary A bilingual reading of her poetry by Troim Handler A bilingual reading of her fiction by Leah Robinson I. Reading/Commentary A bilingual reading of her fiction by Blume Lempel J. Performance Ikh bin froy/I Am Woman, Helen Mintz Session II 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. PANELS A. Lebensveq/Shaping a Woman's Life: In the Home and On the Page Chair: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblet Paula Hyman - Memoirs and Memories: East European Women Recount Their Lives Eve Jochnowitz - Health, Revolution, and a Yidishn tam: Reading Yiddish Vegetarian Cookbooks as Women's Literature Shulamis Berger - The Making of the American Baleboste/Housewife, B. Foremothers: Rebels and Intellectuals Chair: Ellen Garvey Rochelle Ruthchild -Esther Frumkin:Jewish Woman Radical in Early Soviet Russia Rozka Luksamberg Aleksandrowicz - YAF and Women in the Bund Dina Abramowicz - Forsherin: Women scholars at YIVO C. Feminism in the Classroom Chair:Beverly Post Ellie Kellman - Feminist Issues in Teaching Yiddish Anita Norich - Women in the Yiddish Literary Canon and Classroom Evelyn Torton Beck - A froy, a vayb-- A Woman by Any Other Name:Feminist Perspectives on the Teaching of Yiddish Literature in Translation WORKSHOPS D. Frieda Forman and Ethel Raicus - Found Treasures: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers: A Bilingual Exploration of Themes and Writers E. Clare Kinberg and Ellen Rifkin - Hemshekh and Bridges: Secular Jewish Feminists Creating Cultural Institutions F. Paula Teitelbaum - Yiddish Songs for Girls: Playsongs, Ballads and Lullabies G. Goldie Morgenthaler - Translating Women Writers: Problems and Solutions READING/COMMENTARY/PERFORMANCE H. Bine Weinreich - Reading/Commentary Images of Women and Girls in Yiddish Folktales: From the Rebellious to the Goody-Two-shoes I. Eve Sicular - Commentary/Slide Show Good Girls, Bad Girls, Crossdressing and Misogyny in Yiddish Film J. Performance The Poetry and Songs of Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman by Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman with Shulamis Dion Lunch 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. Kosher Vegetarian Lunch Provided Session III - 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. PANELS A. Feminist Themes in Women's Writing Chair: Deborah Dash Moore Ethel Raicus - Women's Voices in the Stories of Rokhl Brokhes Norma Fain Pratt - Fradel Shtock's Fiction: Storytelling and Memory Ruth Whitman - Celia Dropkin and Anna Margolin - Feminist Responses to Patriarchy: The Poets B. Feminism, Yidishkayt and Jewish Identity Chair: Ester Moskowitz Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum - Jewish Feminism, Secularism and Religious Identity Irena Klepfisz - Secular yidishkayt and Feminist Secular Identity Clare Kinberg - Brikn tsu der tsukunft/ Bridges to the Future:Publishing Yiddish for Feminist Activists C. Women and Yiddish Theater Chair: Nahama Sandrow Edna Nahshon - What Was and What Was Not: Women & Radical Yiddish Theater Mina Bern - One Woman's Life in the Yiddish Theater: Some Reminiscences Suzanne Toren - Mame-loshn Sets the Stage: Bilingual Acting WORKSHOPS D. Sara Silberstein Swartz - Lern (leyen) krayzn: Forming a Women's Study Group for Yiddish Speakers and Beginners E. Shulamis Dion - Women's Songs of Protest, Struggle, and Resistance F. Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky - Mames un mame-loshun: Mothers Speaking Yiddish to Their Children with Adina Cimet-Singer, Gitl Schaechter- Viswanath and Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky READING/COMMENTARY G. A bilingual reading of her fiction by Chave Rosenfarb H. Di goldene keyt/The Golden Chain: Poets on Poets Marcia Falk on the poetry of Malke Heifetz Tussman Katherine Hellerstein on the poetry of Kadia Molodowsky Closing Plenary 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. TSUKUNFT/THE FUTURE: VISIONS AND REALITIES Chair: Purlaine Lieberman Helen Mintz - Mir zaynen do!/We Are Here!:Yiddish Women's Legacy, Yiddish Future Paula Teitelbaum - Fun dor tsu dor/From Generation to eneration Musical closing with Paula Teitelbaum This program has been made possible in part by grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the Jacob T. Zukerman Fund of The Workmen's Circle, and Albert E. Marks Charitable Trust; and by the many hours of work of the Jewish Women's Resource Center Conference Committee: Naomi Kadar, Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky, Alisa Kieffer, Irena Klepfisz, Purlaine Lieberman, Ester Moskowitz, Beverly Post, Edith Samuels, Judith Seed, Florence Solomon, and Henny Wenkart. A special thank you to Tsirl Waletzky for the cover papercut. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ National Council of Jewish Women New York Section Jewish Women's Resource Center (212) 535-5900 DI FROYEN: WOMEN AND YIDDISH TRIBUTE TO THE PAST, DIRECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE Saturday Evening October 28, 1995, 8 p.m. Hunter College Auditorium 695 Park Avenue, NYC (enter on 69th St.) Sunday, October 29, 1995 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jewish Theological Seminary 3080 Broadway (at 122nd St.), NYC Sponsored by Jewish Women's Resource Center National Council of Jewish Women New York Section with Hunter College CUNY Hillel Foundation and Women's Studies Program ENROLLMENT You will be able to attend one program in each of the three sessions. Please indicate your first and second choice (by letter) for each session: Choice 1 Choice 2 Session I........... _______ _______ Session II............ _______ _______ Session III.......... _______ _______ Conference space is limited. Return your registration as soon as possible, but no later than October 8, 1995. Name____________________________________ Address__________________________________ _________________________________________ Home Phone_______________________________ Business Phone____________________________ FEES ___ $20 - Saturday only ___ $45 - Sunday only ___ $60 - Both days ___ $100 Sponsor The National Council of Jewish Women New York Section is a 3,500 member community service organization founded in 1894 to improve the quality of life for people of all ages, races, and religious backgrounds. Priority is placed on women's issues, aging, children and youth, constitutional rights, Israel, and Jewish life. Membership provides affiliation with the JWRC and inclusion on the mailing list for all events. ___ Yes, I want to become a member of NCJW NY Section. Enclosed please find an additional $36 for my first year's dues. Please make checks payable to NCJW NY Section and send to: NCJW NY Section For further information contact: 9 East 69th Street Tel.: 212/535-5900 New York, NY 10021 Fax: 212/535-5909 ATTN: Emily Milner, JWRC Coordinator NOTE: The Saturday night event is available for $15 a ticket to groups of fifteen people. ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol. 5.122