[ha-Safran] Elie Wiesel z"l

2016-07-04 Thread Israel Cohen 
​Forwarded by Izzy Cohen

​
From: Kalman 
Date: July 4, 2016
To: George Rosenwald 
Subject: Elie

Dear George,

Elie Wiesel wrote a blurb for my late mother's autobiography *Russian
Nightmares, American Dreams
*
published by  Solomon Press. I remember my meetings with him warmly. I was
on sabbatical at Harvard in 1977-78 and I came into his office at Boston
University to show him two manuscripts and ask his advice and help in
getting them published: my living mother's (above) and my late father's
unfinished translation of a beautiful novel from the Dutch
*​​Jesus and Menachem
*
by Siegfried van Praag,  placing Yeshua in the Jewish context of his day.
Wiesel warmly took the two manuscripts and asked me to come back in two
weeks.
I will never forget his words when I returned:
He greeted me with one of the warmest smiles I had ever encountered and
asked me to sit down. He reached out and put his hand on my shoulder and
said gently: " Take care of mama, Jesus can wait."
I wound up taking care of both. Dave Gutmann interviewed my mom on
videotape filmed by my friend, film- maker Shuli Eshel. And I met
​​
Herman van Praag who was Chair of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein, who was
Siegfried's uncle  and was able to get
​ the​
translation finished and got it published in 2012.
I kept in touch with Elie through the years and my mother met him too on
several occasions. He was a wonderful man.
Feel free to circulate this story.
Kal

On Jul 2, 2016, at 5:13 PM, George Rosenwald  wrote:
​​ 
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/02/world/elie-wiesel-dies/index.html

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​You can see Dr. Kalman Kaplan's CV and bio at
http://www.psych.uic.edu/154-about-us/directory/faculty/184-kalman-j-kaplan-ph-d
http://www.spertus.edu/people/faculty/kalman-kaplan
I edited Dr. Kaplan's play, *Oedipus in Jerusalem*, which was recently
published by Wipf and Stock.
*http://www.freelists.org/post/etni/Oedipus-in-Jerusalem-a-play-by-Dr-Kalman-J-Kaplan
*

Israel A Cohen
cohen.izzy strudel gmail.com
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Re: [ha-Safran] Guide to Hebrew cataloguing

2016-07-04 Thread Freedman, Vanessa 
Someone pointed out a couple of typos in this, so a corrected version is now 
available at http://www.historiclibrariesforum.org.uk/hlf/publications.html

Vanessa Freedman
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Subject: Guide to Hebrew cataloguing

With apologies for cross-posting

My guide to Hebrew cataloguing for those without knowledge of Hebrew is now 
available on the Historic Libraries Forum website 
http://www.historiclibrariesforum.org.uk/hlf/publications.html Thanks to all 
those who made helpful comments on the draft.

Best wishes

Vanessa

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[ha-Safran] Job posting - Long Island, NY

2016-07-04 Thread Joyce Levine 
Central Synagogue in Rockville Centre, NY seeks a librarian/educator. Job 
description is attached.
For more information contact Dorothy Feit, Library Committee Chair, 
dotf...@optonline.net



  

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[ha-Safran] Massorot Vol. 18

2016-07-04 Thread Celestina Levant 
Hello,
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Edited by: Ofra 
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We are pleased to present the readers with volume 18 of Massorot, published 
through the cooperation of the Center for Jewish Languages and Literatures and 
the Jewish Oral Traditions Research Center of the Hebrew University of 
Jerusalem. The present volume contains nine articles and a review (with 
additional notes) of an unpublished Hebrew–Yiddish dictionary.
  The contributions include work by established authorities in the field of 
Jewish language research, as well as the fruit of younger researchers who have 
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  In his article, Moshe Bar-Asher analyzes the Romance component in the 
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century.
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  Hanoch Gamliel argues in his article that some of the lĕ‘azim (or Old 
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