Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America

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Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America \ Alice Nakhimovsky & Roberta Newman This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931© 2014 by Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photo-copying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences–Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-inPublication Data Nakhimovsky, Alice S., author. Dear Mendl, dear Reyzl : Yiddish letter manuals from Russia and America / Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-253-01199-2 (cl : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-01203-6 (pb : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-01207-4 (eb) 1. Letter writing, Yiddish. 2. Yiddish letters—Translations into English. I. Newman, Roberta, 1958- author. II. Title. PJ5118.N35 2014 839’.16308—dc23 2013039248 1 2 3 4 5 19 18 17 16 15 14 ...