#mendl

[pedroam-bang]

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

[mioritic]

Yiddish writers, Warsaw, 1922

From left to right, with short biographies:

Esther (Esye) Elkin (?–?) was the wife of Mendl Elkin.

Mendl Elkin (1874–1962) was born to a family of Jewish farmers in Belarus. Though working as a dentist for six years, he was more interested in arts and culture, and would spend his spare time writing for socialist newspapers and acting in an amateur Russian-Yiddish theatre group. He spent the 1910s–1920s between Bobruisk and Siberia before moving to Vilna and founding a theatre group, as well as editing literary journals and writing poetry. He would later move to New York, where he served as Chief Librarian for YIVO.

Peretz Hirschbein (1880–1948) was born near Grodno; his father operated a water mill. He studied at a yeshiva before becoming a Hebrew teacher. In his 20s he began to write poetry and plays in both Hebrew and Yiddish, and would soon move to Odessa to stage his plays. After his theatre troupe disbanded in 1910, he spent the remainder of his life travelling, finally moving with his wife Esther Shumiatcher to Los Angeles.

Uri Zvi Grinberg (1896–1981) was a Yiddish writer before moving into Hebrew. Born into a Hasidic family in what is today Ukraine, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army. Radicalized by the November 1918 pogrom in Lwów, he spent the interwar period between Palestine and Europe. He co-founded the self-proclaimed fascist group Brit HaBirionim and later served as a Member of Knesset for Herut. He was awarded the Bialik Prize three times, as well as the Israel Prize for his contributions to literature.

Khane Kacyzne (?–?) was the wife of Alter Kacyzne. Together they had a daughter, Shulamith, who survived the Holocaust by hiding as a non-Jew. Khane was murdered at Bełżec.

Alter Kacyzne (1885–1941) was a prolific photographer and writer, born to a bricklayer and a seamstress in Vilna. He took up photography early, at age 14, by which point he had also taught himself Hebrew, Polish, German, Russian, and French (alongside his native Yiddish) and had begun to write poetry. Through the interwar period he worked as a photojournalist, travelling extensively, as well as serving as editor for several literary magazines and writing for communist newspapers. He was beaten to death by Ukrainian fascists in 1941, and his wife Khane was murdered at Bełżec extermination camp.

Esther Shumiatcher (1896–1985) was born in Grodno, though her family emigrated to Alberta, Canada in 1911. Interested in poetry and screenwriting, she worked several jobs to make money: as a waitress, in a meat-packing plant, and helping her family run a boarding house out of their home. In the 1920s she went to Warsaw and worked extensively as a poet; her poem "Albatros" gave its name to a modernist Yiddish journal. She was married to Peretz Hirschbein, whom she met while he was taken ill in Calgary and nursed back to health in her family's home. After her husband's death in 1948, she moved to New York.

From the YIVO Archives.

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue July 1959

Nena von Schlebrügge wears a beige Creslan and cotton coat lined with pink floral cotton. By March & Mendl in Sea Island fabric. Kislav gloves. Sunglasses at Belz.

Nena von Schlebrügge porte un manteau de Creslan et coton beige doublé de coton à fleurs roses. Par March & Mendl en tissu Sea Island. Gants Kislav. Lunettes de soleil chez Belz.

Photo Tom Palumbo vogue archive

[newtsoftheworldunite]

For the ask game: either "the clay altar" or "so golden a sacrifice," inspired by Miles's and Aral's exchange in the Warrior's Apprentice

Okay so I have a beloved plotbunny Barrayaran AU where Barrayar is settled by Hasidic Jews and the Vor are rabbinical dynasties and the council of counts is their new Great Sanhedrin. And I think “altar of clay” would be an amazing title for a fic about Mendl Naismith bar Kosiba, because an altar should be stone, right? But he’s not unbreakable stone. He shatters and has to be patched and reforged over and over. And like a clay golem, he just keeps on going past all Reason. Which is both a blessing and a curse.

[thermoskind]

my sister got me such a fun early birthday present this weekend! she took me to an event the theatre she works puts on called sensory cinema. basically they pick a movie to screen and have a catering company put together a several course meal inspired mostly by the food shown in the movie. the courses are brought to your seat as they become relevant in the movie. the portions are small, but there's enough of them that by the end you've eaten a full meal.

their showing this month was grand budapest hotel, and this was the menu:

everything was delicious and i had a great time!

[crossingkeys]

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[theeternalart]

I made a postcard of one of my favorite movies :)

https://www.instagram.com/__theeternalart

[rosenecklaces]

Gonna be real with you all, is better when rhysand is allowed to suck and being a piece of shit than thinking of ways to give reason to his very big authority problems

[cenestpasaudrey]

[erzabrianto]

MENDL’S

[emmastory]

one thing about me is that I fucking love afternoon tea. this time the tea enjoyers went to lady mendl's, which I had previously been to after dark but never in daylight!

[andromerot]

friend showed me falsettos on july and now every two weeks i have to remember about it and listen to like what would i do or unlikely lovers or something with my head in my hands and then im normal again

[princemick]

Oh I got a cowboy ghost tattoo to fill the space little ghost with cow prints and cowboy hat

OH!!!! CUTE!! ive got like a mostly empty upper arm n the theme of the arm is movies so I've just got a few movies I still wanna get n theyre all hard to figure out a design for

[the-first-man-is-a-cat]

Marianne Mendl, 1920s

Murder

[vampirecatprince]

How the hell did I cut myself with drywall and spackle?

[ribbitrrrbitxhs]

I’m gonna cry I’m so happy

Five courses of afternoon tea with some of the most wonderful people I know!