From eric.laursen at M.CC.UTAH.EDU  Fri Mar  1 00:34:35 2002
From: eric.laursen at M.CC.UTAH.EDU (Eric Laursen)
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:34:35 -0700
Subject: Soviet Medicine
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I have a student who would like to do an honors thesis on Soviet
Medicine.  Can anyone recommend some readings?

                                        Eric Laursen
                                        eric.laursen at m.cc.utah.edu

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From charlesprice_50 at YAHOO.COM  Fri Mar  1 21:57:59 2002
From: charlesprice_50 at YAHOO.COM (=?iso-8859-1?q?Charles=20Price?=)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:57:59 +0000
Subject: Soviet Medicine
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Cancer Ward
A Solzhenitsyn

 --- Eric Laursen <eric.laursen at M.CC.UTAH.EDU> wrote:
> I have a student who would like to do an honors
> thesis on Soviet
> Medicine.  Can anyone recommend some readings?
>
>                                         Eric Laursen
>
> eric.laursen at m.cc.utah.edu
>
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From lemelinc at DICKINSON.EDU  Fri Mar  1 23:35:44 2002
From: lemelinc at DICKINSON.EDU (lemelinc)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:35:44 -0500
Subject: Electronic Dictionary Recommendation
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Hello everybody,

Does anyone have a recommendation regarding electronic dictionaries
(Russian-English / English-Russian)?  I have a student who asked which I
thought was best, and I told her I'd seek out more educated opinions.

Please reply off-list.

Thanks,

Christopher W. Lemelin

==========================================
Christopher W. Lemelin, Instructor
Department of Russian
Dickinson College
Post Office Box 1773
Carlisle, Pennsylvania   17013
717-245-1834

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From sergeis at SHAW.CA  Sat Mar  2 00:49:47 2002
From: sergeis at SHAW.CA (sergei)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:49:47 -0800
Subject: Electronic Dictionary Recommendation
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Dctionaries

http://www.rustran.com/
http://area51.berkeley.edu/~dima/stuff/rus/
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> Hello everybody,
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation regarding electronic dictionaries
> (Russian-English / English-Russian)?  I have a student who asked which I
> thought was best, and I told her I'd seek out more educated opinions.
>
> Please reply off-list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christopher W. Lemelin
>
> ==========================================
> Christopher W. Lemelin, Instructor
> Department of Russian
> Dickinson College
> Post Office Box 1773
> Carlisle, Pennsylvania   17013
> 717-245-1834
>
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From alexush at PAONLINE.COM  Sat Mar  2 00:45:24 2002
From: alexush at PAONLINE.COM (Alex Ushakov)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 19:45:24 -0500
Subject: Electronic Dictionary Recommendation
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Mr. Lemelin:
There are several very good electronic dictionaries - the best one being, in
my opinion, Multilex 2.0 combining the 3 vol. Apresyan's ER dictionary, as
well as legal, economic, construction, technical and printing dictionaries.
There are also Context 4 with more than 30 dictionaries available in the US
through http://www.smartlinkcorp.com/ (expensive), Lingvo 7 (www.lingvo.com)
and more.

There are also many dictionaries on-line. The best of them is:

http://www.multitran.ru/

Alex Ushakov, technical translator
Russian/Ukrainian
Carlisle, PA
717-691-3662

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From ggerhart at ATTBI.COM  Sat Mar  2 03:42:26 2002
From: ggerhart at ATTBI.COM (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 19:42:26 -0800
Subject: Den' zashchitnika
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Since I have not seen it elsewhere, I relay that there is a new day off in
Russia: (The letter is from a female, in case it matters.)

 Segodnya vyhodnoy, vmesto subboty, 23 fevralya,
no universitet rabotaet. 23 fevralya - den' zashitnika otechestva - teper'
vyhodnoy, s etogo goda. Ran'she eto byl prazdnik, no ne vyhodnoy, v otlichie
ot 8 marta, zhenskogo dnya. Vse muzhchiny raduyutsya - nakonets-to nas
uravnyali v pravah s zhenshinami.

So the Russian boys get theirs. (As if...!)

Genevra Gerhart

http://home.attbi.com/~ggerhart
New email address: ggerhart at attbi.com
206-329-0053

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From jack.kollmann at STANFORD.EDU  Sat Mar  2 05:31:36 2002
From: jack.kollmann at STANFORD.EDU (Jack Kollmann)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:31:36 -0800
Subject: Soviet Medicine
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20020228173309.00a55030@pop.utah.edu>
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Works by Mark Field come to mind:  "Soviet Socialized Medicine:  An
Introduction," 1967; "Doctor and Patient in Soviet Russia," 1957; ed.,
"Success and Crisis in National Health Systems:  A Comparative Approach,"
1989; ed., with Judyth Twigg, "Russia's Torn Safety Nets:  Health and
Social Welfare During the Transition," 2000.  I don't know the field (no
pun intended), but I happen to have come across Mark's work.

Jack Kollmann
Stanford University


At 05:34 PM 2/28/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I have a student who would like to do an honors thesis on Soviet
>Medicine.  Can anyone recommend some readings?
>
>                                        Eric Laursen
>                                        eric.laursen at m.cc.utah.edu
>
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From peitlova at TISCALINET.IT  Sat Mar  2 09:27:09 2002
From: peitlova at TISCALINET.IT (Edil Legno)
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:27:09 +0100
Subject: Budem pisat' po-novomu.
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Na dnjax  zaverscilos' obsuzsdenie Svoda pravil  russkoj orfografiji i punktuaciji.V konce marta dokument predstavjat na rassmotrenje soveta po russkomu jazyku pri Pravitel'stve RF.
Svetlana Kuz'mina,chlen Orfograficheskoj komissii,odin iz avtorov novovvedenij ,skazala - novyj svod nuzen v pervuju ochered' prepodavateljam i uchaschimsja,a takze vsem,kto rabotajet  s pechat'ju.
-"polchasa" - budet pisat'sja cherez defis - "pol-chasa" (kak "pol-limona" ili "pol-apel'sina").
Slovo "vetrenyj"  mozsno pisat' s dvumja -n-.
Perenosit' otnyne mozsno kak ugodno.

Katarìna Peitlovà,Ph.Dr.

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From a9606646 at UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT  Sat Mar  2 13:25:12 2002
From: a9606646 at UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT (Alexander Sitzmann)
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 14:25:12 +0100
Subject: Volga
Message-ID: <SAT.2.MAR.2002.142512.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I received a question from Mr. Charles Mills which made me think about my
first explanation of the etymology of russ. Volga - and as it happens often,
I found a little (but nevertheless important) mistake in my version,
therefore I decided to post the whole once again:

Dear Mr. Mills,

you're right when comparing slavonic "v" with for example english "in" (or
greek "en" etc.) - but here we are dealing with another context (because
we're talking about il-, not in-, and btw. it is always difficult to deal
with prepositions, pronouns etc.).
Of course I have to admit that I didn't take into account Polish and Czech
(Wilga, Vlha), i.e. the liquidagroup must have been [soft jer + l], which is
no problem for Russian, but in fact I'll have to revise my construction,
because we're dealing with an svarabhakti-i and not as I thought a
vocalization of v. This sounds quite complex, but I'll try to explain it
with an example (btw. there is another mistake I made - valga is of course
not "Vollstufe" but "abgetönte Vollstufe"):

Take for example the roots welk-/walk-/wlk (§ is back jer, & is front jer,
nasal vowels are marked with capital N, long vowels with _, palatals with
*):
protoslav. welkanti > old church slav. vl_ekoNt§ 'they pull' = "Vollstufe"
(without trying to explain the back jer, it seems impossible to me)
protoslav. w_al*c_it_ej > old church slavonic vla*citi 'to pull' =
"abgetönte Vollstufe" or
protoslav. walku > ocs. vlak§ 'something that pulls, e.g. bulg. train' =
"abgetönte Vollstufe"
and now the interesting one:
before protoslav. wlku > protoslav. wilku (note the svarabhakti-vowel i) >
ocs. vl&k§ (including ocs. metathesis &l > l&) 'participle: one who has
pulled' = "Schwundstufe".

My mistake was, that I thought the bilabial w would develop to u before
syllabic l (*wlC > **ulC), but in fact we have wlC > wilC.
With theform wilg_a it is possible to explain all slavonic forms. Therefore:

russ. Volga < v§lga < v&lga < wilga < wlga, but still 'the wet one'.

Sincerely,
Alexander Sitzmann


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From: Charles Mills <cmills at knox.edu>
To: <a9606646 at UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: Volga


> Dear Herr Sitzmann,
>
> I don't know much about etymology, but isn't Slavic {v} (as in the Russian
> preposition {v}) supposed to be related to English (etc.) {in}?  I thought
it
> was supposed to have arisen from {in} which in Slavic developed a
prothetic
> /v/ and later reanalysed (and dropped) /n/.  (e.g., {vun ego} --> {vu
nego}).
> I thought that was the standard view.  In which case prothetic /v/ WOULD
> sometimes develope before a front vowel and the Lithuanian etymology could
> still be plausible.  (Not that I support or favor it.)
>
> Sincerely,
> Charles Mills, Knox College
>
> Alexander Sitzmann wrote:
>
> > Compare e.g. bulg. vlaga with Volga - it seams clear to me that we have
two
> > different degrees of Ablaut, i.e. (§ is back jer)
> >
> > bulg. vlaga < protoslav. valga (first a short, i.e. "Vollstufe", second
a
> > long)
> > russ. volga < v§lga < vulga < ulga < protoslav. vlga (i.e.
"Schwundstufe")
> > This "Schwundstufe" (sorry for the German termins) causes the
vocalization
> > of v > u, thereafter you have the v-prothesis (like e.g. in _udra >
vydra)
> > before u and then u > § > o.
> >
> > That means, Volga ist "the wet one".
> >
> > The baltic etymology proposed by Jues Levin is not plausible, because
the
> > change in > v is another one than il > v, and there's no prothesis of v
> > before i.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Alexander Sitzmann
>
>

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From nfriedbe at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA  Sat Mar  2 15:41:36 2002
From: nfriedbe at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA (Nila Friedberg)
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:41:36 -0500
Subject: Gay speech
In-Reply-To: <006c01c1c1ed$ea1f1500$b5e88283@unet.univie.ac.at>
Message-ID: <SAT.2.MAR.2002.104136.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,
Professors Ron Smith and Henry Rogers of the University of Toronto are
conducting research on gay speech. I am forwarding their question to the
list.

What features do speakers of Russian perceive as 'gay sounding'? Is it
intonation, or something about vowel quality, or something else? Any
suggestions? They are especially interested in phonetic characteristics.

Thank you.
Nila

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From Margo_Ballou at POSTOFFICE.BROWN.EDU  Sun Mar  3 17:51:08 2002
From: Margo_Ballou at POSTOFFICE.BROWN.EDU (Margo Ballou)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:51:08 -0500
Subject: Northeastern Slavic conference program
Message-ID: <SUN.3.MAR.2002.125108.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear members of SEELANGS,

The Department of Slavic Languages at Brown University would like to
invite you to the annual conference of the Northeastern Slavic
Graduate Student Association.  The conference will take place this
coming Saturday, March 9, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode
Island.  A preliminary program and contact information are given
below.
Thank you.

Sincerely yours,
Margo Ballou


THE NORTHEASTERN SLAVIC
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION

Preliminary Program

vvv

Crystal Room
9:00- 9:45      Breakfast
9:45-11:00      The Era of Totalitarianism
        "Georges Bataille and Andrei Platonov:  Essays on the Bodily Functions"
        Kevin-Konstantin Starikov, Yale University
        "The Totalitarian Language of Fedelius and Vaclav Havel"
        Veronika Tucker, City University of New York
        "Orwell, Totalitarianism, and the Russian Connection"
        Steven Seegel, Brown University, Department of History
11:00-12:15     Contemporary Literature
        "Russia's Muslim Other"
        Gerald McCausland, University of Pittsburgh
        "New Unconditionality, Poetics of Insult, Economy of Attention:
        On Some General Trends in Contemporary Russian Cultural Field"
        Mikhail Gronas, Trinity College
        "Public Confessions:  Recent Autobiographies of Russian Celebrities"
        Olga Partan, Brown University

vvv

Marston Hall

12:15- 2:00     Lunch and art exhibit in Marston Hall B-1

Saturday, March 9, 2002
Brown University
Providence, RI

vvv

Crystal Room
2:00- 3:00      Silver Age
        "Remizov's Illustrated Albums as a Modernist Revision
        of Medieval Manuscripts"
        Julia Friedman, Brown University, Department of Art History

3:00- 4:15      Romanticism/Early 19th Century Literature
        "Faith or Folly:  Explicating the Vocalic Pattern of
        Tiutchev's 'Slezy liudskie, o slezy liudskie"
        Jonathan Brooks Platt, Columbia University
        "The Semiotics of Gogol's Dead Souls"
        Kirsten Lodge Borovik, Columbia University
        "The Prince of Knaves, or Rascality in 'Ruslan and Liudmila'"
        Joe Peschio, University of Michigan

5:00            Keynote Presentation
        "Dostoevsky as a Professional Writer"
        Professor William Mills Todd III,
        Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature and
        Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

vvv

Note:  Each presentation is scheduled for 15 minutes followed by 30
minutes for the discussant's remarks and general discussion.  A 15
minute break after each panel is included in the times listed above.

For more information or directions, please contact the Brown
University Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at (401)
863-2689

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From gladney at UX6.CSO.UIUC.EDU  Sun Mar  3 18:00:58 2002
From: gladney at UX6.CSO.UIUC.EDU (gladney frank y)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:00:58 -0600
Subject: Volga
In-Reply-To: <200203030458.g234wSv26148@ux6.cso.uiuc.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.3.MAR.2002.120058.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Students of Proto-Slavic appreciate Alexander Sitzmann's second, improved
etymology of _Volga_ ('the wet one').  Yet one wonder how the _l_ in his
*_wlga_ managed to produce what he calls a svarabhakti _i_, thus >
*_wilga_ (subsequently darkened to _u_ and lowered to _o_ before
tautosyllabic _l_), when in a presumed *_glk-_ 'noise' the _l_ in a very
similar environment produced a svarabhakti _u_ (cf. in Polish _wilk_
'wolf' but _zgielk_ [barred l] 'noise'). The syllable nuclei of *_wlg-_
and *_glk-_ must have differed. See Diels, _Aksl. Gramm._, par. 15, note
6.

Frank Y. Gladney

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From ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU  Mon Mar  4 01:24:03 2002
From: ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU (ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:24:03 -0500
Subject: Publication: Historical Phonology of Macedonian
Message-ID: <SUN.3.MAR.2002.202403.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

The late Blaz^e Koneski's work
"Istoriska fonologija na makedonskiot jazik"
edited and with an introduction by Ljudmil Spasov,
in one volume with its English version
"A historical phonology of the Macedonian
language" translated by Victor A. Friedman
has just been published in Skopje by the Makedonska akademija na naukite
i umetnostite and the Kultura publishing house.
Skopje 2001. - XXXVII + 324 pages.

Prof. Spasov states that the book is available
from Kultura:

e-mail: ipkultura at unet.com.mk
www.kultura.com.mk

Text in English and Macedonian -- cost $25.

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From mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Sun Mar  3 22:09:46 2002
From: mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Emily Tall)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:09:46 +0000
Subject: Bulgarian and Russian
Message-ID: <SUN.3.MAR.2002.220946.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear colleagues:
    I'd like to ask for some help. I have a Bulgarian student who wants
to be in my 4th semester Russian class. I want to keep him out on the
grounds that his abilities are far superior to that of my students,
especially since Bulgarian is close to Russian.
    He argues that Bulgarian is very different from Russian, etc., that
his Russian friends can't understand him when he speaks Bulgarian, that
a lot of words in Bulgarian are from non-Slavic languages.
    I may have to rebut his arguments in case we meet with the Dean.
And, out of curiosity, would some nice Slavic linguist out there
enlighten me as to the similarities between Bulgarian and Russian. I was
under the impression that Bulgarian was the most similar to Russian of
the Slavic languages (aside from Belorussian and Ukrainian). I know, of
course, about the alphabet, and I would think the grammar is pretty
similar.
    You can reply off-list to me at mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu  but maybe
the topic is of interest to the whole list.
    Thanks! Emily Tall  (SUNY/Buffalo)

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From gribble.3 at OSU.EDU  Mon Mar  4 01:58:13 2002
From: gribble.3 at OSU.EDU (Charles Gribble)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:58:13 -0500
Subject: Volga
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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Mon Mar  4 05:05:15 2002
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 00:05:15 -0500
Subject: Bulgarian and Russian
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.000515.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Emily Tall wrote:

> Dear colleagues:
> I'd like to ask for some help. I have a Bulgarian student who wants
> to be in my 4th semester Russian class. I want to keep him out on the
> grounds that his abilities are far superior to that of my students,
> especially since Bulgarian is close to Russian.
> He argues that Bulgarian is very different from Russian, etc., that
> his Russian friends can't understand him when he speaks Bulgarian,
> that a lot of words in Bulgarian are from non-Slavic languages.
> I may have to rebut his arguments in case we meet with the Dean.
> And, out of curiosity, would some nice Slavic linguist out there
> enlighten me as to the similarities between Bulgarian and Russian.
> I was under the impression that Bulgarian was the most similar to
> Russian of the Slavic languages (aside from Belorussian and
> Ukrainian). I know, of course, about the alphabet, and I would think
> the grammar is pretty similar.
> You can reply off-list to me at mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu  but maybe
> the topic is of interest to the whole list.
> Thanks! Emily Tall  (SUNY/Buffalo)

Here are a few of the more obvious differences. I'm sure others can
extend the list.

Phonetics and phonology:
∙ Russian has a complex system of palatalized vs. nonpalatalized
  consonants, Bulgarian has none;
∙ Bulgarian has far fewer complex consonant clusters, especially
  initially;
∙ Bulgarian's sixth vowel (after aeiou) is more central than
  Russian's, close to a stressable schwa (compare the Romanian
  a-breve), and is written with what the Russians call the "hard
  sign." Russian "y" often corresponds to Bulgarian "i," sometimes
  to "hard sign."

Nouns and adjectives:
∙ Russian has six cases, plus vestiges of a vocative, but
  Bulgarian has essentially none (vestiges of a vocative, plus
  pronominal distinctions as in English);
∙ Bulgarian has postpositive articles (knigata "the book"),
  Russian has none.

Verbs:
∙ Bulgarian has a much more complicated verbal system, retaining
  many tenses such as the aorist that Russian has lost. Some of
  these are compound tenses resembling our perfect tenses;
∙ Bulgarian has retained the present tense of the verb "to be,"
  Russian has almost entirely eliminated it.

Syntax:
∙ Bulgarian uses the preposition "na" for virtually any
  grammatical relationship (I'm exaggerating for effect),
  including "of" where Russian would use genitive, "to," "on,"
  etc.
∙ Russian has much more flexible word order.

Vocabulary:
∙ Russian has borrowed high-style words from Church Slavic (a
  member of the South Slavic branch close to the parent of
  Bulgarian), so it has many doublets such as SS glava "head
  (of an organization); chapter" vs. ES golova "head (of a
  physical body)." Bulgarian lacks the East Slavic forms, but
  has borrowed heavily from its neighbors (Turkish, Greek,
  etc.), whereas Russian has not.

--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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From Laura.J.Olson at COLORADO.EDU  Mon Mar  4 05:07:51 2002
From: Laura.J.Olson at COLORADO.EDU (Laura J. Olson)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:07:51 -0700
Subject: Bulgarian and Russian
In-Reply-To: <3C829F29.E25822A@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.3.MAR.2002.220751.0700.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Emily,
        I'm an American Slavist whose major language is Russian and I learned
Bulgarian while I was in grad school. It's my opinion that Russian grammar
is quite different from Bulgarian, and I agree with your student's
statements that Russians cannot understand his Bulgarian. Bulgarian has a
different verbal system and lacks most of the cases that Russian has. So
your student would have no clue about the Russian case system. The sound
system is also different, and your student would need to work hard on
pronunciation of soft consonants. What is similar in Russian and Bulgarian
is the abstract vocabulary that comes from Old Church Slavonic. Thus, your
student may find it easy to read Russian theoretical texts (when I started
learning Bulgarian I found it more or less easy to read theoretical texts
in Bulgarian, even though I couldn't speak the language and didn't know
much about the grammar). But he will not find it easy to speak Russian. I
would put him in first year.
        I'm reminded of the plight of a "heritage student" in our university who
had heard Russian spoken by his Russian-speaking parents growing up in
Israel. This student did not actively speak Russian and lacks the instincts
of a native speaker that would tell him what sounds "right." Nevertheless
he was put into second year. Now, in the second semester of second year, he
is failing tests and generally doing quite badly.
        I would fear similar result from putting a Bulgarian speaker into second
year Russian.
        --Laura Olson
University of Colorado


At 10:09 PM 3/3/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear colleagues:
>    I'd like to ask for some help. I have a Bulgarian student who wants
>to be in my 4th semester Russian class. I want to keep him out on the
>grounds that his abilities are far superior to that of my students,
>especially since Bulgarian is close to Russian.
>    He argues that Bulgarian is very different from Russian, etc., that
>his Russian friends can't understand him when he speaks Bulgarian, that
>a lot of words in Bulgarian are from non-Slavic languages.
>    I may have to rebut his arguments in case we meet with the Dean.
>And, out of curiosity, would some nice Slavic linguist out there
>enlighten me as to the similarities between Bulgarian and Russian. I was
>under the impression that Bulgarian was the most similar to Russian of
>the Slavic languages (aside from Belorussian and Ukrainian). I know, of
>course, about the alphabet, and I would think the grammar is pretty
>similar.
>    You can reply off-list to me at mllemily at acsu.buffalo.edu  but maybe
>the topic is of interest to the whole list.
>    Thanks! Emily Tall  (SUNY/Buffalo)
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From lcf at U.WASHINGTON.EDU  Mon Mar  4 05:46:58 2002
From: lcf at U.WASHINGTON.EDU (L. Friend)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:46:58 -0800
Subject: Bulgarian and Russian
In-Reply-To: <3C829F29.E25822A@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Message-ID: <SUN.3.MAR.2002.214658.0800.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Emily,

There was another thread comparing Russian and Bulgarian just a few months
ago, if I remember correctly.  If you search the SEELANGS archive, you may
find some more messages of interest.

Sincerely,

Laura Friend
University of Washington

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From Polsky at ACTR.ORG  Mon Mar  4 13:45:16 2002
From: Polsky at ACTR.ORG (Marissa Polsky)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 08:45:16 -0500
Subject: Electronic Dictionary Recommendation
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.084516.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I generally use the following dictionary...
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/rus.html 

I know there are several others, but this one works the fastest.  I would be curious as to what others think as well.



Marissa Polsky
---------------------------------------------
Web Applications Developer
ACIE: ACTR/ACCELS
http://www.russnet.org/home.html
(202) 833-7522

>>> lemelinc at DICKINSON.EDU 03/01/02 06:35PM >>>
Hello everybody,

Does anyone have a recommendation regarding electronic dictionaries
(Russian-English / English-Russian)?  I have a student who asked which I
thought was best, and I told her I'd seek out more educated opinions.

Please reply off-list.

Thanks,

Christopher W. Lemelin

==========================================
Christopher W. Lemelin, Instructor
Department of Russian
Dickinson College
Post Office Box 1773
Carlisle, Pennsylvania   17013
717-245-1834

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From a9606646 at UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT  Mon Mar  4 14:15:03 2002
From: a9606646 at UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT (Alexander Sitzmann)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:15:03 +0100
Subject: Volga
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.151503.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Well, it seems that I have to defend my etymology, and it will be a pleasure
for me:

1. Dear Mr. Gribble - is it that plausible that the Balts named the Volga
"the long river"? Why not the Dnepr or the Dvina? If Volga is a baltic
loanword, we're talking about the 6th/7th century, and as far as I know it
took even the Vikings a lot of time to reach the Caspian Sea (by the way, my
monograph on language contacts in EarlyRus' will be published this or next
year in Vienna). I do not believe they compared all the rivers concerning
their length. Isn't it as plausible to think, that the ones who named the
river thought about the fact, that the Volga is in fact a system of
waterways with lots of water in it? From a semantic point of view it seems
impossible to me to solve the etymological problem.
And I'm not that sure either, that il- > 6l- > 7l- > v7l- > vol- fits in
with what we know about historical phonology (the example wolk doesn't prove
too much because there's no prothesis, compare protogerm. wulfaz, goth.
wulfs, lat. vulpes, sanskrit vr:kas... with or without svarabhakti vowel).

There are some things, I'll try to point out:

2. Dear Mr. Gladney, now something about the svarabhakti-i:
There are lots of examples for a svarabhakti-i, compare e.g. skr. uzeti 'to
take' and uzmete 'you take' - how would you explain the alternation? In fact
in protoslavic there was no alternation : wuz-m:-t_ej > wuzint_ej > v7zeNti
(the front nasal voewl is only possible in combination with i or e, mt>nt
needs no explanation) while wuz-m:-ete > wuzimete > v7z6mete > uzmete.
Another example: vr_es*ti 'to tie' and vr6zete 'you tie', in protosl.
werst_ej and wr:-zete (the same with vr_es*ti and vr6z*ete 'to throw') or
protosl. smardu > ocs. smrad7 and protosl. smr:-d_et_ej > ocs. smr6d_eti 'to
stink'
or protosl. gramu > ocs. grom7 and protosl. grm:-_et_ej > gr6m_eti 'thunder'
and so on.
There are only few cases with svarabhakti-u, in fact I remember only one:
preprotosl. gwenete > protosl. dz*enete > ocs. z*enete 'you hunt' and
preprotosl. gWn:_at_ej > protosl. gunat_ej > ocs. g7nati. In this case it is
very probable that the context (labiovelar) caused the u instead of i.
I'll have to look up your Polish example (i.e. find parallels and think
about
it), but I'm quite sure, that this is a question of context.

3. Now to the main point: v-prothesis
We have examples for this prothesis, which occurs only (!) before
long or short u; the v-prothesis is postprotoslavic, the svarabhakti-i is
preprotoslavic, in the protolanguage there were no syllabic consonants.

Two examples for v-prothesis:
lat. Urs_aria(m) > Wurs_arju > V7sarj6 (velar vowels are palatalized after
palatal consonants) > Vrsar (in Istria).
lat. _Utus >_Utu > W_utu > Vyt7 > Vit (in Bulgaria)
[There were no jers in the protolanguage (this model fits in with the
material we
have from loans into and from germanic, baltic, uralic, greek and romance
languages) - i.e. "my" protolanguage is not the one gained by internal
reconstruction.]

There are no examples for v-prothesis before i (!) as far as I know; this
means *in > v7n is a singularity another "Isoglosse" - (an interesting one
in fact, compare the word final rules as e.g. Gen. Pl. t_eles7 < t_ele-s-om
and others). If now someone postulates,that this v-prothesis occurs before
il- this is rather ad hoc (nota bene: in- and il- are different contexts),
because he can hardly find other examples. Of course he could postulate
another singularity, but in this case we have another explanation (with
rules that are recurrent with other examples) - a palusible explanation.

Therefore Volga = 'the big water, the very wet one...'.

Sincerely,
Alexander Sitzmann

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From jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU  Mon Mar  4 15:41:32 2002
From: jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Jolanta M. Davis)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:41:32 -0500
Subject: Deadline for March AAASS NewsNet
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.104132.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Fellow Slavicists,

Please let me know by April 1, if you wish to submit any information for
the next, May issue of NewsNet. In case you are not familiar with NewsNet
-- it is published five times a year, in January, March, May, September,
and November by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies (AAASS) and includes information about the field of Slavic,
Russian, East European, and Central Asian studies that would be of interest
to its over 3,000 AAASS members, to whom it is
distributed.

  NewsNet's regular columns include:

  - Calls for papers and calls for submissions (calls for papers for
upcoming conferences
         and calls for submissions to journals and edited volumes)
- Employment Opportunities (opportunities either in academia or elsewhere
requiring the
         knowledge of Russian, East European, or Eurasian studies,
languages, history, etc.)
- News of Affiliates (information about organizations affiliated with AAASS)
- Opportunities for Support (information about grants, fellowships, awards
available to
         scholars of Russia, East Europe, and Eurasia)
- Personages (information about recent important events in the lives of
AAASS members
         such as awards, nominations, new appointments, etc.)
- Publications (information about recent or upcoming publications written
or edited by
         AAASS members)
- Calendar (listing of upcoming conferences, conventions, etc.)

Sincerely,
Jolanta Davis


Jolanta M. Davis
Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
8 Story Street
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
tel.: (617) 495-0679
fax: (617) 495-0680
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/

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From jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU  Mon Mar  4 15:44:40 2002
From: jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Jolanta M. Davis)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:44:40 -0500
Subject: Deadline for May 2002 AAASS NewsNet
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.104440.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Fellow Slavicists,

Please let me know by April 1, if you wish to submit any information for
the next, May issue of NewsNet. In case you are not familiar with NewsNet
-- it is published five times a year, in January, March, May, September,
and November by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies (AAASS) and includes information about the field of Slavic,
Russian, East European, and Central Asian studies that would be of interest
to its over 3,000 AAASS members, to whom it is
distributed.

  NewsNet's regular columns include:

  - Calls for papers and calls for submissions (calls for papers for
upcoming conferences
         and calls for submissions to journals and edited volumes)
- Employment Opportunities (opportunities either in academia or elsewhere
requiring the
         knowledge of Russian, East European, or Eurasian studies,
languages, history, etc.)
- News of Affiliates (information about organizations affiliated with AAASS)
- Opportunities for Support (information about grants, fellowships, awards
available to
         scholars of Russia, East Europe, and Eurasia)
- Personages (information about recent important events in the lives of
AAASS members
         such as awards, nominations, new appointments, etc.)
- Publications (information about recent or upcoming publications written
or edited by
         AAASS members)
- Calendar (listing of upcoming conferences, conventions, etc.)

Sincerely,
Jolanta Davis

Jolanta M. Davis
Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
8 Story Street
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
tel.: (617) 495-0679
fax: (617) 495-0680
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From mdenner at STETSON.EDU  Mon Mar  4 15:03:34 2002
From: mdenner at STETSON.EDU (Michael Denner)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:03:34 -0500
Subject: Electronic Dictionary Recommendation
In-Reply-To: <sc83343a.085@mail.actr.org>
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.100334.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

I have two recommendations for electronic dictionaries...  The first is one
I've recommended several time: http://mega.km.ru
It's based off the very good electronic encyclopedia <<Kyrill i Mefodij>> &
offers, in addition to an English/Russian and <<tolkovyj>> Russian
dictionary, very useful encyclopedic dictionaries on various subjects
(culinary, automobile, cinematography (which is VERY good and
comprehensive), etc.)). Thus, on the query словарь one gets the following
list of entries:

   "словарь"  найдено в:  Разделы:
  СЛОВАРЬ     Универсальная
  СЛОВАРЬ     Русского языка
  КАРМАННЫЙ СЛОВАРЬ ИНОСТРАННЫХ СЛОВ     Универсальная
  БРОКГАУЗА И ЕФРОНА ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЧЕСКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ     Универсальная
  ГРАНАТ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЧЕСКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ     Универсальная
  ЧАСТОТНЫЙ СЛОВАРЬ     Универсальная
  ТОЛКОВЫЙ СЛОВАРЬ     Универсальная
  ОБРАТНЫЙ СЛОВАРЬ     Универсальная
  Словарь терминов Nivea Visage     Здоровье
  Краткий толковый словарь по бронетанковой технике     Вооружения
  Краткий словарь сокращений и терминов     Вооружения
  Электронный словарь Alphabyte     Компьютеров
  Обратный словарь     Русского языка
  МЕЙЕРА ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЧЕСКИЕ СЛОВАРИ     Универсальная
  ИДЕОГРАФИЧЕСКИЕ СЛОВАРИ     Универсальная
  ВЕБСТЕРА СЛОВАРИ     Универсальная
  УЭБСТЕРА СЛОВАРИ     Универсальная
  Словари и программы перевода     Компьютеров
  Проверка орфографии в Microsoft Word     Компьютеров
  ШВЕДОВА Наталья Юльевна     Универсальная


The interface is very practical and it's fast, though I don't think the
Russian dictionary is truly <<tolkovyj>> inasmuch as stress isn't indicated,
and (as a non-native speaker) 9 times out of 10 I'm looking a word up to
find its stress pattern.

The "mother" of all electronic dictionary sites is probably
http://www.slovari.ru/, which, according to its own material, is a joint
project among the Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language, the Russian
Academy of Sciences, and the publisher <<Azbukovnik>>. It contains the
following:

 Словарь русского языка С. И. Ожегова
 Толковый словарь русского языка С. И. Ожегова и Н. Ю. Шведовой
 Русский орфографический словарь
 Популярный словарь иностранных слов
 Словарь иностранных слов
 Русский семантический словарь

The digital version of the Ozhegov dictionary is, apparently, identical to
the printed one, so it's a truly "tolkovyj" dictionary -- the inflected
forms, conjugations, stress patterns (!), etc.

I find the interface on the site infuriating (you have to pass through
several pages on a slow server to get an answer to your query). That said,
the quality of the result is exceptional because you can choose to search
the text of all the entries. Thus, you can find all the entries that contain
<<slovar'>>: ДВУЯЗЫ'ЧНЫЙ, ЛЕКСИКО'Н, ОДНОТО'МНЫЙ, ТОЛКО'ВЫЙ, ФРАЗЕОЛО'ГИЯ,
ЭНЦИКЛОПЕ'ДИЯ, etc.

Best,
Michael

<|><|><|><|><|><|><|>
Michael A. Denner
Russian Studies Department
Campus Unit 8361
Stetson University
DeLand, FL 32720
904.822.7265

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From mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Mon Mar  4 16:09:04 2002
From: mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Emily Tall)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:09:04 -0500
Subject: thanks
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.110904.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear colleagues: I have been overwhelmed with replies to my query on
Bulgarian and Russian. I want to thank all of you very much! Emily Tall

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From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET  Mon Mar  4 16:43:06 2002
From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:43:06 -0500
Subject: similarity between Slavic languages
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.114306.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

A general remark on the closeness of Slavic languages and who understands
what:

Technically, Belarusian and Ukrainian are as close to Russian as Russian is
to Belarusian and Ukrainian. While Belarusian and Ukrainian speakers always
understand Russian and normally understand each other, Russian speakers more
often than not claim that they do not understand either Belarusian or
Ukrainian (I have seen this at several conferences, where Russian speakers
would ask for a translator).

This is not just about how close the languages are, and not only about
Russian speakers having less exposure to other Slavic languages (and hence
less trained ears), but also about other hierarchies which the language
represents symbolically .

Elena Gapova


----- Original Message -----
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To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: 4 March 2002 11:09 AM
Subject: thanks


> Dear colleagues: I have been overwhelmed with replies to my query on
> Bulgarian and Russian. I want to thank all of you very much! Emily Tall
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From ems988 at HECKY.IT.NORTHWESTERN.EDU  Mon Mar  4 18:24:08 2002
From: ems988 at HECKY.IT.NORTHWESTERN.EDU (Elizabeth Sheynzon)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:24:08 -0600
Subject: similarity between Slavic languages
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.122408.0600.>

don't forget that belorussian and ukranians usually are exposed to a lot of
russian - TV, school, business travellers,etc., while russians don't have that
big of exposure to those languages.

Elena Gapova <e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET> writes on         Mon, 4 Mar 2002
11:43:06 -0500:
>
>
> A general remark on the closeness of Slavic languages and who understands
> what:
>
> Technically, Belarusian and Ukrainian are as close to Russian as Russian is
> to Belarusian and Ukrainian. While Belarusian and Ukrainian speakers always
> understand Russian and normally understand each other, Russian speakers more
> often than not claim that they do not understand either Belarusian or
> Ukrainian (I have seen this at several conferences, where Russian speakers
> would ask for a translator).
>
> This is not just about how close the languages are, and not only about
> Russian speakers having less exposure to other Slavic languages (and hence
> less trained ears), but also about other hierarchies which the language
> represents symbolically .
>
> Elena Gapova
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Emily Tall <mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
> To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Sent: 4 March 2002 11:09 AM
> Subject: thanks
>
>
> > Dear colleagues: I have been overwhelmed with replies to my query on
> > Bulgarian and Russian. I want to thank all of you very much! Emily Tall
> >
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From tatiana at LCLARK.EDU  Mon Mar  4 19:06:26 2002
From: tatiana at LCLARK.EDU (Tatiana Osipovich)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:06:26 -0800
Subject: "propiska" query
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.110626.0800.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

One of our  students is interested in the history of "propiska"
in the USSR and the status of this issue now.
Here is her query:

Hi, my name is Jessica Dzieweczynski.  I'm a senior this year working on
my East Asian Studies thesis, I'm planning on incorporating Russia's
propiska system with that of China's and I was wondering if you would be
able to tell me where I could find primary sources on this issue. I'm
particularly interested in the debates on the abolishment and re-issuing
the registration system in Moscow (in English).

Please reply off list. Thanks,
Tatiana Osipovich

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From lgoering at CARLETON.EDU  Mon Mar  4 22:08:48 2002
From: lgoering at CARLETON.EDU (Laura Goering)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:08:48 -0600
Subject: Jesus Christ Superstar parody
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.160848.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Seelangers,
   I colleague mentioned a Soviet parody of Jesus Christ Superstar that
included the lines "nash kolkhoz, nash kolkhoz, vypolnil plan po dobyche
koz."  Can anyone tell me more? Was it a full-length work?  Are there
recordings? Is the text available? Reply to lgoering at carleton.edu
Spasibo.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Laura Goering
Associate Professor of Russian
Dept. of German and Russian
Carleton College
Northfield, MN 55057
Tel: 507-646-4125

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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Mon Mar  4 22:35:00 2002
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:35:00 -0500
Subject: Jesus Christ Superstar parody
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.173500.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Laura Goering wrote:

> Seelangers,
>    I colleague mentioned a Soviet parody of Jesus Christ Superstar
> that included the lines "nash kolkhoz, nash kolkhoz, vypolnil plan
> po dobyche koz."  Can anyone tell me more? Was it a full-length
> work?  Are there recordings? Is the text available? Reply to
> lgoering at carleton.edu
> Spasibo.

I searched Яndex for the string "выполнил план по добыче коз" (including
quotation marks) and got six hits:

<http://www.screen.ru/vadvad/Vadvad/Cherdak/mp.htm>
<http://www.screen.ru/club/tusovka/cat/cherdak/mp.htm>

<http://rema.ru:8100/komment/vadvad/cherdak/mp.htm>
<http://rema.ru:8100/komment/vadvad/cherdak/audio/>
<http://rema.ru:8100/komment/vadvad/cherdak/audio/index.htm>

(the two above contain links to RealAudio clips of the song)

<http://cherdak.rema.ru:8100/mp.htm>

Is this what you had in mind?

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From frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU  Mon Mar  4 23:33:18 2002
From: frosset at WHEATONMA.EDU (Francoise Rosset)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 19:33:18 -0400
Subject: Soviet Medicine
In-Reply-To: <200203010904.g2194jG31923@mail2.wheatonma.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.193318.0400.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

My colleague David Powell, who specializes in Public Health in
Russia, recommended the following "for starters":

>Mark G. Field, Doctor and Patient in Soviet Russia
>Mark G. Field, Soviet Socialized Medicine
>Arthur Newsholme and John Kingsbury, Red Medicine
>Michael Ryan, Doctors and the State in the Soviet Union
>Michael Ryan, The Organization of Soviet Medical Care
>Samuel A. Corson and Elizabeth Corson (eds.), Psychiatry and
>Psychology in the USSR
>William O. McCAgg and Lewis Siegelbaum (eds.), The Disabled in the Soviet
>Union
>Anthony Jones et al. (eds.), Soviet Social Problems (several chapters)
>
Good luck,
-FR

Francoise Rosset                          phone:  (508) 286-3696
Russian and Russian Studies               fax:    (508) 286-3640
Wheaton College                           e-mail: frosset at wheatonma.edu
Norton, Massachusetts 02766

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From rikoun at FAS.HARVARD.EDU  Tue Mar  5 15:13:20 2002
From: rikoun at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Polina Rikoun)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:13:20 -0500
Subject: Ilchenko query
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020224190212.00a01960@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
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Dear SEELANGS subscribers,

I am looking for critical works on Oleksandr Ilchenko, and especially on
his _khymernyi roman_ _Kozatskomu rodu nema perevodu, abo zh Mamai i
chuzha molodytsia_, and not having much luck.  If anyone could give me any
leads, I would be very thankful!

Best wishes,
Polina Rikoun

Harvard University
Department of Comparative Literature

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From sk5 at DUKE.EDU  Tue Mar  5 19:14:22 2002
From: sk5 at DUKE.EDU (Simon Krysl)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:14:22 -0500
Subject: Braverman, discipline and the post-socialist Second World
Message-ID: <TUE.5.MAR.2002.141422.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear all,
I am sorry to bother - especially, with such a broad based question, to
multiple lists: Isuppose that testifies to a certain hopelessness. I apologise.
No one, or no one I have spoken to, has any kind of answer to my problem
here: and yet, it seems there must be answers, and obvious ones, just
lying around.
I have been trying to find out whether anyone has attempted to "apply"
Braverman's account of the history of/as discipline of labour to the
Eastern European material, post-1989 (in particular). In other words, the
history of Soviet Taylorism - and more importantly, post-Taylorism, what
happened if and when the strategy (of 'nauchnaya organisatsia truda") was
abandoned, explicitly or implicitly, is interesting itself - as that is
the starting point - there doesn't seem to be much written (at least not
in Braverman's terms) or I cannot find it, and any suggestions on that
would be more than appreciated. The real question, however, is the
post-socialist moment thought in terms of labour discipline: when the
foreign investor (or his domestic competitor) takes over a factory, not
only the coffee breaks (et al.) are gone, but the very structure of labour
time changes in comprehensive terms. (Of which the coffee breaks are a
'symptom,' or a case in point.) To be sure, the analysis can be done in
terms of the "postmodern" versus modernist economy, of society of control
displacing disciplinary societies (Deleuze on Foucault), of real
subsumption of labour (Negri) etc...: as well as the end of certain
socialist potentialities that can be traced in the materiality of the
working day. But the "simplicity" or rather, materialism  of Braverman's
account seems to give it a certain privilege. In either case, no such (not
only Bravermanian) readings of the post-socialist through the lens of
labour discipline have come into my hands: which may have to do with the
lack of desire to do sociology of labour altogether in the East itself (as
some of my friends 'back there' have suggested), but it still seems most
surprising, inexplicable, odd....
Is there perhaps anyone out there who could suggest any writing I have
missed?
With so, so many thanks
Sincerely yours,
Simon Krysl

___________________________________________________
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Graduate Program in Literature, Duke University
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From zodyp at BELOIT.EDU  Tue Mar  5 19:50:14 2002
From: zodyp at BELOIT.EDU (Patricia Zody)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:50:14 -0600
Subject: Summer Job Opportunities (Russian)
Message-ID: <TUE.5.MAR.2002.135014.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Beloit College's Center for Language Studies
Summer Russian Language Teaching Positions

Senior instructors and graduate teaching assistants are needed for Beloit
College's summer intensive Russian program (June 9, 2002 - August 9,
2002).  In 2002, we expect to offer first- through fourth-year Russian.
Each level, with an average enrollment of six to eight students, has one
instructor and one graduate teaching assistant who share teaching and
evaluation responsibilities with a lead instructor.  Instructors
collaborate with each other, the language coordinator, and the CLS director
on curriculum, syllabi, and instruction. Duties include classroom teaching
and evaluation, and assistance with organizing cultural activities for the
program. Instructors will be expected to live on-campus (single occupancy),
eat meals with the students at lunch in the dining commons, and be
available to students evenings and weekends.

Minimum qualifications for senior instructors include an M.A., teaching
experience preferably in an immersion environment, superior proficiency in
Russian and advanced proficiency in English. An advanced degree in Russian,
applied linguistics, or foreign language education is desirable.  (For
graduate teaching assistants, an M.A. in progress is required).  Salary is
competitive, and includes room and board. Employment is contingent upon new
employees providing documents verifying U.S. citizenship or, for
non-citizens, documents verifying legal permission to work in the United
States.

Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and list of three references
to Patricia L. Zody, Center for Language Studies, Beloit College, 700
College Street, Beloit WI 53511.  You may also submit your application
electronically as an attached document to cls at beloit.edu.  Applications
will be accepted until the positions are filled, but review will begin
April 1, 2002.  For more information about the summer language programs,
please call 608-363-2277 or visit our Web site at
http://beloit.edu/~cls.  AA/EEO Employer.


Director
Center for Language Studies
Beloit College
700 College Street
Beloit, Wisconsin  53511
608/363-2277 (voice)
608/363-2082 (fax)
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From billings at PU.EDU.TW  Mon Mar  4 06:04:33 2002
From: billings at PU.EDU.TW (Loren A. Billings)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:04:33 +0800
Subject: Fwd: Books: Slavic Linguistics
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.140433.0800.>

Dear SEELANGS colleagues:

The following are _two_ book announcements from the Linguist List.

LINGUIST List wrote:
> 
> LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-577. Fri Mar 1 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

[...]

> Date:  Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:09:35 +0100
> From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA)
> Subject:  New books: Slavic linguistics: Macedonian
> 
> Macedonian
> 
> VICTOR A. FRIEDMAN
> University of Chicago
> 
> Macedonian is a member of the South Slavic group of the Slavic Branch
> of the Indo-European family. It is the first or secnd language of the
> approximately 2 million people in the Republic of Macedonia and is
> also spoken in neighboring Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and the Federal
> Republic of Yugoslavia as well as by significant émigré communities in
> Eastern and Western Europe, North America and Australia. This
> monogrpah describes modern standard Macedonian as codified in the
> Republic of Macedonia, although a brief treatment of the dialectal
> situation is also provided. Due to the endangered and disputed status
> of Macedonian in neighboring countries, the sociolinguistic/
> geolingusitic section begins with a linguistic history of
> Macedonian. This is followed by sections on phonology, morphology,
> syntax, and a text. Standard Macedonian is characterized by
> antepenultimate stress that can cross word boundaries, a relatively
> simple nominal system, a complex verbal system, and fairly free word
> order. Situated at the heart of the Balkan linguistic league,
> Macedonian shows the effect of centuries of multilingual contact at
> all levels.
> 
> ISBN 3 89586 075 1.
> Languages of the World/Materials 117.
> 60pp. USD 32.50 / EUR 28.50 / £  19.90.
> 
> Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard
> no.  / expiry date. Prices in this information include shipment
> worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available
> with special discounts offered to individual subscribers.
> 
> NEW: LINCOM electronic n.e.w.s.l.e.t.t.e.r. Monthly up-dates.
> Go to http://www.lincom-europa.com
> 
> A Students' and course discount of 40% is offered to the above title.
> 
> Free copies of LINCOM'S newsflashes 26 & 27 are now available from
> LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de.
> 
> LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany;
> FAX +49 89 62269404;
> http://www.lincom-europa.com
> LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>  If you buy one of these books, please tell the publisher or author
>  that you saw it on LINGUIST.

[...]

> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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LINGUIST List wrote:
> 
> LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-578. Fri Mar 1 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

[...]

> Date:  Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:29:56 +0100
> From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA)
> Subject:  New books: Slavic linguistics: THE RELATIVE CLAUSE IN SERBO-CROATIAN
> 
> Der Relativsatz im Serbokroatischen
> (THE RELATIVE CLAUSE IN SERBO-CROATIAN)
> SNJEZANA KORDIC
> University of Muenster
> 
> This comprehensive study of relative clauses in Serbo-Croatian begins
> with the selection and description of properties of such relative
> clauses as are most frequently realized in various languages,
> including Serbo-Croatian. These properties can therefore be considered
> to belong to typical representatives of the relative clauses. The
> author then analyses formal constituents of the antecedent which
> determine the realization of the relative clause as restrictive or
> non-restrictive.  The non-typical relative clauses (e.g. free
> relatives, extraposed relatives), the differentation of inflected from
> uninflected relativizer (used with personal pronouns), adverbial
> relativizers, and the replacement of the participle by the relative
> clause in Serbo-Croatian are also described in this study. The corpus
> composed of texts from the journalistic, bookish,
> administrative-legal, and scientific styles has shown that several
> interesting on-going changes can be perceived with regard to the most
> typical relative pronoun in Serbo-Croatian. One of them is the
> extension of the animate masculine into the inanimate (and
> increasingly into the neuter) of the pronun as a means of
> morphologically disambiguating the subject and object. The other
> change concerns the possessive genitive of the pronoun. The study is
> supplied with examples, charts, and an extensive
> bibliography. [written in German]
> 
> ISBN 3 89586 573 7.
> LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 10.
> 200 S. USD 80 / EUR 68 / £ 48.  (2nd printing)
> 
> Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard
> no.  / expiry date. Prices in this information include shipment
> worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available
> with special discounts offered to individual subscribers.
> 
> NEW: LINCOM electronic n.e.w.s.l.e.t.t.e.r. Monthly up-dates.
> Go to http://www.lincom-europa.com
> 
> A Students' and course discount of 40% is offered to the above title.
> 
> Free copies of LINCOM'S newsflashes 26 & 27 are now available from
> LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de.
> 
> LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany;
> FAX +49 89 62269404;
> http://www.lincom-europa.com
> LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>  If you buy one of these books, please tell the publisher or author
>  that you saw it on LINGUIST.

[...]

> LINGUIST List: Vol-13-578

-- 
Loren A. Billings, Ph.D.
Assistant professor of linguistics

Department of English Language,
     Literature and Linguistics
Providence University
200 Chung Chi Road
Shalu, Taichung County
Taiwan 43301 Republic of China

Primary e-mail address: <billings at pu.edu.tw>
Alternate e-mail address: <billings at onebox.com>

Telephone numbers: 
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From alexush at PAONLINE.COM  Mon Mar  4 03:06:27 2002
From: alexush at PAONLINE.COM (Alex Ushakov)
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:06:27 -0500
Subject: Bulgarian and Russian
Message-ID: <SUN.3.MAR.2002.220627.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I would definitely support the claim made by your Bulgarian student. In my
opinion (I studied Bulgarian among a couple of other Slavic languages) it is
a Slavic language which - along with Macedonian, of course, and probably
Czech - is the farthest from Russian, especially when it comes to the
Grammar and Syntax, and despite the common alphabets and many similarities
in vocabularies, is hardly understood by an average Russian-speaking person.
I believe that  the most close to Russian are - after Belarusian and
Ukrainian - Polish and Slovak.

FYI, even Ukrainian as spoken (and written, e.g. works by Vasyl Stefanyk) in
some areas of the Western Ukraine, as well as the most close to it and
considered by some as a separate Eastern Slavonic language, Rusyn, are not
understood not only by the Russians, but even by the Ukrainians from the
Eastern and Central Ukraine.

Regards,

Alex Ushakov



----- Original Message -----
From: "Emily Tall" <mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: March 03 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: Bulgarian and Russian


> I was
> under the impression that Bulgarian was the most similar to Russian of
> the Slavic languages (aside from Belorussian and Ukrainian). I know, of
> course, about the alphabet, and I would think the grammar is pretty
> similar.

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From Judywermuth at CS.COM  Mon Mar  4 14:59:37 2002
From: Judywermuth at CS.COM (Judith Wermuth-Atkinson)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:59:37 EST
Subject: Bulgarian and Russian
Message-ID: <MON.4.MAR.2002.095937.EST.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Emily,
I have been teaching Bulgarian and Russian for more than 17 years. I have
taught students who had different native languages, including Bulgarian and
Russian. Your student is absolutely right. Usually the big problem for
Bulgarian students is that they think Russian is very close and thus, easier
for them than for other students. It is a common knowledge in Bulgaria that
Bulgarians understand very well Russian, but never learn to speak well,
unless they specialize in Russian. Often there is an enormous gap between the
impression  Bulgarian students make and the real knowledge they have. This is
mostly  because of the good pronunciation and a very high degree of
understanding. To my opinion your student must be very, very serious about
his Russian, since he is not trying to skip a class and do less work. I would
give him the chance to do what he thinks he needs to do. You can also offer
to him a test period. This way you both will be able to see how it goes. I
also believe that you can use a student who is a little better than his class
mates in a very productive way in your work in class. If you have more
particular questions, I will be happy to talk to you again.
Judith Wermuth
Columbia University

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From djloewen at BINGHAMTON.EDU  Wed Mar  6 19:53:28 2002
From: djloewen at BINGHAMTON.EDU (Donald Loewen)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:53:28 -0600
Subject: Polish correspondence courses?
In-Reply-To: <3C7D0D7A.5EF5F182@sk.sympatico.ca>
Message-ID: <WED.6.MAR.2002.135328.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Greetings.
Does anyone know of an institution that offers introductory-level
correspondence courses for Polish language?
With thanks for any information that you can provide,
Don Loewen

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From dwkaiser at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU  Wed Mar  6 19:09:43 2002
From: dwkaiser at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU (David Kaiser)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:09:43 -0600
Subject: Polish correspondence courses?
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20020306135112.044e2f10@mail.binghamton.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.6.MAR.2002.130943.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I took two such courses through the University of Wisconsin Extension
Program. They were both cheap and useful, although I think they were
non-credit.

Dave Kaiser
University of Chicago


At 01:53 PM 3/6/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Greetings.
>Does anyone know of an institution that offers introductory-level
>correspondence courses for Polish language?
>With thanks for any information that you can provide,
>Don Loewen
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From martin.friel at NTLWORLD.COM  Wed Mar  6 22:56:24 2002
From: martin.friel at NTLWORLD.COM (Martin Friel)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 22:56:24 -0000
Subject: Trying to trace a word back to its language
Message-ID: <WED.6.MAR.2002.225624.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Hi everyone
I came across a (handwritten) word for cystitis which looks like 'cystpune' or 'cystpurne' or something like that - I can't make it out (cystp is definitely the first five letters but I can't be sure of the others). I've already had some responses to this from some eminent academics in the UK (who unfortunately were unable to trace the word). Any help you might be able to give would be appreciated. 
best wishes
Martin

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From charlesprice_50 at YAHOO.COM  Thu Mar  7 11:08:26 2002
From: charlesprice_50 at YAHOO.COM (=?iso-8859-1?q?Charles=20Price?=)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 11:08:26 +0000
Subject: International playwrights' season, London
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.110826.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I saw this on JRL. It may be interesting for Londoners
on the list.
Charles
==================
International Playwrights Season, Royal Court, London
SW1 (020-7565
5100).
`Steps to Siberia' to Sat. `Plasticine' opens 15 Mar


#10
The Independent (UK)
6 March 2002
Russia's new revolution Russian theatre is finally
addressing modern
concerns - thanks, in part, to the Royal Court. Paul
Taylor went to see
how
a London theatre helped Moscow's dramatists to find a
voice
BY PAUL TAYLOR

In one of the oldest parts of Moscow, to the east of
Red Square,
there's a
stocky white building called the English Court. It was
restored in
honour
of the Queen's state visit to Russia in 1994 and it
boasts (if that's
the
right word) a framed photograph of Her Majesty signing
the visitors'
book.
Ivan the Terrible, who had unavailing marital designs
on Elizabeth I,
donated the house as a kind of embassy for the English
traders who
began
commerce with Russia in 1553.

A fortnight ago, I visited this place in the company
of a young Moscow
dramatist, Alexander Rodionov, and confronted by one
of the rooms, we
both
burst out laughing. In opposite corners, there's an
exhibition of
relics
and facsimiles of the wares that the two countries
initially exchanged.
Sixteenth-century England does not come out of this
comparison smelling
of
roses. In the Russian corner, the items are all
pacific and nurturing
(honey, furs, rope, caviar and mica) while the English
corner is a
sheer
blast of belligerence, bristling with muskets, pikes
and gunpowder.

My Moscow trip comes as a direct result of a recent,
more constructive
British intervention in Russian cultural life. We in
England are just
about
to reap the rewards, in the shape of a showcase at the
Royal Court of
the
highly impressive work that has emerged from the
interchange. The
season is
to include a full promenade production(with an English
director and
cast)
of Plasticine, a clear-eyed and bitterly comic look at
provincial life
in
Russia today from the hot young playwright Vassily
Sigarev, and
verbatim-project pieces from two fresh Siberian
companies, which will
plunge us into the experiences of workers in a mining
commune, into the
revealing correspondence between Russian conscripts
sent to Chechnya
and
their mothers and lovers back home, and into the lives
of a poverty-
stricken fishing community adrift on an ice floe.

As I learn quickly, Moscow is on the move in many
senses. Even the
street
names are refusing to stay put. My first meeting is
scheduled to take
place
at a trendy new night-spot called Klon (aka Clone).
But the British
Council's Russian driver drops me off outside a
different establishment
altogether, where there's a panic-inducing paucity of
people who can
understand a word I utter. I've been in a mad rush
because of a flight
delay, so I am without roubles or a map (or any
Russian), and the one
girl
who speaks a tiny amount of English denies that this
is even the street
I'm
expecting (Pushkinskaya) and directs me to a parallel
road.

I find out later that she both is and isn't right. The
names of the
streets
in the area are in the process of changing and
migrating. It's only
because
Oskolkova, the drama and dance manager at the British
Council in
Moscow,
has asked for a description of me that I'm not still
lost. She hails me
from another door and introduces me to Elena Gremina
and Mikhail
Ugarov,
who run the pioneering new-writing project. The
following night, this
pair
are going to launch a venue that would have been
inconceivable a couple
of
years ago: a centre for contemporary playwriting,
right in the centre
of
the city, called Theatr.doc.

Klon is achingly hip and minimalist. Tatyana notices
me frowning in
puzzlement at the www.youneverknow.ru logo etched out
in large, stone
letters over the dining area. Having spent her life in
international
relations, Tatyana has a broad, humane culture and
learned wit. She
teases
me that the logo is an allusion to the French fashion
designer Chanel,
who
even slept in full make-up on the grounds that "you
never know" when
you
will meet your man and so should always look your
best. I relax and
think
to myself: I'm going to enjoy this trip.

It's enjoyable and inspiring to meet a gifted
generation of new
twentysomething playwrights, whose sense of their own
creativity was
legitimised by an intervention from a happy hook-up
between the British
Council and the Royal Court's international
department. In 1999,
Plasticine's fine translator, Sasha Dugdale, then the
council's
cultural
chief in Moscow, invited the Royal Court to take part
in a seminar
about
new writing, which included translated excerpts from
the work of Sarah
Kane, Mark Ravenhill and Patrick Marber. The turmoil
of post-Communist
experience has not been reflected on the stages of
Moscow's 200-plus
theatres. During my own recent visit, there were 16
productions of
Chekhov's The Seagull to choose from and only 10 new
plays. So, at that
packed seminar, the effect was electrifying when the
Court's literary
manager, Graham Whybrow, delivered a speech about the
principles and
vision
of a theatre that puts the living writer at the centre
of his practice.

Everyone you speak to in Moscow theatre says that talk
caused a
revolution.
The stranglehold of officialdom had been such that
Russian dramatists
who
held similar views had kept them bottled up. The cork
was now drawn,
and
the response, said one of my interviewees, bordered on
"the
irrational".
Russian dramatists began to talk to one another, and
then, as a result
of
follow-up work by the Court, they began to talk to the
people on the
streets. Elyse Dodgson, the head of the international
department, went
out
to hold workshops on verbatim theatre - on how to
gather and shape
personal
testimony to create drama of intense immediacy.
Stephen Daldry flew
over
and spearheaded a piece that drew on conversations
with the homeless
who
doss down in Moscow's railway stations. It resulted in
a wave of
monologues, collectively entitled Moscow: Open City,
which became the
rage
of the metropolitan nightclubs, a cross between
stand-up, drama and
personal witness.

And now I'm on my way to Gorky Leninskiye, Lenin's
country retreat.
Inside,
a gigantic white effigy of him still looks down from
the top of a
sweeping
red-carpeted staircase. This place used to be a mecca
for tourists, but
it
is now in the throes of a creative-identity crisis.
Before Lenin, it
was
the home of a hero of Borodino and of the merchant
Morozov, who,
strangely,
gave money to both Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre
and the
Bolsheviks.
Post-Communism, who would have thought it would ever
become the
workshop
for a new-writing project? It's comparable to
rehearsing Brecht in
Hitler's
bunker. Yet for 10 excited, sleepless days last
autumn, that is
precisely
what it was turned into, again through the input of
the British
Council. My
guides are the young playwright Sergei Kaluzhanov, the
theatre director
Alexander Vartanov and the museum's deputy director,
Alexandra
Kalyakina.

They tell me of how they did a piece on the museum's
attendants, people
who
have worked there for more than 30 years, and on the
myths about the
place
that they have stoutly cherished. They relate how
Maxim Kurochkin,
regarded
by many as the most talented of the new wave of
dramatists, had so
internalised the testimony of the vagrants he had
worked with that he
performed without a script, taking questions from the
audience and
answering in character. It's not just writers who
benefit from
verbatim.
The process releases actors, too, from the prison of a
literary
tradition
that has left them unused to evoking the contemporary
on stage.

A whirlwind tour one day with Vassily Chernov, a young
theatre
producer,
makes me feel that every place where we alight has
potential for drama:
whether it's the new Bagration Bridge - a
river-spanning megalopolis of
shops and banks; or the Park of Sculptures, a
fascinating knacker's
yard of
discredited iconic monuments; or the poverty-stricken
apartment in the
centre of the city where an old lady occupies half a
former baronial
ballroom, but has no toilet or bathing facilities.

The opening festivities at Theatr.doc are
high-spirited and
low-maintenance. The venue, with its studio-sized
performance space, is
still a bit of a building site and, to symbolise the
abrasive intent of
the
project, the writers, directors, and friends and
supporters are each
given
a square of black emery paper to nail to the walls.
There are tributes
to
and from the Royal Court, and future verbatim schemes
are outlined -
one
involves asking Russia's elderly folk, who have gone
through violent
vicissitudes in the past century, what ambitions they
have for the rest
of
their lives. I have read the work they have done in
translation, and
the
quality is extraordinarily high. I tease some of the
playwrights that
the
time will come when there's no community left to
explore. I also
suggest,
fancifully at first, that they should do a verbatim
piece about the
dramatists of the immediately preceding generation,
whom history dealt
a
dud hand. Too late to be of the Alexander Gelman
anti-Soviet-corruption
school, and too early to take full flight with this
new generation, to
which some of them react, apparently, with
understandable jealousy.

Then it occurs to me that this might not be a bad
idea: the young
making a
real imaginative effort to understand their immediate
forebears, as
Russian
new-writing theatre moves forward into what looks set
to be an exciting
future.

International Playwrights Season, Royal Court, London
SW1 (020-7565
5100).
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From esyellen at HOTMAIL.COM  Thu Mar  7 13:24:21 2002
From: esyellen at HOTMAIL.COM (Elizabeth Sara Yellen)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:24:21 -0500
Subject: Job opening: high school Russian teacher
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.082421.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

If interested, please reply off-list to Michael Milkie (see info below).

-- Elizabeth Yellen

>Be part of an exciting, high profile, Chicago charter high school!  Noble
>Street Charter High School has a Fall 2002 opening for a Russian teacher.
>Long hours, but good pay and great kids.  Fax resume to Michael Milkie,
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From Mourka at HVC.RR.COM  Thu Mar  7 13:54:26 2002
From: Mourka at HVC.RR.COM (Mourka)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:54:26 -0500
Subject: International playwrights' season, London
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.085426.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Charles Price,

I don't know how to get in touch with you other than through this list, so I hope you will be able to answer me off list.  My email address is:  mourka at hvc.rr.com

I am very interested in getting in touch with Paul Taylor or anyone from the theatre organization that you had mentioned in your email to Seelangs.

Please let me know of any email addresses that I could contact.

Thank you.

Margarita Meyendorff

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From young at UMBC.EDU  Thu Mar  7 14:22:00 2002
From: young at UMBC.EDU (Steven Young)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:22:00 -0500
Subject: Russ. zajti : vojti
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.092200.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Colleagues,

In dealing with students who were born in the former Soviet Union and are
native speakers of Russian (we have quite a few on campus), I've long
observed usages which are non-normative but seem to have become de-facto
norms in everyday spoken Russian, like odet' [sviter] rather than nadet',
or ezhaj / ed' as the imperfective imperative of exat' (I won't bring up
kushat' : est' again!).  I was reminded of the whole question of norms in
reading in a student essay "on zashol v komnatu"--for many native-speaker
students I've dealt with, 'zajti' seems to have almost replaced 'vojti' in
the context of going into a room.  I remember one student trying to draw a
slight semantic distinction for me, though I couldn't follow her
intuitions.  Any comments?

Steve Young.

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From dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Thu Mar  7 14:35:30 2002
From: dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:35:30 -0500
Subject: Russ. zajti : vojti
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0203070920160.2428-100000@umbc7.umbc.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.093530.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

In the former Soviet Union, many people did not pay much attention to how
they should speak correctly, and interchangeable usage of the verbs with a
very close but clearly distinct meanings was quite common. However, the
norms were strictly observed in the mass media. So, it is not surprising
that their children do not follow the strict usage rules which were
abandoned by their parents.
If you are interested in the distinction between those verbs, I'll be glad
to answer any specific question you might have.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>


On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Steven Young wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> In dealing with students who were born in the former Soviet Union and are
> native speakers of Russian (we have quite a few on campus), I've long
> observed usages which are non-normative but seem to have become de-facto
> norms in everyday spoken Russian, like odet' [sviter] rather than nadet',
> or ezhaj / ed' as the imperfective imperative of exat' (I won't bring up
> kushat' : est' again!).  I was reminded of the whole question of norms in
> reading in a student essay "on zashol v komnatu"--for many native-speaker
> students I've dealt with, 'zajti' seems to have almost replaced 'vojti' in
> the context of going into a room.  I remember one student trying to draw a
> slight semantic distinction for me, though I couldn't follow her
> intuitions.  Any comments?
>
> Steve Young.
>
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From mdenner at STETSON.EDU  Thu Mar  7 16:35:52 2002
From: mdenner at STETSON.EDU (Michael Denner)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 11:35:52 -0500
Subject: modifiers declension question (Russian language question)
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.113552.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

I have a pretty weak background in historical linguistics, but an abiding
interest. Two questions have been bugging me about modifiers when teaching
Russian & I was wondering if any linguists out there could answer them.

First: Why is the modifier ending for мой/твой/свой -ей and not -ёй as it
should be? That is to say that these possessive pronouns SHOULD have the
usual -ой ending, which would manifest itself as моёй твоёй, итд. but
instead we get моей, итд. This inexplicable shift in endings causes my
elementary Russian students no end of trouble, and I want to give them some
reasonable explanation rather than just saying (as I do now) that languages
are arbitrary and capricious. Is there a historical explanation for this
"irregularity"? I've always assumed some sort of South Slavic influence.

Second: When did gender distinction in the plural disappear from Russian? I
seem to remember that other Slavic languages (viz. Czech) keep a distinction
between feminine and masculine modifiers and nouns in the plural. Russian
doesn't, though it appears that all adjectives are marked as masculine
(-ых, -ым, etc) and the nouns are all marked feminine (-ах, -ых, etc.) in
the plural. Is that observation right? In what other Slavic languages did
gender remain in the plural? Is the disappearance a mark of all E. Slavic
languages?

Sorry for the amateurish questions -- I looked for explanations in what few
resources I have and couldn't find an answer.

<|><|><|><|><|><|><|>
Michael A. Denner
Russian Studies Department
Campus Unit 8361
Stetson University
DeLand, FL 32720
904.822.7265
http://www.stetson.edu/organizations/russian_club/mypage.htm

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From reei at INDIANA.EDU  Thu Mar  7 17:46:03 2002
From: reei at INDIANA.EDU (REEI-David Ransel)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:46:03 -0500
Subject: Indiana University SWSEEL 2002
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.124603.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

ANNOUNCEMENT

The Summer Workshop at Indiana University (June 14-August 9) is pleased to
announce that it has received funding from the ACLS for the following
Central and East European languages:

- First-year Romanian, Serbian/Croatian, and Slovene

These 8-week courses offer 10 hours of credit and they are tuition-free to
graduate students in the East/Central European area. In addition to the
courses listed above, we will offer first-year Czech, Polish, and
Hungarian. FLAS Fellowship opportunities are available for all listed
courses.

The Summer Workshop also offers Russian (first to sixth year); languages
of Central Asia (first- and second-year Azeri, Kazak, Turkmen, and Uzbek);
and first-year Georgian and Tibetan.

For more information, call 812-855-1648 or 812-855-2608 or e-mail:
jkolodzi at indiana.edu  or:  swseel at indiana.edu

Jerzy Kolodziej, Director
Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages
Indiana University

http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel.shtml

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Russian & East European Institute
Ballantine Hall 565, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
(812)855-7309     (812)855-6411 (fax)
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From reei at INDIANA.EDU  Thu Mar  7 17:59:54 2002
From: reei at INDIANA.EDU (REEI-David Ransel)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:59:54 -0500
Subject: SWSEEL - Russian for Heritage Speakers
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.125954.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Russian for Heritage Speakers: Four-week session, June 14-July 12

The Summer Workshop at Indiana University is pleased to offer a four-week
intensive five-credit course intended for those speakers who possess a
home knowledge of Russian, but who do not have a native Russian's full
educational background. Since heritage speakers are already able to speak
Russian and possess a good grammar base, this course will focus on quickly
developing reading and writing skills. The latter parts of the course are
designed to focus on filling in students' gaps in grammar and cultural
background. The course will meet for 20 hours per week and it will use the
new text Russkii dlia Russkikh by Akishina, Kagan, and Robin.

Following the course, students may wish to sign up for a four-week third-
or fourth-year Russian course and receive an additional five hours of
transferable credit from Indiana University.

Jerzy Kolodziej, Director
Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages
Indiana University

http://www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel.shtml

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(812)855-7309     (812)855-6411 (fax)
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb

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From J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK  Thu Mar  7 18:06:52 2002
From: J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK (J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:06:52 +0000
Subject: modifiers declension question (Russian language question)
In-Reply-To: <MABBICENANMNMGBKLKJIKELHCHAA.mdenner@stetson.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.180652.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Here are some suggested answers to Michael Denner's questions.

>First: Why is the modifier ending for Õ¦ /'צ /"צ  -‰  and not -£  as it
>should be?

Since the change e>o does not take place before soft consonants
(including/j/), it is the pronouns with -ej that are virtuous and the nouns
with -joj that are perverse and capricious.  I would blame the discrepancy
on the usual suspect - analogy (i.e. with the hard declension pattern with
-oj), noting that Russian eliminates any non-automatic differences between
the hard and soft noun declension patterns.

>Second: When did gender distinction in the plural disappear from Russian?

If you assume that the loss of gender distinction in the plural is a
necessary pre-condition for the spread of the genitive-accusative to
non-masculine personal nouns in the plural and probably also for the
merging of the different declension types in the dative, instrumental and
locative plural, then it must be sometime before the 16th century.  Gender
distinctions enjoyed an artificial reincarnation in the written language
between 1733 and 1918.

As far as I know, gender distinctions are lost in the plural in all East
Slavonic languages and also in Macedonian and Bulgarian.  Most West
Slavonic languages have a two-gender system in the plural: Polish
distinguishes masculine personal from all the rest; obecna cestina
distinguishes masculine animate from the rest; Slovak, it seems, is
somewhere inbetween, but spisovna cestina also distinguishes neuter.
Sorbian is complicated, and I will leave it to someone else. I understand
that Slovene and the successor languages to Serbo-Croat have the same
three-gender system in the plural as in the singular.

No doubt someone wiser and more knowledgeable than I will correct all
errors and omissions in the above.

John Dunn.


John Dunn
Department of Slavonic Studies
Hetherington Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8RS
Great Britain

Telephone (+44) 141 330-5591
Fax       (+44) 141 330-2297
e-mail    J.Dunn at slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

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From rrobin at GWU.EDU  Thu Mar  7 20:27:39 2002
From: rrobin at GWU.EDU (Richard Robin)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:27:39 -0500
Subject: Russ. zajti : vojti
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.152739.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I believe it has. -RR
----- Original Message -----
I was reminded of the whole question of norms in
> reading in a student essay "on zashol v komnatu"--for many native-speaker
> students I've dealt with, 'zajti' seems to have almost replaced 'vojti' in
> the context of going into a room.

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From Subhash.Jaireth at GA.GOV.AU  Thu Mar  7 22:13:48 2002
From: Subhash.Jaireth at GA.GOV.AU (Subhash.Jaireth at GA.GOV.AU)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 09:13:48 +1100
Subject: Churches/Mosques
Message-ID: <FRI.8.MAR.2002.091348.1100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

                Dear Friends,

                Thanks a lot for your response on the origin of the name
Volga. I have however another question for which the list members may have
an answer.

                It si well known that the St Sophia in
Constantinopole/Byzantium/Istambul was rebuilt and minarets were added to
it. Such re-building and metamorphoses of 'sacred' spaces is quite common in
history. For instance the list members might be aware of the controversy
around the Babri Masjid (Mosque) in India. Explaining the concept of
heterotopia, Foucault notes that the spaces in which we live are not
homogenous or empty. Henri Lefebvre likens these spaces  to the structure of
flaky mille-feuille pastry.

                I was wondering in this regard if in Russia, in cities such
as Kazan or Astrakhan, mosques were displaced or replaced by churches? I'll
also be interested to know if the reverse was also true (Mosques replacing
Churches).

                Thanks and best wishes


                Subhash

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From russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU  Thu Mar  7 22:25:23 2002
From: russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU (Russell Valentino)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:25:23 -0600
Subject: new films
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.162523.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I am looking for recent films that would be suitable and available for
showing at a local art cinema. Please send any recommendations you might
have to me at russell-valentino at uiowa.edu.

Thanks in advance.
Russell Valentino
Associate Professor
Russian Co-chair
Director, CREEES

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From russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU  Thu Mar  7 22:35:51 2002
From: russell-valentino at UIOWA.EDU (Russell Valentino)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:35:51 -0600
Subject: new films
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.163551.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Forgive me for not specifying. I have in mind films from the portions of
the world generally associated with this list.




Russell Valentino
Associate Professor
Russian Co-chair
Director, CREEES

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From ggerhart at ATTBI.COM  Thu Mar  7 23:26:13 2002
From: ggerhart at ATTBI.COM (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:26:13 -0800
Subject: un-holy-day
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seelangers:
This is a reminder that 8 March is Women's Day in the old country and is
still being celebrated. Cards, flowers, candy, etc. And a day off!

Genevra Gerhart

http://home.attbi.com/~ggerhart
New email address: ggerhart at attbi.com
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From brifkin at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU  Fri Mar  8 03:06:14 2002
From: brifkin at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 21:06:14 -0600
Subject: teddy bears in Russia(n)
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.210614.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers:

Some of my students are wondering about the history of the Teddy Bear
in Russia:  specifically, they are wondering if this cultural icon is
home grown, as I suspect, or if it's a borrowing from the US or
western cultures after the appearance of the teddy bear in the US
(around the time or shortly after the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt.)

Thanks for any tips you can give me.

- Ben Rifkin

--


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
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From ggerhart at ATTBI.COM  Fri Mar  8 05:30:35 2002
From: ggerhart at ATTBI.COM (Genevra Gerhart)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 21:30:35 -0800
Subject: teddy bears, over there
Message-ID: <THU.7.MAR.2002.213035.0800.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Ben,
I suspect as you suspect -- Russian Mishkas have little to do with Teddy
Bears.  In one of the best examples of good academic writing that I have
seen, Jack Haney describes Bears for Russians in "An Introduction to the
Russian Folktale", M. E. Sharpe, 1999. It is brief, clear and elegant,
qualities that academic writing rarely achieves.

Genevra Gerhart

http://home.attbi.com/~ggerhart
New email address: ggerhart at attbi.com
206-329-0053

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From peitlova at TISCALINET.IT  Fri Mar  8 09:31:37 2002
From: peitlova at TISCALINET.IT (Edil Legno)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:31:37 +0100
Subject: zajti-vojti
Message-ID: <FRI.8.MAR.2002.103137.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

On zashol v komnatu   -   is correct.  Correct usage of  zashol /voshol depends on the context.
Even (native)Russian speakers  (students) make
mistakes  .Only fact that they are Russians doesn't mean that they are correct all the time. I've taught
at Russian school (in former Soviet Union) and the students made a lot of mistakes. It's very strange,but one of the most common mistake is:"izvinite " - Russians use to write "izvenite", and another error - they put "mjagkij znak" in 3.person sing.
I still translate  the letters (correspondence) between Russian and Italian students and they continue write with mistakes.
Katarìna Peitlovà,Ph.Dr.

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From jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU  Fri Mar  8 17:06:24 2002
From: jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Jolanta M. Davis)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:06:24 -0500
Subject: Fwd: Grad programs survey
Message-ID: <FRI.8.MAR.2002.120624.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Hello,
I hope someone might be able to help Brian with getting the right
information. Please respond directly to him.
thanks as always
Jolanta


>Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:21:09 -0800 (PST)
>From: Brian Hannon <gorsloth at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Grad programs survey
>To: newsnet at fas.harvard.edu
>
>To: Jolanta Davis
>AAASS News Net
>
>Hi Ms. Davis,
>
>I'm a freelance journalist working on a story about
>Boston-area Russian Studies programs.
>I'm trying to garner some enrollment figures for
>either regional or national Russian Studies programs.
>At this point, I'm under
>the gun and could use anything I can find that might
>be close. If you can help, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Brian Hannon
>
>
>
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From gladney at UX6.CSO.UIUC.EDU  Fri Mar  8 16:45:29 2002
From: gladney at UX6.CSO.UIUC.EDU (gladney frank y)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:45:29 -0600
Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 6 Mar 2002 to 7 Mar 2002 - Special issue
 (#2002-59)
In-Reply-To: <200203080305.g2835bv21432@ux6.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Dear Michael A. Denner:

Your historical linguistics query would attract  more interest and draw
more responses if more of us could read it.  Could you please repeat your
query and *transliterate*  cyrillic characters?

Frank Y. Gladney

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From peitlova at TISCALINET.IT  Fri Mar  8 16:51:04 2002
From: peitlova at TISCALINET.IT (Edil Legno)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 17:51:04 +0100
Subject: Churches/Mosques
Message-ID: <FRI.8.MAR.2002.175104.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

There are some books dealing  this argument:

"Kazan.The Enchanted Capital"
(Flint River Press.Ltd.London,1995)

"The Decorative Applied Art of the Kazan Tatars"(Sovietsky Khudozhnik Publishers,Moscow,1990.)
 
In 1552 Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible) conquered Kazan and annexed Kazan Khanate to Russian State. Tatar population was ousted to the suburbs. The violent christianiziation began. Close to the end of the XVI century Tatar Settlement became the place where Tatar people lived.
In 1556 under guidance of Russian church and city master Postnik Jakovlev the white stone parts of new Kazan Kremlin were built with Spasskaya Tower,Taynitskaja Tower and Annunciation Cathedral - built in place of Kremlin  Cathedral Mosque.In 1593 the Ukase of Tsar Theodor Ionnovitch to destroy all mosques at the Kazan territory was edited.
Katherine II abolished the prohibition to built mosques, and the first stone Mosque arose in Kazan in 1766-70;it was named after Mardzhani - the scientist-orientalist,philosopher and educator.

Katarìna Peitlovà,Ph.Dr.

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From lgoering at CARLETON.EDU  Fri Mar  8 17:19:17 2002
From: lgoering at CARLETON.EDU (Laura Goering)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:19:17 -0600
Subject: Pelevin translation
Message-ID: <FRI.8.MAR.2002.111917.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Seelangers,
    The last few paragraphs of the Andrew Bromfield (Penguin) translation
of Pelevin's Life of Insects is drastically different from the only Russian
version I have been able to find.  Can anyone tell me what is going on? Thanks.
lgoering at carleton.edu

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Laura Goering
Associate Professor of Russian
Dept. of German and Russian
Carleton College
Northfield, MN 55057
Tel: 507-646-4125

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From jknox at BOWDOIN.EDU  Fri Mar  8 17:27:13 2002
From: jknox at BOWDOIN.EDU (Jane Knox-Voina)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:27:13 -0500
Subject: congratulations
Message-ID: <FRI.8.MAR.2002.122713.0500.>

Happy Women's Day! For those of you who don't know this is an
international holiday. If you have Internet explorer you should be able
to open the following and view the films of what happens on this holiday
in Kiev.  Please be tolerant of the typos that still remain in the
program. For some reason the html program does not like i kratkaya when
it comes at the end of a word: it either omits it or adds on garbage.

Jane Knox-Voina
Russian Department
Bowdoin College

http://academic.bowdoin.edu/russian/grammatushka/content.rmhtml?unit=9&page=6

http://academic.bowdoin.edu/russian/grammatushka/content.rmhtml?unit=9&page=7

http://academic.bowdoin.edu/russian/grammatushka/content.rmhtml?unit=9&page=7

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From rikoun at FAS.HARVARD.EDU  Fri Mar  8 21:13:48 2002
From: rikoun at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Polina Rikoun)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:13:48 -0500
Subject: Russ. zajti : vojti
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0203070920160.2428-100000@umbc7.umbc.edu>
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I would certainly use vojti in "On voshel v komnatu," zajti sounds wrong
to me in this sentence.  Maybe this is partly a question of regional
variation, where zajti may be replacing vojti in some places but not
others.  (I grew up in Odessa and do not remember hearing "zajti" being
used instead of "vojti" there.)

Best,
Polina Rikoun
Harvard University

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Steven Young wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> In dealing with students who were born in the former Soviet Union and are
> native speakers of Russian (we have quite a few on campus), I've long
> observed usages which are non-normative but seem to have become de-facto
> norms in everyday spoken Russian, like odet' [sviter] rather than nadet',
> or ezhaj / ed' as the imperfective imperative of exat' (I won't bring up
> kushat' : est' again!).  I was reminded of the whole question of norms in
> reading in a student essay "on zashol v komnatu"--for many native-speaker
> students I've dealt with, 'zajti' seems to have almost replaced 'vojti' in
> the context of going into a room.  I remember one student trying to draw a
> slight semantic distinction for me, though I couldn't follow her
> intuitions.  Any comments?
>
> Steve Young.
>
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From Esjogren at NC.RR.COM  Fri Mar  8 21:42:53 2002
From: Esjogren at NC.RR.COM (Ernie Sjogren)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:42:53 -0500
Subject: teddy bears in Russia(n)
Message-ID: <FRI.8.MAR.2002.164253.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Professor Rifkin,

Some Russians, at least, credit Margaret Steiff as originator of the plush
bear:

http://www.rambler.ru/db/news/msg.html?mid=2126977

And your students can find many references to wade through via search
engines:

http://www.type.ru/

Best,

Ernie Sjogren



----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Rifkin" <brifkin at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:06 PM
Subject: teddy bears in Russia(n)


> Dear SEELANGers:
>
> Some of my students are wondering about the history of the Teddy Bear
> in Russia:  specifically, they are wondering if this cultural icon is
> home grown, as I suspect, or if it's a borrowing from the US or
> western cultures after the appearance of the teddy bear in the US
> (around the time or shortly after the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt.)
>
> Thanks for any tips you can give me.
>
> - Ben Rifkin
>
> --
>
>
> 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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From cmills at KNOX.EDU  Fri Mar  8 22:41:06 2002
From: cmills at KNOX.EDU (Charles Mills)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:41:06 -0600
Subject: Mach a Sebestova
Message-ID: <FRI.8.MAR.2002.164106.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Members on the List,

I have a question.  There is a line I remember from the Czech children's story
_Mach a Sebestova_, but I'm not sure if I am gettng it 100% right.  If memory
serves, the line is:

... protoze brejle bez brejli se spatne hledaji.

Could that possibly be???  If you know, please reply.  PLEASE RESPOND OFF LINE
(cmills at knox.edu).  Many thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Charles Mills

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From zaitsevs at EARTHLINK.NET  Sat Mar  9 00:19:46 2002
From: zaitsevs at EARTHLINK.NET (Andrei and Stephanie Zaitsev)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 19:19:46 -0500
Subject: Russ. zajti : vojti
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0203070941270.27272-100000@is06.fas.harvard.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.8.MAR.2002.191946.0500.>

I would say that VOITI and ZAITI might be replaceable and incompatible
within the same context. The reason is that, on the one hand, these verbs
have different meanings: voiti = to enter; zaiti = to stop by. On the other
hand, semantic component: 'to walk in' is common for both verbs.

VOITI # ZAITI (On voshiol v komnatu. Vs. On zashiol v komnatu za gazetoi.)
The sentence 'On zashiol v komnatu' sounds wrong because the context doesn't
allow the meaning 'for a short time' - he walked into the room and he is
here (vs. On zakhodil v komnatu. - which is fine.).  Also, 'On voshiol v
komnatu za gazetoi' sounds wrong because 'on voshiol' means 'he is still
here' but 'za gazetoi' (he was outside, he was looking for gazeta, he
stepped into komnata, he found gazeta, he walked out),- is a purpose for a
short 'step in' (compare to: On vkhodil v komnatu za gazetoi. - which sounds
ok.)

VOITI = ZAITI (On voshiol v komnatu i skazal..... = On zashiol v komnatu i
skazal.....) In both sentences, the component of meaning 'to walk in' is
highlighted while the component of 'for a short time' (expressed by 'zaiti')
is not relevant for this particular context. That is why both verbs may be
use as synonyms.

I might be wrong.

Andrei Zaitsev


-----Original Message-----
From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Polina Rikoun
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 4:14 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: Russ. zajti : vojti

I would certainly use vojti in "On voshel v komnatu," zajti sounds wrong
to me in this sentence.  Maybe this is partly a question of regional
variation, where zajti may be replacing vojti in some places but not
others.  (I grew up in Odessa and do not remember hearing "zajti" being
used instead of "vojti" there.)

Best,
Polina Rikoun
Harvard University

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Steven Young wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> In dealing with students who were born in the former Soviet Union and are
> native speakers of Russian (we have quite a few on campus), I've long
> observed usages which are non-normative but seem to have become de-facto
> norms in everyday spoken Russian, like odet' [sviter] rather than nadet',
> or ezhaj / ed' as the imperfective imperative of exat' (I won't bring up
> kushat' : est' again!).  I was reminded of the whole question of norms in
> reading in a student essay "on zashol v komnatu"--for many native-speaker
> students I've dealt with, 'zajti' seems to have almost replaced 'vojti' in
> the context of going into a room.  I remember one student trying to draw a
> slight semantic distinction for me, though I couldn't follow her
> intuitions.  Any comments?
>
> Steve Young.
>
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From ogdenj at GWM.SC.EDU  Sat Mar  9 16:53:38 2002
From: ogdenj at GWM.SC.EDU (Alexander Ogden)
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 11:53:38 -0500
Subject: incineration of Kamkin inventory
Message-ID: <SAT.9.MAR.2002.115338.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

To view the entire article, go to 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63646-2002Mar8.html

Final Chapter for a Cold War Relic

By Dana Hedgpeth

In its heyday, the sprawling bookstore tucked into a nondescript industrial 
park behind White Flint Mall in Rockville was a curious outpost of the Cold 
War.

Researchers, Russophiles and spies made their way to Victor Kamkin Inc., 
which for decades collected and sold books detailing every aspect of life 
and history in the Soviet Union, all in their original Russian. A little 
more than 1 million bound volumes were in the last inventory, taken two 
years ago. Workers there estimate there could be nearly 2 million books and 
other published materials today.

On Monday morning, Montgomery County sheriff's deputies are expected to 
receive the entire collection at the county incinerator.

Victor Kamkin Inc., named for the Russian emigré who founded it 50 years 
ago, is being evicted, a victim of the Cold War's demise and declining 
demand for Russian books. With no buyer for the collection, its landlord 
arranged for the entire stock to be destroyed.

"It's a real shame to think these will become a book burning," said Igor 
Kalageorgi, the great-nephew of Victor Kamkin and the store's owner. Late 
yesterday afternoon, from his bed at Suburban Hospital, he was still trying 
to negotiate with his landlord to save the books. He went to the hospital 
Thursday for bleeding ulcers.

Victor Kamkin Inc. for decades was a strange middleman in the Cold War. It 
reflected the geopolitics of its time, selling obscure titles to agents 
from the CIA as well as the KGB, who were supposedly photographed by the 
other side as they came and went. A capitalist business in one of America's 
wealthiest counties, Kamkin nonetheless profited mightily from Soviet 
subsidies and a state-owned publishing monopoly. Among its musty stacks 
could be found the popular "Dr. Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak -- banned in 
the Soviet Union -- and esoteric titles such as "Problems in Crystal 
Physics With Solutions." A quarter of the store's sales were to U.S. 
government agencies.

The Soviet government subsidized Victor Kamkin, said Larry Miller, 
librarian of the Slavic collection at the University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign, who has done about $25,000 worth of business a year with 
Kamkin for 42 years. "Essentially, the Soviets were paying the rent because 
the books were so cheap," Miller said.

When the state publishing monopoly collapsed with the Soviet Union, Kamkin 
could no longer count on either the assured delivery or low prices it had 
for years. Interest in Russian-language books waned. More book importers 
entered the market. By last year, Kamkin couldn't pay the $15,000 monthly 
rent for its warehouse.

Kamkin is $200,000 behind in payments to its landlord, Allen Kronstadt of 
Randolph Buildings L.P., and in December eviction proceedings began.

Normally in an eviction, anything left in the rented space is piled up on 
the curbside. That usually amounts to a few items of furniture or clothing. 
But the sheriff said putting nearly 2 million books on the street was 
impossible. Sheriff's deputies insisted that Kronstadt take the books away 
-- destroy them if he had to -- to keep them off the street.

"There would be nowhere to put that many books in the public right of way," 
said Lt. John Dean, who has been handling the case for the sheriff's 
department.

The landlord, who has been taking books he wants on Russian Jewish history 
off Kamkin's shelves in recent days, tried several book publishers, a 
Russian newspaper, an auctioneer and libraries with special collections, 
but to no avail.

"I've had a publisher tell me, sure, he'd want maybe 5,000 or 10,000 of the 
rarest ones, but not a million," Kronstadt said.

So laborers have been hired to load the collection from the 
20,000-square-foot warehouse onto trucks and haul it to the county transfer 
station, where they could be burned.

Kronstadt, not eager to be seen as a man who burns books, said he was 
looking into recycling options, which would mean, essentially, pulping them.

"Kamkin provided the Russian community with a good choice of books," said 
Oleg Kalugin, a retired KGB general and former member of Soviet parliament. 
"It's a pity. It's a loss for Washington," he said of Kamkin's closing.

Kamkin once was one of only two American importers of Soviet-published 
books and periodicals. Generations of Russian immigrants ordered magazines 
and newspapers from Kamkin.

Kamkin, who was a lawyer, was also said to have been a officer in the 
Russian imperial army who fled to China from Russia shortly before the 
Bolshevik October Revolution in 1917. There, he started publishing Russian 
classics that became popular for the fairly large Russian population in China.

Kamkin came to the United States in 1949 and briefly ran a pig farm in 
Tennessee. But after a heart attack, he moved to Washington in 1953, where 
he opened his first bookstore on 14th Street. "He had one shelf of books 
when he first started," said Kalageorgi, his great-nephew.

Kamkin cultivated a long business relationship with the Soviet government's 
International Book Co. It made Kamkin's business extremely valuable to 
Americans who wanted to find out what the Soviet government was telling its 
citizens in the form of literature, newspapers and textbooks.

At its peak, Kamkin employed 40 mostly Russian immigrants.  A quarter of 
the store's business was with the federal government, such as the CIA and 
the National Security Agency.

"It was agencies that you weren't supposed to know existed ordering stuff," 
Kalageorgi said.

Kamkin often had books in Russian that were banned in the Soviet Union, 
including works by Pasternak and Osip Mandelstam, a poet who was tortured 
in Stalin's prisons.

"You couldn't get Mandelstam's books in Russia, but Kamkin would have 
them," said Kalugin, who now lives in Silver Spring and has frequented 
Kamkin's store for decades.

  Kamkin's business was helped by his relationship with the Soviet 
government, which was eager to have a U.S. distributor for its publications 
and sold them to Kamkin cheap.

"The books were treated as propaganda. The Soviets were interested in 
getting as many Russian books into the U.S. as possible and Kamkin was one 
of the ways they did it," Miller said.

"By the 1950s, they were the premier supplier of materials from the 
U.S.S.R.," said John Daly, whose father was a professor of Russian studies 
at the Naval Academy who started buying books from Kamkin more than four 
decades ago and created a 7,000 volume library -- mostly from Kamkin.

After Kamkin died in 1974, his wife, Elena, took over the company's stores 
in New York, Rockville and Reisterstown.

Kamkin has struggled for 10 years with declining sales. It grosses about $1 
million a year.

"Ever since the Cold War ended, it was like a snap with our business," 
Kalageorgi said.

Shortly after taking over, Kalageorgi closed the New York store and has 
moved some of the rare books from Rockville to the Reisterstown store. He 
plans to continue operating in Reisterstown but that store can't 
accommodate any more of the Rockville store's collection.

The amount of material to be cleared out is immense. In the front is a 
small store with a few racks of cards, trinkets, matryoshka dolls and CDs. 
In the back is the warehouse where there are rows and rows of books, packed 
tightly, floor to ceiling. Yesterday employees were busily moving books 
around, trying to help a few last-minute customers find rare treasures in 
the stacks.

"This is the Elvis of Russia," said Nathaly Nikitina, a 57-year-old store 
employee from Russia, as she held up a record by Vladimir Vysotsky, called 
"Sons Are Leaving for Battle," with a $3 red price tag on it. Company 
health benefits for Nikitina and her 16-year-old daughter were canceled 
three months ago, but Nikitina, who makes $12 an hour, and about a dozen 
other workers keep showing up.

"I came to work here my first day in America," 17 years ago in the New York 
store, she said. When the former manager, Anatoly Zabavsky, told her that 
New York was "no place to raise a young girl," she came to the Rockville store.

"I like it here. This is what I know. These books," she said as she handled 
"Crime and Punishment" by Feodor Dostoevski.

Also slated for destruction: the two-inch-thick red book telling of 50 
years of the Russian Red Army's activities, including its march across 
Eastern Europe shown with colored maps; selected writings and letters of 
such Russian greats as Pasternak and Maxim Gorky; large-print books for 
children by Alexander Pushkin; and more than 20 volumes of Russian history 
by Sergei Solovev in green leather binding.

A few rows down near the back are books by Vasily Shukshin, a Russian 
writer and actor who died in 1974. And nearby lies a $13.95 copy of 
selected works by Mikhail Bulgakov, a popular writer of satire.

The store will be open over the weekend for a clearance sale.

"I thought I could save it," Kalageorgi said, as he opened bills in a tall, 
black leather chair in his office of his family's business Thursday 
afternoon. "Most of the people working here are Jewish refugees. They've 
worked here for years. I don't know what they're going to do. It's a bit of 
a mess."


--------------------------------
Dr. J. Alexander Ogden
Assistant Professor of Russian
Graduate Director, Program in Comparative Literature
Humanities Office Bldg, 9th floor
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
(803) 777-9573; fax: (803) 777-0132

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From jobailey at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU  Sat Mar  9 23:17:56 2002
From: jobailey at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU (James Bailey)
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 17:17:56 -0600
Subject: incineration of Kamkin inventory
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At 11:53 AM 3/9/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>To view the entire article, go to 
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63646-2002Mar8.html
>
>Final Chapter for a Cold War Relic
>
>By Dana Hedgpeth
>
>In its heyday, the sprawling bookstore tucked into a nondescript 
>industrial park behind White Flint Mall in Rockville was a curious outpost 
>of the Cold War.
>
>Researchers, Russophiles and spies made their way to Victor Kamkin Inc., 
>which for decades collected and sold books detailing every aspect of life 
>and history in the Soviet Union, all in their original Russian. A little 
>more than 1 million bound volumes were in the last inventory, taken two 
>years ago. Workers there estimate there could be nearly 2 million books 
>and other published materials today.
>
>On Monday morning, Montgomery County sheriff's deputies are expected to 
>receive the entire collection at the county incinerator.
>
>Victor Kamkin Inc., named for the Russian emigrИ who founded it 50 years 
>ago, is being evicted, a victim of the Cold War's demise and declining 
>demand for Russian books. With no buyer for the collection, its landlord 
>arranged for the entire stock to be destroyed.
>
>"It's a real shame to think these will become a book burning," said Igor 
>Kalageorgi, the great-nephew of Victor Kamkin and the store's owner. Late 
>yesterday afternoon, from his bed at Suburban Hospital, he was still 
>trying to negotiate with his landlord to save the books. He went to the 
>hospital Thursday for bleeding ulcers.
>
>Victor Kamkin Inc. for decades was a strange middleman in the Cold War. It 
>reflected the geopolitics of its time, selling obscure titles to agents 
>from the CIA as well as the KGB, who were supposedly photographed by the 
>other side as they came and went. A capitalist business in one of 
>America's wealthiest counties, Kamkin nonetheless profited mightily from 
>Soviet subsidies and a state-owned publishing monopoly. Among its musty 
>stacks could be found the popular "Dr. Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak -- 
>banned in the Soviet Union -- and esoteric titles such as "Problems in 
>Crystal Physics With Solutions." A quarter of the store's sales were to 
>U.S. government agencies.
>
>The Soviet government subsidized Victor Kamkin, said Larry Miller, 
>librarian of the Slavic collection at the University of Illinois at 
>Urbana-Champaign, who has done about $25,000 worth of business a year with 
>Kamkin for 42 years. "Essentially, the Soviets were paying the rent 
>because the books were so cheap," Miller said.
>
>When the state publishing monopoly collapsed with the Soviet Union, Kamkin 
>could no longer count on either the assured delivery or low prices it had 
>for years. Interest in Russian-language books waned. More book importers 
>entered the market. By last year, Kamkin couldn't pay the $15,000 monthly 
>rent for its warehouse.
>
>Kamkin is $200,000 behind in payments to its landlord, Allen Kronstadt of 
>Randolph Buildings L.P., and in December eviction proceedings began.
>
>Normally in an eviction, anything left in the rented space is piled up on 
>the curbside. That usually amounts to a few items of furniture or 
>clothing. But the sheriff said putting nearly 2 million books on the 
>street was impossible. Sheriff's deputies insisted that Kronstadt take the 
>books away -- destroy them if he had to -- to keep them off the street.
>
>"There would be nowhere to put that many books in the public right of 
>way," said Lt. John Dean, who has been handling the case for the sheriff's 
>department.
>
>The landlord, who has been taking books he wants on Russian Jewish history 
>off Kamkin's shelves in recent days, tried several book publishers, a 
>Russian newspaper, an auctioneer and libraries with special collections, 
>but to no avail.
>
>"I've had a publisher tell me, sure, he'd want maybe 5,000 or 10,000 of 
>the rarest ones, but not a million," Kronstadt said.
>
>So laborers have been hired to load the collection from the 
>20,000-square-foot warehouse onto trucks and haul it to the county 
>transfer station, where they could be burned.
>
>Kronstadt, not eager to be seen as a man who burns books, said he was 
>looking into recycling options, which would mean, essentially, pulping them.
>
>"Kamkin provided the Russian community with a good choice of books," said 
>Oleg Kalugin, a retired KGB general and former member of Soviet 
>parliament. "It's a pity. It's a loss for Washington," he said of Kamkin's 
>closing.
>
>Kamkin once was one of only two American importers of Soviet-published 
>books and periodicals. Generations of Russian immigrants ordered magazines 
>and newspapers from Kamkin.
>
>Kamkin, who was a lawyer, was also said to have been a officer in the 
>Russian imperial army who fled to China from Russia shortly before the 
>Bolshevik October Revolution in 1917. There, he started publishing Russian 
>classics that became popular for the fairly large Russian population in China.
>
>Kamkin came to the United States in 1949 and briefly ran a pig farm in 
>Tennessee. But after a heart attack, he moved to Washington in 1953, where 
>he opened his first bookstore on 14th Street. "He had one shelf of books 
>when he first started," said Kalageorgi, his great-nephew.
>
>Kamkin cultivated a long business relationship with the Soviet 
>government's International Book Co. It made Kamkin's business extremely 
>valuable to Americans who wanted to find out what the Soviet government 
>was telling its citizens in the form of literature, newspapers and textbooks.
>
>At its peak, Kamkin employed 40 mostly Russian immigrants.  A quarter of 
>the store's business was with the federal government, such as the CIA and 
>the National Security Agency.
>
>"It was agencies that you weren't supposed to know existed ordering 
>stuff," Kalageorgi said.
>
>Kamkin often had books in Russian that were banned in the Soviet Union, 
>including works by Pasternak and Osip Mandelstam, a poet who was tortured 
>in Stalin's prisons.
>
>"You couldn't get Mandelstam's books in Russia, but Kamkin would have 
>them," said Kalugin, who now lives in Silver Spring and has frequented 
>Kamkin's store for decades.
>
>  Kamkin's business was helped by his relationship with the Soviet 
> government, which was eager to have a U.S. distributor for its 
> publications and sold them to Kamkin cheap.
>
>"The books were treated as propaganda. The Soviets were interested in 
>getting as many Russian books into the U.S. as possible and Kamkin was one 
>of the ways they did it," Miller said.
>
>"By the 1950s, they were the premier supplier of materials from the 
>U.S.S.R.," said John Daly, whose father was a professor of Russian studies 
>at the Naval Academy who started buying books from Kamkin more than four 
>decades ago and created a 7,000 volume library -- mostly from Kamkin.
>
>After Kamkin died in 1974, his wife, Elena, took over the company's stores 
>in New York, Rockville and Reisterstown.
>
>Kamkin has struggled for 10 years with declining sales. It grosses about 
>$1 million a year.
>
>"Ever since the Cold War ended, it was like a snap with our business," 
>Kalageorgi said.
>
>Shortly after taking over, Kalageorgi closed the New York store and has 
>moved some of the rare books from Rockville to the Reisterstown store. He 
>plans to continue operating in Reisterstown but that store can't 
>accommodate any more of the Rockville store's collection.
>
>The amount of material to be cleared out is immense. In the front is a 
>small store with a few racks of cards, trinkets, matryoshka dolls and CDs. 
>In the back is the warehouse where there are rows and rows of books, 
>packed tightly, floor to ceiling. Yesterday employees were busily moving 
>books around, trying to help a few last-minute customers find rare 
>treasures in the stacks.
>
>"This is the Elvis of Russia," said Nathaly Nikitina, a 57-year-old store 
>employee from Russia, as she held up a record by Vladimir Vysotsky, called 
>"Sons Are Leaving for Battle," with a $3 red price tag on it. Company 
>health benefits for Nikitina and her 16-year-old daughter were canceled 
>three months ago, but Nikitina, who makes $12 an hour, and about a dozen 
>other workers keep showing up.
>
>"I came to work here my first day in America," 17 years ago in the New 
>York store, she said. When the former manager, Anatoly Zabavsky, told her 
>that New York was "no place to raise a young girl," she came to the 
>Rockville store.
>
>"I like it here. This is what I know. These books," she said as she 
>handled "Crime and Punishment" by Feodor Dostoevski.
>
>Also slated for destruction: the two-inch-thick red book telling of 50 
>years of the Russian Red Army's activities, including its march across 
>Eastern Europe shown with colored maps; selected writings and letters of 
>such Russian greats as Pasternak and Maxim Gorky; large-print books for 
>children by Alexander Pushkin; and more than 20 volumes of Russian history 
>by Sergei Solovev in green leather binding.
>
>A few rows down near the back are books by Vasily Shukshin, a Russian 
>writer and actor who died in 1974. And nearby lies a $13.95 copy of 
>selected works by Mikhail Bulgakov, a popular writer of satire.
>
>The store will be open over the weekend for a clearance sale.
>
>"I thought I could save it," Kalageorgi said, as he opened bills in a 
>tall, black leather chair in his office of his family's business Thursday 
>afternoon. "Most of the people working here are Jewish refugees. They've 
>worked here for years. I don't know what they're going to do. It's a bit 
>of a mess."
>
>
>--------------------------------
>Dr. J. Alexander Ogden
>Assistant Professor of Russian
>Graduate Director, Program in Comparative Literature
>Humanities Office Bldg, 9th floor
>University of South Carolina
>Columbia, SC 29208
>(803) 777-9573; fax: (803) 777-0132
>
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From gadassov at IFRANCE.COM  Sat Mar  9 22:35:37 2002
From: gadassov at IFRANCE.COM (Adassovsky Georges)
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 23:35:37 +0100
Subject: Russ. zajti : vojti
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>Colleagues,
>
>In dealing with students who were born in the former Soviet Union and are
>native speakers of Russian (we have quite a few on campus), I've long
>observed usages which are non-normative but seem to have become de-facto
>norms in everyday spoken Russian, like odet' [sviter] rather than nadet',
>or ezhaj / ed' as the imperfective imperative of exat' (I won't bring up
>kushat' : est' again!).  I was reminded of the whole question of norms in
>reading in a student essay "on zashol v komnatu"--for many native-speaker
>students I've dealt with, 'zajti' seems to have almost replaced 'vojti' in
>the context of going into a room.  I remember one student trying to draw a
>slight semantic distinction for me, though I couldn't follow her
>intuitions.  Any comments?

It's seems to me that:
"Vojti" is neutral : to enter in
While "Zajti" implies some purpose: either to come in to do something, or to see someone.

Georges

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From ad5537 at WAYNE.EDU  Sun Mar 10 17:08:04 2002
From: ad5537 at WAYNE.EDU (Kenneth Brostrom)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:08:04 -0500
Subject: Fwd: Kamkin books, a suggestion
Message-ID: <SUN.10.MAR.2002.120804.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Colleagues, a possibly useful suggestion from another list.

>Delivered-To: h-earlyslavic at h-net.msu.edu
>Approved-By:  Marshall Poe <mpoe at FAS.HARVARD.EDU>
>Date:         Sun, 10 Mar 2002 11:54:23 -0500
>Reply-To: Early Slavic Studies <H-EARLYSLAVIC at H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>Sender: Early Slavic Studies <H-EARLYSLAVIC at H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>From: Marshall Poe <mpoe at fas.harvard.edu>
>Subject:      Kamkin books, an emergency
>To: H-EARLYSLAVIC at H-NET.MSU.EDU
>
>From: mmw27 at cam.ac.uk
>Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 11:22:25 +0100
>To: Early Slavic Studies <H-EARLYSLAVIC at H-NET.MSU.EDU>
>Subject: Re: FW: Kamkin books, an emergency
>
>
>The most obvious person in Washington who might be able to do something is
>James Billington, Librarian of Congress, probably better known to the
>members of this list as the author of "The Icon and the Axe". Perhaps we
>could write to him individually and/or send a joint appeal? I have no idea
>if he can actually do anything, but it's worth a try. His e-mail address
>should be on the web at www.loc.gov
>
>Monica White

--
Kenneth Brostrom
Assoc. Prof. of Russian
Dept. of German and Slavic Studies
443 Manoogian Hall
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
Telephone: (313) 577-6238
FAX (313) 577-3266
E-mail: kenneth.brostrom at wayne.edu

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From jacobsen at GWU.EDU  Sun Mar 10 17:46:45 2002
From: jacobsen at GWU.EDU (Donald Jacobsen)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:46:45 -0500
Subject: Kamkin -- a call for help
Message-ID: <SUN.10.MAR.2002.124645.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

I'm somewhat of an interloper on this list -- I'm not a linguist but
rather a political scientist.  Nevertheless, my area of interest is Russia
and the countries of the former USSR.  I'm currently a Ph.D. student and
research assistant to Peter Reddaway at the George Washington University.

According to this morning's Washington Post, there is a chance of saving
the Kamkin inventory.  Connie Morella, the congresswoman who represents
the Rockville, Maryland location of Kamkin's warehouse, is apparently
working on a deal with the Montgomery County Executive, Douglas Duncan, to
save the books in dumpsters and dump trucks at the site of the incinerator
for a few days to see if anyone will take them.

Many of you probably have Slavic and East European reading rooms in your
libraries; those of you who don't may have reasonably decent Russian
language collections in your general stacks.

WE NEED TO GET THE LIBRARIANS TOGETHER TO AGREE TO TAKE THESE BOOKS AND
SPLIT THEM UP!  How many times have you contacted your library to suggest
that they acquire a Russian language book only to be told "we don't have
the money?"  Now, there are TWO MILLION RUSSIAN BOOKS just sitting around.

I'll be contacting Cathy Zeljak, our Slavic, East European and Asian
Reading Room director, tomorrow and urging her to contact her colleagues.
Would each of you do the same?

Regards,

Donald Jacobsen

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From cheryl07 at SATX.RR.COM  Sun Mar 10 19:10:54 2002
From: cheryl07 at SATX.RR.COM (cheryl07)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:10:54 -0600
Subject: Kamkin books
Message-ID: <SUN.10.MAR.2002.131054.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

This is so sad....I'm not in the profession, just an ex-Russian
major who
struggles to keep up my language skills, but since my parents live
in
Maryland, I've been to Kamkin several times, and even my mother went
shopping there years ago, getting me a Christmas present of matching
lacquered tray, bowls, and spoons.  I've bought records (you see how
long
ago), books, and newspapers there.
   I feel so frustrated to be 2000 miles away, with no possibility
of
getting to Rockville any time soon, thinking of all those books, and
cds,
and everything else, even sitting in dumpsters, let alone being
burned!
   Of course, I have no library director to call, but I might try
contacting the one local university I know teaches Russian to see
what
they might be able to do.
  Donald Jacobsen, keep us up to date, please!
Cheryl Boone-Delgado, in Texas

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From ingersoll at COLUMBIA.EDU  Sun Mar 10 20:10:57 2002
From: ingersoll at COLUMBIA.EDU (Jared Ingersoll)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:10:57 -0500
Subject: Kamkin: a reality check
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Dear Seelangs,

When Kamkin closed up shop in New York in the spring of 2000, I spent
several days combing through their basement store room. While I did find a
little interesting material for Columbia's libraries, it is not an effort I
think would be worthwhile to repeat, nor would I recommend other librarians
steering established collections go out of their way to do so. Except where
a library is interested in starting from scratch, the materials I saw are
either exceptionally common or of exceptionally little potential interest
to scholarly researchers.

To begin with, the stock was in a stunning state of disarray. The basement
warehouse in New York contained miles of shelves filled two and three
volumes deep with standard Soviet and classic Russian literature in many
fields, mostly covered with up to an inch of dust. There was no order to
the arrangement: for instance, botany and chemistry might be interfiled
with architecture and philosophy. There were often hundreds of copies of a
single edition; hundreds of unopened cartons of books; in one place a wall
of books about thirty feet long, eight to ten feet high and at least six
feet deep. Volumes were bent, warped, broken in every imaginable way. This
was a nightmare of uncontrolled inventory. A considerable amount of the
material was contaminated with mold, and therefore actually dangerous to
handle.

After my gleaning, I believe that Kamkin cherry-picked some of the
remainder, but about 150,000 volumes ultimately were sent to landfill. It
was a shame, but it was not a tremendous loss to scholarship, to the
preservation of recorded knowledge, or to Russian culture. This is not
stuff that most libraries should be interested in. It is a very large
quantity of very low value material that has accumulated almost
accidentally over decades due to remarkably inept inventory management.

Many in our field have a tendency to regard a book, any book, as a sacred
object. I am a librarian, and could not have become one unless I shared
this fetish to some degree. But, this fetish may tempt many into the
impression that the destruction of so many books is something akin to a
genocide. I urge you to resist this impression and remember that this is
the stuff that they simply couldn't sell for so many decades, even at very
low prices. While this destruction is a shame, it is not a tragedy. The
burgeoning dumpsters outside the Montgomery County incinerators do not
really present a great opportunity to our libraries.

Jared Ingersoll
Slavic Librarian
Columbia University Libraries

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From jacobsen at GWU.EDU  Sun Mar 10 20:26:23 2002
From: jacobsen at GWU.EDU (Donald Jacobsen)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:26:23 -0500
Subject: Kamkin books
Message-ID: <SUN.10.MAR.2002.152623.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

As requested, Cheryl...

Perhaps the light at the end of the tunnel for Kamkin might not be an
incinerator flame after all.  I just got off the phone with my boss, Peter
Reddaway, after urging him to call Daniel Billington, the Librarian of
Congress (which he did, at home on a Sunday).  Billington, as some of you
may know, has a vital interest in things Russian (in fact, he gave the
graduation address -- in Russian -- last year at RGGU, the Russian State
University for the Humanities, where Yuri Afanasiev is the rector.  I was
pleased to be on hand for my wife's graduation as a specialist in
philology.)

Apparently, the office of Rep. Connie Morella (R-but-just-barely-MD) has
been in contact with Billington, and there is a plan in the works to save
the Kamkin inventory exactly along the lines of the one I outlined
earlier.  LOC has an already-existing mechanism to deacquisition books to
libraries all over the country, and some of our libraries may get to
benefit from the Kamkin khalyava (pardon my use of bad Russian slang!)

The only problem is that the Kamkin folks are apparently at war with their
landlord (not unusual in cases of eviction), and it will take some
convincing for cooler heads to prevail in the interests of saving such a
huge inventory of valuable material for the sake of posterity.  Let's all
keep our fingers crossed.  David Johnson is posting the stories from the
Washington Post as they are published on his very valuable Johnson's
Russia List, which many of us in the political science community follow.
If people on this list do not subscribe to JRL and would find it helpful,
drop me a line at jacobsen at gwu.edu, and I'll be happy to repost the
stories here.

Hope to see at least some of you at the Southern Conference on Slavic
Studies next week in Daytona Beach, where many of us who study Russian and
Slavic issues from all different disciplines will be gathering.

Regards,

Donald Jacobsen
Ph.D. Student and Teaching Assistant
Department of Political Science
Research Assistant to Professor Peter Reddaway
Elliott School of International Affairs
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.

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From billings at PU.EDU.TW  Mon Mar 11 01:52:56 2002
From: billings at PU.EDU.TW (Loren A. Billings)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:52:56 +0800
Subject: [Fwd: 13.637, Sum: Origin of "Chechnia"]
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> Date:  Fri, 08 Mar 2002 13:09:04 +0400
> From:  "Maher Bahloul" <mbahloul at aus.ac.ae>
> Subject:  Replies related to 'Chechnia'
> 
> -------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
> 
> Date:  Fri, 08 Mar 2002 13:09:04 +0400
> From:  "Maher Bahloul" <mbahloul at aus.ac.ae>
> Subject:  Replies related to 'Chechnia'
> 
> Re: Linguist 13.601
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Thanks to the following colleagues, the etymology of the Ethnynom
> 'chechen' is, to some extent, no longer a puzzle. These are the
> answers I've got so far:
> 
> Ben Fortson
> The word is supposed to come from Kabardian sheshen. I would check
> Max Vasmer's etymological dictionary of Russian for further info.
> 
> Donald S. Cooper
> A starting point is probably given by Max Vasmer's Russisches
> etymologisches Woerterbuch III Heidelberg 1958. The Russian word
> cheche'nets is considered:
> "'Tschetschene, Angehoeriger des oestl. Zweiges des Nordkaukasischen'
> (Finck). Nach Finck Sprachstaemme 34 ist der Name dem Russischen
> entnommen und geht vielleicht auf kabard. sheshen zurueck. Anders Dirr
> Namen 207 der from ON Chachan am unteren Argun ausgeht. Der Stammesname
> findet sich in osset. cacan., dido chachanzi; awar.chachan (dirr. c.l.).
> Vgl. auch   osman. Chaechaen 'Tschetschene' (Radloff Wb. 3, 1988 ff.)."
> I expand umlauted letters  V to Ve. Consonant letters C with hacek are
> expanded to a sequence Ch, e.g. ch, sh. If you have a FAX, I can send
> you the plain copy.
> 
> Donald F. Reindl
> The ethnonym and general toponym apparently come from the name of a
> village where the Russians had early contact with the Chechens. I
> don't have my Chechen materials with me (I'm temporarily living
> abroad), so I'm sorry that I can't look it up and tell you exactly
> which village it was.  Supposedly the Czech designation for Austria
> (Rakousko) has a similar origin, connected with the town of
> Retz/Rötz. I've also seen the Greeks refer to the Republic of
> Macedonia as "Skopje" and I think they have a Skopje-based name for
> its citizens, although this is a deliberate politically-motivated
> choice. There are probably quite a few other examples of ethnic groups
> being designated by the name of a salient settlement.
> 
> Paul Fallon
> "The Chechen self-name is (singular) _Nwoxc^uo_, (plural) _Nwoxc^i:_,
> the language is _nwoxc^i:n mwott_ (lit. 'language of the Chechens'). The
> Russian and general European term Chechen comes from the name of a
> lowlands village." note: _word_ = underlined word, c^ = c-wedge, final
> /n/ is superscript (in Chechen). Source: Nichols, Johanna. 1994.
> Chechen. North East Caucasian Languages, Part 2, ed. by Rieks Smeets,
> 1-77. Delmar, NY: Caravan Books. quote from p. 3.
> 
> Johannes
> I was working on the Chechen language for a while. The word 'Chechnia'
> is taken from a little village where the Russians first met Chechens
> when they went south more than 2 centuries ago. I forgot whether the
> village is still called Chechnia but in fact it is a Russian name
> which was taken into nearly all languages apart from Caucasian
> languages which are neighbouring Chechnia.
> 
> Magnus Liw
> As I've gathered it, the name Chechen actually's the name of a frontier
> village, the first to be visited by russians.'
> 
> Marc Picard
> According to Webster's Third International, Chechen is a modification
> of Russian chechenets which is probably from chechenit' sya 'to talk
> mincingly', which is of imitative origin.
> 
> Wolfgang
> The Ethnynom 'chechen' is probably related to the name of a small
> village in Northern Chechnya, which had been reached by Russian troops
> in 1708 and which was famous for the scene of the first heavy clashes
> between Zarist and Chechen troops. In a treaty between the Russians
> and the Kalmuq-Chief AyukiKhan of the same year, the ethnonym
> 'chechen' had been mentioned for the first time. From this we can
> induce that it was the village name that gave rise to the the ethnonym
> (Russian 'chechency' = 'those from 'Chachen' - a typical way how
> 'foreigners' develop a name for an ethnic group hitherto unknown to
> them). But this probably isn't the whole story. We have to bear in
> mind that there once was a 'taypa' (clan) called the 'cechoy' or
> 'cecoy' who dwelt in the village of Cechoy or Keshen-Aul at the
> Yaryk-Su. Finally, there is a village in Northern Avaristan called
> Burti which is named Chechni by its inhabitants. A connection is a bit
> unlikely, because the term 'chechen' is obviuously related to radition
> north(west) of Chechnya. Note that the Kabardians call the Chechens
> 'shashan', the Ossetians have the name 'cacan'. Most likely, both
> peoples have taken the term from Russian.
> 
> Local names for the Chechens are normally derived from other place
> names such as Okoki ~ Akazy (< Akki), Misikizy (< Michik, a river
> name) etc.  etc. Hence, a derivation from the village name Chechen is
> rather probable.
> 
> All does not naturally explain 'what' 'chechen' historically meant.
> But it's always the same mystery with place names: sometimes they go
> far beyond what we can trace linguistically.
> 
> The 'native' term (a rather recent formation, by the way', is - as you
> say - no:chiyn, a genitive plural from 'na:x' 'people'. But note that
> already in old Armenian sources (600 AD), there is an ethnonym
> naxch`amatyan which could be read 'no:chyn muott' '[people of the] Nax
> language'.
> 
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From: dwkaiser at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU (David Kaiser)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:26:25 -0600
Subject: Treny, the Laments of Kochanowski
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I am forwarding this at the request of the book's editor. There is contact
information in the letter if you wish to buy the book.

DKaiser
UChicago.
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Treny
The Laments of Kochanowski
Translated by Adam Czerniawski
Foreword by Donald Davie
Edited and annotated by Piotr Wilczek
LEGENDA / STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 6
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Renaissance artists and poets readily commemorated the lives of the great,
but rarely mourned a child who could not even claim noble birth. Yet the
sixteenth-century masterpiece Treny stems from the Polish poet Jan
Kochanowski's intense grief over the death of his little daughter Orszula,
'a delightful, radiant, extraordinary child', who died before she was three.
The laments stand as Kochanowski's crowning achievement, and the first
Polish work to equal the great poems of western Europe. In a cycle by turn
reflective, despairing and, finally, hesitantly accepting, a father evokes
the unfulfilled promise of a life tragically cut short.

The work's disarming simplicity and enduring passion, supported by an
intellectually impressive structure, are fully realized in translation by
Adam Czerniawski, the distinguished contemporary Polish poet. The English
translation is accompanied by the original Polish text, edited by
Renaissance scholar Piotr Wilczek, and a foreword by Donald Davie. This
important edition will prove of value to scholars and teachers of Slavonic
literature, and to all lovers of poetry.

LEGENDA is the imprint of the European Humanities Research Centre of the
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From STEPHENBPEARL at CS.COM  Mon Mar 11 15:46:45 2002
From: STEPHENBPEARL at CS.COM (STEPHENBPEARL at CS.COM)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:46:45 EST
Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 9 Mar 2002 to 10 Mar 2002 (#2002-62)
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'SQUARENOTE" ANYONE?

       Is there anyone out there who still uses the antiquated but addictive
"SQUARENOTE" programme - especially for entering notes in (Russian) Cyrillic?

       I would be grateful for help with the following problem[s].

       I have recently had to install "SQUARENOTE" in a new computer. The
first unpleasant surprise was to find that the latest versions of "Windows"
are too advancd to accommodate "SQUARENOTE" in DOS and the programme cannot
be run inside "Windows".

       I worked my way down from "Windows XP" to "Millenium" where with
expert help and to my great relief I was able to install "SQUARENOTE" in DOS.
Then came the second unpleasant surprise. Although the programme has no
problem with my non-Cyrillic material,  my (Russian) Cyrillic notes can only
be viewed in the form of the usual hieroglyphic gibberish and none of the
experts can tell me how to make the programme show the existing notes and/or
how to accept future notes in (Russian) Cyrillic. I have had no problem with
installing (Russian) Cyrillic for all the usual "Windows" functions.

       The two questions to which I would be grateful for answers - and even
more grateful if they could be couched in idiot-friendly language - are:

       1) Has anyone succeeded in installing "SQUARENOTE" in the higher
orders of "Windows" ["2000" or "XP"] and if so how?

       2) Has anyone succeeded in installing the (Russian) Cyrillic function
within the "SQUARENOTE" programme in "Millenium" or any post- "Windows 95"
version - and if so, how?  Thanks,  Stephen Pearl

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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Mon Mar 11 17:27:57 2002
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:27:57 -0500
Subject: SEELANGS Digest - 9 Mar 2002 to 10 Mar 2002 (#2002-62)
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Stephen B. Pearl wrote:

> 1) Has anyone succeeded in installing "SQUARENOTE" in the higher
> orders of "Windows" ["2000" or "XP"] and if so how?

If you were able to install the program but it will not run, you may be
able to run it in compatibility mode. Right-click the shortcut, choose
"Properties," and click on the "Compatibility" tab. Check the box
(there's only one box) that says "Run in compatibility mode:" and select
an operating system that you think supports it.

This essentially tells Win2K to emulate the older operating system, and
can often permit older applications to run even when they are
incompatible with Win2K.

HTH

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From wils0141 at AMETHYST.TC.UMN.EDU  Mon Mar 11 17:57:58 2002
From: wils0141 at AMETHYST.TC.UMN.EDU (Cheri Wilson)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:57:58 -0500
Subject: Kamkin (Pravda.ru, English version)
Message-ID: <MON.11.MAR.2002.125758.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear colleagues,

Perhaps you might be interested in seeing the Russian version of events at:
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/03/11/26906.html

--Cheri C. Wilson

Cheri C. Wilson
Assistant Professor
Loyola College in Maryland
Department of History
4501 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210-2699
410-617-2017 (office)
410-617-2832 (fax)
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From brifkin at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU  Mon Mar 11 18:05:05 2002
From: brifkin at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:05:05 -0600
Subject: Kamkin (Pravda.ru, English version)
In-Reply-To: <SEELANGS%2002031112575812@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Message-ID: <MON.11.MAR.2002.120505.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

A Russian version of the latest events in the Kamkin scandal in
Russian can be found at:

LENTA.RU: Ç åàêÖ: http://lenta.ru/world/2002/03/11/books/


Ben Rifkin

>Dear colleagues,
>
>Perhaps you might be interested in seeing the Russian version of events at:
>http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/03/11/26906.html
>
>--Cheri C. Wilson
>
>Cheri C. Wilson
>Assistant Professor
>Loyola College in Maryland
>Department of History
>4501 N. Charles Street
>Baltimore, MD 21210-2699
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>410-617-2832 (fax)
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From yoffe at GWU.EDU  Mon Mar 11 18:59:13 2002
From: yoffe at GWU.EDU (Mark Yoffe)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:59:13 -0500
Subject: Kamkin: a reality check
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I have to wholeheartedly concur with Jared. For libraries that were Kamkin's
customers for years there is really little need rushing to Rockville in an
attempt to load up with their leftover books. Among 2 million items there
certainly can be treasures that some of our collections can benefit from, but
finding them can become a full-time job, a luxury not many of us can afford.
Jared's observation, that much of Kamkin's inventory is
"the stuff that they simply couldn't sell for so many decades, even at very low

prices" seems to be a very sober assessment of the situation.
Besides Kamkin is not the only source of standard Soviet era publications. I am

sure that many of us are approached on regular bases by retired or retiring
faculty who offer to donate their private collections, that were mostly build
through the years of purchases from Kamkin. It is unfortunate fact that in the
end many of the items from such donations eventually end up it the way Kamkin's

books are destined to end up at this point. It is a pity to see libraries
playing role of Goodwill Industries wasting time and money on sifting
through the items that we mostly already have and then sending people's
discards off for pulping.
As to contemporary Russian literature Kamkin's approach to it even after 1991
just slightly deviated from the puritanism of the Soviet era. And in comparison

to alive and vibrant "virtual" and real bookstores in Brooklyn their offerings
were offensively unimpressive and lacking imagination.
Mark

Jared Ingersoll wrote:

> Dear Seelangs,
>
> When Kamkin closed up shop in New York in the spring of 2000, I spent
> several days combing through their basement store room. While I did find a
> little interesting material for Columbia's libraries, it is not an effort I
> think would be worthwhile to repeat, nor would I recommend other librarians
> steering established collections go out of their way to do so. Except where
> a library is interested in starting from scratch, the materials I saw are
> either exceptionally common or of exceptionally little potential interest
> to scholarly researchers.
>
> To begin with, the stock was in a stunning state of disarray. The basement
> warehouse in New York contained miles of shelves filled two and three
> volumes deep with standard Soviet and classic Russian literature in many
> fields, mostly covered with up to an inch of dust. There was no order to
> the arrangement: for instance, botany and chemistry might be interfiled
> with architecture and philosophy. There were often hundreds of copies of a
> single edition; hundreds of unopened cartons of books; in one place a wall
> of books about thirty feet long, eight to ten feet high and at least six
> feet deep. Volumes were bent, warped, broken in every imaginable way. This
> was a nightmare of uncontrolled inventory. A considerable amount of the
> material was contaminated with mold, and therefore actually dangerous to
> handle.
>
> After my gleaning, I believe that Kamkin cherry-picked some of the
> remainder, but about 150,000 volumes ultimately were sent to landfill. It
> was a shame, but it was not a tremendous loss to scholarship, to the
> preservation of recorded knowledge, or to Russian culture. This is not
> stuff that most libraries should be interested in. It is a very large
> quantity of very low value material that has accumulated almost
> accidentally over decades due to remarkably inept inventory management.
>
> Many in our field have a tendency to regard a book, any book, as a sacred
> object. I am a librarian, and could not have become one unless I shared
> this fetish to some degree. But, this fetish may tempt many into the
> impression that the destruction of so many books is something akin to a
> genocide. I urge you to resist this impression and remember that this is
> the stuff that they simply couldn't sell for so many decades, even at very
> low prices. While this destruction is a shame, it is not a tragedy. The
> burgeoning dumpsters outside the Montgomery County incinerators do not
> really present a great opportunity to our libraries.
>
> Jared Ingersoll
> Slavic Librarian
> Columbia University Libraries
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From wils0141 at AMETHYST.TC.UMN.EDU  Mon Mar 11 20:28:02 2002
From: wils0141 at AMETHYST.TC.UMN.EDU (Cheri Wilson)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:28:02 -0500
Subject: Kamkin (Pravda.ru, English version)
Message-ID: <MON.11.MAR.2002.152802.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Ben Rifkin wrote:

***A Russian version of the latest events in the Kamkin scandal in
Russian can be found at:

LENTA.RU: http://lenta.ru/world/2002/03/11/books/

The Russian version of the English-language article that I posted to the
list can also be found at:

http://pravda.ru/main/2002/03/11/38088.html

--Cheri Wilson

Cheri C. Wilson
Assistant Professor
Loyola College in Maryland
Department of History
4501 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210-2699
410-617-2017 (office)
410-617-2832 (fax)
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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Mon Mar 11 21:52:29 2002
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:52:29 -0500
Subject: Kamkin (Pravda.ru, English version)
Message-ID: <MON.11.MAR.2002.165229.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Cheri Wilson wrote:

> The Russian version of the English-language article that I posted to the
> list can also be found at:
>
> http://pravda.ru/main/2002/03/11/38088.html

Much better!

The English version confirms the old saw that you should only translate
INTO your native language.

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From jacobsen at GWU.EDU  Tue Mar 12 02:10:23 2002
From: jacobsen at GWU.EDU (Donald Jacobsen)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:10:23 -0500
Subject: BULLETIN: KAMKIN COLLECTION SAVED
Message-ID: <MON.11.MAR.2002.211023.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

>From Reuters via David Johnson of CDI's excellent Johnson's Russia
List...as many of us had thought, James Billington WAS the ideal person to
perform the necessary magic...

Unique Russian books saved from U.S. incinerator
By Christina Ling
WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - A member of the U.S. House of
Representatives and the head of the Library of Congress brokered an
11th-hour deal on Monday to save a unique collection of 2 million Russian
books from an incinerator.

"It is a win-win for everybody," Igor Kalageorgi, owner of the Victor
Kamkin bookstore in the Washington suburb of Rockville, Maryland, said of
the deal that won his shop a temporary reprieve from eviction and kept his
books from being discarded.

"There will be no book burning and the books will be found a home,"
Kalageorgi added.

The bookstore in was founded in 1953 by Victor Kamkin, Kalageorgi's
great-uncle. During the Cold War, it represented a treasure trove virtually
unparalleled in the United States as a source of Russian-language books
both classic and obscure.

Enjoying an exclusive contract with the Soviet government to import Soviet
books and periodicals into the United States, the Kamkin store during its
heyday was a magnet for the entire community of U.S. Slavic scholars, from
spooks to students.

But the shop had faced eviction on Monday after falling behind on its
$15,000-per-month rent due to slack sales over the past year, Kalageorgi
told Reuters.

Landlord Allen Kronstadt said the enormity of the task facing the
Montgomery County, Maryland, sheriff in hauling the estimated 2 million
books out onto the sidewalk and to the local dump and incinerator already
twice had delayed the eviction date.

"We warned the sheriff's department early on how massive the job was," said
Kronstadt, managing partner of Randolph Buildings, which rents space to
Kamkin.

He said a crew of 60 men and several trucks had been slated to remove the
books on Monday before a deal was reached.

"The thought of burning these books for me personally was distasteful and I
struggled with it," Kronstadt added.

LAWMAKER INTERVENES

After The Washington Post reported over the weekend on the fate awaiting
the books, Maryland Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Morella extracted a promise
from local officials not to destroy the precious load.

Morella and Librarian of Congress James Billington, a prominent historian
and Russia specialist, sat down with Kronstadt and Kalageorgi to work out
the three-week reprieve on the eviction.

Kalageorgi said he will work over the coming days with Billington and
Library of Congress Slavic experts to put together collections to donate to
the library and other institutions around the country.

"There's nothing like it (in the United States)," said one Library of
Congress official, noting such obscure items as a Tagalog-Russian
dictionary among Kamkin's collection deserved to be spared for future
generations of researchers.

"You just don't have people importing books from Russia on the leaves of
Kamchatka or 12th century law in Ukraine."

Kronstadt said that under the deal he would write off the roughly $200,000
he says the bookstore owes him in rent, legal and other fees, and would
donate to the Library of Congress any books left in his possession at the
end of the three weeks.

The deal also allows the continuation of the Victor Kamkin bookstore
itself, which Kalageorgi says he plans to reopen at a new location once he
has finished taking inventory and donating books.

"We don't have a definite location yet, but we're going to get that all
organized in short order," Kalageorgi said.

After 10,000 customers deluged the store over the weekend in fear of its
closure, he no longer doubted a market existed for it despite competition
from rivals in New York's Brighton Beach. "It tells me the power of
advertising," he said.

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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Tue Mar 12 05:33:21 2002
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:33:21 -0800
Subject: Kamkin and the banned books
In-Reply-To: <SEELANGS%2002031012564553@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Message-ID: <MON.11.MAR.2002.213321.0800.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

One thing bothers me:

>Kamkin often had books in Russian that were banned in the Soviet Union,
>including works by Pasternak and Osip Mandelstam, a poet who was tortured
>in Stalin's prisons.

And I've heard it repeated again in the news today. One might think that we
are talking about "Posev" or "YMCA Press". Kamkin sold Soviet published
books, non-Soviet editions were added only lately. (Granted, in China,
prior to coming to the US, Kamkin was in publishing of emigre Russian
authors.)

Take the volume of Mandelshtam published in "Biblioteka poeta" which would
have been sold for 3.75 or 4.35 rubles or something like that, were it
available in a Soviet store upon its publication. But it wasn't, the whole
printing was going abroad (minus a few thounds copies stolen from the
presses and surfacing at the black market at 30-70 rubles a copy). By
shipping it abroad the authorities killed three birds with one stone, not
two: a) get currency, b) get rid of the undesirable poet's verses, c) if
foreign journalists ask why are some poets not published, the answer would
be: wrong, they are published but already sold out (and show a very
respectable edition from a distance). Some of those copies were available
at Kamkin's.

"Doctor Zhivago" was published by Feltrinelli and, I believe, was not
destributed by Kamkin bookstore. Neither were the Posev editions of
Solzhenitsyn.

AI

_____________
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LFS, American University
4400 Mass. Ave. NW
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From dgallowa at TWCNY.RR.COM  Tue Mar 12 03:50:57 2002
From: dgallowa at TWCNY.RR.COM (David J. Galloway)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:50:57 -0500
Subject: AATSEEL Executive Council Minutes posted
Message-ID: <MON.11.MAR.2002.225057.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear AATSEEL members:

The Executive Council has decided to post its minutes annually in an effort
to keep the membership better apprised of what the association is doing.
They are accessible from the main AATSEEL page or directly at this address:

http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~aatseel/xco.html


Thank you.

______________________________

David J. Galloway
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From conferences at PILIGRIM.COM  Tue Mar 12 11:11:04 2002
From: conferences at PILIGRIM.COM (Pluzhnikova Evelina)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:11:04 +0300
Subject: Conference in June
Message-ID: <TUE.12.MAR.2002.141104.0300.>

Dear colleagues!

Saint-Petersburg State University, Cultural - Enlightment society "Pushkinsky Project"
and center "Piligrim" are pleased to
invite you to take part in the International Scientific Conference
"Saint-Petersburg  and Northwest of Russia: History. Culture. Present"
which  is planned to be held from the 26th till the 30th of June, 2002
in Saint - Petersburg and Staraya Ladoga.
The program of conference includes the lectures and reports on the next topics:

1.      A role of Saint Petersburg and the Petersburg theme in democratization of Russia
2.      Petersburg as the subject of Russian literature and art
3.      If exists a common Petersburg text of the Russian literature?
4.      Economical contacts of Saint Petersburg. Tendencies. Difficulties.
        Perspectives and strategy of development
5.      Saint -  Petersburg and regional public movement
6.      The Russian Northwest: between Russia and Europe
7.      Staraya Ladoga in a history of Russian state and Russian culture
8.      The Round table: the way from varangians in greeks in modern prospect

The format of the conference is 20 min for presentation + 10 min question time.
The working language of the Conference is Russian.

If  you  are  interest to take part in the conference we send you
all necessary information  about  the  registration fee and acommodation in St.
Petersburg and Staraya Ladoga.

The coordinates of the organizing committee:

Prof. Popova st., 25, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197022
Tel. + 7 812 2380394, tel/fax + 7 812 2339932,
E-mail conferences at piligrim.com
Project coordinator - Pluzhnikova Evelina

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From j.m.andrew at LANG.KEELE.AC.UK  Tue Mar 12 12:18:50 2002
From: j.m.andrew at LANG.KEELE.AC.UK (Joe Andrew)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:18:50 +0000
Subject: Hamlet & Don Quixote
Message-ID: <TUE.12.MAR.2002.121850.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Does anyone know of a translation into English of Turgenev's 'Hamlet and
Don Quixote'; and, if so, whether it is currently in print/available?

Many thanks

Joe Andrew

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From d-powelstock at UCHICAGO.EDU  Tue Mar 12 12:12:10 2002
From: d-powelstock at UCHICAGO.EDU (David Powelstock)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:12:10 -0600
Subject: BULLETIN: KAMKIN COLLECTION SAVED
Message-ID: <TUE.12.MAR.2002.061210.0600.>

Now that the crisis has been averted, is it open season on jokes based
on the fact that the Kamkin collection's unpaid landlord is named Allen
KRONSTADT?

(Disclaimer: it sounds as if Mr. Kronstadt has been more than reasonable
through all this.)

David Powelstock
Humanities Collegiate Division
Cobb Hall, Box 15
5811 South Ellis Ave.
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL  60637
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From goscilo+ at PITT.EDU  Tue Mar 12 13:22:46 2002
From: goscilo+ at PITT.EDU (Helena Goscilo)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:22:46 -0500
Subject: Hamlet & Don Quixote
In-Reply-To: <SIMEON.10203121250.D@lang14.lang.keele.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.MAR.2002.082246.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Joe (cc to list, in case anyone else is interested),

In Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, THE ESSENTIAL TURGENEV, Northwestern UP 1994,
pp. 547-64.  I believe it's still in print.  If not, let me know, and I'll
xerox the pages for you.

Helena

--On Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:18 PM +0000 Joe Andrew
<j.m.andrew at LANG.KEELE.AC.UK> wrote:r

> Does anyone know of a translation into English of Turgenev's 'Hamlet and
> Don Quixote'; and, if so, whether it is currently in print/available?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Joe Andrew
>
> ----------------------
> Joe Andrew
> j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk
>
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From j.m.andrew at LANG.KEELE.AC.UK  Tue Mar 12 15:07:01 2002
From: j.m.andrew at LANG.KEELE.AC.UK (Joe Andrew)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:07:01 +0000
Subject: Hamlet & Don Quixote
In-Reply-To: <2309084644.1015921366@ehdup-b-67.rmt.net.pitt.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.12.MAR.2002.150701.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Helena

Thanks very much!

And thanks to others on the list who have been equally prompt and helpful.

Joe


On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:22:46 -0500 Helena Goscilo <goscilo+ at pitt.edu>
wrote:

> Dear Joe (cc to list, in case anyone else is interested),
>
> In Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, THE ESSENTIAL TURGENEV, Northwestern UP 1994,
> pp. 547-64.  I believe it's still in print.  If not, let me know, and I'll
> xerox the pages for you.
>
> Helena
>
> --On Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:18 PM +0000 Joe Andrew
> <j.m.andrew at LANG.KEELE.AC.UK> wrote:r
>
> > Does anyone know of a translation into English of Turgenev's 'Hamlet and
> > Don Quixote'; and, if so, whether it is currently in print/available?
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Joe Andrew
> >
> > ----------------------
> > Joe Andrew
> > j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk
> >
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From shura at SK.SYMPATICO.CA  Tue Mar 12 15:09:38 2002
From: shura at SK.SYMPATICO.CA (Alexandra Popoff)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:09:38 -0600
Subject: Introductory Russian textbooks, videotapes and other resources
Message-ID: <TUE.12.MAR.2002.090938.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

I teach a Russian class for beginners with the "Live From Moscow"
textbook, videotape etc. These materials are not without flaws. Could
you recommend more updated resources? Particularly, I would appreciate
your information about new Russian conversational videotapes (not
feature films).

Thank you.

Alexandra Popoff
University of Saskatchewan

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From shannon at UMICH.EDU  Tue Mar 12 19:44:36 2002
From: shannon at UMICH.EDU (Shannon F. White)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:44:36 -0500
Subject: Looking for Sadilova's "S dnem rozhdeniia"
Message-ID: <TUE.12.MAR.2002.144436.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Hello, SEELANGS!

I am currently searching for a subtitled version of Larisa Sadilova's 1998
film "S dnem rozhdeniia", which I would like to show to my class on
contemporary Russian women's writing. I am afraid I may have exhausted the
normal venues; does anyone have any suggestions on where I might find a
subtitled copy of this?

I welcome replies offlist or on.

Thanks in advance,

Shannon

************************
Shannon F.  White                               w. 734-647-2128
Dep't of Slavic Languages and Literatures        h. 734-995-0512
3026 Modern Languages Building
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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From JFDP at ACTR.ORG  Tue Mar 12 20:24:33 2002
From: JFDP at ACTR.ORG (JFDP)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:24:33 -0500
Subject: Call for U.S. Host Applications
Message-ID: <TUE.12.MAR.2002.152433.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Call for Applications
from U.S. Host Institutions
for the 2002-2003 Academic Year

AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: ACTR/ACCELS
JUNIOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (JFDP)

     American Councils is pleased to announce opportunities for U.S. institutions to host participants of the Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP) for the 2002-2003 academic year.  JFDP is a non-degree, professional development program intended to provide opportunities for university faculty from ten Eurasian countries to develop new courses, implement curriculum reform, and cultivate new teaching skills and techniques through exposure to U.S. educational methods.  JFDP participants teach at higher educational institutions in their home countries in twenty-three academic disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. JFDP Fellows are selected through open competitions in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
     JFDP Fellows help internationalize their U.S. host institutions by bringing cultural diversity and new perspectives in teaching and learning.  Likewise, Fellows may serve as potential vehicles for on-going collaborations and institutional partnerships.  During the program, JFDP Fellows informally attend relevant courses in their fields of study.  As visiting scholars, Fellows may make presentations, give special lectures, co-teach courses or participate in departmental projects, if such opportunities exist.  U.S. hosts are asked to provide a faculty advisor who is willing to guide the Fellow with academic pursuits related to course development, professional networking, and research.
     JFDP is a fully funded program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State.  Information and the host application are located at the JFDP Web-site:
<www.actr.org/JFDP>.  
     The JFDP Web-site offers a fully online application and an option to download the printable application.  Printed applications may be faxed or mailed to the address below.

Deadline: Friday, March 29, 2002

Junior Faculty Development Program
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Washington, DC  20036
Voice: (202) 833-7522  v Fax: (202) 293-0037
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From sher07 at MINDSPRING.COM  Wed Mar 13 05:53:58 2002
From: sher07 at MINDSPRING.COM (Benjamin Sher)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:53:58 -0600
Subject: BBC audio/video interview with Gorbachev in Russian
Message-ID: <TUE.12.MAR.2002.235358.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear friends:

I would like to call your attention to a full-length (about an
hour-long) audio/video interview with Gorbachev available online on the
BBC at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/talking_point/newsid_1861000/1861942.stm

By the way, the transcript is also available right below the audio and
video links.

Benjamin

Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher

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From jknox at BOWDOIN.EDU  Wed Mar 13 16:37:35 2002
From: jknox at BOWDOIN.EDU (Jane Knox-Voina)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:37:35 -0500
Subject: Looking for Sadilova's "S dnem rozhdeniia"
Message-ID: <WED.13.MAR.2002.113735.0500.>

Dear Shannon,

    I will check to see if my copy of Happy Birthday has English
subtitles and let you know in a day or two. I remember showing it a last
semester and I think my copy does not have English subtitles but I'll
check. Jane Knox-Voina, Russian Bowdoin College

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From rwallach at USC.EDU  Wed Mar 13 16:50:05 2002
From: rwallach at USC.EDU (Ruth Wallach)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:50:05 -0800
Subject: question on a language
Message-ID: <WED.13.MAR.2002.085005.0800.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I am hoping that someone can help me identify the language on the right
hand side of the banknote on this web page:
http://www-isd.usc.edu/~gpjones/temporary/marksbig.jpg

The picture is of a five mark banknote, issued by Darlehnskasse Ost in
Kowno in 1918.  Besides German, the language on the left hand side is
Lithuanian, but I can't tell what's on the right hand side.  I don't need a
translation, just if someone thinks they can identify the language.

Thank you in advance.

Ruth Wallach
University of Southern California

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From young at UMBC.EDU  Wed Mar 13 17:00:36 2002
From: young at UMBC.EDU (Steven Young)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:00:36 -0500
Subject: question on a language
In-Reply-To: <l03130306b8b532853e5f@DialupEudora>
Message-ID: <WED.13.MAR.2002.120036.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

It's Latvian.
Steve Young.

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Ruth Wallach wrote:

> I am hoping that someone can help me identify the language on the right
> hand side of the banknote on this web page:
> http://www-isd.usc.edu/~gpjones/temporary/marksbig.jpg
>
> The picture is of a five mark banknote, issued by Darlehnskasse Ost in
> Kowno in 1918.  Besides German, the language on the left hand side is
> Lithuanian, but I can't tell what's on the right hand side.  I don't need a
> translation, just if someone thinks they can identify the language.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Ruth Wallach
> University of Southern California
>
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From ldewaard at BLUE.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU  Wed Mar 13 16:59:14 2002
From: ldewaard at BLUE.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU (ldewaard)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:59:14 -0600
Subject: question on a language
Message-ID: <WED.13.MAR.2002.105914.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

A collegue of mine suggested that it appears to him to be Latvian.


>===== Original Message From Slavic & East European Languages and Literature
list              <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> =====
>I am hoping that someone can help me identify the language on the right
>hand side of the banknote on this web page:
>http://www-isd.usc.edu/~gpjones/temporary/marksbig.jpg
>
>The picture is of a five mark banknote, issued by Darlehnskasse Ost in
>Kowno in 1918.  Besides German, the language on the left hand side is
>Lithuanian, but I can't tell what's on the right hand side.  I don't need a
>translation, just if someone thinks they can identify the language.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Ruth Wallach
>University of Southern California
>
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-------------------------------
MA, Russian Linguistics
MAT in Spanish, May 2002
-------------------------------
University of Iowa
111 Phillips Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
319-353-2186

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From ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU  Wed Mar 13 17:36:08 2002
From: ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU (Wayles Browne)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:36:08 -0500
Subject: question on a language
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0203131200210.1080406-100000@umbc7.umbc.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.13.MAR.2002.123608.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Is it normal Latvian? What kind of spelling is it in?

>It's Latvian.
>Steve Young.
>
>On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Ruth Wallach wrote:
>
>>  I am hoping that someone can help me identify the language on the right
>>  hand side of the banknote on this web page:
>>  http://www-isd.usc.edu/~gpjones/temporary/marksbig.jpg
>>
>>  The picture is of a five mark banknote, issued by Darlehnskasse Ost in
>>  Kowno in 1918.  Besides German, the language on the left hand side is
>>  Lithuanian, but I can't tell what's on the right hand side.  I don't need a
>  > translation, just if someone thinks they can identify the language.
>  >

--

Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
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From ewington at BRANDEIS.EDU  Wed Mar 13 17:43:59 2002
From: ewington at BRANDEIS.EDU (Amanda Ewington)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:43:59 -0500
Subject: Tsar's hunt?
Message-ID: <WED.13.MAR.2002.124359.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Hello all,

Does anyone know where I might learn more about the "Tsar's hunt?"  In
Zinovieva-Annibal's "The Tragic Menagerie" (Tragicheskii zverinets) wolves
are rounded up as ready prey for the "Tsar's hunt."

Thanks.

Amanda Ewington

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From holmsted at FAS.HARVARD.EDU  Wed Mar 13 19:01:57 2002
From: holmsted at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Hugh Olmsted)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:01:57 -0500
Subject: question on a language
Message-ID: <WED.13.MAR.2002.140157.0500.>

Dear Wayles and all,
No, it's not normal contemporary Latvian orthography; it's the older German-based
version that was used when Latvia was under the Germans.  Cf. the stem peez-
'five' , which is now rendered 'piec-'.  There was/is a Baltic tradition, still
kept in Estonian, of rendering a diphthong [ie] by  the digraph -ee-; and the
German-based use of "z" for the affricate now rendered by 'c'.
Hugh Olmsted

Wayles Browne wrote:

> Is it normal Latvian? What kind of spelling is it in?
>
> >It's Latvian.
> >Steve Young.
> >
> >On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Ruth Wallach wrote:
> >
> >>  I am hoping that someone can help me identify the language on the right
> >>  hand side of the banknote on this web page:
> >>  http://www-isd.usc.edu/~gpjones/temporary/marksbig.jpg
> >>
> >>  The picture is of a five mark banknote, issued by Darlehnskasse Ost in
> >>  Kowno in 1918.  Besides German, the language on the left hand side is
> >>  Lithuanian, but I can't tell what's on the right hand side.  I don't need a
> >  > translation, just if someone thinks they can identify the language.
> >  >
>
> --
>
> Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
> Department of Linguistics
> Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
> Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
>
> tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
> fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
> e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu
>
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From young at UMBC.EDU  Wed Mar 13 19:34:12 2002
From: young at UMBC.EDU (Steven Young)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:34:12 -0500
Subject: question on a language
In-Reply-To: <p05100302b8b53e687e1e@[128.253.71.112]>
Message-ID: <WED.13.MAR.2002.143412.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

It's in the older (German-influenced) orthography; a form like "peezi"
would now be spelled "pieci."
Steve.

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Wayles Browne wrote:

> Is it normal Latvian? What kind of spelling is it in?
>
> >It's Latvian.
> >Steve Young.
> >
> >On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Ruth Wallach wrote:
> >
> >>  I am hoping that someone can help me identify the language on the right
> >>  hand side of the banknote on this web page:
> >>  http://www-isd.usc.edu/~gpjones/temporary/marksbig.jpg
> >>
> >>  The picture is of a five mark banknote, issued by Darlehnskasse Ost in
> >>  Kowno in 1918.  Besides German, the language on the left hand side is
> >>  Lithuanian, but I can't tell what's on the right hand side.  I don't need a
> >  > translation, just if someone thinks they can identify the language.
> >  >
>
> --
>
> Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
> Department of Linguistics
> Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
> Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
>
> tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
> fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
> e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu
>
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From fsciacca at HAMILTON.EDU  Wed Mar 13 19:43:08 2002
From: fsciacca at HAMILTON.EDU (Frank Sciacca)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:43:08 -0500
Subject: Math and science books
Message-ID: <WED.13.MAR.2002.144308.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Thematically off SEELANGS topic-- but any thoughts on who
(institutions, libraries, individuals) might find Soviet -period
(plus one pre-1917)  advanced mathematics and science books of use?
I recently acquired part of the library of a local Orthodox priest
who was trained as a mathematician in USSR-- and included in the
boxes are 50 or so such books.  Will happily donate.  Do reply off
list:  fsciacca at hamilton.edu
--
Franklin A. Sciacca
Hamilton College
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, New York  13323
315-859-4773

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From rrobin at GWU.EDU  Wed Mar 13 20:03:09 2002
From: rrobin at GWU.EDU (Richard Robin)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:03:09 -0500
Subject: servis-bjuro
Message-ID: <WED.13.MAR.2002.150309.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dorogie SEELANGovtsy,

Back in Intourist days all hotels had a Bjuro obsluzhivanija or
Servis-bjuro. Do either of those two expressions still exist for offices
within hotels offering travel and theater tickets? It's hard for me to
imagine such a servis bjuro in the Ramada, but what about other more
provincial places?

-Rich

___________
Richard M. Robin, Chair
German and Slavic Department
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
Whr`~ on-psqqjh b k~ani jndhpnbje.
Chitayu po-russki v lyuboi kodirovke.

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From CSperrle at CS.COM  Thu Mar 14 00:47:13 2002
From: CSperrle at CS.COM (CSperrle at CS.COM)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:47:13 EST
Subject: Russ Books
Message-ID: <WED.13.MAR.2002.194713.EST.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

While rearranging my books I found that I have numerous duplicate copies--a
result of feverish buying and of years and years of shelving "wherever there
is space." If anybody is interested in buying any of these books, please
contact OFF-LIST
csperrle at cs.com

The prices quoted do not include shipping costs.
(There is no order or logic to the list, so don't look for any)


1. Bychkov, V. V. Russkaia srednevekovaia estetika XI-XVII veka. Moscow:
Mysl', 1992; heavily illustrated in color, 638 pp. (hardcover, dust jacket,
new; $60)

2. Lubensky, Sophia. Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms. New York: Random
House, 1995. (hardcover, dust jacket, mint condition; $50)

3. Filosofiia russkogo religioznogo iskusstva XVI-XX vv. Antologiia.
(Sokrovishchnitsa russkoi religioznoi-filosofskoi mysli. Vypusk 1). Moscow:
Progress, 1993, 400 pp., color plates (hardcover, dust jacket, new; $30)

4. Soloviev, Vladimir. Sochineniia v dvukh tomakh. Vtoroe izdanie.
(Filosofskoe nasledie tom 110-111). Moscow: Mysl', 1990. (2 vols., hardcover,
new; $40)

5. Kostsova, A. Siuzhety drevnerusskikh ikon. 2nd St. Petersburg:
Iskusstvo-SPB, 1993; 223 pp. (miniature hardcover book, dust jacket, color
plates on almost every other page, new, $12)

6. Berdyaev, Nikolas. The Beginning and the End. Harper Torchbook, 1957.
(sewn paperback, name on first page, no marks in text, $6.50)

7. Fedotov, G. P. The Russian Religious Mind. Kievan Christianity: the 10th
to the 13th centuries. Harper Torchbook, 1960. (sewn paperback, several
chapters have underlinings in pen, cover worn; $6.50)

8. Shestov, Lev. Potestas Clavium. Gateway Edition, 1970. (paperback, cover
some soiling, ceases,  text clean/tight, no marks; $8.50)

9. Brodskii ob Akhmatovoi. Dialogi s Volkovym. Moscow: Nezavisimaia gazeta,
1992, 49 pp. (paperbound brochure, new; $3.50)

10. Stepanov, N. P. Narodnye prazdniki na sviatoi Rusi. Moscow, 1990, 94 pp.
(paperbound brochure, new; $3.50)

11. Izbornik povesti drevnei Rusi. Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura,
1986. (paperback, very good condition, but paper slightly yellow; $3.50)

12. Karsavin, Lev. Religiozno-filosofskie sochineniia. Tom 1. Moscow:
Renessans, 1992; 325 pp. (new hardcover; $10)

13. Slovar' istoricheskii o russkikh sviatykh, proslavlennykh v rossiiskoi
tserkvi, i o nekotorykh podvizhnikakh blagochestiia, mestno chtimykh. Moscow:
Kniga, 1990; 294 pp. (reprint of 1862 ed.) (new hardcover; $12)

14. Leskov, N. S. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii. Tom 3. Sochineniia 1862-1864.
Moscow: Terra, 1996; 800 pp. (early articles and travelogues, many published
for the 1st time) (new hardcover, dust jacket, $25)

15. Pushkin, Alexander. The Collected Stories. Tr. Paul Debreczeny. Intro
John Bayley. Verse passages tr. walter Arndt. Everyman's Library. Knopf, 1999
(hardcover, mint condition; $13.50)

16. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. V kruge pervym. (Complete text in Russian)
Harper Colophon Books, 1968. (sewn paperback, cover slight wear, text clean,
no marks; $6.50)

17. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. Stories and Prose Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus
1971 (paperback, pages very yellow, otherwise clean, no marks or creases
$3.50)

18. Petrushevskaia, Liudmila. The Time: Night (1st  US hardcover ed, with
dustjacket, new; $13.50)

19. Nostalgia and Beyond: Eleven Latvian Women Writers. University Press of
America, 1998 (paperback, new; $27)

20. Voinovich, Vladimir. Moskva 2042. Ann Arbor: Ardis (Russ text of novel)
(paperback, new; $13.50)

21. Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita: A Screenplay. NY: Viking, 1997 (paperback,
new; $8.00)

22. Nabokov, Vladimir. Selected Letters 1940-1977 (hardcover, 1st  edition,
book and dust jacket mint condition; $25)

23. Annenkov, P.V. The Extraordinary Decade. Literary Memoirs. Ann Arbor:
Univ of Michigan Press, 1968 (hardcover very clean, no marks, like new,
jacket shelf wear and tear top spine; $6.50)

24. The Mind of Russia: Historical and political thought of Russia's great
age. Ed. Hans Kohn. Harper Torchbook, 1962 (paperback, cover slight wear,
some soiling, name in ink on first page, otherwise clean, no marks; $7.50 )

25. The Prose of Osip Mandelstam: The Noise of Time; Theodosia; The Egyptian
Stamp. Tr. with critical essay by Clarence Brown. 2nd printing with
corrections. Princeton University Press, 1967 (hardcover, no dj, has
ex-libris, library stamp on edges, lib pocket glued in on back cover,
otherwise like new; $10)

26. Mandelstam, Nadezhda. Mozart and Salieri. Tr. Robert A. McLean. Ann
Arbor: Ardis, 1973 (new hardcover, dust jacket; $7.50)

27. Bruford, W. H.. Anton Chekhov. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957
(hardcover, clean, no marks, dustjacket worn, torn in places; $7.50)

28. Gogol, N. V.. Mertvye dushi. Moscow: Finansi, 1980. (hardcover, slightly
yellow; $3.50)

29. Gogol, N. V. Povesti (Kniga dlia chteniia s kommentariem). Moscow:
Russkii iazyk, 1983 (for language learners, has several Dikanka stories, and
Nevskii prospekt, Nos, Portret, Shinel', Koliaska) (hardcover, cover some
soiling, no marks; $3.50)

30. Akhmatova, Anna. Beg vremeni. Stikhotvoreniia 1909-1965. M-L: Sovetskii
pisatel', 1965; 469 pp. (hardcover, top edge soiled, book very good
condition, dustjacket heavy shelf wear, small tears top and bottom; $7.50)

31. Akhmatova, Anna. Stikhi i proza. Lenizdat, 1977; 616 pp.  (hardcover, no
jacket, some shelf wear, overall good, no marks; $6.50)

32. Akhmatova, Anna. Stikhotvoreniia i poemy (Biblioteka poeta, malaia
seriia). Leningrad: Sovetskii pisatel', 1984; 720 pp. (hardcover, no dj,
excellent condition, clean, no marks; $6)

33. Konstantin Vaginov. Kozlinaia pesn'. Roman. New York: Silver Age, 1978
(reprint of 1928 Leningrad: Priboi) (paperback, excellent condition; $6)

34. Nine Modern Soviet Plays. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977, 728 pp.
(hardcover, dustjacket, excellent condition, with photographs of productions;
$9.50)

35. Zograf, N.G. Malyi teatr vtoroi poloviny XIX veka. Moscow: Akademiia
Nauk, 1960; 648 pp. Many b&w photographs (hardcover with dustjacket, owner's
stamp on front end leaf, otherwise very good $20)

36. Barratt, G.R.V. Voices in Exile: The Decembrist Memoirs. Montreal:
McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 1974 (hardcover, no dj, ex-library, several
blackened-out stamps on edges and on first few pages, otherwise excellent;
$17)

37. Slonim, Mark. Modern Russian Literature from Chekhov to the Present.
Oxford Univ Press, 1953 (hardcover, no dj, good condition, names in ink on
end leaf, otherwise clean, no marks; $10)

38. Braun, Edward. The Theatre of Meyerhold: Revolution on the Modern Stage.
NY: Drama Book Specialist, 1979 (paperback, very good condition, no marks;
$17.50)

39. Okudzhava, Bulat. A Taste of Liberty (Poor Abrosimov). Tr Leo Gruliow.
Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1986 (paperback, mint condition, $15)

40. Soviet Semiotics. An Anthology. Ed., tr with intro D. Lucid. John Hopkins
Univ Press, 1977 (hardcover, excellent cond, dust jacket slight shelf wear
$13.50)

41. Sakharov, Andrei. Moscow and Beyond 1986-1989. NY: Viking 1992
(paperback, new; $6)

42. Garton Ash, Timothy. The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed
in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague. NY: Viking 1993 (paperback, new; 7.50)

43. Spencer, Charles. Erte. NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1981 (paperback, 32 color
and 150 b&w illustr., mint condition; $20

44. The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire 1918-1963. Ed. and tr. Mirra
Ginsburg  NY: Grove Press, 1965 (paperback, name in ink on first page,
otherwise very good, no marks or creases $6)

45. Zelinsky, Kornely. Soviet Literature: Problems and People. Moscow:
Progress Publishers, 1970 (hardcover with dustjacket, excellent cond., never
touched-at least by me; $3)

46. Jelavich, Barbara. A Century of Russian Foreign Policy 1814-1914. The
Lippincott History Series, 1964 (paperback, cover slight wear, some soiling,
ow very good; $4)

47. Litvinov, Pavel. The Demonstration in Pushkin Square: The Trial Records
with Commentary and an Open Letter. (transcript of trials resulting from
arrests during a demonstration for freedom of expression in 1967) (hardcover,
book very good, no marks, dj torn; $8.50)

48. The Golden Ring. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1988 (hardcover, new,
lots of color photographs; $10)

49. The Selected Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert. Tr. Ewald Osers. Tr/ed George
Gibian. Andre Deutsch, 1986 (hardcover, 1st Bristish edition, book and
dustjacket mint condition; $15)

TRANSLATIONS INTO RUSSIAN:

50. Gete, I. V. Faust. Tr. B. Pasternak. Moscow: Mosk. rabochii, 1982
(hardcover, pages yellow, no marks; $7.50)

51. Kortasar, Khulio. Redkie zaniatiia i drugie rasskazy. St. Petersburg:
Azbuka, 1999. (paperback, no marks; $2)

52. Sartr, Zhan Pol', Toshnota. Roman. St. Petersburg: Azbuka, 1999.
(paperback, very good condition, no marks; $2.50)

53. Kavabata, Iasunari. Izbrannye proizvedeniia. Moscow: Panorama, 1993
(hardcover, very good condition, no marks; $7.50)

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From aof at UMICH.EDU  Thu Mar 14 03:14:37 2002
From: aof at UMICH.EDU (Anne O'Brien Fisher)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:14:37 -0500
Subject: Reminder: SCMLA Conference 2002
Message-ID: <WED.13.MAR.2002.221437.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Hello SEELANGers,

I'd like to remind interested parties about the call for abstracts of
papers on Russian Literature for the South Central Modern Languages
Association's 2002 convention from Oct. 31 - Nov. 2 in Austin, Texas. The
theme of the 2002 SCMLA convention is "Literature and Language in Global
Contexts." In keeping with the global theme, papers for the SCMLA Russian
Literature section may investigate any aspect of Russian Literature.

The deadline for submission of 500-word abstracts is March 15, 2002.
Please email abstracts as attachments to the Russian Literature Section
Chair, Annie Fisher, at <aof at umich.edu>. Final acceptance notification
will be no later than April 5, 2002.

For more information about the SCMLA, you may go to the following address:
http://www-english.tamu.edu/scmla.

Thank you,

Annie

Annie Fisher
Slavic Department
The University of Michigan
(734) 883-4172
fax: (734) 647-2127

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From uladzik at MAILBOX.HU  Thu Mar 14 12:57:00 2002
From: uladzik at MAILBOX.HU (Uladzimir Katkouski)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:57:00 +0100
Subject: "triedinstvo"
Message-ID: <THU.14.MAR.2002.135700.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangers,

I am looking for articles that deal with the issue of "triedinstvo" (the
theory that Belarusan and Ukrainian were the same language with Russian
for a long while and then somehow "broke away" from it quite recently):
both the articles in support of this idea and against it. And I am also
quite curious to hear your opinions!

Regards,
Uladzimir Katkouski
http://www.geocities.com/uladzik/

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From klinela at PROVIDE.NET  Thu Mar 14 18:25:53 2002
From: klinela at PROVIDE.NET (Laura Kline)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:25:53 -0500
Subject: "Study abroad" in Russian
Message-ID: <THU.14.MAR.2002.132553.0500.KLINELA@PROVIDE.NET>

Dear Seelangers,
Does anyone know of an accepted Russian term for "study abroad" (besides
"uchit'sya po obmenu")?
Thank you in advance,
Laura Kline
Lecturer in Russian
Wayne State University

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From norafavorov at EARTHLINK.NET  Thu Mar 14 18:36:37 2002
From: norafavorov at EARTHLINK.NET (Nora Favorov)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:36:37 -0500
Subject: Math and science books
Message-ID: <THU.14.MAR.2002.133637.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Oleg,
I'm sure we don't want all 50 books, but I thought you might be interested
in this.
Nora
----- Original Message -----
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To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:43 PM
Subject: Math and science books


> Thematically off SEELANGS topic-- but any thoughts on who
> (institutions, libraries, individuals) might find Soviet -period
> (plus one pre-1917)  advanced mathematics and science books of use?
> I recently acquired part of the library of a local Orthodox priest
> who was trained as a mathematician in USSR-- and included in the
> boxes are 50 or so such books.  Will happily donate.  Do reply off
> list:  fsciacca at hamilton.edu
> --
> Franklin A. Sciacca
> Hamilton College
> 198 College Hill Road
> Clinton, New York  13323
> 315-859-4773
>
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From collins.232 at OSU.EDU  Thu Mar 14 19:06:01 2002
From: collins.232 at OSU.EDU (Daniel Collins)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:06:01 -0500
Subject: CFP: International Hilandar Conference
Message-ID: <THU.14.MAR.2002.140601.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fifth International Hilandar Conference will be held in Raska,
Yugoslavia from September 8-14, 2002 (with presentations September
9-12) under the co-sponsorship of the Cultural Center of Raska and
the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies of The Ohio State
University.  The conference theme will be: Love of Learning and
Devotion to God in Orthodox Monasteries.  Papers are solicited on any
topic relating to learning, culture, or monastic life in medieval
Slavia Orthodoxa.

Please send a title, one-page abstract, and brief curriculum vitae to
the Resource Center for Medieval Slavic by emai (hilandar at osu.edu) or
fax (614-292-7859) no later than May 1, 2002.

Raska,Yugoslavia is located in the picturesque Kopaonik Mountain
Region and is near the monasteries of Gradac, Stara Pavlica, Nova
Pavlica, Nikoljaca, Studenica, Sopocani, Petrova Crkva, Djurdjevi
Stupovi and Crna Reka. These cultural monuments date from the 9th
through the 13th centuries.

Conference participants will receive complimentary registration,
housing, meals, transportation to and from Belgrade airport, and
local excursions. Additional inquiries should be directed to:

The Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies
The Ohio State University
225 Main Library
1858 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1286

Phone: 614-292-0634
Fax: 614-292-7859
Email: hilandar at osu.edu

--
Daniel E. Collins, Chair
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University
232 Cunz Hall
1841 Millikin Road
Columbus, OH 43210-1215

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From dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Thu Mar 14 19:10:38 2002
From: dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:10:38 -0500
Subject: "Study abroad" in Russian
In-Reply-To: <01c901c1cb85$b0e681f0$5e5a56d8@hy0gt01>
Message-ID: <THU.14.MAR.2002.141038.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I think that the direct translation of this ("uchit'sya zagranitsej /
zarubezhom") will do.

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Laura Kline wrote:

> Dear Seelangers,
> Does anyone know of an accepted Russian term for "study abroad" (besides
> "uchit'sya po obmenu")?
> Thank you in advance,
> Laura Kline
> Lecturer in Russian
> Wayne State University
>
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From irina at BGNET.BGSU.EDU  Thu Mar 14 19:50:20 2002
From: irina at BGNET.BGSU.EDU (Irina Stakhanova)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:50:20 -0500
Subject: "Study abroad" in Russian
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10203141404230.17119-100000@joxer.acsu.buffalo.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.14.MAR.2002.145020.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

 It seems that  "obuchenie zarubezhom"  would be appropriate translation.
Irina Stakhanova



*************                           *********************
Dr.Irina Stakhanova                             Bowling Green State University
Undergraduate advisor,                  Department of German, Russian
Russian Language Study                  and East Asian Languages
Abroad Program, Director                        124 Shatzel Hall
E-mail:irina at bgnet.bgsu.edu                     Bowling Green, OH 43403
                                        Phone:(419)372.7135
                                        Fax:(419) 372.2571

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From norafavorov at EARTHLINK.NET  Thu Mar 14 20:02:18 2002
From: norafavorov at EARTHLINK.NET (Nora Favorov)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:02:18 -0500
Subject: Math and science books
Message-ID: <THU.14.MAR.2002.150218.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

How embarassing!  I meant to forward your posting and accidentally replied
to the list.  Are you finding takers for your books?
Best wishes,
Nora Favorov
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Sciacca" <fsciacca at HAMILTON.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:43 PM
Subject: Math and science books


> Thematically off SEELANGS topic-- but any thoughts on who
> (institutions, libraries, individuals) might find Soviet -period
> (plus one pre-1917)  advanced mathematics and science books of use?
> I recently acquired part of the library of a local Orthodox priest
> who was trained as a mathematician in USSR-- and included in the
> boxes are 50 or so such books.  Will happily donate.  Do reply off
> list:  fsciacca at hamilton.edu
> --
> Franklin A. Sciacca
> Hamilton College
> 198 College Hill Road
> Clinton, New York  13323
> 315-859-4773
>
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From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET  Thu Mar 14 20:59:05 2002
From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:59:05 -0500
Subject: "Study abroad" in Russian
Message-ID: <THU.14.MAR.2002.155905.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

One can "uchit'sya za granitsey" on one's own initiative and with whatever
support, while "stazhirovka "implies that one was "sent" by one's university
(though funding can come from the host institution, for example).

----- Original Message -----
From: Edward M Dumanis <dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: 14 March 2002 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: "Study abroad" in Russian


> I think that the direct translation of this ("uchit'sya zagranitsej /
> zarubezhom") will do.
>
> Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>
>
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Laura Kline wrote:
>
> > Dear Seelangers,
> > Does anyone know of an accepted Russian term for "study abroad" (besides
> > "uchit'sya po obmenu")?
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Laura Kline
> > Lecturer in Russian
> > Wayne State University
> >
>
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From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET  Thu Mar 14 21:00:23 2002
From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 16:00:23 -0500
Subject: "Study abroad" in Russian
Message-ID: <THU.14.MAR.2002.160023.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

"Stazhirovka" is still the most commonly used word.

Elena Gapova

----- Original Message -----
From: Edward M Dumanis <dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: 14 March 2002 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: "Study abroad" in Russian


> I think that the direct translation of this ("uchit'sya zagranitsej /
> zarubezhom") will do.
>
> Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>
>
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Laura Kline wrote:
>
> > Dear Seelangers,
> > Does anyone know of an accepted Russian term for "study abroad" (besides
> > "uchit'sya po obmenu")?
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Laura Kline
> > Lecturer in Russian
> > Wayne State University
> >
>
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From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM  Thu Mar 14 22:11:37 2002
From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:11:37 +0000
Subject: Gagarin
In-Reply-To: <9FB7422A604ED311B1800008C7732B5502C53C58@newstcxu05.tc.nca.bbc.co.uk>
Message-ID: <THU.14.MAR.2002.221137.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear all:

A friend of a friend is making a film in which he wants to
include the original Russian quote of what Yury Gagarin said when he
returned from space. It is something like


> "I looked and I looked but i couldnt see God"
>
 Any ideas of what it is/ where I could find out?

Thanks,

Robert Chandler

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From dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Fri Mar 15 00:17:40 2002
From: dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:17:40 -0500
Subject: "Study abroad" in Russian
In-Reply-To: <002101c1cb9b$1436f540$b648570c@homepc>
Message-ID: <THU.14.MAR.2002.191740.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

"Stazhirovka" is just on-the-job training that can be abroad or not but it
has nothing to do with "study abroad." Of course, those who have
on-the-job training might study at the same time but not necessarily.
Even if "stazhirovka"is still the most commonly used word, it is not a
substitute for a Russian equivalent of "study abroad."

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Elena Gapova wrote:

> One can "uchit'sya za granitsey" on one's own initiative and with whatever
> support, while "stazhirovka "implies that one was "sent" by one's university
> (though funding can come from the host institution, for example).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Edward M Dumanis <dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
> To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Sent: 14 March 2002 2:10 PM
> Subject: Re: "Study abroad" in Russian
>
>
> > I think that the direct translation of this ("uchit'sya zagranitsej /
> > zarubezhom") will do.
> >
> > Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>
> >
> > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Laura Kline wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Seelangers,
> > > Does anyone know of an accepted Russian term for "study abroad" (besides
> > > "uchit'sya po obmenu")?
> > > Thank you in advance,
> > > Laura Kline
> > > Lecturer in Russian
> > > Wayne State University
> > >
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From rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU  Fri Mar 15 00:18:13 2002
From: rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU (Robert A. Rothstein)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:18:13 -0500
Subject: Gagarin
Message-ID: <THU.14.MAR.2002.191813.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Robert Chandler wrote:

> Dear all:
>
> A friend of a friend is making a film in which he wants to
> include the original Russian quote of what Yury Gagarin said when he
> returned from space. It is something like
>
> > "I looked and I looked but i couldnt see God"
> >
>  Any ideas of what it is/ where I could find out?
>

        Gagarin apparently published an "autobiographical essay"  entitled
"Doroga v Kosmos" in _Pravda_ on June 11, 1961, two months after his flight.
You might look there.
                                    Bob Rothstein

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From peitlova at TISCALINET.IT  Fri Mar 15 11:58:56 2002
From: peitlova at TISCALINET.IT (Edil Legno)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:58:56 +0100
Subject: student
Message-ID: <FRI.15.MAR.2002.125856.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Both are correct:uchit'sja zarubezhom and pojexat' na stazhirovku.
The next example could explain:

"Eti inostrancy - zagranichnyje  studenty.Nemcy priechali na stazh, a vengry budut uchit'sja pjat' let."
 
If you want to distinguish "stazhera" ot "zagranichnogo studenta" - you mean : the first is
studying  only for 6 months (usually) ,the other will stay abroad. That's why you must distinguish what kind of study is on..... for  6 months or for 5 years.

Katarìna Peitlovà,Ph.Dr.

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From dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Fri Mar 15 15:56:53 2002
From: dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:56:53 -0500
Subject: student
In-Reply-To: <001501c1cc19$06ef9da0$60ef0a3e@n>
Message-ID: <FRI.15.MAR.2002.105653.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I do not understand why both words would be correct.
They have different meanings.
Since when "stazhirovat'sja" can be used instead of "uchit'sja"? 
For example, consider "kursy po povysheniju kvalifikatsii."
Usually, it is a very short course of study.
Can one say "Ja stazhirujus' na kursah po povysheniju kvalifikatsii"?
Of course, not.
"Ja uchus' na kursah po povysheniju kvalifikatsii" is correct.

One could incorrectly use "stazhjor" instead of "student" but it is not an
example to follow. 

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>


On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Edil Legno wrote:

> Both are correct:uchit'sja zarubezhom and pojexat' na stazhirovku.
> The next example could explain:
> 
> "Eti inostrancy - zagranichnyje  studenty.Nemcy priechali na stazh, a vengry budut uchit'sja pjat' let."
>  
> If you want to distinguish "stazhera" ot "zagranichnogo studenta" - you mean : the first is
> studying  only for 6 months (usually) ,the other will stay abroad. That's why you must distinguish what kind of study is on..... for  6 months or for 5 years.
> 
> Katar�na Peitlov�,Ph.Dr.
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From hafizaandreeva at EARTHLINK.NET  Fri Mar 15 16:13:11 2002
From: hafizaandreeva at EARTHLINK.NET (Hafiza Andreeva)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:13:11 -0700
Subject: student
Message-ID: <FRI.15.MAR.2002.091311.0700.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Actually, the question was about a Russian term for 'study abroad'. That
would be: uchit'sya za granitsey. 'Ucheba po obmenu' strictly pertains to
exchange students. 'Stazhirovka' is not necessarily about 'ucheba' -- it may
be either internship or even a visiting scholar's work.
Regards,
Hafiza Andreeva
EN<>RU T/I

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward M Dumanis" <dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: student


I do not understand why both words would be correct.
They have different meanings.
Since when "stazhirovat'sja" can be used instead of "uchit'sja"?
For example, consider "kursy po povysheniju kvalifikatsii."
Usually, it is a very short course of study.
Can one say "Ja stazhirujus' na kursah po povysheniju kvalifikatsii"?
Of course, not.
"Ja uchus' na kursah po povysheniju kvalifikatsii" is correct.

One could incorrectly use "stazhjor" instead of "student" but it is not an
example to follow.

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>


On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Edil Legno wrote:

> Both are correct:uchit'sja zarubezhom and pojexat' na stazhirovku.
> The next example could explain:
>
> "Eti inostrancy - zagranichnyje  studenty.Nemcy priechali na stazh, a
vengry budut uchit'sja pjat' let."
>
> If you want to distinguish "stazhera" ot "zagranichnogo studenta" - you
mean : the first is
> studying  only for 6 months (usually) ,the other will stay abroad. That's
why you must distinguish what kind of study is on..... for  6 months or for
5 years.
>
> Katar�na Peitlov�,Ph.Dr.
>
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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Fri Mar 15 19:53:06 2002
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:53:06 -0800
Subject: student
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10203151042440.7040-100000@callisto.acsu.buffalo.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.15.MAR.2002.115306.0800.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:

>I do not understand why both words would be correct.
>They have different meanings.
>Since when "stazhirovat'sja" can be used instead of "uchit'sja"?
>For example, consider "kursy po povysheniju kvalifikatsii."
>Usually, it is a very short course of study.
>Can one say "Ja stazhirujus' na kursah po povysheniju kvalifikatsii"?
>Of course, not.
>"Ja uchus' na kursah po povysheniju kvalifikatsii" is correct.
>
>One could incorrectly use "stazhjor" instead of "student" but it is not an
>example to follow.

French language to the rescue. No, "stazhirovat'sja" and "uchit'sja" are
obviously not identical. Third graders cannot have stazhirovka.
>Can one say "Ja stazhirujus' na kursah po povysheniju kvalifikatsii"?
>Of course, not.
I wouldn't be so sure. Those students were actually called "slushateli" not
"studenty" (no longer "kursisty", and certanly not "kursanty").

Bol'shoj tolkovyj slovar' (1998) gives a number of examples for "stazhirovka":

Letnjaja stazhirovka slushatelej voennoj akademii [I wonder what they are
doing.]
Stazhirovka molodyx prepodavatelej, nauchnyx rabotnikov za granicej.
Stazhirovka vrachej v institute usovershenstvovanija.

AH-HA! Those doctors in "institut usovershenstvovanija" are taking courses,
not performing postmortem.

I did promise French, didn't I? Well, it comes from French "stage". My
"Petit Robert" says the following:

"Période d'étude pratique imposée aux candidats à certaines professions
libérales ou publiques."

So "kursy povyshenija kvalifikacii", let's say Middlebury summer program as
it relates to school teachers (not  undergrads taking a summer course)
would be called "un stage".

AI

_____________
Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Mass. Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016

phone:  (202) 885-2387
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From J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK  Fri Mar 15 17:28:06 2002
From: J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK (J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:28:06 +0000
Subject: student
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10203151042440.7040-100000@callisto.acsu.buffalo.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.15.MAR.2002.172806.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

When I arrived at Rostov-on-Don State University in October 1970 to start a
ten-month scholarship under the auspices of the Cultural Exchange
Agreeement between the British Council and the Soviet Ministry of Higher
and Specialised Secondary Education, I was issued with the following four
documents:

1. Udostoverenie ... vydano ... v tom, chto on(ona) rabotaet v dolzhnosti
stazhera iz Anglii

2. A propusk for Obshchezhitie No.1 which describes me as a stazhor [sic];
this may have been written out by the same person who posted a proz'ba
[sic] asking people not to slam the door.

3. A studencheskii bilet, saying: v 1970-71 uch.g. iavliaetsja studentom I
kursa

4. A zachetnaia knizhka, saying that I was pereveden na I kurs iz [left blank]

Make sense of that if you can.

Incidentally, my reader's ticket for MGU Library, issued in 1973, describes
me (under dolzhnost) as a stazher-asp.

John Dunn.

>I do not understand why both words would be correct.
>They have different meanings.
>Since when "stazhirovat'sja" can be used instead of "uchit'sja"?
>For example, consider "kursy po povysheniju kvalifikatsii."
>Usually, it is a very short course of study.
>Can one say "Ja stazhirujus' na kursah po povysheniju kvalifikatsii"?
>Of course, not.
>"Ja uchus' na kursah po povysheniju kvalifikatsii" is correct.
>
>One could incorrectly use "stazhjor" instead of "student" but it is not an
>example to follow.
>
>Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

John Dunn
Department of Slavonic Studies
Hetherington Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8RS
Great Britain

Telephone (+44) 141 330-5591
Fax       (+44) 141 330-2297
e-mail    J.Dunn at slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk

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From peitlova at TISCALINET.IT  Fri Mar 15 17:38:40 2002
From: peitlova at TISCALINET.IT (Edil Legno)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:38:40 +0100
Subject: student
Message-ID: <FRI.15.MAR.2002.183840.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

The question is very simple. If I am a student of Russian language and live in France (example) and decide to go for 6 months (na odin semestr)to study in Russia (at Moscow University) - so I go:
ja edu  na stazh v Moskvu - edu na stazhirovku.
It's not necessary to tell that I'm a student. In this case - stazher - vsem ponjatno,shto rech idet o studente.
For a rest - to study abroad  means : uchit'sja za rubezhom  ili  uchit'sja  za granitcej - if you are abroad for whole (period) of study .
------
In CV a doctor could write. Ja uchilsja v Moskovskom Universitete na medicinskom fakul'tete i posle okonchanja ucheby ja poechal na stazh v Ameriku. In this case - stazh means :to have some practice (but different from one I had already  in my country) or even to study.

Katarìna Peitlovà,Ph.Dr.

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From dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Fri Mar 15 18:02:38 2002
From: dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:02:38 -0500
Subject: student
In-Reply-To: <l03130303b8b7fc13a585@[192.168.123.154]>
Message-ID: <FRI.15.MAR.2002.130238.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Alina Israeli wrote:

> Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:

.........../snip/..........
> 
> French language to the rescue. No, "stazhirovat'sja" and "uchit'sja" are
> obviously not identical. Third graders cannot have stazhirovka.
> >Can one say "Ja stazhirujus' na kursah po povysheniju kvalifikatsii"?
> >Of course, not.
> 
> I wouldn't be so sure. Those students were actually called "slushateli" not
> "studenty" (no longer "kursisty", and certanly not "kursanty").

With all due respect, it is not a counter-example.
I did not discussed "student" but a verb that would correspond to "study"
("study abroad" to be exact).
One can "slushat' kurs lektsij" or "poseshchat' lektsii" -- which is the
same -- and be called "slushatel' " but not "posetitel' ".

No one can "stazhirovat'sja na lektsijah ili kursah."

> Bol'shoj tolkovyj slovar' (1998) gives a number of examples for "stazhirovka":
> 
> Letnjaja stazhirovka slushatelej voennoj akademii [I wonder what they are
> doing.]
> Stazhirovka molodyx prepodavatelej, nauchnyx rabotnikov za granicej.
> Stazhirovka vrachej v institute usovershenstvovanija.
> 
> AH-HA! Those doctors in "institut usovershenstvovanija" are taking courses,
> not performing postmortem.
> 

So, it does correspond the meaning of "stazhirovka," i.e. on-job training.
The proper word for Russian "stazhjor" would be "intern" or something like
this but not "student".

> I did promise French, didn't I? Well, it comes from French "stage". My
> "Petit Robert" says the following:
> 
> "P�riode d'�tude pratique impos�e aux candidats � certaines professions
> lib�rales ou publiques."
> 
> So "kursy povyshenija kvalifikacii", let's say Middlebury summer program as
> it relates to school teachers (not  undergrads taking a summer course)
> would be called "un stage".

Yes, but the Russian meaning of this word is somewhat different from the
French one.


Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

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From hafizaandreeva at EARTHLINK.NET  Fri Mar 15 18:02:36 2002
From: hafizaandreeva at EARTHLINK.NET (Hafiza Andreeva)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:02:36 -0700
Subject: student
Message-ID: <FRI.15.MAR.2002.110236.0700.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

>ja edu  na stazh v Moskvu - edu na stazhirovku.

>ja poechal na stazh v Ameriku.
====
Just a minor correction, if I may: one should better say 'edu na
stazhirovku' rather than na 'stazh'. 'Stazh' is mostly used when speaking of
a length of professional experience, e.g. 'imeyu 10-letnij stazh raboty
v...' (have a 10-year experience in...)
Best regards,
Hafiza Andreeva

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From vac10 at COLUMBIA.EDU  Fri Mar 15 18:03:47 2002
From: vac10 at COLUMBIA.EDU (Vitaly Chernetsky)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:03:47 -0500
Subject: MLA call for papers (a reminder)
Message-ID: <FRI.15.MAR.2002.130347.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

I am writing to remind you about the approaching deadline for paper
proposals for the Slavic-themed panels for this year's annual convention
of the Modern Language Association of America, which will take place
December 27-30 in New York City (the panels are sponsored by the MLA's
Division on Slavic and East European Literatures and the Discussion Group
on Slavic Literatures and Cultures, in cooperation with AATSEEL). All
presenters must be current members of the MLA by April 1 at the latest in
order to participate in the conference (membership waivers may be
requested by non-North American presenters).


The panels are:

"(Post)communist Responses to Globalization." Please e-mail paper
abstracts by March 15 to Vitaly Chernetsky (vac10 at columbia.edu).

"Famous Last Words in Life and Literature."  The use of (falsified) last
words for ideological-propagandistic purposes; the use of "elevating" last
words for diminishing death fear in the as yet living; the motif of last
moments in literary texts.  Please e-mail abstracts by March 15 to Irene
Masing-Delic (irene at hiperism.com).

"'Clash of Civilizations': Representations of Slavic/Muslim Encounters."
Please e-mail abstracts by March 15 to Dragan Kujundzic (dragan at uci.edu).

"Slavs in Hollywood." Please e-mail abstracts by March 15 to George
Gutsche (gutscheg at u.arizona.edu)

"Representing the Other: Russia and America during the Cold War." Please
e-mail abstracts by March 15 to Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
(cn29 at columbia.edu)


Sincerely,

Vitaly Chernetsky

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From dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Fri Mar 15 18:15:41 2002
From: dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:15:41 -0500
Subject: student
In-Reply-To: <l03102806b8b7dc425e88@[130.209.156.90]>
Message-ID: <FRI.15.MAR.2002.131541.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I think that I have to clarify a very important fact here.
Russia has a long tradition of a normative standard of the proper usage of
Russian language. It does not mean that everybody follows those rules in
the everyday life. Answering the posted question, I argued on what would
be a proper translation of "study abroad" according to this standard, and
not what improper usage of the Russian language  one can find in Russia.
Many Russians do not follow the standard because sometimes it is not
important in colloquial speech, or because they do not know (or have a
feel for) the standard themselves.

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>


On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 J.Dunn at SLAVONIC.ARTS.GLA.AC.UK wrote:

> When I arrived at Rostov-on-Don State University in October 1970 to start a
> ten-month scholarship under the auspices of the Cultural Exchange
> Agreeement between the British Council and the Soviet Ministry of Higher
> and Specialised Secondary Education, I was issued with the following four
> documents:
>
> 1. Udostoverenie ... vydano ... v tom, chto on(ona) rabotaet v dolzhnosti
> stazhera iz Anglii
>
> 2. A propusk for Obshchezhitie No.1 which describes me as a stazhor [sic];
> this may have been written out by the same person who posted a proz'ba
> [sic] asking people not to slam the door.
>
> 3. A studencheskii bilet, saying: v 1970-71 uch.g. iavliaetsja studentom I
> kursa
>
> 4. A zachetnaia knizhka, saying that I was pereveden na I kurs iz [left blank]
>
> Make sense of that if you can.
>
> Incidentally, my reader's ticket for MGU Library, issued in 1973, describes
> me (under dolzhnost) as a stazher-asp.
>
> John Dunn.
>
> >I do not understand why both words would be correct.
> >They have different meanings.
> >Since when "stazhirovat'sja" can be used instead of "uchit'sja"?
> >For example, consider "kursy po povysheniju kvalifikatsii."
> >Usually, it is a very short course of study.
> >Can one say "Ja stazhirujus' na kursah po povysheniju kvalifikatsii"?
> >Of course, not.
> >"Ja uchus' na kursah po povysheniju kvalifikatsii" is correct.
> >
> >One could incorrectly use "stazhjor" instead of "student" but it is not an
> >example to follow.
> >
> >Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>
>
> John Dunn
> Department of Slavonic Studies
> Hetherington Building
> University of Glasgow
> Glasgow
> G12 8RS
> Great Britain
>
> Telephone (+44) 141 330-5591
> Fax       (+44) 141 330-2297
> e-mail    J.Dunn at slavonic.arts.gla.ac.uk
>
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From hafizaandreeva at EARTHLINK.NET  Fri Mar 15 18:35:56 2002
From: hafizaandreeva at EARTHLINK.NET (Hafiza Andreeva)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:35:56 -0700
Subject: student
Message-ID: <FRI.15.MAR.2002.113556.0700.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

> Many Russians do not follow the standard because sometimes it is not
> important in colloquial speech, or because they do not know (or have a
feel for) the standard themselves.
> Edward Dumanis
==========

And this is especially true for the example with a visiting student ID
issued by a provincial university: those clerks obviously cannot tell a
'stazher iz Anglii' from 'trenazher iz Frantsii'.
:-)
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From brifkin at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU  Fri Mar 15 19:27:29 2002
From: brifkin at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:27:29 -0600
Subject: PhD in SLA at UW-Madison
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Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce the creation of a new interdisciplinary
doctoral program in Second Language Acquisition at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.  See http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/sla/index.htm
for more details.

- Ben Rifkin

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From laurengl at PTWI.NET  Sat Mar 16 02:11:43 2002
From: laurengl at PTWI.NET (Lauren Leighton)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:11:43 -0600
Subject: "Sopernitsy"
Message-ID: <FRI.15.MAR.2002.201143.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Seelangers: Can someone please tell me something about Nikolai
Kasatkin's genre painting "Sopernitsy" (1890)? The painting depicts a gray
morning in a village following a heavy snowfall. Two young women in the
foreground walk together toward the viewer. They are having a discussion,
and the object of their discussion is a young man with a concertina
(garmonika) standing by a gate back to the right. Histories of art speak
only of the "beauty of nature" and the "natural life" of Russian villages.
But I wonder if there is not more to the painting, namely that it is an
illustration to a Russian literary work, or at least a genre painting a
propos. Thank you.

Lauren G. Leighton
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Madison WI 53717
608 836-6947
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From charlesprice_50 at YAHOO.COM  Sat Mar 16 14:19:03 2002
From: charlesprice_50 at YAHOO.COM (=?iso-8859-1?q?Charles=20Price?=)
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:19:03 +0000
Subject: Russian attitudes to Central Asia
Message-ID: <SAT.16.MAR.2002.141903.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

A friend of mine sent me the request below. If anyone
knows of some good books on this subject, I would be
grateful for the recommendation.

Charles
======================
Dear Charles,
                How are you?
        I am wondering about writing a dissertation, as I am
sure that I have
told
you. One of my current ideas is to do something about
Russian attitudes
to
Asia, and in particular how these may or may not have
affected the
Russian
move into Central Asia. Have you read anything about
this, or if not,
do you
have any ideas what might be interesting to read or
good to write on?


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From a9606646 at UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT  Sat Mar 16 17:28:36 2002
From: a9606646 at UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT (Alexander Sitzmann)
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:28:36 +0100
Subject: Stockholm - fictional texts
Message-ID: <SAT.16.MAR.2002.182836.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

I'm looking for fictional (!) texts describing Stockholm and/or a Stockholm experience for an anthology about the Swedish capital. 
At the moment I'm in the process of collecting such texts, also excerpts, by writers from all over the world and have no limits concerning time period. 
I would be extremely grateful, if you could assist me by pointing to such texts written in any Slavonic language.

Sincerely yours,
A. Sitzmann



Mag.phil. Alexander Sitzmann
Margaretengürtel 8/24
A - 1050 Wien
+43/1/5487239
+43/676/5654732

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From gpgandolfo at IOL.IT  Sat Mar 16 20:26:21 2002
From: gpgandolfo at IOL.IT (GP Gandolfo)
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 21:26:21 +0100
Subject: Russian attitudes to Central Asia
In-Reply-To: <20020316141903.44079.qmail@web21408.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.16.MAR.2002.212621.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

At 14.19 16/03/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>A friend of mine sent me the request below. If anyone
>knows of some good books on this subject, I would be
>grateful for the recommendation.
>
>Charles
>======================
>Dear Charles,
>                 How are you?
>         I am wondering about writing a dissertation, as I am
>sure that I have
>told
>you. One of my current ideas is to do something about
>Russian attitudes
>to
>Asia, and in particular how these may or may not have
>affected the
>Russian
>move into Central Asia. Have you read anything about
>this, or if not,
>do you
>have any ideas what might be interesting to read or
>good to write on?

         A useful starting point (the first that occurs to me) is  the
chapter "Asia" by Mark Bassin in
the Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture, edited by Nicholas
Rzhevsky (1998). The notes contain also some bibliographical material that
could be of interest. The literature by and on the evrazjisty can also
provide interesting insights.
Offhand I can't think of anything better. Good luck
                                         Giampaolo Gandolfo

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From cfwoolhiser at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU  Sun Mar 17 04:39:13 2002
From: cfwoolhiser at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU (Curt Woolhiser)
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:39:13 -0600
Subject: Minority languages of Russia
Message-ID: <SAT.16.MAR.2002.223913.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers:

Thanks very much to those of you who responded to my message concerning
ways to
contact speakers of minority languages of the Russian Federation for my course
on "Language Planning and Language Conflict in Post-Soviet Eurasia." In the
meantime, I came across the following website which has provided me with some
additional leads:

"Minority Languages of Russia on the Net"
(http://www.peoples.org.ru/eng_index.html).

This website includes links to a variety of sites with information about the
titular and non-titular ethnolinguistic groups of the Russian Federation, as
well as links to republic governmental organizations, NGOs, language
resources,
information on language legislation and its implementation, etc. There are
even
links to chat groups, for example, for Tatars and the Finno-Ugric minorities!
        Three fairly recent reference works that have also proven useful
for my
course are: _Gosudarstvennye yazyki v Rossijskoj Federacii_ (Moscow: Academia,
1995), published by the Institut yazykov narodov Rossii, R.A. Ageeva
_Kakogo my
rodu-plemeni? Narody Rossii: imena i sud''by_ (Moscow: Academia, 2000), and
_Chto nuzhno znat' o narodax Rossii. Spravochnik dlja gosudarstvennyx
sluzhashchix_ (Moscow: Skriptorij/Russkii mir, 1999). The latter book includes
a foreword by V. Mikhailov, Minister for Regional and Nationalities Affairs of
the Russian Federation, who writes:

"Segodnja uzhe nikogo ne nuzhno ubezhdat', chto bez predstavlenija o narodax,
naseljajushchix Rossijskuju Federaciju, prosto nevozmozhno osoznavat' sebja ee
polnocennym grazhdaninom. V pervuju ochered' eto otnositsja k gosudarstvennym
sluzhashchim vsex urovnej i vetvej vlasti, ezhednevno stalkivajushchimsja s
temi ili inymi storonami otechestvennogo mnogoplanovogo polietnicheskogo
bytija. I zdes' etnologicheskoe znanie stanovitsja neot"emlemym slagaemym
professional'noj prigodnosti."

If only it were so! I get the impression that in Putin's government such
sentiments are not particularly popular, if the recent abolition of  the
Ministry for Regional and Nationalities Affairs is any indication.
        As the language policy situation in Russia is now changing rather
rapidly (see newsbriefs from Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe appended
below), I
would also be grateful to SEELANGS subscribers for references to any recent
articles in the Russian or foreign press concerning language planning and
policy with respect to the Russian language (such as the proposed orthographic
reform and the activities of the Council on the Russian Language) or other
official languages of the Russian Federation.

Many thanks!

Curt Woolhiser
University of Texas at Austin
===================================================
(From RFE/RL Newsline)

June 11, 2001

PUNISHMENTS PROPOSED FOR MISUSING RUSSIAN. Deputy (Unity) Kaadyr-
Ool Bilcheldei, the deputy head of the Duma Nationalities Affairs
Committee, has introduced legislation calling for elevating Russian to
the status of the state language and imposing criminal and other
penalties on those who misuse it, Interfax reported on 26 June. VY

September 25, 2001

ANOTHER DUMA DEPUTY SPEAKS OUT AGAINST LATIN SCRIPT FOR TATAR
LANGUAGE. Bashkortostan Academy of Sciences President and State Duma
deputy (Russian Regions) Robert Nigmatulin told reporters on 20
September that the introduction of Latin script for the Tatar written
language will result in the break of the Tatar language from the Bashkir
language as well as from Russian language and culture, RFE/RL's Kazan
bureau reported on 24 September (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 19 September
2001). Nigmatulin said that this is not "a private issue of Tatarstan."
In an earlier interview with Russian Television (RTR) on 18 September,
he called for resolving the question at the federal level. During that
same RTR program, Marat Murtazin, rector of the Islamic University, also
condemned the Latinization program, saying that it should be "forbidden
to experiment on a people, abandoning one plan for another." JAC

...AS TATARSTAN OFFICIALS STAND FAST. "Our children will lose the
opportunity to read, to read literature that was written in the Tatar
language during the last 70 years," he continued. According to RFE/RL's
Kazan bureau, Nigmatulin and Murtazin admitted at a Moscow press
conference that they themselves do not read any books or newspapers in
Tatar -- even in Cyrillic script. Meanwhile, local Tatarstan officials
were defiant. Farid Mukhametshin, chairman of Tatarstan's Legislative
Assembly, said on 21 September that federal authorities cannot legally
block the switch to Latin script. And Mansur Khasanov, president of the
Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, said that if the State Duma votes to
prohibit the switch, this would be a "return to the past" and would
represent the annihilation of Tatarstan's sovereignty. JAC

October 18, 2001

LINGUIST SAYS NON-RUSSIAN LANGUAGES THREATEN STATE. Irina
Khaleeva, the head of the Moscow Language University and the Russian
rapporteur on language problems at the Council of Europe, said in an
interview published in "Rossiiskaya gazeta" on 16 October that the
increased status of non-Russian languages within the Russian Federation
in general, and especially of the Tatar and Bashkir languages in their
titular republics, threaten to destroy Russia just as nationalism
earlier destroyed the Soviet Union. She said that Russia must protect
itself by making the Russian language the state language of the country.
VY

November 2001

DUMA DEPUTY SAYS MOSCOW CONDUCTING CAMPAIGN OF PRESSURE
AGAINST TATARSTAN. In an interview with RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir
Service on 27 November, State Duma deputy Fandas Safiullin (Russian
Regions) said Moscow is guilty of using pressure and legal attacks
during the process of seeking the harmonization of the constitutions of
Tatarstan and Russia. According to Safiullin, Moscow is trying "to drive
all of the republics into one barn," and thus form a unitary state.
Safiullin added that a recent article in the newspaper "Zavtra"
represented a direct call for an anti-Tatar pogrom addressed to Russians
living outside of Tatarstan, many of whom he claims are ignorant about
Tatarstan and Tatars. The daily claimed that Tatars have destroyed a
monument to Ivan the Terrible in Kazan, and, according to Safiullin,
most Russian citizens are unaware that such a monument existed in Kazan.
Meanwhile, several of Safiullin's colleagues in the State Duma have
filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court challenging the provision
of the Tatar Constitution that requires the president to speak both
Russian and Tatar. JAC

Feb. 27, 2002

DEPUTIES MULL CYRILLIC-ONLY BILL. The State Duma's Committee on
Nationalities Affairs voted on 22 February to recommend the approval
of a draft bill obliging all peoples living in Russia to use the
Cyrillic script, RFE/RL's Kazan bureau reported on 26 February. If
enacted, the draft bill would pose a setback to Tatarstan's five-year
effort to reintroduce a Latin-based script. Committee members
rejected a draft bill giving different ethic groups the right to
choose scripts that was offered by Duma deputy (Russian Regions) and
former Tatarstan Public Center Chairman Fandas Safiullin. JAC

March 4, 2002

MARII CULTURE UNDER PRESSURE. Representatives of the Marii political
opposition recently took part in a press conference organized in
Kazan by the Tatar Public Center, Liberal Russia in Tatarstan, and
the public political movement Idel-Ural, RFE/RL's Kazan bureau
reported on 1 March, citing "Vostochnyi ekspress." Viktor Nikolaev,
the chairman of the All-Marii Council and the former Marii El culture
minister, said Marii opposition movements are preparing to protest
against pressure being exerted on the Marii language and culture in
the republic. They are appealing to Tatars and related Finno-Ugric
peoples for support. Nikolaev said that since Leonid Markelov, who
was supported by the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, took over as
president of the republic, a government body in charge of ethnic
issues has been abolished, and a major discussion on the necessity of
teaching the Marii language has been initiated. In addition, the
Education Ministry's National Education Department has also been
closed, while its employees have been accused of "spreading the Marii
language," he said. The opposition newspaper "Kudo-Kodu" is printed
outside the republic with the support of George Soros's Open Society
Fund. JAC

March 15, 2002

TATAR GROUPS FEAR LOSS OF TATAR-LANGUAGE RADIO STATION... The Chally
branch of the moderate nationalist group Tatar Public Center (TPC)
appealed to Russian Media Minister Lesin on 13 March, asking him to
cancel bidding for the 105.3 FM frequency in Chally that was formerly
occupied by the Tatar-language Dulkin station, RFE/RL's Kazan bureau
reported. The TPC warns that cutting off Dulkin's broadcasts will
undermine Russian authority among the Tatar, Bashkir, Chuvash, and
Mari peoples. The TPC asserts that Dulkin presented all the necessary
documents for resuming its broadcasting; however, the ministry
decided to organize a tender for the station's broadcasting rights to
be held on 27 March. Russian-language Radio Shanson and Radio Retro,
along with Tatarstan's TAIF group, have applied to take over the
frequency. Dulkin's general manager Ravil Rustyamov told Tatar-Inform
that he is afraid that the other stations such as Radio Shanson and
Retor have much more money and better political connections than
Dulkin. He added that the station has received tens of thousands of
letters from Tatars all over the world and also broadcasts in Tatar
on the Internet 24 hours a day. JAC

...AS MORE PROTESTS OF CENSUS DIVISION VOICED. The Tatar and Bashkir
public movement Tugan Tel held a forum on 10 March in Ulyanovsk
Oblast at which they condemned the federal center's ethnic policies,
Tatar-Inform reported on 14 March. It adopted an appeal criticizing
the Russian government's decision to divide the Tatar people into
various categories, including Kryashens (or baptized Tatars), when
the national census is conducted (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 14 November
and 14 December 2001). It said that if the same logic were applied to
the Russian people then they should be divided into Old Believers,
Molokans, Kulugurs, Kubans, and Don Cossacks, etc. JAC

========================================
Curt F. Woolhiser
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Calhoun 415
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78713-7217 USA
Tel. (512) 232-9133, (512) 471-3607
Fax: (512) 471-6710
Email: cfwoolhiser at mail.utexas.edu
Slavic Department Home Page:
http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/slavic/
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From mitsu at SYMPHONY.PLALA.OR.JP  Sun Mar 17 13:01:10 2002
From: mitsu at SYMPHONY.PLALA.OR.JP (Mitsu Numano)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 08:01:10 -0500
Subject: Stockhorm texts
Message-ID: <SUN.17.MAR.2002.080110.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear A. Sitsmann,
   One good text for your topic is doubtless Danilo Kis (Kish)'s "The
Encyclopedia for the dead" included in the collection of his short stories
under the same title.  KIs is one of the best Serbian writers of the 20th
century.

Mitsuyoshi Numano
The University of Tokyo


Date:    Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:28:36 +0100
From:    Alexander Sitzmann <a9606646 at UNET.UNIVIE.AC.AT>
Subject: Stockholm - fictional texts

Dear Colleagues,

I'm looking for fictional (!) texts describing Stockholm and/or a =
Stockholm experience for an anthology about the Swedish capital.=20
At the moment I'm in the process of collecting such texts, also =
excerpts, by writers from all over the world and have no limits =
concerning time period.=20
I would be extremely grateful, if you could assist me by pointing to =
such texts written in any Slavonic language.

Sincerely yours,
A. Sitzmann

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From mdenner at STETSON.EDU  Sun Mar 17 14:10:02 2002
From: mdenner at STETSON.EDU (Michael Denner)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 09:10:02 -0500
Subject: Stockhorm texts
Message-ID: <SUN.17.MAR.2002.091002.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Mr. Sitzmann:

The Russian poet Ilya Kutik, who lived in Stockholm in the early nineties,
has written several sketches of life in Sweden and about Swedish history. I
translated a number of them in a recently published (or soon to be
published) book "On Poetry, Swedenborg, and Others" out of Northwestern
Press. You might contact him at kutik at northwestern.edu.

Michael Denner

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From K.R.Hauge at EAST.UIO.NO  Sun Mar 17 14:20:16 2002
From: K.R.Hauge at EAST.UIO.NO (Kjetil =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E5?= Hauge)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:20:16 +0100
Subject: Stockholm - fictional texts
In-Reply-To: <001801c1cd10$054281a0$58e98283@unet.univie.ac.at>
Message-ID: <SUN.17.MAR.2002.152016.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I'm looking for fictional (!) texts describing Stockholm and/or a
>Stockholm experience for an anthology about the Swedish capital.

Bulgaria is far away from Stockholm, and I can only think of these two cases:

Jordan Radichkov's travelogue from Sweden "Malka severna saga"
(Swedish translation: "Träskorna").

Dimitar Korudhzhiev's story "Domyt na Alma" (in _Syvremennik_ ca.
1987, don't know whether it was later published as a book) is set on
a health farm outside Stockholm, with some of the story taking place
in the city itself.
--
-- Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo. Phone +47/22856710, fax +47/22854140
-- (this msg sent from home, +47/67148424, fax +1/5084372444)

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From igor_horvatus at YAHOO.COM  Mon Mar 18 11:54:06 2002
From: igor_horvatus at YAHOO.COM (horvat igor)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 03:54:06 -0800
Subject: Electronic Corpora (Slovene, Bolgarian, Macedonian)
Message-ID: <MON.18.MAR.2002.035406.0800.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear SEELANGers,

I would be very grateful for any information about
electronic corpora of Slovene, Bolgarian and
Macedonian available on the internet.
Cheers,
Igor



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From ilon at UT.EE  Mon Mar 18 13:44:29 2002
From: ilon at UT.EE (Ilon Fraiman)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:44:29 +0200
Subject: ruthenia news
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Dobryj den'!

Glavnoe sobytie konca fevralya - nachala marta, nesomnenno, Lotmanovskij
kongress, priurochennyj k 80-letiyu Yu.M. Lotmana. Sm. v razdele
"Personalia" podborku materialov, posvyawennyx e'tomu sobytiyu (informaciya
o kongresse, ssylki na stat'i A.S. Nemzera, imena i fotografii laureatov
Lotmanovskoj stipendii. Pozdnee v razdele budut razmeweny fotografii s
kongressa).

http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/personalia.html#lotman

Za poslednie neskol'ko nedel' na "Ruthenii" opublikovany anonsy konferencij,
seminarov i chtenij:

- "Serebryanyj vek" (oktyabr', Tbilisi)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/474239.html

- "Vzaimodejstvie literatur v mirovom literaturnom processe" (1-3 oktyabrya,
Grodno)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/473618.html

- "E'migraciya vneshnyaya i vnutrennyaya" (sentyabr' - oktyabr', Tallin -
Tartu)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/474884.html

- Dergachevskie chteniya (konec oktyabrya, Ekaterinburg)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/473913.html

- "Kognitivnye scenarii  kommunikacii: Na perekrestke yazykov  i kul'tur"
(23-27 sentyabrya, Krym)
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- "Mir romantizma" (12-15 sentyabrya, Tver')
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- "Pushkin i Andersen" (29 iyulya - 3 avgusta, Pushkinskie Gory)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/474740.html

- "Sankt-Peterburg i Severo-Zapad Rossii" (26 iyunya-2 iyulya, SPb - Staraya
Ladoga)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/474694.html

- "Literatura i kul'tura v kontekste xristianstva" (19-20 iyunya,
Ul'yanovsk)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/474945.html

- konferenciya k 190-letiyu I.I. Sreznevskogo (28-29 maya, Ryazan')
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/474894.html

- "Rechevaya struktura russkogo obwestva XVII - XXI vv." (13-14 maya,
Astraxan')
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- "E'pigraf kak chast' zagolovochnogo kompleksa" (28-29 marta, RGGU)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/475175.html

Iz blizhajshix zawit - zawita kandidatskoj dissertacii D.N. Axapkina po
Brodskomu v SPbGU (21 marta)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/471017.html

Opublikovana informaciya o proshedshix konferenciyax, kruglyx stolax i
prochitannyx lekciyax priglashennyx lektorov:

- kruglyj stol "Zhurnal po istorii segodnya i zavtra" (22 fevralya, Moskva)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/470833.html

- konferenciya v Universitete Brauna (9 marta)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/473716.html

- lekciya R. Laxmann v RGPU (14 marta)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/475082.html

5 marta v Moskve sostoyalos' obsuzhdenie knigi "Ten' Barkova"
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/470832.html

Opublikovany programmy dvux proshedshix molodezhnyx konferencij:

- programma IV Mezhdunarodnoj nauchnoj konferenciya molodyx filologov
(Tallin, 22-24 fevralya 2002)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/470736.html

- programma konferencii molodyx filologov (26-28 fevralya 2002, Riga)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/475088.html

Novye izdaniya po rusistike:

- "Novaya russkaya kniga" (N 3/4 za 2001)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/470573.html

- zhurnal "Vestnik molodyx uchenyx" (SPb, N 2 za 2001)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/474915.html

- perevod pervogo toma monografii R. Vortmana
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/474674.html

Sm. takzhe novye knigi poe'ticheskoj serii "OGI"
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/474889.html

V razdele "Publikacii" nachinaem vosproizvodit' v e'lektronnom vide sbornik
Trudy po russkoj i slavyanskoj filologii. Literaturovedenie. IV (Novaya
seriya). Tartu, 2001.
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/470948.html

V internete otkryvaetsya obsuzhdenie gryaduwej konferencii "E'volyuciya
tekstov v tradicionnyx i sovremennyx kul'turax" (27 -29 marta, Kolomna)
http://www.ruthenia.ru:8085/document/474914.html

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From padunov+ at PITT.EDU  Mon Mar 18 16:33:01 2002
From: padunov+ at PITT.EDU (Vladimir Padunov)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:33:01 -0500
Subject: Russian Film Symposium 2002: Imperial Fatigue
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Russian Film Symposium 2002: Imperial Fatigue
http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu

Unlike much of Europe in the early twentieth century, Russia did not
replace a dynastic-religious empire with a nation-state. Instead, it had
substituted its dynastic empire with a socialist one, enduring
three-quarters of a century. In the years after the 1991 collapse of the
USSR, the critical task facing Russia's leadership was not "merely" the
appropriation of an existing structure. Instead, for the first time in
Russia's thousand-year history, the task was to forge a nation-state
from the remains of Europe's last multinational empire, the third
largest empire in human history. "Imperial Fatigue" presents a selection
of recent films that trace, directly or indirectly, Russia's sloughing
off of its imperial burden and reconstitution as a nation-state when the
very function of the nation-state is called into question.

Monday, 29 April - Sunday, 12 May 2002 (films with English subtitles;
exhibits; readings and performances)


_____________________________________________
Vladimir Padunov
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1433 Cathedral of Learning             voice: 1-412-624-5713
University of Pittsburgh                    FAX: 1-412-624-9714
Pittsburgh, PA 15260                         padunov+ at pitt.edu

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From mozdzierz at ACTR.ORG  Mon Mar 18 18:27:58 2002
From: mozdzierz at ACTR.ORG (Barbara Mozdzierz)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:27:58 -0500
Subject: Any info on Susak?
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Dear colleagues:

Has anyone of you ever come across the Italian/Croatian subdialect(?) Susak spoken in Susak?  If so, is it closer to Italian or Croatian?  Any details would be greatly appreciated.
Please respond off-line.
Barbara

Dr. Barbara M. Mozdzierz
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From veglia at BELLATLANTIC.NET  Mon Mar 18 18:55:46 2002
From: veglia at BELLATLANTIC.NET (J O'Brien)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:55:46 -0500
Subject: Any info on Susak?
Message-ID: <MON.18.MAR.2002.135546.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Are you referring to the part of Rijeka, Sušak, formerly the Croatian enclave and port workers' quarter under the Italian and Hungarian domination in Rijeka, where a well-identified
Croatian dialect was spoken but never standardized into a literary codification, or are you speaking of the island "Susak"?

If the former, I have no real references for you, but all Croatian dialectological works may comfort.

If the latter, from the catalog of the National and University library, Zagreb

[title:]    Otok Susak : zemlja, voda, ljudi, gospodarstvo, društveni razvitak, govor, nošnja, gra?evine, pjesma i zdravlje /  [urednik Mijo Mirkovi?]
impresum:  Zagreb : Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 1957
materijalni opis:  VIII, 586 str., [12] presavijenih listova , [22] lista s tablama (djelomice u bojama) : ilustr., graf. prikazi ; 27 cm.
nakladnicka cjelina: Djela Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti ; knj. 49
napomene: Bibliografija uz svako poglavlje. - Resume ; Zusammenfassung ; Summary.
udk:  908(497.5 Susak)
signatura:  SVKRI

refers.

It is an insular dialect of Croatian, with the normal overlay of Italianisms that all of the Dalmatian coast presents, particularly the islands, and particularly the underdeveloped
islands of which Susak is a prime example.  It is generally thought that the mental hygiene of the core population has been adversely affected by endogamy.

James O'Brien
++++

Barbara Mozdzierz wrote:

> Dear colleagues:
>
> Has anyone of you ever come across the Italian/Croatian subdialect(?) Susak spoken in Susak?  If so, is it closer to Italian or Croatian?  Any details would be greatly appreciated.
> Please respond off-line.
> Barbara
>
> Dr. Barbara M. Mozdzierz
> Senior Publication Specialist
> American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS
> 1776 Massachusetts Ave., 7th floor
> Washington, DC 20036
> Tel. (202) 833-7522
> Fax (202) 833-7523
> Email: mozdzierz at actr.org
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From mozdzierz at ACTR.ORG  Mon Mar 18 19:05:01 2002
From: mozdzierz at ACTR.ORG (Barbara Mozdzierz)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:05:01 -0500
Subject: Any info on Susak?
Message-ID: <MON.18.MAR.2002.140501.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Mr. O' Brien:

Thank you very much for your detailed reference and answer.  BOth are very helpful and greatly appreciated!

Best regards,
Barbara Mozdzierz

Dr. Barbara M. Mozdzierz
Senior Publication Specialist
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS
1776 Massachusetts Ave., 7th floor
Washington, DC 20036
Tel. (202) 833-7522
Fax (202) 833-7523
Email: mozdzierz at actr.org

>>> veglia at BELLATLANTIC.NET - 3/18/02 1:55 PM >>>
Are you referring to the part of Rijeka, Susak, formerly the Croatian enclave and port workers' quarter under the Italian and Hungarian domination in Rijeka, where a well-identified
Croatian dialect was spoken but never standardized into a literary codification, or are you speaking of the island "Susak"?

If the former, I have no real references for you, but all Croatian dialectological works may comfort.

If the latter, from the catalog of the National and University library, Zagreb

[title:]    Otok Susak : zemlja, voda, ljudi, gospodarstvo, drustveni razvitak, govor, nosnja, gra?evine, pjesma i zdravlje /  [urednik Mijo Mirkovi?]
impresum:  Zagreb : Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 1957
materijalni opis:  VIII, 586 str., [12] presavijenih listova , [22] lista s tablama (djelomice u bojama) : ilustr., graf. prikazi ; 27 cm.
nakladnicka cjelina: Djela Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti ; knj. 49
napomene: Bibliografija uz svako poglavlje. - Resume ; Zusammenfassung ; Summary.
udk:  908(497.5 Susak)
signatura:  SVKRI

refers.

It is an insular dialect of Croatian, with the normal overlay of Italianisms that all of the Dalmatian coast presents, particularly the islands, and particularly the underdeveloped
islands of which Susak is a prime example.  It is generally thought that the mental hygiene of the core population has been adversely affected by endogamy.

James O'Brien
++++

Barbara Mozdzierz wrote:

> Dear colleagues:
>
> Has anyone of you ever come across the Italian/Croatian subdialect(?) Susak spoken in Susak?  If so, is it closer to Italian or Croatian?  Any details would be greatly appreciated.
> Please respond off-line.
> Barbara
>
> Dr. Barbara M. Mozdzierz
> Senior Publication Specialist
> American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS
> 1776 Massachusetts Ave., 7th floor
> Washington, DC 20036
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> Fax (202) 833-7523
> Email: mozdzierz at actr.org
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From emboyle at U.WASHINGTON.EDU  Mon Mar 18 20:00:26 2002
From: emboyle at U.WASHINGTON.EDU (E. Boyle)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:00:26 -0800
Subject: To Be or Not To Be
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Dorogie kollegi:

Can someone direct me to a good, concise discussion of the various
synonyms for the verb "to be" in Russian?  I'm thinking of things like
iavliat'sia, imet'sia i dr.  I'd like to provide a list for students with
thumbnail notes as to how they're used.

Much obliged, in advance and always,
Eloise

***************
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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Washington
Box 353580
Seattle, WA  98195
(206) 543-7580

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From babyaking at STRATOS.NET  Tue Mar 19 02:28:14 2002
From: babyaking at STRATOS.NET (Hoyte & Elena King)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:28:14 -0800
Subject: To Be or Not To Be
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Section 226 of Terence Wade's "A Comprehensive Russian Grammar" (ISBN
0-631-17502-4) offers such a short discussion, with a brief list of
words.  There may be something in his workbook, also.  I am not sure
as it is not in my possession.

Hoyte King

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From vz2 at NYU.EDU  Tue Mar 19 02:57:36 2002
From: vz2 at NYU.EDU (Valentina Zaitseva)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:57:36 -0500
Subject: To Be or Not To Be
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Dorogaia Eloise,

There is some interesting stuff in Apresian's nice, short and very
informative chapter ""Predvaritel'nye svedeniia o slovarnoi stat'e glagola
BYT",
in:
Iu. D. Apresian, 1995. Integral'noe opisanie iazyka i sistemnaia
leksikografiia, vol.. II. Moscow: "Iazyki Russkoi Kul'tury", pp. 511-514

Best,
Valentina

"E. Boyle" wrote:

> Dorogie kollegi:
>
> Can someone direct me to a good, concise discussion of the various
> synonyms for the verb "to be" in Russian?  I'm thinking of things like
> iavliat'sia, imet'sia i dr.  I'd like to provide a list for students with
> thumbnail notes as to how they're used.
>
> Much obliged, in advance and always,
> Eloise
>
> ***************
> Eloise M. Boyle
> Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
> University of Washington
> Box 353580
> Seattle, WA  98195
> (206) 543-7580
>
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From cfwoolhiser at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU  Tue Mar 19 03:17:55 2002
From: cfwoolhiser at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU (curt fredric woolhiser)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 21:17:55 -0600
Subject: North American Association for Belarusian Studies
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>
>The North American Association for Belarusian Studies (NAABS)
>
>The North American Association for Belarusian Studies (NAABS) is a
>non-profit scholarly organization which promotes teaching, research
>and publication in all areas of Belarusian studies, including
>history, language and linguistics, literature and the arts, cultural
>studies, sociology, anthropology and ethnography, political science,
>economics, and international relations. NAABS seeks to foster
>communication and interdisciplinary collaboration between teachers
>and scholars engaged in Belarusian studies and related fields by
>publishing a biannual newsletter, sponsoring conferences, panels and
>workshops at the regional, national and international levels, and
>supporting the publication of research by North American
>Belarusianists. Established in 2001 as an affiliate of the
>International Association of Belarusianists (IAB/MAB), NAABS joins
>other IAB national and regional affiliates in Belarus, Poland,
>Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria,
>Germany, France and Great Britain
>       Current NAABS projects include an interdisciplinary
>conference on Belarusian studies (tentatively scheduled for the
>spring of 2003) and an Internet-based "Belarusian Studies Resource
>Center" with specially-commissioned articles and essays on various
>aspects of Belarusian studies, an electronic anthology of Belarusian
>literature in English translation, and various useful links and other
>Belarus-related resources for teachers, researchers, journalists and
>the general public.
>       NAABS invites all researchers, teachers, students and other
>individuals with an interest in Belarus and its multicultural
>heritage to join the Association and participate in its activities.
>For additional information about NAABS and its organizational
>structure, membership information (including an application form in
>PDF format), and information on the Association's current projects
>and upcoming NAABS-sponsored events, please see the NAABS Web site
>at: http://www.belarusianstudies.org/.
>
>       Questions may be directed to Curt Woolhiser (NAABS President); e-mail:
>cfwoolhiser at mail.utexas.edu, tel. (512) 471-3607, fax. (512)
>471-6710. Mailing address: Department of Slavic Languages and
>Literatures, Box 7217, The University of Texas, Austin TX 78713-7217.
>
>
>Officers of the North American Association for Belarusian Studies, 2001-2004
>
>President: Dr. Curt Woolhiser, Dept. of Slavic Languages, University
>of Texas at Austin (Field: Slavic Linguistics; Research interests:
>Belarusian and East Slavic historical linguistics, dialectology and
>sociolinguistics; language attitudes and language ideology; language
>planning and policy)
>
>Vice-President: Dr. Maria Paula Survilla, Dept. of Music, Wartburg
>College (Iowa) (Field: Ethnomusicology; Research interests:
>Belarusian traditional and urban music; music and national identity)
>
>Secretary-Treasurer: Dr. Alicja Boruta-Sadkowska, Dept. of Modern
>Languages, University of Northern Iowa (Field: Slavic languages and
>literatures; Research interests: history of the Belarusian literary
>language; morphological variation in Belarusian journalistic prose in
>the 1920s and 1930s)
>
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>California (creator of "A Belarus Miscellany" website; creator and
>moderator of "Belarus" internet discussion group and usenet newsgroup
>"soc.culture.belarus")
>
>
>Executive Council:
>
>Dr. Thomas Bird, Dept. Slavic Languages, Queens College, CUNY
>(Field: Slavic Languages and Literature; Research interests: Nasha
>Niva; religion in Belarus; Belarusian Drama; literature of the
>Belarusian diaspora)
>
>Dr. Zina Gimpelevich, Dept. of Slavic Languages, Waterloo University
>(Canada) (Field: Slavic Languages and Literatures; Research
>interests: Belarusian language and literature; the works of Vasil
>Bykau)
>
>Dr. Vitaut Kipel, Director, Belarusian Institute of Arts and Sciences
>(Belaruski instytut navuki i mastactva, BINiM), New York (Field:
>History, Cultural Studies; Research interests: Belarusian history;
>history and culture of the Belarusian diaspora)
>
>Dr. David Marples, Dept. of History, University of Alberta (Canada)
>(Field: History; Research interests: History of Belarus (20th century
>emphasis);the impact of Chernobyl; health and social-demographic
>issues; contemporary Belarusian politics)
>
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>(Field: History; Research interests: Belarusian history; Soviet and
>post-Soviet Belarusian society and politics)



========================================
Curt F. Woolhiser
Dept. of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
Calhoun 415
University of Texas
Austin, TX 78713-7217 USA

Tel. (512) 232-9133, (512) 471-3607
Fax: (512) 471-6710
Email: cfwoolhiser at mail.utexas.edu
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From Zemedelec at AOL.COM  Tue Mar 19 12:46:55 2002
From: Zemedelec at AOL.COM (Leslie Farmer)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:46:55 EST
Subject: Any info on Susak?
Message-ID: <TUE.19.MAR.2002.074655.EST.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

In a message dated 3/18/2 13:00:08, veglia at BELLATLANTIC.NET writes:

<< It is generally thought that the mental hygiene of the core population has
been adversely affected by endogamy.

 >>

Wonderful example of academic jargon, meaning, "A lot of interbreeding has
made (some of) them idiots."

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From sclancy at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU  Tue Mar 19 23:03:22 2002
From: sclancy at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU (Steven Clancy)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:03:22 -0600
Subject: To be or not to be
In-Reply-To: <200203190458.g2J4wBn14013@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Dear Eloise,

I also have a book under review for publication, part of which is on this
particular topic: "

Clancy, Steven J. Forthcoming. The Chain of BEING and HAVING in Slavic.

Relevant to what you ask about is a section on the semantic network that
the concept BE draws from as it develops and renews in a given
language. The situation in Russian is quite complex and in flux.

I have a PDF version I could send to anyone interested.

Steven

Steven Clancy
University of Chicago
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
1130 East 59th Street, Foster 406
Chicago, IL 60637

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From aimee.m.roebuck1 at JSC.NASA.GOV  Tue Mar 19 23:56:03 2002
From: aimee.m.roebuck1 at JSC.NASA.GOV (ROEBUCK, AIMEE M. (JSC-AH) (NASA))
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:56:03 -0600
Subject: To be or not to be
Message-ID: <TUE.19.MAR.2002.175603.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Steven,
        Could you please send me a copy of your chapter on the concept BE.
Thanks in advance.
Aimee Roebuck-Johnson


English/Russian Language Instructor
TechTrans International, Inc. at NASA
2101 Nasa Road 1
Houston, Texas  77058
desk:  281/483-0774
fax:  281/483-4050



-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Clancy [mailto:sclancy at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:03 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: To be or not to be


Dear Eloise,

I also have a book under review for publication, part of which is on this
particular topic: "

Clancy, Steven J. Forthcoming. The Chain of BEING and HAVING in Slavic.

Relevant to what you ask about is a section on the semantic network that
the concept BE draws from as it develops and renews in a given
language. The situation in Russian is quite complex and in flux.

I have a PDF version I could send to anyone interested.

Steven

Steven Clancy
University of Chicago
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
1130 East 59th Street, Foster 406
Chicago, IL 60637

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From radelo at EARTHLINK.NET  Wed Mar 20 05:55:30 2002
From: radelo at EARTHLINK.NET (Robert De Lossa)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 00:55:30 -0500
Subject: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (new issue)
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A new issue of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies has just come out.
Those interested in subscription should contact Eleanor Witiuk
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--Robert De Lossa

JOURNAL OF UKRAINIAN STUDIES

Volume 24, Number 2   Winter 1999 [Publication date March 2002]

Articles
Roman K. Kovalev
        Zvenyhorod in Galicia: An Archaeological Survey
        (Eleventh - Mid-Thirteenth Century)

Angela Rustemeyer
        Ukrainians in Seventeenth-Century Political Trials

Anatolii Kruglashov
        Mykhailo Drahomanov's Writings on the Pan-Slavic Mission: A Russian or
Ukrainian Discourse?

Iurii Shapoval
        Mykhailo Hrushevsky in Moscow and His Death (1931-34):
        New Revelations

Review Article
Zenon E. Kohut
        In Search of Early Modern Ukrainian Statehood:
        Post-Soviet Studies of the Cossack Hetmanate

Book Reviews
        Mykhailo Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rus'. Vol. 1. From
Prehistory to
the Eleventh Century Trans. Marta Skorupsky. Ed. Andrzej Poppe and Frank E.
Sysyn. (Janet Martin)

        Ihor Sevcenko, Ukraine between East and West: Essays on
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to the Early Eighteenth Century (Philip Longworth)

        Halyna Burlaka, comp., and Liubomyr Vynar, ed., Lystuvannia Mykhaila
Hrushevskoho (Thomas M. Prymak)

        Claus Remer, Die Ukraine im Blickfeld deutscher Interessen:
Ende des 19.
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        Vasyl Ulianovsky, Tserkva v ukrainskii derzhavi (doba Ukrainskoi
Tsentralnoi Rady); idem, Tserkva v ukrainskii derzhavi (doba Hetmanatu
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        Shchodennyk Arkadiia Liubchenka, ed. Iurii Lutsky (Maxim Tarnawsky)
        Hiroaki Kuromiya, Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian
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        Hryhorii Hrabovych [George G. Grabowicz], Do istorii ukrainskoi
literatury: Doslidzhennia, ese, polemika (Marko Pavlyshyn)

        Lubomyr A. Hajda, ed., Ukraine in the World: Studies in the
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        Yaroslav Bilinsky, Endgame in NATO's Enlargement: The Baltic States and
Ukraine (Tor Bukkvoll)

        Catherine Wanner, Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet
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        Andrzej A. Zieba, Ukraincy w Kanadzie wobec Polaków i Polski
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        A Lexical Atlas of the Hutsul Dialects of the Ukrainian Language, comp.
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        Yuri Andrukhovych, Recreations, trans. Marko Pavlyshyn (Mark Andryczyk)

        Janice Kulyk Keefer, Honey and Ashes (Askold Melnyczuk)

        Vasyl Lisovy, Kultura — ideolohiia — polityka (Taras D. Zakydalsky)

        Ilse E. Friesen, Earth, Hell, and Heaven in the Art of William Kurelek
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From jebrown at HAWAII.EDU  Wed Mar 20 12:06:12 2002
From: jebrown at HAWAII.EDU (jebrown at HAWAII.EDU)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:06:12 +0300
Subject: To be or not to be
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----- Original Message -----
From: Steven Clancy <sclancy at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 2:03 am
Subject: To be or not to be

Dear Steven,

Would you please send me a PDF copy of your chapter.  Thank you very
much

Dr. James E. Brown
Associate Prof. of Russian
University of Hawaii, Honolul
jebrown34 at hotmail.com

> Dear Eloise,
>
> I also have a book under review for publication, part of which is
> on this
> particular topic: "
>
> Clancy, Steven J. Forthcoming. The Chain of BEING and HAVING in
> Slavic.
> Relevant to what you ask about is a section on the semantic
> network that
> the concept BE draws from as it develops and renews in a given
> language. The situation in Russian is quite complex and in flux.
>
> I have a PDF version I could send to anyone interested.
>
> Steven
>
> Steven Clancy
> University of Chicago
> Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
> 1130 East 59th Street, Foster 406
> Chicago, IL 60637
>
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From ldewaard at BLUE.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU  Wed Mar 20 14:05:23 2002
From: ldewaard at BLUE.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU (ldewaard)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:05:23 -0600
Subject: To be or not to be
Message-ID: <WED.20.MAR.2002.080523.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I would also be interested in the PDF copy of your chapter. Thank you very
much,
Lisa Dykstra


>===== Original Message From Slavic & East European Languages and Literature
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>Dear Eloise,
>
>I also have a book under review for publication, part of which is on this
>particular topic: "
>
>Clancy, Steven J. Forthcoming. The Chain of BEING and HAVING in Slavic.
>
>Relevant to what you ask about is a section on the semantic network that
>the concept BE draws from as it develops and renews in a given
>language. The situation in Russian is quite complex and in flux.
>
>I have a PDF version I could send to anyone interested.
>
>Steven
>
>Steven Clancy
>University of Chicago
>Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
>1130 East 59th Street, Foster 406
>Chicago, IL 60637
>
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-------------------------------
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MAT in Spanish, May 2002
-------------------------------
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From mcarlson at MAIL.UKANS.EDU  Wed Mar 20 14:44:34 2002
From: mcarlson at MAIL.UKANS.EDU (mcarlson)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:44:34 -0600
Subject: Opportunities for study in Ukraine
Message-ID: <WED.20.MAR.2002.084434.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

The Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Kansas
still has two open slots, with the strong possibility of FLAS funding, for the
9th Annual Summer Ukrainian Language Institute in L’viv, Ukraine.  Classes
begin on June 13th and end on July 24th, 2002. This program offers a unique
opportunity for graduate students to study intensive Ukrainian language and
area studies (political transition, society, economics, culture, etc.) at
L’viv National University, one of the oldest universities in Eastern Europe.
The program will also include local field trips and excursions to Kyiv and the
Carpathians. Participants stay with pre-screened Ukrainian families. Students
will earn 6 graduate credit hours in Ukrainian language and area studies from
KU. The program cost is $2710 (includes tuition, room and board, and
excursions), and $25 registration fee.

FLAS summer fellowships are available to qualified graduate students.  The
application deadline has been extended to April 1, 2002. For more information,
contact: Jennifer Rack, Center for Russian and East European Studies,
University of Kansas, Bailey Hall, 1440 Jayhawk Blvd. Room 320, Lawrence, KS
66045-7515; phone 785-864-4236; or by email at: crees at ku.edu.

Maria Carlson
Professor and Director
Center for Russian and East European Studies
University of Kansas

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From Stephens at ACTR.ORG  Wed Mar 20 16:18:02 2002
From: Stephens at ACTR.ORG (Margaret Stephenson)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:18:02 -0500
Subject: Fellowships for graduate language study in Russia
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Deadline Reminder:  April 1 for Fall and Academic-Year Programs

Fellowships for Graduate Students to Study Russian in Moscow and St. Petersburg and Vladimir

Graduate students are eligible for Title VIII State Department fellowships to study Russian language in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Vladimir on the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS semester, academic year and summer programs. Awards range from two to ten thousand dollars; they are made on the basis of need and merit.

The American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS has administered intensive Russian language study programs in immersion settings for American undergraduates and graduate students since 1976, serving more than three thousand students and faculty. The Russian Language and Area Studies Program provides approximately twenty hours per week of in-class instruction in Russian grammar, phonetics, conversation, and cultural studies at Moscow International University, and at the Russian State Pedagogical University (Gertsen Institute) in St. Petersburg.  In Vladimir, Russian classes are taught by the CORA Center for Russian Language. At all three sites, classes are conducted in Russian by regular members of the faculty. 

A full-time resident director oversees the academic and cultural programs and assists participants in academic, administrative, and personal matters. Students may live with Russian host families or in university dormitories in Moscow and St. Petersburg; all students in Vladimir live with host families. Full time home-stay coordinators in each city arrange host family placements and assist participants with host family issues. During the academic year, students may participate in unpaid internships at local public schools, charities, and international businesses, depending on language level and other relevant schools. 

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Participants are registered for academic credit at Bryn Mawr College. Graduate students receive the equivalent of 15 academic hours for one semester; 30 for the academic year, and 10 for the summer program. Undergraduate students receive the equivalent of 16 academic hours for one semester, 32 for the academic year, and 8 for the summer program.

Application Deadlines: Spring Semester: October 15; Fall/Academic Year Program: April 1; Summer Program, March 1.

For more information and an application contact: 

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From vz2 at NYU.EDU  Wed Mar 20 19:43:22 2002
From: vz2 at NYU.EDU (Valentina Zaitseva)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:43:22 -0500
Subject: To be or not to be
Message-ID: <WED.20.MAR.2002.144322.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Steven,

I look forward to reading your book and would also be interested in the PDF
copy of your chapter.
Many thanks
Valentina

Steven Clancy wrote:

> Dear Eloise,
>
> I also have a book under review for publication, part of which is on this
> particular topic: "
>
> Clancy, Steven J. Forthcoming. The Chain of BEING and HAVING in Slavic.
>
> Relevant to what you ask about is a section on the semantic network that
> the concept BE draws from as it develops and renews in a given
> language. The situation in Russian is quite complex and in flux.
>
> I have a PDF version I could send to anyone interested.
>
> Steven
>
> Steven Clancy
> University of Chicago
> Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
> 1130 East 59th Street, Foster 406
> Chicago, IL 60637
>
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From Stephens at ACTR.ORG  Wed Mar 20 19:12:56 2002
From: Stephens at ACTR.ORG (Margaret Stephenson)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:12:56 -0500
Subject: Fellowships for graduate language study in the NIS
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Application Deadline Reminder: April 1 for Fall and Academic-Year Programs

Fellowships for Language Study in Central Asia, South Caucasus, Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova. 

Graduate students are eligible for Title VIII funding to study languages in leading universities throughout the NIS, including progams in Almaty, Kazakhstan; Ashgabat, Turkmenistan;  Baku, Azerbaijan; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Chisinau, Moldova;  Kiev and Lviv, Ukraine; Minsk, Belarus;  Samarkand and Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Tbilisi, Georgia; Yerevan, Armenia, and in Russian cities other than Moscow, St. Petersburg and Vladimir.

Academic programs are tailored to the individual student's language level, and provide approximately 20 hours per week of in-class instruction in the target language.  Courses in history, literature, and politics are also available for advanced speakers.  

Participants are registered for credit at Bryn Mawr College. Graduate students receive the equivalent of 15 academic hours for one semester; 30 for the academic year, and 10 for the summer program. Undergraduate students receive the equivalent of 16 academic hours for one semester, 32 for the academic year, and 8 for the summer program.

Students with at least two years of college-level instruction in Russian or the host-country language are eligible to apply.  Graduate students may apply for program funding from the U.S. Department of State, Program for Research and Training on East-Central Europe and the Former Republics of the Soviet Union (Title VIII).  Financial Aid awards range from $500 to $7,000.

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From elenakh at RCCD.CC.CA.US  Wed Mar 20 22:11:34 2002
From: elenakh at RCCD.CC.CA.US (Elena Kobzeva)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:11:34 -0800
Subject: To be or not to be
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0203191659280.13163-100000@harper.uchicago.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.20.MAR.2002.141134.0800.>

Dear Steven,
Could you please send me a copy of your chapter on the concept BE.

Thanks in advance.

Elena Kobzeva-Herzog
Associate Professor
Spanish/Russian
Department of Foreign Langauges
Riverside Community College
4800 Magnolia Avenue
Riverside, CA 92506-1299
tel:(909)222-8287
fax:(909)222-8149
email: elenakh at rccd.cc.ca.us


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Steven Clancy
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:03 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: To be or not to be

Dear Eloise,

I also have a book under review for publication, part of which is on this
particular topic: "

Clancy, Steven J. Forthcoming. The Chain of BEING and HAVING in Slavic.

Relevant to what you ask about is a section on the semantic network that
the concept BE draws from as it develops and renews in a given
language. The situation in Russian is quite complex and in flux.

I have a PDF version I could send to anyone interested.

Steven

Steven Clancy
University of Chicago
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
1130 East 59th Street, Foster 406
Chicago, IL 60637

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From jrouhie at POP.UKY.EDU  Thu Mar 21 00:10:38 2002
From: jrouhie at POP.UKY.EDU (J. Rouhier-Willoughby)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:10:38 -0500
Subject: Slovenian tales
Message-ID: <WED.20.MAR.2002.191038.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Does anyone know of any Slovenian folk tales that make reference to
the (thrice) 9th land?

Thanks in advance.
--
****************************************************
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby
Associate Professor
Russian and Eastern Studies and Linguistics
1055 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
(859) 257-1756
fax: (859) 257-3743
  jrouhie at pop.uky.edu
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From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET  Wed Mar 20 23:59:49 2002
From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:59:49 -0500
Subject: Deadline for March AAASS NewsNet
Message-ID: <WED.20.MAR.2002.185949.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Ms. Davis,

I am not sure if the information below suits NewsNet; just in case.

Sincerely,
Elena Gapova

A new publication on East European women's history:
Gendernye istorii Vostochnoy Evropy
(Gendered histories from Eastern Europe)
Eds. Elena Gapova, Al'mira Usmanova, Andrea Peto

Language: Russian; 416pp.
Publisher: European Humanities University, Minsk

The book comprises texts by 29 authors from 13 nations of Central
and Western Europe and USA and invokes that part of East European history
which can be described as the history of personal as the political or the
political as personal. The book's topics include:
oral history: memory, trauma, narrative;
imagined communitites: gender and nation;
the miserable and the powerless: practices of exclusion;
gender and law;
contemporary history of the gendered individual: rites of transition.

The book is available through East View Publications
(www.eastview.com).




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From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET  Thu Mar 21 00:18:54 2002
From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:18:54 -0500
Subject: Deadline for March AAASS NewsNet
Message-ID: <WED.20.MAR.2002.191854.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I am sorry for the mistake. e.g
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Sent: 20 March 2002 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: Deadline for March AAASS NewsNet


> Dear Ms. Davis,
>
> I am not sure if the information below suits NewsNet; just in case.
>
> Sincerely,
> Elena Gapova
>
> A new publication on East European women's history:
> Gendernye istorii Vostochnoy Evropy
> (Gendered histories from Eastern Europe)
> Eds. Elena Gapova, Al'mira Usmanova, Andrea Peto
>
> Language: Russian; 416pp.
> Publisher: European Humanities University, Minsk
>
> The book comprises texts by 29 authors from 13 nations of Central
> and Western Europe and USA and invokes that part of East European history
> which can be described as the history of personal as the political or the
> political as personal. The book's topics include:
> oral history: memory, trauma, narrative;
> imagined communitites: gender and nation;
> the miserable and the powerless: practices of exclusion;
> gender and law;
> contemporary history of the gendered individual: rites of transition.
>
> The book is available through East View Publications
> (www.eastview.com).
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jolanta M. Davis <jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU>
> To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Sent: 4 March 2002 10:41 AM
> Subject: Deadline for March AAASS NewsNet
>
>
> > Dear Fellow Slavicists,
> >
> > Please let me know by April 1, if you wish to submit any information for
> > the next, May issue of NewsNet. In case you are not familiar with
NewsNet
> > -- it is published five times a year, in January, March, May, September,
> > and November by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
> > Studies (AAASS) and includes information about the field of Slavic,
> > Russian, East European, and Central Asian studies that would be of
> interest
> > to its over 3,000 AAASS members, to whom it is
> > distributed.
> >
> >   NewsNet's regular columns include:
> >
> >   - Calls for papers and calls for submissions (calls for papers for
> > upcoming conferences
> >          and calls for submissions to journals and edited volumes)
> > - Employment Opportunities (opportunities either in academia or
elsewhere
> > requiring the
> >          knowledge of Russian, East European, or Eurasian studies,
> > languages, history, etc.)
> > - News of Affiliates (information about organizations affiliated with
> AAASS)
> > - Opportunities for Support (information about grants, fellowships,
awards
> > available to
> >          scholars of Russia, East Europe, and Eurasia)
> > - Personages (information about recent important events in the lives of
> > AAASS members
> >          such as awards, nominations, new appointments, etc.)
> > - Publications (information about recent or upcoming publications
written
> > or edited by
> >          AAASS members)
> > - Calendar (listing of upcoming conferences, conventions, etc.)
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Jolanta Davis
> >
> >
> > Jolanta M. Davis
> > Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor
> > American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
> > 8 Story Street
> > Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
> > tel.: (617) 495-0679
> > fax: (617) 495-0680
> > http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/
> >
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From rakitya at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU  Thu Mar 21 16:12:24 2002
From: rakitya at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU (Anna Rakityanskaya)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:12:24 -0600
Subject: student
In-Reply-To: <l03130303b8b7fc13a585@[192.168.123.154]>
Message-ID: <THU.21.MAR.2002.101224.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I think the key issue here is the fact that those foreign students are
actually taking classes ABROAD, which (to a Russian) makes it a LANGUAGE
AND CULTURE PRACTICE (i. e. "stazhirovka") more than just plain STUDYING.

Best,

Anna Rakityanskaya
University of Texas at Austin



At 11:53 AM 3/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
>Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>
> >I do not understand why both words would be correct.
> >They have different meanings.
> >Since when "stazhirovat'sja" can be used instead of "uchit'sja"?

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From dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Thu Mar 21 16:38:56 2002
From: dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:38:56 -0500
Subject: student
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020321100519.00acd6b0@mail.utexas.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.21.MAR.2002.113856.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Look. When Russian students come here to study, they do not necessarily
study English. I know some of those students who came here before via
different exchange programs, they lived here staying with American
host families while attending local high schools, and actually graduated
from American high schools. Now, they attend our universities, and hardly
can be distiguished from American students. They could have any major,
e.g., Math or Physics. They just study, and their "culture practice" is
just normal development not different from their American friends.
The point is that "stazhirovka" can be used ONLY in some specific cases
but cannot be used as a UNIVERSAL equivalent for "study" while
"uchjoba/uchit'sja" is such an equivalent.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Anna Rakityanskaya wrote:

> I think the key issue here is the fact that those foreign students are
> actually taking classes ABROAD, which (to a Russian) makes it a LANGUAGE
> AND CULTURE PRACTICE (i. e. "stazhirovka") more than just plain STUDYING.
>
> Best,
>
> Anna Rakityanskaya
> University of Texas at Austin
>
>
>
> At 11:53 AM 3/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >I do not understand why both words would be correct.
> > >They have different meanings.
> > >Since when "stazhirovat'sja" can be used instead of "uchit'sja"?
>
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From a-wachtel at NORTHWESTERN.EDU  Thu Mar 21 17:43:45 2002
From: a-wachtel at NORTHWESTERN.EDU (andrew wachtel)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:43:45 -0600
Subject: Dissertation
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020305134742.00a41080@beloit.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.21.MAR.2002.114345.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Pat,

Ive read the whole dissertation ms. You sent.  Overall, it is fine as far as
structure and content goes.  My only real concern in this area is that I
think you spend a bit too much time praising Dostoevsky for his
perspicasiousness and castigating terrorism as evil.  Yu aren't writing a
moral tract nor are you engaged in hero worship.  There is nothing wrong
with letting the reader know that you don't approve of terrorism but yu
don't have to grind it in.  Same with D.--you can say once or twice that he
was perspicascious but you don't need to to do quite so frequently.

The only real concern is stylistic.  The whole thing reads to me as the
equivalent of a photograph taken with a soft focus lens.  That is, it
frequently feels fuzzy.  In part this is because of specific stylistic tics
(like the use of the word "exists" about 20 times too frequently), but most
of the time it isn't quite as easy to identify the problem.  I have two
pieces of advice.
1) Read it out loud as you do your final corrections.  In so doing you will
catch the fuzziest language.
2) Try to cut each chapter by about 10%  In some cases this can be done by
eliminating repetition but in others it will come by tightening your
sentences.

In any case, it is fine as far as I am concerned and you shouldn't have too
much trouble fixing these problems by the deadline.

Best,

Andrew

PS--I've marked it up and if you want to come down here I can show you
specific examples of what I have in mind.

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From HKhan at MAIL.COLGATE.EDU  Thu Mar 21 17:56:02 2002
From: HKhan at MAIL.COLGATE.EDU (Halimur Khan)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:56:02 -0500
Subject: Dissertation
Message-ID: <THU.21.MAR.2002.125602.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

hi!

i'm not sure if you're aware of this, but you sent the following mail to
SEELANGS!

-halimur khan



-----Original Message-----
From: andrew wachtel [mailto:a-wachtel at NORTHWESTERN.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:44 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Re: Dissertation


Dear Pat,

Ive read the whole dissertation ms. You sent.  Overall, it is fine as far as
structure and content goes.  My only real concern in this area is that I
think you spend a bit too much time praising Dostoevsky for his
perspicasiousness and castigating terrorism as evil.  Yu aren't writing a
moral tract nor are you engaged in hero worship.  There is nothing wrong
with letting the reader know that you don't approve of terrorism but yu
don't have to grind it in.  Same with D.--you can say once or twice that he
was perspicascious but you don't need to to do quite so frequently.

The only real concern is stylistic.  The whole thing reads to me as the
equivalent of a photograph taken with a soft focus lens.  That is, it
frequently feels fuzzy.  In part this is because of specific stylistic tics
(like the use of the word "exists" about 20 times too frequently), but most
of the time it isn't quite as easy to identify the problem.  I have two
pieces of advice.
1) Read it out loud as you do your final corrections.  In so doing you will
catch the fuzziest language.
2) Try to cut each chapter by about 10%  In some cases this can be done by
eliminating repetition but in others it will come by tightening your
sentences.

In any case, it is fine as far as I am concerned and you shouldn't have too
much trouble fixing these problems by the deadline.

Best,

Andrew

PS--I've marked it up and if you want to come down here I can show you
specific examples of what I have in mind.

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From dorwin at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA  Thu Mar 21 17:55:06 2002
From: dorwin at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA (Donna Orwin)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:55:06 -0500
Subject: Tolstoy Web Site
Message-ID: <THU.21.MAR.2002.125506.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

The Tolstoy web site at www.utoronto.ca/tolstoy now includes a
cumulative index for Tolstoy Studies Journal, 1988-2001.  It can be
found under Journal Profile.

Sincerely,

Donna Orwin, Editor
Tolstoy Studies Journal

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From a-wachtel at NORTHWESTERN.EDU  Thu Mar 21 18:04:03 2002
From: a-wachtel at NORTHWESTERN.EDU (andrew wachtel)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:04:03 -0600
Subject: Dissertation
In-Reply-To: <01020B7EC4B7D311BE2E00508B6F7C1C071142A4@MAILSV06>
Message-ID: <THU.21.MAR.2002.120403.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear List,

I am very sorry that I inadvertently sent a personal communication to the
list.  It will be an excellent dissertation, so consider it a
pre-publication notice.

Again, sorry to the the list and to Pat,

Andrew Wachtel

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From elena.minakova at slav.fak12.uni-muenchen.de  Thu Mar 21 18:39:49 2002
From: elena.minakova at slav.fak12.uni-muenchen.de (Elena Minakova)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:39:49 EST
Subject: New Book Announcement
Message-ID: <THU.21.MAR.2002.133949.EST.ELENA.MINAKOVA@SLAV.FAK12.UNIMUENCHEN.DE>

Moderne Russische Idiomatik (Modern Russian Idioms) by Elena Minakova,
University of Munich. Helmut Buske Pub.Co. Hamburg, April 2002. 145 pages,
1 cassette
(90 min.). 3-87548-296-4.

Dear Colleagues

I would like to draw your attention to my new learner's book "Moderne
Russische Idiomatik" (Modern Russian Idioms), due for publication in April
2002 by the Helmut Buske Verlag of Hamburg.

The book is designed as a learner's book for advanced students of Russian
who wish to improve their colloquial speech and make it more idiomatic and
expressive.
The book is conceptualized as combination learner's book and dictionary,
requiring no use of additional dictionaries or reference-books. As
appropriate for advanced level students, it is written completely in
Russian, however initial publication in Germany has occasioned the German
title.

The book contains 125 essential Russian idioms, which have been chosen on
the basis of their frequency of use in oral speech, also in modern Russian
films and in mass media, and which cover a wide range of "everyday" topics.
The book provides approximately 30 hours of classroom material in 8
chapters.

Each chapter includes a dialogue presenting new idioms, followed by
exercises which train students to identify, understand and re-use the
idioms in their oral speech. Most exercises are designed as dialogues that
develop" situative competence", as dialogues, rather than "key-word"
presentation (e.g. all idioms with the word golova, nos etc.), better
facilitate a reality situation.

Each chapter also provides the explication of the idioms. Special attention
has been focused here on complete grammatical information for each idiom,
e.g. its syntactic role in the sentence as well as its morphological
characteristics. For this reason, information about its use is provided in
numerous examples of free combinations with other words, phrase units and
sentences.

In addition, the book contains interesting etymological information about
the origin of most "non-transparent "idioms which are grounded in specific
cultural and historical experience and are therefore more difficult to
understand.

Finally, the book provides general repetition exercises as well as an
answer key.

A cassette accompanies this course, including the dialogues and all the
practice activities in the book, making it suitable for self-study as well
as classroom use. The course is also a valuable aid in teacher training.

The book has 145 pages. It can be ordered from Helmut Buske Verlag,
Richardstrasse 47, D-22081 Hamburg. Tel. 0049/40/29 99 58-0; fax 0049/40/
29 99 58-20; e-mail info at buske.de; website www.Buske.de. The ISBN is
3-87548-296-4.

I would greatly appreciate any help or suggestions for getting the book
reviewed.  Please reply off-list, not on the SEELANGS list.

Sincerely

Elena Minakova
elena.minakova at slav.fak12.uni-muenchen.de

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From AMandelker at AOL.COM  Thu Mar 21 20:20:43 2002
From: AMandelker at AOL.COM (AMandelker at AOL.COM)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:20:43 EST
Subject: Tolstoy Museum in Moscow
Message-ID: <THU.21.MAR.2002.152043.EST.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Would anyone happen to have a fax number or email address for the Tolstoy
Museum in Moscow?  I have been unable to find anything on the web.

Thanks in advance,

Amy Mandelker

(AMandelker at aol.com)

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From papaul at SYR.EDU  Thu Mar 21 20:38:16 2002
From: papaul at SYR.EDU (Pamela Paul)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:38:16 -0500
Subject: Borderlines Symposium 4/6-8/2002 Syracuse University
Message-ID: <THU.21.MAR.2002.153816.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Good Afternoon,

The Judaic Studies Program at Syracuse University will be hosting the
"Borderlines: Judaic Literature and Culture in Eastern Europe" Symposium,
April 6-8, 2002.   The following is information and a schedule on the
Conference.

Please feel free to email(papaul at syr.edu) or call (315-443-5671) me if you
have any questions.

Sincerely,

Pamela Paul


BORDERLINES:   JUDAIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN EASTERN EUROPE

Syracuse University, 6-8 April 2002

Eastern Europe has a long history of metamorphosis by annexation and
Balkanization.  As European boundaries have been
briskly redrawn since 1989, literatures and cultures of this region have
again to adapt to the new reality.  Moreover, obstacles
to the literary and historical study of Eastern Europe arisen from its
plethora of languages and the compartmentalization of
scholars.  During this symposium, by focusing on transnational Judaic
literature in an unusual group of experts in Slavic Studies
and Judaic Studies will examine ways in which Eastern Europeans have
reinvented themselves during the past two centuries.

National, ethnic, and linguistic borders have evidently separated the
populations of Eastern Europe.  On several other levels,
however, the turmoil has been expressed between rich and poor, high and low
culture, Christian and Jewish practices as well
as between religious and secular or traditional and modern communities.
Scholars of history, literature, literary theory, and
religion will meet at Syracuse University to analyze these shifting
borderlines.

The Borderlines conference is funded by the Ray Smith Symposium, the Judaic
Studies Program, and the B. G. Rudolph Chair
in Judaic Studies at Syracuse University.

Conference Organizer:  Ken Frieden, B. G. Rudolph Professor of Judaic
Studies, Syracuse University, kfrieden at syr.edu,
315-443-1894.

Conference Assistant:  Pamela Paul, Secretary to the Judaic Studies Program,
Syracuse University, papaul at syr.edu,
315-443-5671.

Coorganizers:  Amy Mandelker, Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature,
CUNY Graduate Center; and Harriet Murav,
Russian and Comparative Literature, University of California at Davis.

Participants from Syracuse University, the Central New York community, and
scholars from other universities are welcome to
attend all sessions.

Presentations will be grouped into two formats.  Half a dozen panel sessions
on Sunday and Monday, designed to facilitate
conversation, will center on previously circulated articles.  These papers
should be available for distribution, enabling
participants to read them prior to the symposium.  Approximately 40 minutes
will be allotted to the presentation and discussion
of each paper.  The keynote lecture by Steven Zipperstein––a large, plenary
session intended for a broad audience of
university faculty, students, and community members––will be held on Sunday
evening in conjunction with the annual B. G.
Rudolph Lecture in Judaic Studies.

The keynote lecture and all panel discussions will be held in the Kilian
Room, 500 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University.

  SCHEDULE

RAY SMITH SYMPOSIUM AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, 6-8 APRIL 2002

BORDERLINES:  JUDAIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN EASTERN EUROPE


Saturday, 6 April

The Dybbuk

7:30 p.m. – Conversation with Barbara Damashek, director of The Dybbuk, at
the Storch Theatre, Syracuse Stage.

8:30 p.m. – Syracuse Stage Performance of S. Ansky’s play, The Dybbuk


Sunday, 7 April

History and Cultural Contexts

9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Chair:  Steven Zipperstein (Stanford University)

· Judith Deutsch Kornblatt (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Strangers to
Others and Half-Strangers to Ourselves”: Jews and Russians in the Russian
Religious Renaissance
· Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania), “Pale Lines: Russians,
Jews, and the Boundaries of Historical Knowledge, 1860-1930”
· Rebecca Stanton (Columbia), “Identity Crisis: The Literary Culture of
Odessa in the Early Twentieth Century”

Literary Theory

11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Chair:  Erika Haber (Syracuse University)

· Kristi Groberg (Hjemkomst Center), “Jewish Trilingualism in
Nineteenth-Century Russia”
· Amy Mandelker (CUNY), “The Ethics of Estrangement in Culture and
Explosion:  Iurii Lotman and Jewish Philosophy”


Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian Literature

2:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Chair:  Harriet Murav (University of California, Davis)

· Hamutal Bar-Yosef (Ben Gurion University), “Apocalypticism in Modern
Hebrew and Yiddish Literature: The Russian
Context”
· Robert Rothstein (University of Massachusetts), “As the Worm Turns:
Tolstoy, Sienkiewicz and the Purim-shpil”
· Gabriella Safran (Stanford University), “God on Trial: How Ansky Wrote and
Rewrote the Jewish Folktale”
· Gennady Estraikh (SOAS, London), “Yiddish Proletarian Literature in the
Soviet Union”


Keynote Lecture

7:30 p.m.  B.G. Rudolph Lecture in Judaic Studies

· Steven Zipperstein (Stanford University), “History, Literature, and the
Russian Jewish Past”

8:45 p.m. – Reception for Steven Zipperstein, BORDERLINES participants, and
the Syracuse community

9:45 p.m. – Gabriella Safran, Robert Moss, et al. in a post-play panel
discussion of The Dybbuk at Syracuse Stage


Monday, 8 April

Polish and Russian Literature

8:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
Chair:  Judith Deutsch Kornblatt (University of Wisconsin, Madison),

· Antony Polonsky (Brandeis University), “Caught in Half-Sentence:
Polish-Jewish Writing before World War I and in Interwar
Poland”
· Alice Nakhimovsky (Colgate University), “Mikhail Zhvanetsky: The Last
Jewish Russian Joker”
· Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College), “Exile and the Unburdening of Guilt: A
Tribute to David Aizman”

Yiddish and Russian Literature

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Chair:  Ken Frieden (Syracuse University)


· Vassili Schedrin (Brandeis University), “Memoranda Literature on the
Jewish Question in Nineteenth-Century Russia and Its
Authors”
· Jeremy Dauber and Cathy Popkin (Columbia University), “How To Do Things
With Literature: Constructing and Construing
Russian and Yiddish Prose Fiction”
· Harriet Murav (University of California, Davis), “Post-Soviet Jewish
Writing:  History, Memory, Language”


Art and Architecture

3:00 p.m. – 4:30p.m.
Chair:  Amy Mandelker (CUNY)

· Samuel Gruber (Syracuse University), “’Seeing Leads to Remembering’: The
Ethnographic and Architectural Expeditions of
S. Anski (1912-15) and Szymon Zajczyk (1929-39) and Their Legacy Today”
· Murray Zimiles (SUNY Purchase), “The Synagogue and the Carousel”



The Keynote Lecture and all panel discussions will be held in the Kilian
Room
500 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University


For further information, including details about accommodations and parking,
please contact Pamela Paul at 315-443-5671 or papaul at syr.edu

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From gadassov at IFRANCE.COM  Thu Mar 21 21:36:55 2002
From: gadassov at IFRANCE.COM (Adassovsky Georges)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:36:55 +0100
Subject: student
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10203211121230.4204-100000@hercules.acsu.buffalo.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.21.MAR.2002.223655.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

>Look. When Russian students come here to study, they do not necessarily
>study English. I know some of those students who came here before via
>different exchange programs, they lived here staying with American
>host families while attending local high schools, and actually graduated
>from American high schools. Now, they attend our universities, and hardly
>can be distiguished from American students. They could have any major,
>e.g., Math or Physics. They just study, and their "culture practice" is
>just normal development not different from their American friends.
>The point is that "stazhirovka" can be used ONLY in some specific cases
>but cannot be used as a UNIVERSAL equivalent for "study" while
>"uchjoba/uchit'sja" is such an equivalent.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

Abroad or not abroad is not the semantic question.
Either someone is studying in order to pass an exam and obtain a diploma (that is in order to master academic demand),
Or he is doing a training period to improve some skill (stazhirovka). That may be for academic purpose, OR NOT.
I think Alina was perfectly right in her demonstration.

Georges

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From dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Thu Mar 21 22:41:35 2002
From: dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 17:41:35 -0500
Subject: student
In-Reply-To: <a05100300b8bfff79bd79@[80.13.226.221]>
Message-ID: <THU.21.MAR.2002.174135.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I disagree.
One can study how to play chess.
One can "uchit'sja igrat' v shakhmaty" or "uchit'sja plavat'" but cannot
"stazhirovat'sja" even these are not academic matters and more like
training.
The meaning of "stazhirovat'sja" is very specific and narrow comparing
with the meaning of "uchit'sja."
It is related exclusively to apprenticeship-type situations.

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>


On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Adassovsky Georges wrote:

> Abroad or not abroad is not the semantic question.
> Either someone is studying in order to pass an exam and obtain a
> diploma (that is in order to master academic demand),
> Or he is doing a training period to improve some skill (stazhirovka).
> That may be for academic purpose, OR NOT.
> I think Alina was perfectly right in her demonstration.
>
> Georges
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From jack.kollmann at STANFORD.EDU  Fri Mar 22 00:44:33 2002
From: jack.kollmann at STANFORD.EDU (Jack Kollmann)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:44:33 -0800
Subject: Tolstoy Museum in Moscow
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         Assuming you mean the State Museum of L.N. Tolstoy at Ul.
Prechistenka (Kropotkinskaia) 11, several guide and phone books confirm
that the phone # is 202 21 90; a couple of sources add a second phone # 201
58 11; one guidebook of 1997 gives a fax # 202 93 38.  Hope it works.

Jack Kollmann



At 03:20 PM 3/21/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Would anyone happen to have a fax number or email address for the Tolstoy
>Museum in Moscow?  I have been unable to find anything on the web.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Amy Mandelker
>
>(AMandelker at aol.com)
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From peitlova at TISCALINET.IT  Fri Mar 22 08:55:09 2002
From: peitlova at TISCALINET.IT (Edil Legno)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:55:09 +0100
Subject: Student
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.095509.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

At the very beginnig  was the question:how it's possibile to say in Russian "to study abroad".
It's very simple - nobody  used the verb stazhirovat'sja - it ,really,will not be CORRECT in this context.
But CORRECT IS to say; poechat' na stazhirovku,
byt' stazherom  or  uc'it'sja za rubezhom ili za granitcej.

Katarìna Peitlovà,Ph.Dr.

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From pepijnh at GMX.NET  Fri Mar 22 09:29:57 2002
From: pepijnh at GMX.NET (Pepijn Hendriks)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:29:57 +0100
Subject: Tolstoy Museum in Moscow
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020321163610.038c84e0@kolljack.pobox.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.102957.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Jack Kollmann <jack.kollmann at STANFORD.EDU> wrote:

>          Assuming you mean the State Museum of L.N. Tolstoy at Ul.
> Prechistenka (Kropotkinskaia) 11, several guide and phone books confirm
> that the phone # is 202 21 90; a couple of sources add a second phone # 201
> 58 11; one guidebook of 1997 gives a fax # 202 93 38.  Hope it works.

The fax number you quote is listed both as the main phone number and the
fax number on <http://www.domzhur.ru/Lenta/14-11-
01/tolstoy_history.htm>.

The address information on that website also includes an email address:

-----
Ministerstvo Kul'tury Rossijskoj Federacii
Gosudarstvennyj muzej L.N. Tolstogo
119034, Moskva, Prechistenka 11. Tel.: 202-93-38, 201-58-11
Faks: 202-93-38, 202-43-09. E-mail: tolstoy at comcor.ru
------

(This website can be found by performing the following search on Yandex:
<http://www.ya.ru/yandsearch?text=%EC%F3%E7%E5%E9+%F2%EE%EB%F1%F2%EE%E3%E
E>)

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From peitlova at TISCALINET.IT  Fri Mar 22 10:03:12 2002
From: peitlova at TISCALINET.IT (Edil Legno)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:03:12 +0100
Subject: Re.Tolstoj Musej
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.110312.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

www.moscowout.ru - you can find all kind of information

Musej L.N.Tolstogo naxoditsja na
ul.Prechistenka,dom 11
metro:Kropotkinskaja
tel.095-202-2190
095-201-5811
fax:095-202-9338

Best wishes

Katarìna Peitlovà,Ph.Dr.

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From aof at UMICH.EDU  Fri Mar 22 13:50:26 2002
From: aof at UMICH.EDU (Anne O'Brien Fisher)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:50:26 -0500
Subject: Stalin "Urban Legends"
In-Reply-To: <3C9B07A5.9622.2FA760@localhost>
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.085026.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Hello SEELANGers,

I came across an anecdote (in Erica Fischer's "Aimee und Jaguar")
describing a small act of resistance against Hitler: in a time
when everyone was supposed to have a portrait or bust of Hitler (or at the
very least a Nazi flag) prominently displayed in their home, one man put
his Hitler portrait under his doormat so he could have the secret pleasure
of knowing that every visitor to his Berlin home was stepping on the
Fuehrer.

Has anyone come across any anecdotes like this (in literature, the press,
orally, etc.) regarding Stalin?

Thank you,

Annie Fisher

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From zielinski at ECONOPHONE.CH  Fri Mar 22 14:54:39 2002
From: zielinski at ECONOPHONE.CH (Zielinski)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:54:39 +0100
Subject: Stalin "Urban Legends"
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.155439.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

>
> Has anyone come across any anecdotes like this (in literature, the press,
> orally, etc.) regarding Stalin?
>
I do vaguely remember a Polish joke from the late seventies about a poor man
in the Soviet Union, coming on foot to a shop with flags and party gadgets
and buying one portrait of Lenin and one of Stalin. He returns on a bicycle
a week later and buys 5 Lenins and 5 Stalins. Two months later he is already
driving a car and buys 100 Lenins and 100 Stalins. On the inquiry of the
seller about the reason of his rapidly growing prosperity he replies:
- I've opened a shooting range near the town.

Jan Zielinski

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From dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Fri Mar 22 15:41:04 2002
From: dumanis at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Edward M Dumanis)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:41:04 -0500
Subject: Student
In-Reply-To: <004701c1d17f$46534a80$ce951b97@n>
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.104104.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

With all due respect, "to study" even "abroad" has nothing to do with
verbs "poekhat'" or "byt'" suggested below.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Edil Legno wrote:

> At the very beginnig  was the question:how it's possibile to say in Russian "to study abroad".
> It's very simple - nobody  used the verb stazhirovat'sja - it ,really,will not be CORRECT in this context.
> But CORRECT IS to say; poechat' na stazhirovku,
> byt' stazherom  or  uc'it'sja za rubezhom ili za granitcej.
> 
> Katar�na Peitlov�,Ph.Dr.
> 
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From sclancy at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU  Fri Mar 22 15:48:21 2002
From: sclancy at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU (Steven Clancy)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:48:21 -0600
Subject: More on the BE question
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.094821.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Those of you interested in the BE question for Russian may also be
interested in this shorter article. Please see:

Glossos Spring 2001
"Semantic Maps for BE and HAVE in Slavic", Steven J. Clancy
http://www.seelrc.org/glossos/current/

Any comments or questions are welcome.

Thanks,

Steven

Steven Clancy
University of Chicago
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
1130 East 59th Street, Foster 406
Chicago, IL 60637

Office: (773) 702-8567
in Gates-Blake 438
Department: (773) 702-8033
Fax: (773) 702-7030
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From aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU  Fri Mar 22 19:06:02 2002
From: aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU (Alina Israeli)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:06:02 -0800
Subject: Stalin "Urban Legends"
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.33.0203220843570.4963-100000@arkanoid.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.110602.0800.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Anecdotally again, people were arrested if torn newspaper with the portrait
of Stalin was found in the bathroom (tissue was inexistent). How would they
know? Communal apartments, of course, and then guests and "friends".

Conversely, when "enemies" were removed from the encyclopedia (Tuxachevskij
and the rest), new pages were sent to encyclopedia subsribers. They were
supposed to cut out a page with a blade and glue in a new one (my girl
friends grandmother was telling me this first hand). Those who did not
perform the operation took a mortal risk as well.

>Hello SEELANGers,
>
>I came across an anecdote (in Erica Fischer's "Aimee und Jaguar")
>describing a small act of resistance against Hitler: in a time
>when everyone was supposed to have a portrait or bust of Hitler (or at the
>very least a Nazi flag) prominently displayed in their home, one man put
>his Hitler portrait under his doormat so he could have the secret pleasure
>of knowing that every visitor to his Berlin home was stepping on the
>Fuehrer.
>
>Has anyone come across any anecdotes like this (in literature, the press,
>orally, etc.) regarding Stalin?
>
>Thank you,
>
>Annie Fisher

_____________
Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Mass. Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016

phone:  (202) 885-2387
fax:    (202) 885-1076

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From riszov at GMX.DE  Fri Mar 22 16:06:21 2002
From: riszov at GMX.DE (Mihaly Riszovannij)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:06:21 +0100
Subject: Stalin "Urban Legends"
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.170621.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

A common Eastern European (in some varieties Jewish) joke, I know the
version with Ceausescu and Rákosi, maybe there exists one with Stalin, too

Kohn emmigrates. At the border control, the officer finds a portrait
(sculpture etc.) of Ceausescu (Rákosi etc.) and asks:
-  Why THAT?
- Against homesickness.


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From riszov at GMX.DE  Fri Mar 22 16:21:23 2002
From: riszov at GMX.DE (Mihaly Riszovannij)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:21:23 +0100
Subject: Encyclopedia
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.172123.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

> Conversely, when "enemies" were removed from the encyclopedia
> (Tuxachevskij
> and the rest), new pages were sent to encyclopedia subsribers. They were
> supposed to cut out a page with a blade and glue in a new one (my girl
> friends grandmother was telling me this first hand). Those who did not
> perform the operation took a mortal risk as well.



but there were (probabaly) less tragic periods conserning this problem:

after Berija was removed!

what was sent to the subscribers? hmmmm."Ber-" even "Beri-" a hard but not a
hopeless case :) so they choosed the BERIing-channel - so the anectode that
I am familiar with

and if u consider, how long the original Beriija-lemma was, and the new one
had to cover the whole flat... they probably listed every seal and polarbear,
with names :))))))))

ps: Luciano Berio could be a chance too, but  he was too decadent, for sure
:)))))

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From brifkin at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU  Fri Mar 22 16:48:08 2002
From: brifkin at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU (Benjamin Rifkin)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:48:08 -0600
Subject: summer job at Middlebury
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.104808.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I am looking for an individual to be the bilingual assistant to the
director of the Russian School for the summer 2002 session.

This person must have native Russian with excellent English and
excellent interpersonal skills.  The individual hired for the job
MUST have a green card or US citizenship (NO exceptions will be made
on this point.)  I am looking for someone who is energetic, works
well under pressure, has a good sense of humor.  Dates of employment
of Mon., June 10 through Sat., Aug. 17, 2002;
salary is $4,000 (plus room and board).

The bilingual assistant works with the director, associate director
and coordinators of the Russian School to complete tasks essential to
the smooth operation of the Russian School.  S/he must interact with
students and college staff in both Russian and English, as required
by the situation, to solve problems of all kinds.  S/he is
responsible for managing event publicity on campus, as well as
helping to manage the flow of information to faculty, students,
staff, and visiting lecturers and performers with regard to books,
materials, events, schedules, testing, and a variety of other
responsibilities including working with students to run the weekly
dance parties.  In interactions with and among staff and students,
the bilingual assistant must help all parties move beyond cultural
differences to understand one another.  The bilingual assistant must
be able to translate, in writing and speech, from English into
Russian with excellent control of Russian stylistics, and from
Russian into English with reasonable control.

To apply:  send letter of interest (describing match between your
interests and the responsibilities of the position), resume, list of
3 references to Ben Rifkin (brifkin at facstaff.wisc.edu), director of
the Russian School, by e-mail by April 1, 2002.

- Ben Rifkin


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From Alyssa.W.Dinega.1 at ND.EDU  Fri Mar 22 16:52:39 2002
From: Alyssa.W.Dinega.1 at ND.EDU (Alyssa Dinega Gillespie)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:52:39 -0500
Subject: Zinaida Serebriakova
In-Reply-To: <200203100458.g2A4wek23158@dagger.nd.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.115239.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear colleagues:

My husband is doing a research project on the painter Zinaida Serebriakova
and has so far been unsuccessful in locating information about her
paintings and pastels that are housed outside of Russia.  Can anyone out
there (1) tell me what museums outside Russia hold some of her works,
and/or (2) provide contact information for her estate or heirs?  Any other
relevant information would be welcome as well.  Thank you!

Alyssa Dinega Gillespie
Dr. Alyssa Dinega Gillespie
Notre Dame Assistant Professor of Russian
Department of German and Russian
318 O'Shaughnessy Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

tel. (219) 631-3849
fax (219) 631-8209

E-mail: Alyssa.W.Dinega.1 at nd.edu
Personal webpage: http://www.nd.edu/~adinega
Departmental website: http://www.nd.edu/~grl

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From AMandelker at AOL.COM  Fri Mar 22 17:37:45 2002
From: AMandelker at AOL.COM (AMandelker at AOL.COM)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:37:45 EST
Subject: Tolstoy Museum in Moscow
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Thanks to all who were very helpful in obtaining the necessary information.

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From AHRJJ at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU  Fri Mar 22 17:51:31 2002
From: AHRJJ at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Alex Rudd)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:51:31 EST
Subject: SEELANGS Administrivia - (was Re: Student)
In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:41:04 -0500 from
 <dumanis@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.125131.EST.>

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:41:04 -0500 Edward M Dumanis said:
>With all due respect, "to study" even "abroad" has nothing to do with
>verbs "poekhat'" or "byt'" suggested below.

With all due respect, this horse is so dead the flies have stopped
going near it.  Can we stop beating it now?

E-mail is an imperfect medium.  It is often difficult to deal with
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From Young at ACTR.ORG  Fri Mar 22 19:33:36 2002
From: Young at ACTR.ORG (Billie Young)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:33:36 -0500
Subject: Employment Opportunities
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Employment Opportunities
Current / Anticipated Vacancies

Throughout the summer and fall 2002, the American Councils for International Education will be filling positions in offices overseas in the former Soviet Union as well as the Washington, D.C. office. Specific position vacancies are listed below (Participant Recruiter, Program Officer, Office Director and Country Director), but other positions are also likely to become available.  Our website will be updated periodically to reflect all current vacancies. 

To apply for a specific position or to have your resume added to our application pool, send a letter and resume, stating desired location, nature of work sought, availability information, and salary requirement to: Human Resources, American Councils for International Education, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 700, Washington, DC, 20036. Fax: 202-872-9178. Email: resumes at actr.org. No phone calls, please. 
American Councils is Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer.

Searches are currently underway for the positions listed below.  For further employment information, please refer to the American Councils website: www.actr.org.


Participant Recruiter
Russia - Moscow, Ekaterinburg
Azerbaijan - Baku
Ukraine - Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa
Belarus - Minsk

SUMMARY:
The four to six-month Participant Recruiter position serves as the American Councils program representative in the region and is responsible for all aspects of participant recruitment including: advertising competitions; interviewing candidates; conducting prerequisite testing; and associated record keeping.  The position requires extensive travel throughout the country.  The Recruiter must also interact with local governmental and educational officials at all levels in disseminating information about the programs and coordinating testing process.  The position reports to the country Program Hub Director and/or the Moscow administrative officers.

QUALIFICATIONS:
· Program administration experience;
· Fluent in Russian and/or regional languages;
· Experience traveling extensively under difficult conditions;
· Experience in budget management;
· BA in relevant field (e.g. Russian language, Russian area studies, education, etc.) required; advanced degree preferred


Program Officer
Newly Independent States

SUMMARY:
The Program Officer is responsible for supporting American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS programs in the host country, including, but not limited to: the Freedom Support Act Future Leaders Exchange Program (FSAFLEX), Muskie/Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship programs, Freedom Support Act Undergraduate program,  US-NIS Awards for Excellence in Teaching English and American Studies, Partners in Education, and Junior Faculty Development Program.  Primary responsibilities include: recruitment, testing, and interviewing of potential program participants; orientation and coordination of logistics for participants; coordination of administrative and finance functions; participation in development and implementation of alumni events; and liaison with foreign government officials.  The position reports to the relevant Office or Country Director and works in conjunction with Moscow administrative and program officers, and the Washington-based program managers, the  VP & Director of Programs and the VP and Director of NIS Operations.

QUALIFICATIONS:
· Program administration experience;
· Excellent communication skills;
· Supervisory experience;
· Fluent in Russian and/or regional languages;
· Experience traveling under difficult conditions;
· Experience in budget management;
· BA in relevant field (e.g. Russian language, Russian area studies, education, etc.) required; advanced degree preferred


Office Director
Newly Independent States

SUMMARY:
The Office Director is the key individual in the field office responsible for oversight of the Freedom Support Act Future Leaders Exchange Program (FSAFLEX), undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate, and teacher exchange programs.  Primary responsibilities include: recruitment and testing of potential program participants; orientation and coordination of logistics for participants; oversight of administrative and finance functions; participation in coordination of alumni events; and liaison with foreign government officials.  The Office Director reports to the Country Director, and works in conjunction with Moscow administrative and program officers and the Washington-based program managers, VP & Director of Programs, and VP & Director of NIS Operations.

QUALIFICATIONS:
· Program administration experience;
· Supervisory experience;
· Fluent in Russian and/or regional languages;
· Experience traveling extensively under difficult conditions;
· Experience in budget management;
· BA in relevant field (e.g. Russian language, Russian area studies, education, etc.) required; advanced degree preferred


Country Director
Newly Independent States

SUMMARY:
The Country Director is responsible for maintaining American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS organizational relations in the host country, overseeing internal operations, and providing overall supervision of American Councils programs in country.  In this capacity, the Country Director position reports to the appropriate Regional Director and works with the Washington-based VP for Field Operations and well as Washington-based program managers.

QUALIFICATIONS:
· Fluency in Russian or local language;
· Bachelor's degree (graduate degree preferred) -- related to region in:  economics, international education or development, history, Russian, or related area;
· Professional-level program management experience;
· Overseas work/living experience, preferably in the applicable region; demonstrated interest in the applicable region;
· Supervisory experience; experience supervising local national staff preferred;
· Cross-cultural skills; and 
· Strong written and oral communication skills (English, Russian and/or local language)

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From Young at ACTR.ORG  Fri Mar 22 20:46:46 2002
From: Young at ACTR.ORG (Billie Young)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:46:46 -0500
Subject: Academic Director-Ukraine
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.154646.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Academic Director
Kiev, Ukraine

SUMMARY:
The Academic Director is a mid-to-senior-level position, reporting to the Chief of Party, with primary responsibility assisting in the management of a comprehensive Business Education program in Kiev, Ukraine aimed at higher education reform. This is a full-time position.


RESPONSIBILITIES: 
           
· Promote the development of undergraduate and MBA programs at selected Ukrainian higher education institutions.  The Academic Coordinator will manage:
1. curriculum development initiatives 
2. educational materials development (textbooks, case studies and other  materials in local languages)
3.  faculty training and continuing education programs
4. internships and study tours for Ukrainian professors and administrators to U.S., Polish and other CEE institutions

· Assist Ukrainian business programs in developing program accreditation models and seeking accreditation from key overseas professional associations. The Academic Coordinator will :
1 work with accreditation bodies (AACSB, EQUIS, EFMD, and/or CEEMAN) to advise Ukrainian institutions seeking their accreditation. 
2 Advise Ukrainian institutions on curriculum adjustments needed to meet international standards.
3 Organize advocacy programs aimed at Ukrainian government offices (Ministry of Education and Science) and local businesses to garner support for innovative curricula and teaching materials and recognition of the credentials of graduates from these programs.

QUALIFICATIONS:
· Ph.D. in Business or Business Education or equivalent of 10+ years experience
· USAID administrative experience
· Experience in the NIS, especially the Ukraine
· Russian and/or Ukrainian language skills is preferred



TO APPLY:
Send letter/resume and salary requirements to Academic Dir-Ukraine Search, American Councils, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 700, Washington, DC  20036.  Fax: 202-872-9178 or 202-833-7523; www.actr.org; email: resumes at actr.org. Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer.

The American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is a private, non-profit educational association and exchange organization devoted to improving education, professional training and research within and regarding the former Soviet Union (FSU).  The American Councils administers academic exchange and training programs in virtually all fields; provides educational advising and academic testing services throughout the FSU; and organizes conferences and seminars in the US and abroad for its membership, exchange participants, alumni, and professional groups.   The American Councils manages a budget funded from multiple sources of approximately $50M, employs a staff of more then 400, and operates offices in 12 countries of the former Soviet Union.

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From simmonsc at BC.EDU  Sat Mar 23 01:07:28 2002
From: simmonsc at BC.EDU (Cynthia Simmons)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:07:28 -0500
Subject: Slavic Civilizations
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.200728.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I am writing for a colleague who will be teaching Slavic Civilizations in
the fall, for the first time.  Would anyone have suggestions as to the best
books and materials?  I know there was a previous discussion concerning
courses in Russian Civilization, but I didn't foresee the need.  That would
also be relevant of course.  Thank you in advance.

Cynthia Simmons
Boston College / Lyons Hall 210
Chestnut Hill MA 02167-3804 (USA)
   tel: +1-617 / 552.3914     fax: +1-617 / 552.2286
   eMail: simmonsc at bc.edu

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From e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET  Sat Mar 23 01:21:42 2002
From: e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET (Elena Gapova)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:21:42 -0500
Subject: Slavic Civilizations
Message-ID: <FRI.22.MAR.2002.202142.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

What languages does the colleague read?
eg

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> I am writing for a colleague who will be teaching Slavic Civilizations in
> the fall, for the first time.  Would anyone have suggestions as to the
best
> books and materials?  I know there was a previous discussion concerning
> courses in Russian Civilization, but I didn't foresee the need.  That
would
> also be relevant of course.  Thank you in advance.
>
> Cynthia Simmons
> Boston College / Lyons Hall 210
> Chestnut Hill MA 02167-3804 (USA)
>    tel: +1-617 / 552.3914     fax: +1-617 / 552.2286
>    eMail: simmonsc at bc.edu
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From nobum at GOL.COM  Sun Mar 24 08:12:26 2002
From: nobum at GOL.COM (Nobukatsu Minoura)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:12:26 +0900
Subject: FW: obituary
In-Reply-To: <B8C3B55B.1F20E%nobum@gol.com>
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Dear colleagues,

I am in great sorrow that I have to inform you that the Professor Eiichi
Chino, a professor emeritus of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and
an ex-president of the Wako University passed away in the morning of the
19th of March due to illnesses at the age of 70.  He is survived by his wife
Ayako and children.

He graduated from the Department of Russian Studies of the Tokyo University
of Foreign Studies and also from the Department of Linguistics of the
University of Tokyo.  He studied at Charles University in Prague,
Czechoslovakia from 1958 till 1967.  He specialized in and taught Slavic
philology including studies of Old Church Slavic philology, Russian, and
Czech and also general linguistics.

He is the author of many enlightening books on linguistics and he also
translated many books of Czech literature into Japanese, including works by
Capek and Kundera.

The funeral will be held at Tsukiji Honganji Temple Wadabori Byosho, Eifuku
1-8-1, Suginami-ku, Tokyo near Meidaimae Station on Keio Line.  The wake
(tsuya) will be held from 6 p.m. of the 26th of March and the funeral will
be held from 11 a.m. of the 27th of March.

Telegrams of condolence should be sent to his home (Kita Karasuyama 1-12-6,
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo).



Nobukatsu Minoura
Linguistics
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
mailto:minoura at tufs.ac.jp

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From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM  Sun Mar 24 16:02:52 2002
From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:02:52 +0000
Subject: Kolyma: Dzhankhar: Shalamov and Platonov
In-Reply-To: <l03130300b8c12fcdb572@[192.168.123.154]>
Message-ID: <SUN.24.MAR.2002.160252.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear all,

Shalamov's story 'Zaklinatel' zmei' has a hero called Andrey Platonov; this
Platonov clearly has something, at least, in common with the real Platonov.
There  is also mention of a mine called 'Dzhankhar'.  This could be an
allusion to Platonov's DZHAN.  I should like to know whether there really
was a mine (priisk) by the name of Dzhankhar.  Can anyone help me?

Best Wishes,  Robert Chandler

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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Sun Mar 24 17:47:50 2002
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:47:50 -0500
Subject: Kolyma: Dzhankhar: Shalamov and Platonov
Message-ID: <SUN.24.MAR.2002.124750.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Robert Chandler wrote:

> Shalamov's story 'Zaklinatel' zmei' has a hero called Andrey Platonov; this
> Platonov clearly has something, at least, in common with the real Platonov.
> There is also mention of a mine called 'Dzhankhar'. This could be an
> allusion to Platonov's DZHAN. I should like to know whether there really
> was a mine (priisk) by the name of Dzhankhar. Can anyone help me?

A search on the GEOnet Names Server maintained by the US NIMA
<http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html> (requires cookies) produced no
exact hits. The nearest are:

Dzhankhan (stream)      68° 44' 17" N, 126° 02' 41" E

Dzhankha (populated
        place)          60° 14' 00" N, 120° 48' 00" E

The information in this database is reasonably current, so if the place
has been renamed, it might not show up.

A search on Яndex produced the same text in three different locations,
and it was not helpful:

> Мы сидели на поваленной бурей огромной лиственнице. Деревья в краю
> вечной мерзлоты едва держатся за неуютную землю, и буря легко
> вырывает их с корнями и валит на землю. Платонов рассказывал мне
> историю своей здешней жизни - второй нашей жизни на этом свете.
> Я нахмурился при упоминании прииска "Джанхара". Я сам побывал в
> местах дурных и трудных, но страшная слава "Джанхары" гремела
> везде.
>
> - И долго вы были на "Джанхаре"?
>
> ...

Look familiar? :-)

I have forwarded your query to a colleague who did many years of
linguistic research in the Kolyma area; if she doesn't know, it's
probably made up.

--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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From jdingley at YORKU.CA  Sun Mar 24 20:43:54 2002
From: jdingley at YORKU.CA (John Dingley)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:43:54 -0500
Subject: Dear Soul
Message-ID: <SUN.24.MAR.2002.154354.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Hi,

Could someone please point me to the lyrics (in Russian) of the
Russian folk song "Dear Soul", which was a staple of the Red Army
Chorus?

John Dingley

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From d344630 at ER.UQAM.CA  Sun Mar 24 22:46:53 2002
From: d344630 at ER.UQAM.CA (Saskia)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:46:53 -0500
Subject: Dear Soul
Message-ID: <SUN.24.MAR.2002.174653.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Hi John,

I'm not sure if this is the song your are looking for but I know of one
called Ах, ты душечка ! It goes like this:

Ах, ты душечка, красна девица
Мы пойдём с тобой
разгуляенся

Мы пойдём с тобой,
разгуляенся,
вдоль по бережку Волгиьматушки.

Ех, пускай на нас люди зарятся
"Ну, и что ж это,
что за парочка !"

То, ни брат с сестой,
то ни муж с женой
Добрый молодец с красной девицей !


If you cannot read cyrillic fonts, please tell me and I'll send it
transliterate.

Saskia
saskia at graffiti.net


> De : John Dingley <jdingley at YORKU.CA>
> Répondre à : Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
> <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Date : Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:43:54 -0500
> À : SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Objet : Dear Soul
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Could someone please point me to the lyrics (in Russian) of the
> Russian folk song "Dear Soul", which was a staple of the Red Army
> Chorus?
> 
> John Dingley
> 
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From hafizaandreeva at EARTHLINK.NET  Sun Mar 24 23:04:26 2002
From: hafizaandreeva at EARTHLINK.NET (Hafiza Andreeva)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:04:26 -0700
Subject: Dear Soul
Message-ID: <SUN.24.MAR.2002.160426.0700.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Saskia" <d344630 at ER.UQAM.CA>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: Dear Soul


Hi John,

I'm not sure if this is the song your are looking for but I know of one
called ��, �� ������� ! It goes like this:

��, �� �������, ������ ������
�� ���ģ� � �����
�����������
========

If that's the song you are looking for, here is the text I have found (if
the Cyrillic text does display properly, switch the encoding to KOI8-R):

�� ��, �������
�� ��, �������, ������ ������,
�� ������ � �����, �����������.

�� ������ � �����, �����������
����� �� ������� �����-�������.

��, ������ �� ��� ���� �������:
"�� � ��� � ���, ��� �� �������!

�� �� ���� � �������, �� �� ��� � �����,
������ ������� � ������� �������!"

�� ������ � ����� � ������� �����,
�� ������ ������ �� ������ �����.

��� ����� ���� ��� ������ ����,
��� ����� ��� ������ ������.

��� ����� ��� ������ ������,
��� ������ � ��� ����� �������.

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From yuri_kuznetsov at MAIL.RU  Sun Mar 24 21:05:40 2002
From: yuri_kuznetsov at MAIL.RU (Yuri Kuznetsov)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 00:05:40 +0300
Subject: To be or not to be
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.000540.0300.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Steven,

Would you please send me a PDF copy of your chapter.  Thank you very
much in advance.

Yuri Kuznetsov
St.Petersburg State Univ.
Dept. of RFL
yuri_kuznetsov at mail.ru
yurik at jk4794.spb.edu

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Steven Clancy <sclancy at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 2:03 AM
Subject: To be or not to be


> Dear Eloise,
> 
> I also have a book under review for publication, part of which is on this
> particular topic: "
> 
> Clancy, Steven J. Forthcoming. The Chain of BEING and HAVING in Slavic.
> 
> Relevant to what you ask about is a section on the semantic network that
> the concept BE draws from as it develops and renews in a given
> language. The situation in Russian is quite complex and in flux.
> 
> I have a PDF version I could send to anyone interested.
> 
> Steven
> 
> Steven Clancy
> University of Chicago
> Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
> 1130 East 59th Street, Foster 406
> Chicago, IL 60637
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From sher07 at MINDSPRING.COM  Mon Mar 25 00:56:16 2002
From: sher07 at MINDSPRING.COM (Benjamin Sher)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:56:16 -0600
Subject: Russian Index -- A Note
Message-ID: <SUN.24.MAR.2002.185616.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear friends:

Just a quick note to let you all know that I have recently done a
thorough revision and pruning of my Russian Index. In the process, I may
have inadvertently deleted web sites. If it happens to be your web site,
please write to me and I'll make sure to put it back online. In
addition, I'll definitely add the web sites that some of you have asked
me to add. My new software will allow me to monitor my Index
automatically on a regular basis and update it with far less effort than
before.

Thank you for listening and for your encouragement over the years.

Benjamin



--
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
sher07 at mindspring.com

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From jdingley at YORKU.CA  Mon Mar 25 01:02:20 2002
From: jdingley at YORKU.CA (John Dingley)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 20:02:20 -0500
Subject: thanks
Message-ID: <SUN.24.MAR.2002.200220.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Hi,

A big thank you to all those who have (already!) furnished me with
the words to Dear Soul. Outstanding service!

John Dingley

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From hafizaandreeva at EARTHLINK.NET  Mon Mar 25 02:14:38 2002
From: hafizaandreeva at EARTHLINK.NET (Hafiza Andreeva)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:14:38 -0700
Subject: Kolyma: Dzhankhar: Shalamov and Platonov
Message-ID: <SUN.24.MAR.2002.191438.0700.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

> There  is also mention of a mine called 'Dzhankhar'.  This could be an
> allusion to Platonov's DZHAN.  I should like to know whether there really
> was a mine (priisk) by the name of Dzhankhar.  Can anyone help me?
=========

Actually, it is Dzhankhara (fem.). I was unable to find any mention of the
name in sources other than Shalamov's story. However, it is known that in
1943, Shalamov worked at a labor camp of priisk "Dzhelgala". Don't you think
he might have altered the name in the literary work, yet leaving it
recognizable? Those were quite cannibalistic times in the USSR. I was hoping
to find a list of the Kolyma prisons on Kolyma.Ru -- but, alas, was found to
"have no permission" to view the site.
Here is the excerpt from Shalamov's biography still available on
www.litera.ru:8085/stixiya/articles/599.html

... v mae 1943 g., kogda on rabotal zaboishikom v osobo-rezhimnoi zone
priisk "Dzhelgala".
22 iyunya togo zhe goda Voennyi tribunal voisk NKVD pri Dal'stroe ...
********
Best regards,
Hafiza
EN<>RU T/I

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From klinela at PROVIDE.NET  Mon Mar 25 03:04:12 2002
From: klinela at PROVIDE.NET (Laura Kline)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:04:12 -0500
Subject: Kolyma: Dzhankhar: Shalamov and Platonov
Message-ID: <SUN.24.MAR.2002.220412.0500.KLINELA@PROVIDE.NET>

Dear Robert,
According to Shifrin's "The First Guidebook to Prisons and Concentration
Camps of the SU," there was a camp in Dzhankoi (Crimea) at some time, but it
doesn't state when. Today there are factories there.
Here's a long shot: "Dzhangar" - a Kalmyk epic work re: a happy fairy-tale
land called "Bumba".
Best,
Laura Kline

----- Original Message -----
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To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 11:02 AM
Subject: Kolyma: Dzhankhar: Shalamov and Platonov


> Dear all,
>
> Shalamov's story 'Zaklinatel' zmei' has a hero called Andrey Platonov;
this
> Platonov clearly has something, at least, in common with the real
Platonov.
> There  is also mention of a mine called 'Dzhankhar'.  This could be an
> allusion to Platonov's DZHAN.  I should like to know whether there really
> was a mine (priisk) by the name of Dzhankhar.  Can anyone help me?
>
> Best Wishes,  Robert Chandler
>
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From svitlana at 411.CA  Mon Mar 25 05:35:36 2002
From: svitlana at 411.CA (Svitlana Kobets)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 00:35:36 -0500
Subject: miracles
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.003536.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear all,

I would greatly appreciate your help with names of/any information about works by the contemporary authors on the subject of "miraculous" and "miracles", and the adjoining subjects of canonizations, sainthood and saints in contemporary literature/film. Do you know any special studies of this topic?

Thank you in advance,
Svitlana Kobets

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From kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM  Mon Mar 25 07:27:00 2002
From: kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM (Robert Chandler)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 07:27:00 +0000
Subject: miracles
In-Reply-To: <003301c1d3be$e48d5880$fd00a8c0@oles.ca>
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Slapovsky's PERVOE VTOROE PRISHESTVIE, about a rather reluctant Christ
figure in Russia around 1990 is well-written, entertaining and witty.

There is quite a lot of the miraculous in stories by Yuri Buida, perhaps an
even finer writer.  E.g. the story 'Merry Gertraud' from the collection
PRUSSKAYA NEVESTA.

Robert Chandler

> From: Svitlana Kobets <svitlana at 411.CA>
> Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
> <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 00:35:36 -0500
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: miracles
>
> Dear all,
>
> I would greatly appreciate your help with names of/any information about works
> by the contemporary authors on the subject of "miraculous" and "miracles", and
> the adjoining subjects of canonizations, sainthood and saints in contemporary
> literature/film. Do you know any special studies of this topic?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Svitlana Kobets
>
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From zielinski at ECONOPHONE.CH  Mon Mar 25 07:56:59 2002
From: zielinski at ECONOPHONE.CH (Zielinski)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:56:59 +0100
Subject: miracles
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Do not miss O?? ?????? (The Eye of the Abyss) by the Ukrainian writer
Valerij Shevchuk (born 1939) - a very complicated, well written story about
a quest for miracle-maker Mykita, a XVI-century Stylite living on an island
somewhere in the marshland region of Polesie.

Jan Zielinski,
Bern, Switzerland

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From s_l_webber at mail.ru  Mon Mar 25 10:00:59 2002
From: s_l_webber at mail.ru (Steve Webber)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 05:00:59 EST
Subject: New book on Russian Language, Life and Culture
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.050059.EST.SLWEBBER@MAIL.RU>

Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to our new book on  Russian
Language, Life and Culture,  just published by Hodder and
Stoughton (UK) as part of their Teach Yourself series.

The title is a little misleading, as it is not a language study book,
but is rather an introductory guide to Russian history, culture and
society. We hope that it will prove useful to students and teachers
of Russian at school level (and initial university degree level), to
those studying Russian in evening  classes, and to those with a
general interest in finding out about Russia.

The book contains the following chapters. Each has a Russian
language glossary, and a  Taking it Further  section, with
recommendations for additional reading and website locations.

1 What Made Russia? (a survey of Russian history, and a section
on geography and climate)

2 The Russian language (basics of the language; development of
Russian; the Russian language today)

3 Literature and thought (survey of Russian writing and
philosophical traditions)

4 Art and architecture

5 Music and dance

6 Festivals and traditions

7 Creativity in other spheres (cinema; theatre; mass media;
science and technology; Space exploration)

8 Politics and institutions

9 The basics for living (education; health; housing; social welfare;
transport)

10 Russians at work and play (the economy; work and
unemployment; sport and leisure)

11 The people (who are the Russians?  family, gender and
sexuality; religion; Russians in the newly independent states)

12 Russia in the wider world

For more details, see the Hodder and Stoughton site
(http://www.madaboutbooks.com/index.asp?url=bookdetails.asp&b
ook=2000000014295) or an internet bookshop (e.g.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0340790776/202-
6497589-4891032)

Best regards,

Stephen and Tanya Webber, Birmingham, England

Dr Steve Webber
Centre for Russian and East European Studies
University of Birmingham
UK
email s.l.webber at bham.ac.uk

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From E.Mikhailik at UNSW.EDU.AU  Mon Mar 25 10:46:10 2002
From: E.Mikhailik at UNSW.EDU.AU (Elena Mikhailik)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:46:10 +1100
Subject: Kolyma: Dzhankhar: Shalamov and Platonov
In-Reply-To: <B8C3A928.D79%kcf19@dial.pipex.com>
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At 16:02 24.03.2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>Shalamov's story 'Zaklinatel' zmei' has a hero called Andrey Platonov; this
>Platonov clearly has something, at least, in common with the real Platonov.
>There  is also mention of a mine called 'Dzhankhar'.  This could be an
>allusion to Platonov's DZHAN.  I should like to know whether there really
>was a mine (priisk) by the name of Dzhankhar.  Can anyone help me?
>
>Best Wishes,  Robert Chandler

Dear Robert,

The name of the mine in the story is "Dzhankhara" (fem).  It is very likely
that Shalamov used it as a recognisable alias for Dzhelgala - a Kolyma
mining camp of fearsome reputation where Shalamov had worked as a miner in
1943.  However, "Dzhankhara" might also be a genuine name of some other
place, used because Shalamov liked the sound of it.

Since the Kolyma mines were usually named after the local rivers - Mylga,
Hattynah, Dzelgala, Arkagala, - it might make sense to get a detailed atlas
and search for such a river.

Regards,

Elena Mikhailik



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From beth_holmgren at UNC.EDU  Mon Mar 25 12:58:55 2002
From: beth_holmgren at UNC.EDU (Beth Holmgren)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 07:58:55 -0500
Subject: Russians in Hollywood Symposium
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"THE RUSSIANS IN HOLLYWOOD," a symposium of lectures, screenings, and
discussion focused on the work and images of Russians in studio-era
Hollywood, will be held April 12-13 at the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill.  For more information, click on the website
below or email beth_holmgren at unc.edu

http://www.unc.edu/depts/slavdept/RussiansInHollywood.htm

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From Chriwaha at AOL.COM  Mon Mar 25 13:15:43 2002
From: Chriwaha at AOL.COM (Chriwaha at AOL.COM)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:15:43 EST
Subject: NYC apt. in 2002-2003?
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.081543.EST.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,
The Director of the Institute for Russian and East European Studies at Charles University (Prague), Professor Tomas Glanc, will be in New York on a Fulbright next academic year, and he is looking for an affordably priced two-bedroom somewhere in the City (preferably Manhattan) where he and his two teenage children can live from Sept. 2002 to June 2003.
Does anyone have any tips?  Know anyone in New York who will be going abroad/on sabbatical in 2002-2003, or of any other advantageous opportunities for a sublet?
Please respond to me *OFF LIST at cwh4 at columbia.edu*  and/or to Professor Glanc directly (glanc at ff.cuni.cz) with any leads.
Thanks,
Chris Harwood

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From mzs at UNLSERVE.UNL.EDU  Mon Mar 25 15:57:05 2002
From: mzs at UNLSERVE.UNL.EDU (Mila Saskova-Pierce)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:57:05 -0600
Subject: miracles
In-Reply-To: <B8C481C4.D9E%kcf19@dial.pipex.com>
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.095705.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

In Czech literature,  Skvorecky's book  The Miracle (68Publishers).

>Slapovsky's PERVOE VTOROE PRISHESTVIE, about a rather reluctant Christ
>figure in Russia around 1990 is well-written, entertaining and witty.
>
>There is quite a lot of the miraculous in stories by Yuri Buida, perhaps an
>even finer writer.  E.g. the story 'Merry Gertraud' from the collection
>PRUSSKAYA NEVESTA.
>
>Robert Chandler
>
>> From: Svitlana Kobets <svitlana at 411.CA>
>> Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
>> <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
>> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 00:35:36 -0500
>> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>> Subject: miracles
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would greatly appreciate your help with names of/any information about
>>works
>> by the contemporary authors on the subject of "miraculous" and
>>"miracles", and
>> the adjoining subjects of canonizations, sainthood and saints in
>>contemporary
>> literature/film. Do you know any special studies of this topic?
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Svitlana Kobets
>>
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From mzs at UNLSERVE.UNL.EDU  Mon Mar 25 15:59:48 2002
From: mzs at UNLSERVE.UNL.EDU (Mila Saskova-Pierce)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:59:48 -0600
Subject: miracles
In-Reply-To: <003301c1d3be$e48d5880$fd00a8c0@oles.ca>
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Once again in Czech:  Ota Filip: Nanebevstoupeni Lojzka Lapacka. (I think;
read it twenty years ago,  but the author is correct).
>Dear all,
>
>I would greatly appreciate your help with names of/any information about
>works by the contemporary authors on the subject of "miraculous" and
>"miracles", and the adjoining subjects of canonizations, sainthood and
>saints in contemporary literature/film. Do you know any special studies of
>this topic?
>
>Thank you in advance,
>Svitlana Kobets
>
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From rakitya at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU  Mon Mar 25 16:10:56 2002
From: rakitya at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU (Anna Rakityanskaya)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:10:56 -0600
Subject: Help!  CD-Rom about Russia?
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.101056.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear friends,

Below is a forwarded message. Please reply directly to: David Simmons,
simmons95 at mindspring.com

Thank you,

Anna Rakityanskaya
University of Texas at Austin


>Delivered-To: rakitya at mail.utexas.edu
>From: "David & Jilla Simmons" <simmons95 at mindspring.com>
>To: <rakitya at mail.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Help!  CD-Rom?
>Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:26:12 -0800
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
>
>
>
>I am a social studies teacher in Spokane, Washington, at a high school
>with a 10% population of Russian-speakers (from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,
>Kygyzstan, etc).  In our district's freshman course we teach quite a bit
>about the former Soviet Union.  I am looking for a good CD-Rom about
>Russia (and/or the former Soviet Union).  I'm looking for something fun
>and interactive which would include geography, history, a timeline,
>culture, photography, art, foods, ethnicities, language, etc.  I have
>looked almost everywhere.  Perhaps it does not exist yet.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Many thanks.  Bolshoye spasibo!
>
>David Simmons
>Spokane, Washington

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From mausdc at POTSDAM.EDU  Mon Mar 25 16:54:42 2002
From: mausdc at POTSDAM.EDU (Derek Maus)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:54:42 -0500
Subject: Updated call for submissions on Aleshkovsky
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.115442.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Greetings again, SEELANGers--

Please note the updated page length and deadline for submission. I'd like
to reiterate my ardent desire to see this project flourish, as I find
Aleshkovsky a drastically understudied writer in both the North American
and Russian academies. Although I can't do anything about the latter, this
project is an opportunity to remedy the former somewhat. Please consider
contributing a prospective article to the collection, even if it is only an
idea in progress at this point. I know this a the busy time of the semester
for all of us, but I hope that extending the deadline slightly will allow
for a bit more time to work out an idea. Thanks.

        Derek Maus

------------------------------

I am seeking original essay submissions for a web-based casebook on Yuz
Aleshkovsky's vastly underappreciated novel KANGAROO (orig. pub as KENGURU,
Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1981; trans. pub., Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press,
1999; New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1986) to be published in fall 2002
on the Center for Book Culture's website
(http://www.centerforbookculture.org) as part of its Studies in Modern and
Contemporary Fiction series (ed. by Robert Mclaughlin).

The casebooks in this series are intended to serve as a resource for
readers--teachers and students, especially--who desire some guidance in
engaging these novels. Each casebook contains and introduction by the
casebook editor which offers an overview of the novel, its place in the
author's oeuvre, and its critical reception. The other four essays offer
different approaches to the novel and different interpretive strategies
with which to understand it. There is also a bibliography of the most
important critical work on the novel. The purpose of this series is to open
up avenues for exploring each novel and to open up a dialogue of ideas
among our contributors and each new reader.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed and the entire volume, once completed,
will be refereed by the editors at Dalkey Archive Press prior to
publication on the Center for Book Culture website.

All interpretive approaches to the novel are welcome and some departure
from the traditional academic essay form is encouraged -- although not
required -- by the online format. Please refer to
http://www.centerforbookculture.org/casebooks/casebook_tunnel/Introduction_302.htm
for an example of a previous casebook in this series. Any quotations and
citations would need to be translated into English (instead of, or in
addition to the original Russian) for the primary audience of the book, but
Slavist approaches are warmly welcomed.

Abstracts and/or informal prospectuses of potential submissions are welcome
and encouraged in advance, but completed articles (15-20 double-spaced
pages in length) must be received by July 31, 2002 for consideration.

Mail or e-mail (as attachments, please) submissions, abstracts, or queries to:

Derek Maus
Assistant Professor of English and Communications
SUNY College at Potsdam
Potsdam, NY 13676

mausdc at potsdam.edu

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From jschill at AMERICAN.EDU  Mon Mar 25 17:45:43 2002
From: jschill at AMERICAN.EDU (John Schillinger)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:45:43 -0500
Subject: Ukrainian grammar/spell check software
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.124543.0500.>

    Can anyone recommend a downloadable grammar check for Ukrainian?
Even a basic spellcheck would be helpful!

 Please reply offline to: John Schillinger at jschill at american.edu.

Thanks!
--

John Schillinger

Dept. of Language and Foreign Studies

4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20016-8045

Phone: 202/885-2395 Fax 202-885-1076

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From renee at ALINGA.COM  Mon Mar 25 18:23:28 2002
From: renee at ALINGA.COM (Renee Stillings | Alinga)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:23:28 -0500
Subject: "Russia in the 21st Century" Seminar Series
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.132328.0500.RENEE@ALINGA.COM>

Dear List Members,

I just want to bring to your attention a summer seminar series that may be of interest to your students. As this particular seminar will be conducted in English, we hope it will be a way of creating interest in Russia amongst students who may not currently be studying Russian.

"Russia in the 21st Century"

or download a full PDF description at 

Full description (pdf)

Regards,
Renee Stillings
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
www.sras.org

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From mzs at UNLSERVE.UNL.EDU  Mon Mar 25 18:34:46 2002
From: mzs at UNLSERVE.UNL.EDU (Mila Saskova-Pierce)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:34:46 -0600
Subject: Help!  CD-Rom about Russia?
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020325100730.00abcc20@mail.utexas.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.123446.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Have a look at www.russnet.org. Our students love it.  Mila Saskova-Pierce

>Dear friends,
>
>Below is a forwarded message. Please reply directly to: David Simmons,
>simmons95 at mindspring.com
>
>Thank you,
>
>Anna Rakityanskaya
>University of Texas at Austin
>
>
>>Delivered-To: rakitya at mail.utexas.edu
>>From: "David & Jilla Simmons" <simmons95 at mindspring.com>
>>To: <rakitya at mail.utexas.edu>
>>Subject: Help!  CD-Rom?
>>Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:26:12 -0800
>>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
>>
>>
>>
>>I am a social studies teacher in Spokane, Washington, at a high school
>>with a 10% population of Russian-speakers (from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,
>>Kygyzstan, etc).  In our district's freshman course we teach quite a bit
>>about the former Soviet Union.  I am looking for a good CD-Rom about
>>Russia (and/or the former Soviet Union).  I'm looking for something fun
>>and interactive which would include geography, history, a timeline,
>>culture, photography, art, foods, ethnicities, language, etc.  I have
>>looked almost everywhere.  Perhaps it does not exist yet.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Many thanks.  Bolshoye spasibo!
>>
>>David Simmons
>>Spokane, Washington
>
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From renee at ALINGA.COM  Mon Mar 25 18:37:35 2002
From: renee at ALINGA.COM (Renee Stillings | Alinga)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:37:35 -0500
Subject: "Russia in the 21st Century" Seminar Series - correction
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.133735.0500.RENEE@ALINGA.COM>

Correction - I see that the links did not go through!

Dear List Members,

I just want to bring to your attention a summer seminar series that may be of interest to your students. As this particular seminar will be conducted in English, we hope it will be a way of creating interest in Russia amongst students who may not currently be studying Russian.

"Russia in the 21st Century" - http://www.sras.org/programs/Millenium.htm

or download a full PDF description at 

http://www.sras.org/Millennium/21st Century-full.pdf

Regards,
Renee Stillings
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
www.sras.org

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From greniers at GEORGETOWN.EDU  Mon Mar 25 18:22:23 2002
From: greniers at GEORGETOWN.EDU (Svetlana Grenier)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:22:23 -0500
Subject: Textbooks for Beginning Polish
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.132223.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues Who Teach Polish Language,

Could you please share with me your experience with textbooks of
Polish?  Which texts do you use/have you used, and what are the pros and
cons of them?  I would greatly appreciate any information and
recommendations (I am about to teach Beginning Polish, in the Fall)!
Thanks in advance,

Sincerely,

Svetlana Grenier
Associate Professor
Dept. of Slavic Languages
Georgetown University

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From ilon at UT.EE  Mon Mar 25 19:37:18 2002
From: ilon at UT.EE (Ilon Fraiman)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:37:18 +0200
Subject: ruthenia news
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Dobryj den'!

Opublikovannye na "Rutenii" materialy za proshluyu nedelyu:

27 aprelya
Konferenciya "Yazyki tradicionnoj kul'tury" (RGGU)
http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/475867.html

28 marta
Zawita doktorskoj dissertacii L.F. Kacisa v RGGU
http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/476278.html

27 marta
Doklad V.A. Mil'chinoj v IVGI RGGU
http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/476277.html

25 marta

Republikovana stat'i Yu. Lotmana "Novye materialy o nachal'nom periode
znakomstva s Shillerom v russkoj literature" (Trudy po russkoj i slavyanskoj
filologii. Literaturovedenie.&nbsp;IV).
http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/476565.html

Obsudit' publikaciyu mozhno zdes':
http://www.ruthenia.ru/board/board.phtml?topic=1841

21 marta
Lekcii prof. Laxmann i prof. Lukmanna v Tartu
http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/476195.html

Lekciya I.P. Smirnova v RGGU
http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/476274.html

Mezhdunarodnaya knizhnaya yarmarka (Lejpcig)
http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/476276.html

19 marta
Novye knigi "OGI"
http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/475815.html

Zhurnal issledovaniya Vostochnoj Evropy
http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/475816.html

-----------------------------

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http://www.ruthenia.ru/

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From mgorham at GERMSLAV.UFL.EDU  Tue Mar 26 00:07:16 2002
From: mgorham at GERMSLAV.UFL.EDU (Michael Gorham)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:07:16 -0500
Subject: job announcement, Visiting Asst. Professor for 2002-03
Message-ID: <MON.25.MAR.2002.190716.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

Thank you for posting and passing along the following announcement:

University of Florida, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, seeks
applicants for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
position, to begin August 2002. Ph.D. preferred, ABD considered. Native
or near-native fluency in Russian and English required. Research
specialization open. The position entails teaching Russian language at
all levels, as well as courses in Russian literature, both in
translation and the original (2 courses per semester). Preference will
go to scholar-teachers with an active research portfolio, training in
communicative methods of language instruction, and a strong commitment
to integrating Russian culture across the undergraduate curriculum. Send
letter of application, c.v., and the names of three references
(including positions, phone numbers and email addresses) asap to Dr.
Land Barksdale, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Studies, P.O. Box 117430,
Gainesville, FL 32611-7430 [or, as Microsoft Word attachments, to
asykes at germslav.ufl.edu]. Application deadline: 21 April 2002. Search
will remain open until position is filled. The University of Florida is
an AA/EOE employer.

(Follow the link below for more information about Slavic Studies at the
University of Florida.)

--
Michael S. Gorham
Assistant Professor of Russian Studies
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
University of Florida
263 Dauer Hall
P.O. Box 117430
Gainesville, FL 32611-7340
Phone: 352-392-2101 ext. 206
Fax: 352-392-1067
Email: mgorham at germslav.ufl.edu
Slavic Studies Homepage:
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mgorham/RussianStudiesAtUF.html

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From John.C.DeSantis at DARTMOUTH.EDU  Tue Mar 26 14:34:15 2002
From: John.C.DeSantis at DARTMOUTH.EDU (John C. DeSantis)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:34:15 EST
Subject: Textbooks for Beginning Polish
Message-ID: <TUE.26.MAR.2002.093415.EST.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

--- Svetlana Grenier wrote:
Could you please share with me your experience with textbooks of
Polish?  Which texts do you use/have you used, and what are the pros and
cons of them?  I would greatly appreciate any information and
recommendations (I am about to teach Beginning Polish, in the Fall)!
--- end of quote ---

  Svetlana--
It's been many years since I've been involved in teaching, but I can tell you that Alexander Schenker's _Beginning Polish_ is considered the classic.  I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for use in today's classroom, since it's rather dated, but the methodology used in it certainly warrants giving it a look.
  My personal favorite is Oscar Swan's _First Year Polish_.  Swan uses a fresh, original and even entertaining approach to language instruction, and has also produced a higher-level textbook called _Intermediate Polish_.  Experience has shown that students respond quite favourably to Swan's approach.  Best wishes!


***********************
John DeSantis
Russian and Slavic Bibliographer
Dartmouth College Librray
Hanover, NH  03755
Voice-mail: (603) 646-0413
FAX:  (603) 646-3702
janusz at dartmouth.edu
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From mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Tue Mar 26 16:51:27 2002
From: mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Emily Tall)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:51:27 +0000
Subject: Armenian translator
Message-ID: <TUE.26.MAR.2002.165127.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear colleagues: Do any of you by any chance know an Armenian translator
named A. Arutiunian? I have checked on google and haven't found anyone.
Thanks, Emily Tall

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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Tue Mar 26 21:17:12 2002
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:17:12 -0500
Subject: Armenian translator
Message-ID: <TUE.26.MAR.2002.161712.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Emily Tall wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues: Do any of you by any chance know an Armenian translator
> named A. Arutiunian? I have checked on google and haven't found anyone.
> Thanks, Emily Tall
>
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This what you need?

<http://www.guide.am/russian_info_perevodchiki.html>

Яndex search string:
        Арутюнян && переводчик

Found on the third page of 257 hits.

--
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--
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pbg translations, inc.
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From fmenar at ny.hodes.com  Tue Mar 26 22:14:31 2002
From: fmenar at ny.hodes.com (Fran Menar)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:14:31 EST
Subject: Job Announcement - Pace University
Message-ID: <TUE.26.MAR.2002.171431.EST.FMENAR@NY.HODES.COM>

One-year Lecturer in Russian  (with possibility of renewal)

Pace University seeks a non-tenure track professor to teach Russian language
on all levels to heritage and non-heritage speakers as well as to teach
Russian business and contemporary Russian and Eastern European culture and
literature courses in Russian and in English. Qualifications include native
or near-native competency in Russian and English as well as knowledge of a
second Slavic language. Specialization in Russian civilization, literature
and contemporary issues is necessary, as are excellent interpersonal and
oral/written communication skills. A strong teaching record is required. A
Ph.D. is desirable, as is expertise in a secondary area in Eastern European
studies. All applications received by April 15 will be considered. Pace
University is an AA/EOE.  Please send letter of application, CV, and 3 letters
of recommendation to
Dr. Iride Lamartina-Lens, Chair, Department of Modern Languages, Pace
University, 41 Park Row, New York, NY 10038.

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From stephan.31 at OSU.EDU  Wed Mar 27 03:59:36 2002
From: stephan.31 at OSU.EDU (Halina Stephan)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:59:36 -0500
Subject: Help!  CD-Rom about Russia?
In-Reply-To: <v03010d02b8c51e24f38a@[129.93.50.81]>
Message-ID: <TUE.26.MAR.2002.225936.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Susmita,

Please do check--if  you get a chance--whether this would be good for out
school outreach. Do let Jason know if  you think it is good.

All the best,

HS

At 12:34 PM 3/25/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Have a look at www.russnet.org. Our students love it.  Mila Saskova-Pierce
>
> >Dear friends,
> >
> >Below is a forwarded message. Please reply directly to: David Simmons,
> >simmons95 at mindspring.com
> >
> >Thank you,
> >
> >Anna Rakityanskaya
> >University of Texas at Austin
> >
> >
> >>Delivered-To: rakitya at mail.utexas.edu
> >>From: "David & Jilla Simmons" <simmons95 at mindspring.com>
> >>To: <rakitya at mail.utexas.edu>
> >>Subject: Help!  CD-Rom?
> >>Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:26:12 -0800
> >>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>I am a social studies teacher in Spokane, Washington, at a high school
> >>with a 10% population of Russian-speakers (from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,
> >>Kygyzstan, etc).  In our district's freshman course we teach quite a bit
> >>about the former Soviet Union.  I am looking for a good CD-Rom about
> >>Russia (and/or the former Soviet Union).  I'm looking for something fun
> >>and interactive which would include geography, history, a timeline,
> >>culture, photography, art, foods, ethnicities, language, etc.  I have
> >>looked almost everywhere.  Perhaps it does not exist yet.
> >>
> >>Any ideas?
> >>
> >>Many thanks.  Bolshoye spasibo!
> >>
> >>David Simmons
> >>Spokane, Washington
> >
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From thomasstudd at YAHOO.CO.UK  Wed Mar 27 11:47:06 2002
From: thomasstudd at YAHOO.CO.UK (=?iso-8859-1?q?Thomas=20Studd?=)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:47:06 +0000
Subject: Language schools in St. Petersburg
Message-ID: <WED.27.MAR.2002.114706.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear all,

I am an university undergraduate in England who
studied Russian up to A Level at school but
unfortunately in the last couple of years it has been
in decline (my reading ability is still fairly decent
but the rest is rather dodgy).  I'm planning to go
back to St. Petersburg for 6-8 weeks some time in the
summer vacation, probably in August and September.  My
problem is that I'm finding it very hard to decide
which school to go to.  My university's Russian
department is closed for refurbishment and a search on
the internet yields many schools, but how do I know
which are any good?

In short, can I have some recommendations of good
language schools in St. Petersburg for someone of my
ability.

Thank you for your help in advance.

All the best,

Thomas Studd

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From riniker at PETERLINK.RU  Wed Mar 27 15:09:10 2002
From: riniker at PETERLINK.RU (Daniel Riniker)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:09:10 -0500
Subject: Soviet army
Message-ID: <WED.27.MAR.2002.100910.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear all,

To your attention a question I received from a friend. Please do reply off-
list to the following address:

laurieanna at hotmail.com

Thank you,
Daniel Riniker
St. Petersburg

"I am still doing research for my Soviet War Veterans article and I have a
question for you: I have a vague idea that there was legislation passed
(after World War II) making it more difficult for Jews in the Soviet
military---I thought I read something by Brodsky on the topic, talking
about his father.
Was this official policy, do you know? And was it in the form of
legislation or law or just something that was understand."

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From mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU  Wed Mar 27 11:06:02 2002
From: mllemily at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Emily Tall)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:06:02 +0000
Subject: Armenian translator
Message-ID: <WED.27.MAR.2002.110602.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Thanks very much! I wonder if it's the Arutiunian I'm looking for--I knew him
in the late 1970's--but he wasn't old then, so maybe it is. Now I guess I have
to call Armenia--but I guess I can try the tourist center and see if he has an
e-mail. I'll let you know if I find him. Emily Tall

"Paul B. Gallagher" wrote:

> Emily Tall wrote:
> >
> > Dear colleagues: Do any of you by any chance know an Armenian translator
> > named A. Arutiunian? I have checked on google and haven't found anyone.
> > Thanks, Emily Tall
> >
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> This what you need?
>
> <http://www.guide.am/russian_info_perevodchiki.html>
>
> Яndex search string:
>         Арутюнян && переводчик
>
> Found on the third page of 257 hits.
>
> --
> War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
> --
> Paul B. Gallagher
> pbg translations, inc.
> "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
> http://pbg-translations.com
>
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From akrouglov.dslc.fco at GTNET.GOV.UK  Wed Mar 27 17:26:02 2002
From: akrouglov.dslc.fco at GTNET.GOV.UK (Dr Alex Krouglov)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:26:02 -0000
Subject: Language schools in St. Petersburg
Message-ID: <WED.27.MAR.2002.172602.0000.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Thomas,

You may try Liden&Denz in StPetersburg.  You can get more information on
their website is http://www.lidenz.ru

Best wishes,

Alex Krouglov
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Studd" <thomasstudd at YAHOO.CO.UK>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: 27 March 2002 11:47
Subject: Language schools in St. Petersburg


> Dear all,
>
> I am an university undergraduate in England who
> studied Russian up to A Level at school but
> unfortunately in the last couple of years it has been
> in decline (my reading ability is still fairly decent
> but the rest is rather dodgy).  I'm planning to go
> back to St. Petersburg for 6-8 weeks some time in the
> summer vacation, probably in August and September.  My
> problem is that I'm finding it very hard to decide
> which school to go to.  My university's Russian
> department is closed for refurbishment and a search on
> the internet yields many schools, but how do I know
> which are any good?
>
> In short, can I have some recommendations of good
> language schools in St. Petersburg for someone of my
> ability.
>
> Thank you for your help in advance.
>
> All the best,
>
> Thomas Studd
>
> __________________________________________________
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> Everything you'll ever need on one web page
> from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts
> http://uk.my.yahoo.com
>
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From jataubman at AMHERST.EDU  Wed Mar 27 18:46:44 2002
From: jataubman at AMHERST.EDU (Jane A. Taubman)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:46:44 -0500
Subject: Soviet army
Message-ID: <WED.27.MAR.2002.134644.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Corie:
    I did the Kennan reco myself, and it's ready.  But Bill wants to put a
personal PS on it, which I think is worth waiting for. He's in class till 4 or
later this afternoon.  If you're really in a rush, you could drop over to the
house this evening, or tomorrow morning (call first!) -- otherwise, I'll leave
it in one of your envelopes in the plastic outbox by my door tomorrow when I
come in for my 11:30 class.  how's that?  And then Jeanne can work on the
others tomorrow.

Daniel Riniker wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> To your attention a question I received from a friend. Please do reply off-
> list to the following address:
>
> laurieanna at hotmail.com
>
> Thank you,
> Daniel Riniker
> St. Petersburg
>
> "I am still doing research for my Soviet War Veterans article and I have a
> question for you: I have a vague idea that there was legislation passed
> (after World War II) making it more difficult for Jews in the Soviet
> military---I thought I read something by Brodsky on the topic, talking
> about his father.
> Was this official policy, do you know? And was it in the form of
> legislation or law or just something that was understand."
>
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From jataubman at AMHERST.EDU  Wed Mar 27 18:47:57 2002
From: jataubman at AMHERST.EDU (Jane A. Taubman)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:47:57 -0500
Subject: Soviet army
Message-ID: <WED.27.MAR.2002.134757.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I apologize to the list/  Somehow I just sent a message to a student  that went
to the list address.

Daniel Riniker wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> To your attention a question I received from a friend. Please do reply off-
> list to the following address:
>
> laurieanna at hotmail.com
>
> Thank you,
> Daniel Riniker
> St. Petersburg
>
> "I am still doing research for my Soviet War Veterans article and I have a
> question for you: I have a vague idea that there was legislation passed
> (after World War II) making it more difficult for Jews in the Soviet
> military---I thought I read something by Brodsky on the topic, talking
> about his father.
> Was this official policy, do you know? And was it in the form of
> legislation or law or just something that was understand."
>
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From mdenner at STETSON.EDU  Wed Mar 27 19:14:45 2002
From: mdenner at STETSON.EDU (Michael Denner)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:14:45 -0500
Subject: Balabanov's BROTHER
Message-ID: <WED.27.MAR.2002.141445.0500.MDENNER@STETSON.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:

I wonder if anyone out there has a copy of Balabanov's BROTHER that I could
borrow for a cinema class viewing. The only available copy I've found is
through Amazon & it costs nearly $80 delivered. It's the end of the year,
and our program has used up all its funds for purchasing new materials, but
I'd like to show this movie -- but $80 for Brother?!? Brother. I'd of course
reimburse all shipping charges and would return it immediately after showing
it on May 1st. Please reply off list.

Sincerely,
Michael Denner

<|><|><|><|><|><|><|>
Michael A. Denner
Russian Studies Department
Campus Unit 8361
Stetson University
DeLand, FL 32720
386.822.7265
http://www.stetson.edu/organizations/russian_club/mypage.htm

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From mdenner at STETSON.EDU  Wed Mar 27 19:21:55 2002
From: mdenner at STETSON.EDU (Michael Denner)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:21:55 -0500
Subject: addendum to Brother message
Message-ID: <WED.27.MAR.2002.142155.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

I should have added in my last message that I need a copy with English
subtitles -- it's for a Russian cinema class.

Thanks.

<|><|><|><|><|><|><|>
Michael A. Denner
Russian Studies Department
Campus Unit 8361
Stetson University
DeLand, FL 32720
386.822.7265
http://www.stetson.edu/organizations/russian_club/mypage.htm

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From Young at ACTR.ORG  Wed Mar 27 20:55:00 2002
From: Young at ACTR.ORG (Billie Young)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:55:00 -0500
Subject: Test Administration Specialist
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Test Administration Specialist
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

SUMMARY:

This four to six-month assignment, based at the ACCELS office in Bishkek, involves primary responsibility for the delivery and test score reporting of a newly developed National Scholarship examination in Kyrgyzstan.   The test administration specialist is responsible for logistical planning and delivery of a test to be administered to 12,000 to 15,000 students.  The test will be administered simultaneously at approximately 25 sites throughout the country in July, 2002.
The position requires extensive travel throughout the country.  The position reports to the ACCELS country director in Bishkek. 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: 
Logistics: 
· Liaison with school officials and Ministry of education on selection of test sites issues
· Secure agreements for space and supplies
· Arrange for test printing with ACCELS Moscow and shipment to test sites, ensuring the security of test materials
· Develop contingency plans to address unforeseen circumstances

Outreach and publicity: 
· plan and execute public advertisement campaign for testing day (tv, radio, newspaper).

Monitoring and test Security:
· Interview and hire "proctors" and "test team" assistants for test administration
· Train "proctors" and other members of testing teams in security and testing principles (at least 25 teams of 7-8 people)
· Supervise selection of independent observer teams, provide them training, information

Registration, Scoring, reporting:
· Assist with preparation of registration documents for test takers
· Prepare databases for entry of test results 
· Design database reports in collaboration with the Ministry of Education so that score reporting will meet national needs 

QUALIFICATIONS:
· Test administration experience;
· Fluent in Russian and/or regional languages;
· Experience traveling extensively under difficult conditions;
· Experience in budget management;
· BA in relevant field (e.g. Russian language, Russian area studies, education, etc.) required; advanced degree preferred

TO APPLY:
Send letter/resume and salary requirements to Test Admin Search, American Councils, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 700, Washington, DC  20036.  Fax: 202-872-9178 or 202-833-7523; www.actr.org; email: resumes at actr.org. Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer.

The American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is a private, non-profit educational association and exchange organization devoted to improving education, professional training and research within and regarding the former Soviet Union (FSU).  The American Councils administers academic exchange and training programs in virtually all fields; provides educational advising and academic testing services throughout the FSU; and organizes conferences and seminars in the US and abroad for its membership, exchange participants, alumni, and professional groups.   The American Councils manages a budget funded from multiple sources of approximately $50M, employs a staff of more then 400, and operates offices in 12 countries of the former Soviet Union.

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From rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU  Wed Mar 27 20:56:33 2002
From: rar at SLAVIC.UMASS.EDU (Robert A. Rothstein)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:56:33 -0500
Subject: SEEFA
Message-ID: <WED.27.MAR.2002.155633.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

The Slavic and East European Folklore Association, an affiliate of the
AAASS, is a non-profit organization devoted to the exchange of knowledge

among scholars interested in Slavic and East European folklore. SEEFA
seeks to promote instruction in this subject, to organize panels at
national and international conferences, to encourage the preparation of
teaching materials and translations, and to foster joint research
projects, scholarly exchanges, summer programs, and fieldwork in Slavic
and East European folklore.

Individual membership in SEEFA is $20 per year for regular members and
$10 for students. For information write to the Secretary-Treasurer,
Professor Jeanmarie Routhier-Willoughby, Russian and Eastern Studies,
1055 Patterson Office Tower, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY
40506-0027.  Email: jrouhie at pop.ky.edu.

Members receive the SEEFA Journal, which is published twice a year.  For

further information please see the SEEFA web page at
http://www.virginia.edu/~slavic/seefa/INDEX.HTM.

        Robert A. Rothstein
        University of Massachusetts, Amherst
        President, SEEFA

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From greniers at GEORGETOWN.EDU  Wed Mar 27 21:24:55 2002
From: greniers at GEORGETOWN.EDU (Svetlana Grenier)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:24:55 -0500
Subject: Textbooks for Beginning Polish
Message-ID: <WED.27.MAR.2002.162455.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

John-- Thank you very much for your advice.  It is good to hear from someone with first-hand experience of using these books.  I will definitely take a close look at both.  All the best,
Svetlana Grenier


"John C. DeSantis" wrote:

> --- Svetlana Grenier wrote:
> Could you please share with me your experience with textbooks of
> Polish?  Which texts do you use/have you used, and what are the pros and
> cons of them?  I would greatly appreciate any information and
> recommendations (I am about to teach Beginning Polish, in the Fall)!
> --- end of quote ---
>
>   Svetlana--
> It's been many years since I've been involved in teaching, but I can tell you that Alexander Schenker's _Beginning Polish_ is considered the classic.  I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for use in today's classroom, since it's rather dated, but the methodology used in it certainly warrants giving it a look.
>   My personal favorite is Oscar Swan's _First Year Polish_.  Swan uses a fresh, original and even entertaining approach to language instruction, and has also produced a higher-level textbook called _Intermediate Polish_.  Experience has shown that students respond quite favourably to Swan's approach.  Best wishes!
>
> ***********************
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> Russian and Slavic Bibliographer
> Dartmouth College Librray
> Hanover, NH  03755
> Voice-mail: (603) 646-0413
> FAX:  (603) 646-3702
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From jrouhie at POP.UKY.EDU  Thu Mar 28 13:03:40 2002
From: jrouhie at POP.UKY.EDU (Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:03:40 -0500
Subject: SEEFA
Message-ID: <THU.28.MAR.2002.080340.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

There was a small error in the Slavic and East European Folklore announcement:

My email is jrouhie at pop.uky.edu

If you would like information about SEEFA, you can reach me via email
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From AATSEEL at COMPUSERVE.COM  Thu Mar 28 16:08:42 2002
From: AATSEEL at COMPUSERVE.COM (Jerry)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:08:42 -0500
Subject: Polish Language Learning Framework
Message-ID: <THU.28.MAR.2002.110842.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

(The following is a courtesy posting.  Responses should be directed to the
person in the body of the text, not to this poster nor to SEELANGS. 
Thanks.)

*****

 Announcement!

 POLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING FRAMEWORK PUBLISHED

The Polish Language Learning Framework (PLLF), developed by Leonard A.
Polakiewicz, Joanna Radwanska-Williams and Waldemar Walczynski under the
auspices of the National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly Taught
Languages (NCOLCTL) has been published on NCOLCTL's website:
www.councilnet.org/papers/pllf.doc. 

The PLLF provides 1) a survey and assessment of the current state of Polish
teaching and learning; 2) a framework of theoretical and pedagogical
guidelines for Polish language learning, and 3) recommendations to further
facilitate the teaching and learning of Polish in the United states. 

The PLLF includes an analysis of the results of a comprehensive survey of
Polish language programs at American universities. It also includes an
extensive list of resources for the teaching and learning of Polish. 
The broad goal of the PLLF is to serve the cause of facilitating, promoting
and coordinating the teaching and learning of Polish, and especially to
facilitate individualized study and new program design. Anyone interested
in obtaining an expanded, hard copy of the PLLF should contact:

        Prof. Leonard A. Polakiewicz
        ILES, 215 Nolte Center
        315 Pillsbury Dr. SE
        University of Minnesota
        Minneapolis, MN 55455
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From kalbj at GWM.SC.EDU  Thu Mar 28 16:18:49 2002
From: kalbj at GWM.SC.EDU (Judith Kalb)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:18:49 -0500
Subject: Komar and Melamid
Message-ID: <THU.28.MAR.2002.111849.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear colleagues,
I have a student interested in writing a paper for a contemporary art
class
on Komar and Melamid.  Do you know of any relevant sources he might
consult?
Please reply to me off-list at jkalb at sc.edu--many thanks in advance!
Best,
Judith

Dr. Judith E. Kalb
Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Langs. and Lits.
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
phone: (803) 777-9615
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From kalbj at GWM.SC.EDU  Thu Mar 28 18:10:00 2002
From: kalbj at GWM.SC.EDU (Judith Kalb)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:10:00 -0500
Subject: thank you!
Message-ID: <THU.28.MAR.2002.131000.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear All,
Many thanks for all the helpful responses on Komar and Melamid--my
student and I are most grateful, and your suggestions will serve him
well!
Best wishes,
Judith

Dr. Judith E. Kalb
Department of Germanic, Slavic, and E. Asian Langs.
University of South Carolina
jkalb at sc.edu

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From svitlana at 411.CA  Thu Mar 28 19:12:51 2002
From: svitlana at 411.CA (Svitlana Kobets)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:12:51 -0500
Subject: miracles
Message-ID: <THU.28.MAR.2002.141251.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear all,

Thank you very much for your help!
By the way, Dr. Zielinski, I am working on "The Eye of the Abyss." I was
wondering about the general literary/cultural context for the topic of
miracles and especially of their debunking. It is quite interesting that
Shevchuk chose to dismantle St. Mykyta's sanctity and portray him as a freak
to say the least. It's true that St. Mykyta's Life is one of the most
controversial and most susceptible to criticism, but still it's just one of
many such Lives. Do you by any chance have any idea why Shevchuk chose this
particular saint?

Please answer off list,

Best,

Svitlana Kobets.
svitlana at 411.ca

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From laurengl at PTWI.NET  Fri Mar 29 04:05:54 2002
From: laurengl at PTWI.NET (Lauren Leighton)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:05:54 -0600
Subject: Culture Course
Message-ID: <THU.28.MAR.2002.220554.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

The recent queries re materials available for Russian culture courses prompt
me to report that Lexicon Bridge will soon publish my CD ROM course of
lectures on modern Russian culture. The course comprises five sets of
lectures alternating between high and low culture (byt). Each set has 7-10
lectures. Each lecture has ca. 30 images with captions and notes. There are
appendices on subjects from Russo-Byzantine Culture to Glasnost, a
bibliography, biographies of artists, architects, and rulers, glossary of
terms (Russian equivalents), etc. Each appendix and its entries can be read
separately from the lectures; specific entries can be accessed by clicking a
marked word, term, title, name of subject within notes. The course will be
available before the start of the fall term. Other CD-ROMs and videotapes on
Russian language and culture are available at http://lexiconbridge.com now.

Lauren G. Leighton
12 Oak Grove Drive
Madison WI 53717
608 836-6947
laurengl at ptwi.net

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From heyer at SIU.EDU  Fri Mar 29 04:25:46 2002
From: heyer at SIU.EDU (Sarah Heyer)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:25:46 -0600
Subject: goldmine of Belarussian poetry
Message-ID: <THU.28.MAR.2002.222546.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Colleagues:
The Russian program at SIUC is officially closed.  The last major will be
finishing in May.  There are a lot of books that will need a home.
More urgently -- I am helping an emerita professor prepare to move from her
home.  Olga Orechwa has amassed an incredible library.  Her most productive
research area was Belarussian poetry.  If anyone would be interested in
acquiring this goldmine, please be in touch with me off line.  If anyone has
leads for me to pursue, be in touch.  Also ... is there any interest in
manual typewriters for (I think) Belarussian and/or Ukrainian and Russian?
Sarah

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From kaunas4 at RCN.COM  Fri Mar 29 14:18:10 2002
From: kaunas4 at RCN.COM (richard)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:18:10 -0500
Subject: goldmine of Belarussian poetry
Message-ID: <FRI.29.MAR.2002.091810.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Heyer" <heyer at SIU.EDU>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 11:25 PM
Subject: goldmine of Belarussian poetry


> Dear Colleagues:
> The Russian program at SIUC is officially closed.  The last major will be
> finishing in May.  There are a lot of books that will need a home.
> More urgently -- I am helping an emerita professor prepare to move from
her
> home.  Olga Orechwa has amassed an incredible library.  Her most
productive
> research area was Belarussian poetry.  If anyone would be interested in
> acquiring this goldmine, please be in touch with me off line.  If anyone
has
> leads for me to pursue, be in touch.  Also ... is there any interest in
> manual typewriters for (I think) Belarussian and/or Ukrainian and Russian?
> Sarah
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sarah C. Heyer
> Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
> Southern Illinois University
> Carbondale, IL 62901-4521
> U.S.A.
> Office: Faner 2021  tel: 453-5429
> home tel: (618) 549-5230
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ear  Professor Heyer,
In response to your SELANGS notice. I am very much interested in any
literature in Beylorussian.
Please let me know at your earliest opportunity and I will provide you with
my school address.

Thank You,
Dr. Richard Tomback
Kaunas4 at rcn.com

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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Fri Mar 29 16:38:14 2002
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:38:14 -0500
Subject: SC?, maybe Cz > En bibliography -- URGENT
Message-ID: <FRI.29.MAR.2002.113814.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Slavophiles,

Translating the last page of a 300-p. history of on Semipalatinsk from
Russian, and there are a couple of "foreign" citations in the
references. Anyone care to knock out a line of bibliography for me?
Please?

It looks to me like Serbo-Croatian, but I could be wrong; it's gotta be
Slavic (Czech? Slovak?):

G. Bohac. "Pundi zivocichove jako bioindikatory antrapogennikh zmen
prostredi." Zivot. Prostred., 1989...

Diacritics and spelling are AS RECEIVED.

I need any diacritics on the author's name and the journal title; just
use the right encoding and I'll be fine. Don't bother cleaning up the
article title because I'll substitute the English

MTIA

--
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--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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From kalbj at GWM.SC.EDU  Fri Mar 29 17:38:52 2002
From: kalbj at GWM.SC.EDU (Judith Kalb)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:38:52 -0500
Subject: Job announcement -- University of South Carolina
Message-ID: <FRI.29.MAR.2002.123852.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

The Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Languages and
Literatures at the University of South Carolina invites applications for
Instructor of Russian.  This is a full-time, annually renewable teaching
position beginning August 2002.  Minimum requirements: master's degree
in Russian, foreign language pedagogy, linguistics, or a related field;
native or near-native proficiency in Russian and English; proven talent
for and commitment to teaching Russian to American undergraduates;
strong interpersonal skills.  Experience with computer-assisted
instruction and distance education a plus.  Responsibilities: teaching
four classes per semester; running weekly Russian conversation table;
serving as faculty advisor to Russian club.  To apply, please send
letter of application, curriculum vitae, 3 letters of recommendation,
and a full set of teaching evaluations from 2 classes to Dr. Judith
Kalb, Director, Russian Program, Department of Germanic, Slavic, and
East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208.  Application deadline: April 15, 2002, but
applications will be reviewed as received.  AA/EOE.

Dr. Judith E. Kalb
Asst. Prof. of Russian and Comparative Literature
Director of the Russian Program
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Fax: (803) 777-0132
Email: jkalb at sc.edu

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From kpking at MTHOLYOKE.EDU  Fri Mar 29 19:09:16 2002
From: kpking at MTHOLYOKE.EDU (Katerina P. King)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:09:16 -0500
Subject: SC?, maybe Cz > En bibliography -- URGENT
In-Reply-To: <3CA49876.3A595943@pbg-translations.com>
Message-ID: <FRI.29.MAR.2002.140916.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

That is Czech, although I have to say I have no idea what "pundi" is. Are
you sure that's right????

The diacritics are as follows:
> G. Boha'c^. "Pundi' z^ivoc^ichove' jako bioindika'tory antrapogenni'kh
(the last 2 letters here should be "ch")
zme^n prostr^edi'." Z^ivot. Prostr^ed., 1989...

N' = length mark over N
N^ = hac^ek over N

All the best,
Katya

Katerina P. King, Ph.D.
South Hadley, MA 01075-1456

(413) 538-2080 Office
(413) 538-2081 Fax
(413) 535-0129 Home

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:38:14 -0500
> From: Paul B. Gallagher <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>
> Reply-To: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
>     <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: SC?, maybe Cz > En bibliography -- URGENT
>
> Dear Slavophiles,
>
> Translating the last page of a 300-p. history of on Semipalatinsk from
> Russian, and there are a couple of "foreign" citations in the
> references. Anyone care to knock out a line of bibliography for me?
> Please?
>
> It looks to me like Serbo-Croatian, but I could be wrong; it's gotta be
> Slavic (Czech? Slovak?):
>
> G. Bohac. "Pundi zivocichove jako bioindikatory antrapogennikh zmen
> prostredi." Zivot. Prostred., 1989...
>
> Diacritics and spelling are AS RECEIVED.
>
> I need any diacritics on the author's name and the journal title; just
> use the right encoding and I'll be fine. Don't bother cleaning up the
> article title because I'll substitute the English
>
> MTIA
>
> --
> War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
> --
> Paul B. Gallagher
> pbg translations, inc.
> "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
> http://pbg-translations.com
>
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From ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU  Fri Mar 29 19:17:59 2002
From: ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU (Wayles Browne)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:17:59 -0500
Subject: SC?, maybe Cz > En bibliography -- URGENT
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0203291401370.352621-100000@mhc.mtholyoke.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.29.MAR.2002.141759.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

And the translation is "[word illegible] of animals as biological
indicators of anthropogenic [man-made] changes in the
environment."

>That is Czech, although I have to say I have no idea what "pundi" is. Are
>you sure that's right????
>
>The diacritics are as follows:
>>  G. Boha'c^. "Pundi' z^ivoc^ichove' jako bioindika'tory antrapogenni'kh
>(the last 2 letters here should be "ch")
>zme^n prostr^edi'." Z^ivot. Prostr^ed., 1989...
>
>N' = length mark over N
>N^ = hac^ek over N
>
>All the best,
>Katya
>
>Katerina P. King, Ph.D.
>South Hadley, MA 01075-1456
>
>(413) 538-2080 Office
>(413) 538-2081 Fax
>(413) 535-0129 Home
>
>On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>
>
>  > Translating the last page of a 300-p. history of on Semipalatinsk from
>>  Russian, and there are a couple of "foreign" citations in the
>>  references. Anyone care to knock out a line of bibliography for me?
>>  Please?
>>
>>  It looks to me like Serbo-Croatian, but I could be wrong; it's gotta be
>>  Slavic (Czech? Slovak?):
>>
>>  G. Bohac. "Pundi zivocichove jako bioindikatory antrapogennikh zmen
>>  prostredi." Zivot. Prostred., 1989...
>>
>>  Diacritics and spelling are AS RECEIVED.
>>
>>  I need any diacritics on the author's name and the journal title; just
>>  use the right encoding and I'll be fine. Don't bother cleaning up the
>>  article title because I'll substitute the English
>>
>>  MTIA
>>
>>  --
>>  War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
>>  --
>>  Paul B. Gallagher
>>  pbg translations, inc.
>>  "Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
>  > http://pbg-translations.com
>  >
>
--

Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Fri Mar 29 19:43:14 2002
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:43:14 -0500
Subject: SC?, maybe Cz > En bibliography -- URGENT
Message-ID: <FRI.29.MAR.2002.144314.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Katerina P. King wrote:

> That is Czech, although I have to say I have no idea what "pundi" is.
> Are you sure that's right????

A private correspondent has suggested "pu'dni'," using "u'" for u with
krouzhek.

> The diacritics are as follows:
> > G. Boha'c^. "Pundi' z^ivoc^ichove' jako bioindika'tory
> > antrapogenni'ch zme^n prostr^edi'." Z^ivot. Prostr^ed., 1989...

Cool! Now what's it mean?

TIA

--
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--
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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Fri Mar 29 19:45:28 2002
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:45:28 -0500
Subject: SC?, maybe Cz > En bibliography -- URGENT
Message-ID: <FRI.29.MAR.2002.144528.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Wayles Browne wrote:

> And the translation is "[word illegible] of animals as biological
> indicators of anthropogenic [man-made] changes in the
> environment."

Does it help to assume "pu'dni'," using apostrophe for length marks,
including krouzhek?

Thanks.

And does "Z^ivotne' prostr^edi'" mean "Fauna"?

--
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From simmonsc at BC.EDU  Fri Mar 29 22:55:07 2002
From: simmonsc at BC.EDU (Cynthia Simmons)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:55:07 -0500
Subject: Job announcement
Message-ID: <FRI.29.MAR.2002.175507.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

The Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages of Boston College welcomes
applications for a one-year replacement position in Russian literature and
language beginning fall 2002.  The teaching responsibilities include 19th-
and 20th-century literature and advanced language.  Requirements: Ph.D. or
ABD in
Russian or Comparative literature, native command of Russian, and ability
to teach undergraduate courses in English and graduate courses in Russian.
Please
send cover letter, CV, and 3 letters of reference to Professor Cynthia
Simmons, Chair, Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages, Boston College,
Lyons Hall 210, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.

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From kpking at MTHOLYOKE.EDU  Fri Mar 29 20:01:14 2002
From: kpking at MTHOLYOKE.EDU (Katerina P. King)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:01:14 -0500
Subject: SC?, maybe Cz > En bibliography -- URGENT
Message-ID: <FRI.29.MAR.2002.150114.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Yes pu*dni (with a krouz^ek) makes sense. Pu*da would be "earth, soil," so
some kind of creatures that live in the soil? Sorry, I am not biologist
(which I regret). Z^ivotni' prostr^edi' is "environment" (in a biological,
ecological sense).
All the best,
Katya


"Paul B. Gallagher" wrote:
>
> Katerina P. King wrote:
>
> > That is Czech, although I have to say I have no idea what "pundi" is.
> > Are you sure that's right????
>
> A private correspondent has suggested "pu'dni'," using "u'" for u with
> krouzhek.
>
> > The diacritics are as follows:
> > > G. Boha'c^. "Pundi' z^ivoc^ichove' jako bioindika'tory
> > > antrapogenni'ch zme^n prostr^edi'." Z^ivot. Prostr^ed., 1989...
>
> Cool! Now what's it mean?
>
> TIA
>
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From crosswhi at LING.ROCHESTER.EDU  Fri Mar 29 21:46:09 2002
From: crosswhi at LING.ROCHESTER.EDU (Katherine Crosswhite)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:46:09 -0500
Subject: SC?, maybe Cz > En bibliography -- URGENT
Message-ID: <FRI.29.MAR.2002.164609.0500.>

I was thining that "pudni" might be translated as "terrestrial" in this
case, but then I did a web search on "pudni" and found "pudni bakterie"
and "pudni biologie" as two common combinations, translated as "soil
bacteria" and "soil biology".  So I would suggest "soil organisms" as a
translation for "pudni zivocichove".

-K.

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From simmonsc at BC.EDU  Sat Mar 30 18:35:35 2002
From: simmonsc at BC.EDU (Cynthia Simmons)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:35:35 -0500
Subject: From Requiem to Renewal
Message-ID: <SAT.30.MAR.2002.133535.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

FROM REQUIEM TO RENEWAL: A DECADE OF BALKAN CONFLICT
A Series of Programs to Commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the Siege of
Sarajevo and the Wars in the Former Yugoslavia

April 3-7, 2002
Sponsored by Friends of Bosnia, the International Institute of Boston,
Boston College, the Global Citizens Circle, Physicians for Human Rights

__________________________________________________________
Wednesday, April 3
Sonatas of War and Peace
by Sarajevo-born composer Vuk Kulenovic

Musicians: Cynthia Forbes, cello; Todd Brunel, clarinet; Biliana Voutchkova,
violin; Synthia Sture, Piano

7:30 p.m., St. Ignatius Church, 28 Commonwealth Ave.,
Boston College (Across from the Boston College Green Line T stop)

³[Kulenovic] is one of the most important and interesting composers working
in the area‹or anywhere‹today.²
            Richard Dyer, Boston Globe

Tickets:
Advance: $15 regular/$10 students
At door: $18 regular/$12 students
$50 for ³Composer¹s Seats² (front two rows)

Tickets available at:
€ 1-800-THE TICK;
€ Boston College at the McElroy Commons Box Office or Dept. of Slavic and
Eastern Languages, Lyons 210; or
€ Dreams of Freedom Box Office, One Milk Street, Boston;
€ Tickets also available at the door but seating is limited.

This event is a fundraiser for Friends of Bosnia¹s reconstruction work in
the former Yugoslavia.


__________________________________________________________
Thursday, April 4
Requiem or Renewal‹A Decade of Balkan Conflict
Old  South Meeting House
310 Washington Street, Boston
6:30 p.m. ­ 8:30 p.m.
Admission is free

Mirza Kusljugic: Bosnian Herzegovina Ambassador to the United Nations,
former Dean, Electrical Engineering Faculty, University of Tuzla

John Shattuck: Former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human
Rights, and Labor; currently CEO of Kennedy Library Foundation

Edita Tahiri: Negotiator for Kosovo at Rambouillet, former Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Kovovo, and former member of Presidency, LDK

Moderated by Stephen Walker, former State Department official who resigned
over US Balkan policy in 1993 and former Director of the American Committee
to Save Bosnia and the Balkan Institute

Since hosting the Boston Tea Party in 1773, Old South Meeting House has been
a vital center for diverse intellectual and cultural thought in the city of
Boston.


__________________________________________________________
Friday, April 5
Writing the Siege of Sarajevo: Poetry and Prose on the Bosnian War and Its
Aftermath
7:00 p.m. ­ 9:00 p.m.
Devlin Hall 101, Boston College

Muharem Bazdulj, Sarajevo, author of One Like a Song

Christopher Merrill, Director, International Writing Program, The University
of Iowa,  author of Only the Nails Remain

Dubravka Ugresic, Amsterdam, author of The Culture of Lies

Fahrudin Zilkic

Admission is free


__________________________________________________________
Saturday, April 6
War Crimes, Forensic Science, & International Justice
2:00 p.m. ­ 4:00 p.m.
Cushing Hall 001, Boston College
Admission is free

Samantha Power: Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights
Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Author of
Problem from Hell

Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative
Law at Harvard Law School


__________________________________________________________
Party to Celebrate the Future of the Balkans
Saturday, April 6
9:30 p.m. until closing
Sabur Restaurant, 212 Holland St. Somerville, MA
Hors d¹oeurves, music and cash bar


__________________________________________________________
Exhibits

€ Paintings by Deryk Houston from Echoes from the Square A book by Elizabeth
Wellburn about Vedran Smailovic, the Cellist of Sarajevo
April 4- April 22
Dreams of Freedom
International Institute of Boston
One Milk Street, Boston, MA
Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m., daily.
Free with museum admission

€ Sarajevo War Posters
Posters made by artists and designers in Sarajevo during the first two years
of the siege
March 25 ­ April 8
Academic Development Center
O¹Neill Library, 2nd Fl, Boston College
Hours: Mon.­Thurs., 9-9; Friday., 9­5;  Sunday, 12­9; Saturday, closed.

€ Selections from Zones of Separation: The Struggle for a Multi-ethnic
Bosnia and Reconstructing Kosovo
Two documentary photography exhibits produced by Friends of Bosnia. Photos
by Glenn Ruga and Frank Ward, text by Barbara Ayotte
March 25­April 8
Social Work Library, McGuinn Hall, Boston College
Hours: Mon.­Thurs., 8 a.m. ­ 10 p.m.; Fri., 8­5; Sat., 9­5; Sun., noon­10.

__________________________________________________________
Film Festival
All films at Dreams of Freedom, International Institute of Boston,
One Milk Street, Boston
Admission: Donation requested

All films in VHS video format

Saturday, April 6
6:15 p.m.: Bosna! (90 min)
8:00 p.m.: Calling the Ghosts, a Story of Rape, Women & War (63 min),
Postcards from Peja (15 min)

Sunday, April 7
2:00 p.m.: Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (115 min.)
4:30 p.m.: Before the Rain (112 min.)
7:00 p.m.: Shot Through the Heart (115 min.)

__________________________________________________________
For more information, contact:
Friends of Bosnia
617-424-6906
www.friendsofbosnia.org

International Institute of Boston
617-695-9990, www.iiboston.org

Physicians for Human Rights
617-695-0041, www.phrusa.org

Dreams of Freedom
617-338-6022  x 187
www.dreamsoffreedom.org

For complete program details, directions, and up-to-date information, please
visit:
http://www.friendsofbosnia.org/requiem



________________________________________

Friends of Bosnia
85 Worcester St., #1
Boston, MA 02118
Tel: 617-424-6906
Fax: 617-424-6752
info at friendsofbosnia.org
www.friendsofbosnia.org
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From gpgandolfo at IOL.IT  Sat Mar 30 18:35:08 2002
From: gpgandolfo at IOL.IT (GP Gandolfo)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 19:35:08 +0100
Subject: Slavic and East European Journal
Message-ID: <SAT.30.MAR.2002.193508.0100.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Can the editors of SEEJ tell me when the forthcoming issue is expected out
and what its table of contents will be?
                                                Thank you
                                                        Giampaolo Gandolfo

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From paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM  Sat Mar 30 19:24:54 2002
From: paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM (Paul B. Gallagher)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 14:24:54 -0500
Subject: SC?, maybe Cz > En bibliography -- URGENT: THANKS
Message-ID: <SAT.30.MAR.2002.142454.0500.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Thanks to all who helped: Simon Krysl (who wrote privately), Katerina P.
King, Wayles Browne.

The job has been shipped.

The above message was originally sent promptly yesterday, but rejected
by the server -- I exceeded my daily limit of three messages. To quote
John Belushi, "Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!" :-)

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From murphydt at SLU.EDU  Sun Mar 31 02:32:44 2002
From: murphydt at SLU.EDU (David T. Murphy)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:32:44 -0600
Subject: Culture Course
In-Reply-To: <LPBBLABEFAIPBKGCJMLEOEKGCFAA.laurengl@ptwi.net>
Message-ID: <SAT.30.MAR.2002.203244.0600.SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>

Dear Prof. Leighton,

        I was happy to learn of the near release of your CD-Rom course on
modern Russian culture and look forward to securing a copy when it is
available.
        I was embarassed to be reminded by that email (indirectly, of
course) that I had neglected to thank you for having sent me the outline of
your culture course by snail mail. The material arrived in good order and I
thank you for it.
        Sincerely,
        David Murphy

>The recent queries re materials available for Russian culture courses prompt
>me to report that Lexicon Bridge will soon publish my CD ROM course of
>lectures on modern Russian culture. The course comprises five sets of
>lectures alternating between high and low culture (byt). Each set has 7-10
>lectures. Each lecture has ca. 30 images with captions and notes. There are
>appendices on subjects from Russo-Byzantine Culture to Glasnost, a
>bibliography, biographies of artists, architects, and rulers, glossary of
>terms (Russian equivalents), etc. Each appendix and its entries can be read
>separately from the lectures; specific entries can be accessed by clicking a
>marked word, term, title, name of subject within notes. The course will be
>available before the start of the fall term. Other CD-ROMs and videotapes on
>Russian language and culture are available at http://lexiconbridge.com now.
>
>Lauren G. Leighton
>12 Oak Grove Drive
>Madison WI 53717
>608 836-6947
>laurengl at ptwi.net
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From murphydt at SLU.EDU  Sun Mar 31 02:55:49 2002
From: murphydt at SLU.EDU (David T. Murphy)
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:55:49 -0600
Subject: Apologies
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Dear Colleagues,
        I just realized that I sent off my note to Prof. Leighton in haste,
resulting in its having gone to all of you. I'll be more careful next time.
        Regrets, DTM

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