Scholar Librarians was the main topic of the semi-annual study day sponsored by the Judaica Librarians' Group (Israel). The event, held in the Media Library at the Mt. Scopus Campus of the Hebrew University, was attended by fifty librarians and others interested in the day's topics.
Rabbi Avishai Elboim, Director of the Rambam Library, the Torah library of the Tel Aviv Public Library System and coeditor of the Group's Alon, discussed Rabbi Reuben Margoliot, first Director of the Rambam Library. Rabbi Margoliot spent his days running the library and after hours engaged in traditional Jewish learning and published works in almost every field of Jewish studies. Dr. Zvi Leshem, Director of the Gershon Scholem Collection at the National Library of Israel, presented material about Prof. Scholem who was a librarian at what was then called the Jewish National and University Library as well as a world world renown scholar of Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism. Among his accomplishments as a librarian was the development of a classification system for Judaica based upon the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Prof. Rabbi Neria Gutel of the Orot Israel College concentrated on the writings of Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Rabbi Berlin served at the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, head of the Rabbinical Court in Volozhin and moved to Israel in 1906 where he was chosen Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem. Though he wrote on important works on many subjects his writings have not been given the attention they deserve being overshadowed by the works of his Father the famous Netziv, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, head of the Volozhin Yeshiva. 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
