Greetings - I am presenting a class for one of my professors - and would like to know if you have any recommendations for a good journal article (in English) on the history of Jewish Libraries, publishers, or anything in regard to shortage of books/problems in the early days of Jewish immigration to the states. I am not going into a lot of depth on different types of libraries - but will discuss them - as well as Judaica collections in the public domain.
The students I will be working with are not Jewish - they are graduate students pursuing the MLIS . I am presenting a little background - to have a perspective on the meaning of learning, language, and customs - but don't want to overwhelm them. Haim (our Haim on this list ;=) was kind enough to make some suggestions in that area a while back! The class is 3 hours (but I get an hour and one half). I'd like something scholarly - and have several things I want to give them - in particular the Forward article on the end of JPS - I was also thinking about an article on the burning of the Talmud in Paris - first - few non-Jews know about this sort of thing - and second - it quickly impresses people about the importance of books to us - and the fact that our culture survived despite such destruction. We will touch on the destruction in the Holocaust - but the focus is not destruction- it is the library in the eyes of our people. The title of the class is "multicultural and ethnic libraries" - the professor who teaches it approaches it from a critical theory perspective - I am more of an historian and analytical type. The students should find the difference rather interesting ;=) Many thanks! Nancy --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
