Fwd: Looking for translators

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear SEELANGers:

I post this as a service to those interested. If you are interested
in translation, please contact the individual below.  I know nothing
about the project personally.

- Ben Rifkin



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>Subject: Russian and Yiddish translators for Kremenets records
>From: Sheree Roth <ssroth at pacbell.net>
>Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:11:16 -0800
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>  The Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP is currently entertaining the thought of
>hiring translators in order to translate the 10,000 pages of microfilmed
>records that we have been able to acquire with the help of the FHL. The
>films contain about 15,000 records on about 10,000 pages. Half the pages
>are in Russian handwriting. The other half is a mirror image in
>handwritten Yiddish and Hebrew, but sometimes with different or
>additional information. The films cover Jewish birth, marriage, divorce,
>and death records for the period 1870 to 1907. Through an agreement with
>the Mormons we have obtained cd-roms containing tif file images of all
>the vital records in this period. We will make these computerized images
>available to our translators. That will enable the translator to magnify
>the image.
>  If anyone out there has experience translating Russian or Yiddish, or
>experience with translators you have worked with and would like to know
>more about this project please contact me privately. We are ideally
>looking for someone who is able to download the image files or use a
>cd-rom (which we can send). If anyone is interested in volunteering to
>attempt a few pages we would be especially happy to work with you too.
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>Thanks,
>Sheree Roth
>Co-chair Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP
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>Allan S. Cohen
>Director, Testing & Evaluation Services
>1025 W. Johnson, #373          Phone:  (608)  262-0419
>Madison, WI   53706                    FAX:  (608) 263-4291


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Benjamin Rifkin

Professor of Slavic Languages, Slavic Dept., UW-Madison
1432 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI  53706 USA
voice: 608/262-1623; fax: 608/265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic/rifkin/

Director of the Russian School
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT  05753
voice:  802/443-5533; fax: 802/443-5394
http://www.middlebury.edu/~ls/Russian/

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