wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yes, the State of Texas offers residents a library card for university libraries but at a cost of something like $60. 020
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This display--which is wonderful--should include Friedrich Torberg's novella _Vengeance Is Mine_. 032
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Me, too. Was at the University of Texas, Austin, in the Russian Dept. and on the staff of _Slavic Review_ in the 80s, many Jewish émigrés. Wonder how they see things here, now. 000
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Please consider using "woman" instead of "lady" 011
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Else Jerusalem's _Red House Alley_ , original German 1908, translated in full, Recovered Books with Boiler House Press, 2024. 110
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Please add this to your list: Else Jerusalem's 1908 _Red House Alley_, a social critique of prostitution in the form of a bildungsroman. I translated it with Recovered Books, U. of East Anglia Press, Stephanie Gorrell Ortega 110
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 27/07/2026And a great translator from German to English! 110
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Your posts always affect me, and your research humbles me 010
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Am always taken by your posts and awed by your research 110
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Just a suggestion: use active rather than passive voice and indicative rather than subjunctive (hypothetical) mood, e.g., "where Nazis likely murdered her on arrival." 000
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 25/06/2026What about Bertha van Hoosen? Just found a note in my great-grandmother's diary they had been friends. 000
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Very thankful for your work and posts, also for letting me know about the Winton Transport. 120
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 16/06/2026My kid made up a word for their scolding, "chibber." 110
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Thank you for your good words! Many thanks for spotting the parallel with Segher's novel. Steffi, the translator 020
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Thank you for posting your positive response to Vengeance is Mine. I translated it. I very much liked your comparison to Segher's Seventh Cross. Though those two authors were politically diametrically opposed, they shared a specific generational use of language, and you spotted that: thank you. 110
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Must have been a wonderful class! After years of amassing teaching materials, I began lighting an end-of-the-semester fire in the chiminea. The syllabi were in my computer files with the roster of students'names. 110
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Loved this post about books about riding trains, esp. Mayröcker's work. Rilke found the "train experience" sublime because one can be one's self with others in the knowledge he will never again have to see these people. 020
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Once again I learn from you. Yad Vashem skips over the traumatic events you document. Gonna look into interlibrary loan. 010
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Friends in Europe are ordering it today on Tolino. 020
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 29/03/2026We had signs: Who would Jesus bomb? 010
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Then there was last year's much applauded film _ Anora_. 000
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Some Black dancers and other White dancers--and one in blackface. Weird. 030
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 21/03/2026IknowIknowIknow. Likely I will meet A. Eibl and his sister this summer and bring up the topic. Hope dies hard. 010
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Am still out here, willing to translate. 110
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Hope you had a great presentation and a good time! Nice to see the window display--which includes RHA 🙂 010
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Gonna check out Eric Sutton's translation. My memory is A. Zweig's German was not clunky. 010
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 19/01/2026What would you say of Holingdale's translation? Fontane's prose is lyrical, very unlike the philosophical works he was known for translating; a wholly different kind of work. 110
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 17/01/2026and she landed in prostitution, that's what struck me 110
wonkwonk5656.bsky.social @wonkwonk5656.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Friedrich Torberg tried to destroy her once she was back in Vienna. She could write. 110
