{"id":652,"date":"2017-11-22T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T10:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishmigrationtoscotland.is.ed.ac.uk\/?p=652"},"modified":"2017-11-28T15:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:48:44","slug":"30-november-530pm-mitchell-library-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishmigrationtoscotland.is.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/2017\/11\/22\/30-november-530pm-mitchell-library-glasgow\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Glasgow’s Jewish Book Week with us: 30 November, 5:30pm, Mitchell Library Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookMusic<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Abi gezunt<\/strong> (as long as you\u2019re healthy)
\nmusic Abe Ellstein, words Molly Picon<\/p>\n

Afn pripetchik<\/strong> (by the fireside)
\nmusic and words Mark Warshawsky<\/p>\n

Bay mir bistu sheyn<\/strong> (to me you\u2019re beautiful)
\nwords and music Sholem Secunda<\/p>\n

Chicken soup freylekhs<\/strong>
\nwords and music Stephanie Brickman<\/p>\n

Di blayene platn fun roms drukeray<\/strong> (the lead plates of Romm\u2019s Printing House) words Avrom Sutzkever, music Stephanie Brickman<\/p>\n

Di Fidlroyz<\/strong> (the Fiddle Rose)
\nwords Avrom Sutzkever, music Stephanie Brickman & Phil Alexander<\/p>\n

Luftloshn<\/strong> (Skywriting)
\nwords Ellen Galford, music Stephanie Brickman & Phil Alexander<\/p>\n

1937 Book Week<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Based on research conducted as part of the AHRC-funded Jewish Lives, Scottish Spaces<\/em> project, Hannah Holtschneider and Mia Spiro talk about some of the history behind the UK\u2019s first ever Jewish Book Week, and the remarkable role of Glasgow Jewish women in creating this landmark event.<\/p>\n

Mitchell Library Yiddish Book Collection<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Mitchell Library has a collection of over 400 Yiddish books, most of which had previously been located in the Gorbals Public Library in Glasgow. In recent years a small group of Yiddishists has created a usable database of its contents. Heather Valencia gives a brief introduction to the collection, touching on problems encountered in attempting to create this bibliography, the range of literature represented and the interesting insights it affords into the lives and reading habits of the Jewish immigrant population of the Gorbals in the first half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n

Poetry<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Jeffrey Robinson reads from his book Amenia: A Memoir<\/em>\u00a0(2002) \u2013 poetry and prose re-creations of a childhood idyll with grandparents in upstate New York, far away from but with precarious reverberations to Holocaust and war. He then discusses an extraordinary anthology of poems and visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to the 1970s: A Big Jewish Book<\/em>, ed. Jerome Rothenberg (1978).\u00a0\u2018Unlike previous anthologies of Jewish poetry, this collection reaches into areas that have been viewed as \u201csinister and dangerous\u201d, to explore a tradition rich in powers and contradictions.\u2019<\/p>\n

Scottish Jewish Archives Centre<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

SJAC Director Harvey Kaplan gives a brief introduction to the work of the archive and some of the uses to which its collections have been put. Also on display are books and exhibition materials created and published by the Archives Centre.<\/p>\n

Contributors<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Phil Alexander<\/strong> is Research Associate on the Jewish Lives, Scottish Spaces<\/em> project. His PhD focussed on klezmer and Yiddish music in today\u2019s Berlin, and he is currently researching Scottish cantors of the early 20th<\/sup> century. He is also a busy jazz and world musician, leading the klezmer band Moishe\u2019s Bagel and playing and recording with a large number of UK musicians.<\/p>\n

Stephanie Brickman<\/strong> started out singing folk music as a child progressing to singing in all sorts of bands as an adult. It was only in her thirties that an interest in singing jazz led to some training. Discovering Yiddish music brought many threads in her life together as singing in Yiddish makes it possible to sing folk, jazz, musical theatre and tango in the same gig. In 2005 she and Phil Alexander formed the Yiddish Song Project and played many gigs for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences all over the UK performing well known favourites and also new compositions in Yiddish.<\/p>\n

Hannah H<\/strong>oltschneider<\/strong> is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of German Protestants Remember the Holocaust <\/em>(2001), and History and Memory in the Museum <\/em>(2011), as well as numerous articles. As PI on Jewish Lives, Scottish Spaces<\/em> she is currently working on a monograph on early twentieth century migration history and the impact of continental rabbis on the relationship between the Chief Rabbi, the London Beth Din and the \u2018provinces\u2019.<\/p>\n

Harvey L. Kaplan<\/strong> graduated MA in History at the University of Glasgow and is director and co-founder (1987) of the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre. He has contributed numerous articles on Scottish Jewish history and genealogy to journals and magazines, and has lectured nationally and internationally. He contributed a chapter on Scotland to the Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy<\/em> (2004). His booklet The Gorbals Jewish Community in 1901<\/em> was published in 2006 by the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre. In 2013, Harvey was one of the 3-man team who produced Jewish Glasgow \u2013 An Illustrated History<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey C. Robinson<\/strong>\u2019s most recent work includes: Wordsworth Day by Day: Reading His Work into Poetry Now<\/em>\u00a0(2005), a paperback edition of The Walk: Notes on a Romantic Image<\/em>\u00a0(2006), Unfettering Poetry: The Fancy in British Romanticism<\/em>\u00a0(2006), Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Postromantic Poetry<\/em>\u00a0co-edited with Jerome Rothenberg (2009, winner American Book Award 2010), Untam’d Wing: Riffs on Romantic Poetry<\/em>\u00a0(poems) (2010) and Active Romanticism: Essays on the Continuum of Innovative Poetry from the Late-Eighteenth Century to the Present<\/em>, co-edited with Julie Carr (2015). He has completed a book on late-Wordsworth poetics seen through his manuscripts. Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado, he is currently Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow.<\/p>\n

Mia Spiro<\/strong> is Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, and Co-I of Jewish Lives, Scottish Spaces<\/em>. She is the author of Anti-Nazi Modernism: The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction<\/em> (Northwestern UP, 2013) and has published several articles on Jewish representation in literature and film in the period leading up to WWII and the Holocaust. She is currently working on a project, entitled Monsters and Migration: Golems, Vampires, and the Ghosts of War<\/em>, which examines how elements of the supernatural have been used by modern writers and artists to grapple with oppression, migration, and antisemitism in the first half of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

Heather Valencia<\/strong> is a retired lecturer in German (Stirling University). She has been researching and translating modern Yiddish literature since the 1980s, and teaches Yiddish in Edinburgh. Among other publications she has produced a book of literary texts for students of Yiddish, and her bilingual edition of the poetry of Avrom Sutzkever is due to appear in early December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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