Monument to Letter "Yo"

[Wendy M. W. Martelle]

Hello,
This is my first contribution to the list.  I just wanted to mention that
there is a book that was published in Moscow just last year, devoted
exclusively to this letter.  It's called "Dva veka russkoj bukvy jo:
istorija i slovar'", authors E.V. Pchelov and V.T. Chumakov.
Wendy Martelle



>From: Jules Levin <jflevin at UCRAC1.UCR.EDU>
>Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
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>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>Subject: Re: Monument to Letter "Yo"
>Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:56:31 -0800
>
>At 10:30 AM 11/15/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >Dear SEELANGers:
> >
> >It's not often that a Russian city puts up a monument to a letter in
> >the alphabet, but Ulyanovsk has done just that.  See
> >
> >http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/10/29/003.html
> >
>This item reminds me of a 16-line poem published in Soglasie, a local (Los
>Angeles) 1st wave emigre publication in the 50's, that I discovered as a
>student (the editor was Yuriy Kanakov--former White artillery officer,
>Turkic languages specialist (trained at a pre-revolutionary officer
>school),  and curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the LA Co. Museum
>(where I met him as a HS junior scientist...).
>The poem was a tribute to the letter jat'--full of 1st wave Weltschmerz and
>nostalgia--not to mention irony.
>I copied it out by hand, and have been searching my files for it ever
>since.  When I find it--I'm sure I have it somewhere--I'll send it to
>SEELANGS.
>Jules Levin
>
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