[ha-Safran] Blessed Hands: Stories by Frume Halpern

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub via Hasafran]

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I'm pleased to announce the upcoming publication of* Blessed Hands: Stories*,
my translation into English of the Yiddish-language *Gebenshte hent:
dertseylungen* by Frume Halpern. The book can be pre-ordered at a 20%
discount ($20 instead of $25) until October 16, 2023 from the Frayed Edge
Press 
 website. The
discount is only for direct orders from the publisher. However, the book is
also available (without the pre-order discount) from many booksellers,
including Bookshop.org

and
Amazon. The book's official publication date is October 17, 2023.

Thank you, all, for your interest and support.

All my best,
Yermiyahu Ahron

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Halpern, Frume. *Blessed Hands: Stories*. Translated from the Yiddish by
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub;  foreword by Isaac Elchanan Ranch; afterword by
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub. Philadelphia: Frayed Edge Press, 2023. ISBN
9781642510492 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781642510515 (ebook)



   *Advance Praise for Blessed Hands: Stories*



Left-wing writers like Frume Halpern constituted an important part of
American Yiddish literature in the 20th century. But until recently, many
have been absent from the English-language library. Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
has helped to correct this lacuna, offering lucid translations that capture
the spirit and idiom of Halpern's aesthetics and social consciousness. From
an unlikely friendship between Jewish and Black women to a synagogue whose
elderly congregants are slowly dying, Halpern's moving soliloquies describe
everyday struggles with economic, racial, and gender disparities in
mid-century America.



--Amelia M. Glaser, author of *Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry
of Struggle From Scottsboro to Palestine*





On both sides of the Atlantic, Frume Halpern's healers and disrupters,
dreamy butchers and ambitious spinsters, aging newspaper vendors and
untutored mothers, comrades and believers—all strain to make sense of their
lives within the contradictory values and challenges of the 20th century.
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub's sensitive translations and detailed analysis
highlight Halpern's artistic commitment to make visible a seemingly
infinite number of protagonists whose struggles are marginalized and
unnoticed. With *Blessed Hands, *Taub has further expanded and enriched the
burgeoning body of Yiddish literature in English translation.



—Irena Klepfisz, author of *Her Birth and Later Years: New and Collected
Poems, 1971-2021*



Frume Halpern’s stories illuminate the lives of those who give too much of
themselves in order to survive—like the mother who sells her own breast
milk to the wealthy while her own baby cries in hunger. I was moved again
and again by characters like the elderly couple who did not mingle with
neighbors and instead “took refuge in their own slice of poverty.” This
vibrant, deeply soulful translation by the distinguished writer and
translator Yermiyahu Ahron Taub—who writes that he feels Halpern’ s writing
“in his skin”—honors Halpern’s precision, humanity, and vision, and brings
all of it to life.

—Aviya Kushner, author of *The Grammar of God* and *Wolf Lamb Bomb*



Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s translation of Frume Halpern’s *Blessed Hands *at
last brings to readers this extraordinary author’s complete collection of
short stories. Halpern’s radical compassion, her powerful commitment to
those whose social position, or physical limitations, leaves them outcast
from the promised land of America makes for compelling, unforgettable
fiction. Taub’s nuanced translation brings Halpern’s stunning and moving
words fully to light; his extensive afterword helps contextualize Halpern’s
remarkable accomplishment.



 —Rhea Tregebov, author of *Rue des Rosier*
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[ha-Safran] Dineh: an Autobiographical Novel by Ida Maze

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub via Hasafran]

Dear All,

I'm delighted to let you know that *Dineh: an Autobiographical Novel, *my
translation into English of Ida Maze's Yiddish-language *Dineh:
oytobiografishe dertseylung*, has just been published by White Goat Press
of the Yiddish Book Center. There are many people to thank for helping this
work come out into the world, and my acknowledgments in the book are
extensive. Please know that I am grateful to you all. Here, I would like to
thank Ida Maze's son, Professor Irving Massey, for his support of this
project and longtime advocacy on behalf of his mother's work, and Lisa
Newman and the White Goat Press team for all of their creativity, hard
work, and vision.

A citation, brief synopsis of and advance praise for the book are below.
The book is available for purchase from the Yiddish Book Center store
,
Indiebound 
, and other
booksellers. An ebook version is in production and it usually takes a few
weeks for it to become available on platforms.

Many thanks in advance for your interest and support.

Regards,
Yermiyahu Ahron


Maze, Ida. *Dineh: an Autobiographical Novel*. Translated from the Yiddish
and with an afterword by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub. Introduction by Emma Garman.
Amherst, Massachusetts: White Goat Press, 2022. 289 pages. Paperback
edition ISBN: 978-1-734872-9-2; Hardcover edition ISBN:
978-8-9852069-0-6; Ebook
edition ISBN: 978-8-9852069-1-3.


*Synopsis*

*Dineh *is a pastorale laced with beauty and sorrow and a bildungsroman
told from the point of view of a young girl. Maze’s heroine, in what is now
Belarus, is fueled by her hunger for learning, connection to family and
community, and love of the natural world. Maze interweaves Dineh’s story
with portraits of others as she unflinchingly examines the lives of women,
class stratification, thwarted romance, violence, and the perils of
childbirth. Propelling the novel forward are the tightening noose of
tsarist anti-Semitism, the increasing restrictions on Jewish economic
survival, and the rising tide of revolutionary movements. Taken as a whole,
*Dineh *provides a haunting portrait of rural and village Jewish life in
White Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.


*Advance Praise for Dineh: an Autobiographical Novel*

“Maze’s posthumous novel presents the beauty, poverty, and tragedy of
Belarus during the First Russian Revolution as seen through the eyes of a
young Jewish girl… A tragic, lovely, and important Yiddish novel in
translation.”
—*Kirkus Reviews*

Ida Maze’s autobiographical novel *Dineh*, beautifully translated by
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, is a deeply sensory reading experience. The
reader encounters the life of village Jews in tsarist Russia through the
eye of a sensitive young girl, attuned to the seasonal and emotional
changes in her natural and social landscape. Through Dineh’s perspective,
we see the incursion of anti-Jewish policies and new political winds, but
also the joys, drudgery, and tragedies of her relatives, neighbors, and
acquaintances. It is a bit like reading Sholem Aleichem’s *Tevye* stories
from the viewpoint of the youngest daughter. Looking back on her own youth,
Maze imbues her character with both the generosity and self-absorption of a
child. Dineh’s enthusiasm for study, for human interaction, and for the
wonders of nature make for an engaging and poignant view of  Jewish life in
Eastern Europe in an era of change.

—Eliyana Adler, author of *In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in
Tsarist Russia*

In *Dineh* Ida Maze re-created the world of her Jewish childhood in a White
Russian village, a world at once cruel and exalted, a world that no longer
existed by the time she memorialized it in vivid, sensuous Yiddish prose.
Maze’s act of retrieval is matched by that of her translator, Yermiyahu
Ahron Taub, who brings this world to life again in English with great
poetic sensitivity and illuminates Maze’s contributions to Yiddish
literature in a fascinating afterword … This novel should take a prominent
place in the expanding canon of Yiddish women writers brought out of
entirely undeserved obscurity.

—Ross Benjamin, translator of *Franz Kafka’s Diaries*



This fictionalized autobiography by the important Yiddish writer Ida Maze
lovingly describes the world she inhabited in her childhood and early
adolescence … This finely written, sensitively translated, and moving book
is about loving, leaving, and grieving a world left behind—a complex,
beautiful world that is no more.

—Nora Gold, editor of *Jewish Fiction .net*
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[ha-Safran] Please Save the Date for an AJL/CAC Program: Sunday, October 10, 2021

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub via Hasafran]

Dear All,

Please save the date for a special program with Dr. Erica Brown on
*Sunday, October
10, 2021 at 11:00 AM ET* on Zoom. Dr. Brown will be speaking about her
recent book, *Esther: Power, Fate, and Fragility in Exile*. The program is
sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries/Capital Area Chapter
(AJL/CAC) with the support of AJL National and is free and open to all.
Advance registration is required. More information about the program,
including registration, and our distinguished speaker is below.

Special thanks to Dr. Erica Brown, Jackie Ben-Efraim, Michelle Chesner,
Nahid Gerstein, Rebecca Levitan, and Gail Shirazi!

We look forward to seeing you there!

All my best,
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
AJL/CAC President

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Title of Program: Esther and the Threshold Moment:  A Study of Art and Text

Speaker: Dr. Erica Brown

Where: on Zoom

When: Sunday, October 10, 2021, 11:00 AM Eastern Time

Time: Oct 10, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Registration Information:

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Oct 10, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the meeting.


Speaker Bio:

Dr. Erica Brown is the director of the Mayberg Center for Jewish Education
and
Leadership and an associate professor of curriculum and pedagogy at The
George Washington University. Erica has a daily podcast, “Take Your Soul to
Work” and is the author of twelve books on leadership, the Hebrew Bible and
spirituality. Her latest book Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile
(Maggid) was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Council award. She has
been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, First Things,
and The Jewish Review of Books and wrote a monthly column for the New York
Jewish Week. She has blogged for Psychology Today, Newsweek/Washington
Post’s “On Faith” and JTA and tweeted on one page of Talmud study a day at
DrEricaBrown. Erica was a Jerusalem Fellow, is a faculty member of the
Wexner Foundation, an Avi Chai Fellow and the recipient of the 2009
Covenant Award for her work in education. Erica enjoys conducting
interviews and moderating panels to get to know writers, thinkers and
opinion makers and has been called the “Terry Gross of the Jewish world.”
She has interviewed former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, David
Brooks, Jeffrey Goldberg, David Gregory, Moshe Halbertal, Shai Held, Leon
Wieseltier, Yehuda Mersky, Ruth Messinger, Sarah Hurwitz, David Makovsky,
Dennis Ross, Deborah Lipstadt and others. Erica has degrees from Yeshiva
University, University of London, Harvard University and Baltimore Hebrew
University. She previously served as the scholar-in-residence at both The
Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and the Combined Jewish
Philanthropies of Boston and as the community scholar for the Jewish Center
of New York. She currently serves as a community scholar for Congregation
Etz Chaim in Livingston, NJ. Erica is also the author of Jonah: The
Reluctant Prophet, Take Your Soul to Work: 365 Meditations on Everyday
Leadership and Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death (Simon and
Schuster), which won both the Wilbur and Nautilus awards for spiritual
writing. Her previous books include Inspired Jewish Leadership, a National
Jewish Book Award finalist, Spiritual Boredom, Confronting Scandal and
co-authored The Case for Jewish Peoplehood (All Jewish Lights). She also
wrote Seder Talk: A Conversational Haggada, Leadership in the Wilderness,
In the Narrow Places and Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe (All
OU/Koren).
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[ha-Safran] Sad News

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub via Hasafran]

Dear All,

Please see below the notice of the passing of the longtime Librarian at
Congregation Har Shalom (Potomac, Md.) and  AJL/CAC member, Carol Blum
Witt. May her memory be for a blessing.

Thank you to Michlean Amir for bringing this to our attention.

All my best,
Yermiyahu Ahron



*CAROL BLUM WITT*
On Saturday, May 15, 2021, CAROL BLUM WITT of Rockville, MD, passed away
peacefully. Beloved wife for 53 years of the late Bernard Isidore Witt.
Cherished daughter of the late Abram Benjamin and Minna Leventhal Blum.
Devoted mother of Linda Witt, Janice (Jack) Merritt and Marcia Witt. Proud
grandmother of Maxwell (Shira) Herskovitz, Noah Herskovitz (Lauren), Rachel
Kelly (Gray), Benjamin Herskovitz (Atara), Jason Merritt and Lev
Herskovitz. Loving great-grandmother to seven. Due to the Covid-19
pandemic, funeral services will be held privately. In lieu of flowers,
memorial contributions may be made to JSSA (Jewish Social Service Agency)
Hospice, 
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HOME, 202-541-1001
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[ha-Safran] May God Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub via Hasafran]

Dear Friends,

I am pleased to announce the publication of my translation into English of
three Yiddish-language memoirs (*Di vos zaynen nisht geblibn*/*Those Who
Didn't Survive*, *Di antloyfers*/*The Fugitives*, and *Fun gsise tsum
lebn*/*From
Agony to Life*) by Rachmil Bryks under the collective title, *May God
Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych*. I am honored to have had
the opportunity to work so closely with the texts of this extraordinary
writer and am grateful that this book is now out in the world. There are
many people to thank for helping this project come to life, and my
acknowledgments in the book are extensive. In this email, I would like to
thank the author's daughter, Bella Bryks-Klein, a Yiddishist and a tireless
advocate for her father's work, for her support of my translation project
and for contributing a beautiful afterword to this book; the editors who
published excerpts from the book in their publications; all of those who
responded to my language queries; the staff at Lexington Books; the
scholars whose blurbs are below; and the faculty, staff, and translation
fellows of the Yiddish Book Center for their support of this project. I am
deeply indebted to the YBC for all they do to nurture translators and the
art of Yiddish translation.

Bella and I welcome opportunities to speak about the book at virtual
meetings.

The book is available for purchase in ebook and hardbound print formats
through Rowman & Littlefield as well as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other
booksellers. The cost is $95. That is the price of academic books published
under the Lexington Books imprint. I realize that the cost is steep. The
only way a more affordable paperback version will be released is if there
are enough ebook and hardbound sales. Please also consider asking your
institutional and public library to purchase a copy. Thank you for your
understanding.

For review copies, please email revi...@rowman.com. 

Thank you for your interest and support and for spreading the word.

Please stay well and safe during this difficult time.

All my best,
Yermiyahu Ahron

www.yataub.net



Bryks, Rachmil. Trans. from the Yiddish by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
;  afterwords by Bella Bryks-Klein and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub. *May God
Avenge Their Blood: a Holocaust Memoir Triptych*. Lanham ; Boulder ; New
York ; London: Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.
Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature. ISBN: cloth: 9781793621023;
ebook: 9781793621030.


Advance Praise for *May God Avenge Their Blood*

A searing set of memoirs that illuminates life in a twentieth
century shtetl and the Jewish struggle for survival in wartime Łódź and in
the camps. Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s sensitive translation provides
English-language readers with an opportunity to wander the same
memoryscapes that Yiddish readers of Rachmil Bryks have long inhabited.

–Justin Cammy, Associate Professor of Yiddish and World Literatures, Smith
College

*May God Avenge Their Blood* isn’t the same as other Holocaust memoirs.
Rachmil Bryks describes his experiences in the camps but also offers an
evocative description of the Jewish community destroyed by the Nazis.
Bryks’ warm portrayal of Jewish life in Skarżysko-Kamienna reveals a
society rich in tradition while in the midst of significant change. Tales
of Talmud study stand alongside stories of elopement and entrepreneurship.
Bryks’ depiction of the first weeks of the war, the second and longest
section of this triptych, is unforgettable. Notably, Bryks describes
everyone he encounters – Jews, Poles, Germans, peasants, writers, and
others – with a deep empathy. *May God Avenge Their Blood *is perhaps most
useful for anyone interested in interpersonal relations. Bryks’s stories
often confirm the deep antisemitism among many Poles but they also show
many examples of human kindness. Bryks offers no analysis or final
judgements, simply a description of what happened. Taub’s achievement as a
translator is more than the rendering of a text into a language more of us
understand; it is an offering of a neglected source as a guide to a tragic
past.

–Sean Martin, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Rachmil Bryks was one of the most talented young poets and authors who
survived the Łódź ghetto and concentration camps. Author of poetry and
short stories, Bryks uses his writing to recreate and evoke the beauty,
struggle, humor and tragedy of Jewish life in prewar and wartime Poland.
Describing the numerous members of his extended family and their neighbors,
he paints them realistically and warmly and not uncritically, so that the
reader becomes invested in those hardworking, talkative, pious, humorous
and argumentative Jews, who were virtually all brutally and cruelly
murdered by the Germans and their henchmen. This is a short, but very
worthy, sampling of Bryks's writings that have not been previously
available in English. Highly recommended.

–Robert Moses Shapiro, 

[ha-Safran] Beloved Comrades: a Novel in Stories

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub via Hasafran]

Dear Friends,

I am writing to let you know that my second book of fiction, *Beloved
Comrades: a Novel in Stories,* has been released. In this time of such
suffering and sorrow, I am grateful that this book was able to make its way
into the world. I give thanks to my publisher, the editors who gave some of
the stories in this book their first home, the writers whose
pre-publication blurbs can be found below, and to all of you who have
supported my work and me.

I welcome opportunities to speak about the book at virtual reading
club meetings and other gatherings. Thank you for spreading the word.

Please stay well and safe.

All my best,
Yermiyahu Ahron

www.yataub.net


Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron. *Beloved Comrades: a Novel in Stories*. Quanah,
Texas: Anaphora Literary Press, 2020. 284 pages. ISBN: Softcover:
978-1-68114-523-5; Hardcover: 978-1-68114-524-2 E-book: 978-1-68114-525-9.

Advance Praise for *Beloved Comrades*

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub offers readers the quiet attraction of dedicated
devotion even as it comes at the expense of the self. Self-control and
self-denial are not contemporary values, and yet, in a world where ascetic
life is almost unknown, the characters in Taub’s stories feel new and
important.

—Pearl Abraham, author of *American Taliban* and *The Seventh Beggar*

Like a cherished heirloom quilt enlarged by each generation in turn,
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s novel in stories, *Beloved Comrades*, is greater
than the sum of its parts. There is warmth and wisdom within these pages—a
multigenerational saga of an Orthodox Jewish community that spans much of
the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Taub breathes life into a
remarkable range of characters through pitch-perfect dialogue and places
them in rooms filled with honeyed light and the aroma of fresh baked goods.
“Sit down,” he seems to say. “Have some tea and lemon cake. I have stories
to tell you.”

—Andrew W. M. Beierle, author of *First Person Plural*, shortlisted for the
2007 Lambda Literary Award for men's fiction

In his aptly-titled book, *Beloved Comrades*, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
cultivates a rich tapestry of interlacing stories, tracing threads of
relationship between a small community of Jewish ‘beloveds,’ moving between
scenes and generations. His eloquent, nuanced observances of the essential
moments, quiet changes, and occasional secrets of daily life make the
characters’ ongoing interactions enlivened and vivid. Bringing a generous
attentiveness to each story, sentences like this emerge: *Sometimes
catastrophe only needed a moment to flower—the proverbial tiny chink in an
otherwise flawless armor that led to rust and ruin*. Like the community
Taub describes, *Beloved Comrades* is a book full of warm, embracing
stories woven with heart.

—Elizabeth Heaney, author of award-winning *The Honor Was Mine: A Look
Inside the Struggles of Military Veterans*

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s novel in stories is a tender and complex portrait of
an Orthodox congregation alternately held together and fractured by its
history. What I love about *Beloved Comrades* is how its many perspectives
reveal all of the contradictions of community: the synagogue is at once a
refuge and a prison, and its members both embrace and reject tradition as
they pursue individual desires that complicate communal ones. In the end,
what we see are characters who are defined by their connections even when
they run from them, becoming in the process fully and wholly themselves.
This is a generous and moving book about the role religious life plays for
those whom it sustains, as well as for those whom it drives away.

—Scott Nadelson, author of *The Fourth Corner of the World*

The true weight of this novel-in-stories sneaks up on you. Each individual
story exists in the quotidian, following generations of characters as they
address small wants and struggle with personal faults. But the cumulative
force of their shared lives comes together to show the true beauty of
community, of familial love. You’ll find yourself deeply longing right
alongside them, sharing nostalgia for a place you’ve never been.

—Zach Powers, author of *First Cosmic Velocity*


Read an earlier version of some of the stories in *Beloved Comrades*.

"The Rescue" in *eMerge Magazine*:

https://emerge-writerscolony.org/the-rescue/

"The Reluctant Namesake" in *Marathon Literary Review*:

http://marathonlitreview.com/2018/08/14/the-reluctant-namesake-yermiyahu-ahron-taub/

"Dolls, in Limbo" in* Gyara Literary Journal:*

https://www.gyara.org/2018/11/20/dolls-in-limbo/

"Winter's Firelight" in *Typishly*:

https://typishly.com/2018/01/12/winters-firelight/

"*Antkegn dem fasad*," the Yiddish version of "Face à la Façade," in *Penshaft:
New Yiddish Writing*:

http://blogs.yiddish.forward.com/yermiyahu-ahron-taub/206334/
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[ha-Safran] Upcoming Book Signing at the USHMM by Sydelle Pearl

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub via Hasafran]

I am posting the announcement below on behalf of the author.

Please direct all queries to the author at the e-mail address in the
announcement.

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Author Sydelle Pearl will be doing a book signing for her award-winning
novel,* Wordwings*, at the gift shop of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, on Sunday, December 1st from 1-4:00 pm.  The Holocaust
Museum is located at 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington, DC, 20024.



Synopsis of* Wordwings*:  In 1941, twelve-year-old Rivke Rosenfeld lives in
the Warsaw Ghetto, where she witnesses German soldiers slashing her
grandfather's beard from his face.  Her anger compels her to secretly write
her stories and her memories in the margins of a book of fairytales by Hans
Christian Andersen.  When Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, historian and founder of
the Underground Archive--a written compilation of Jewish life experiences
in the Ghetto--hears Rivke tell one of her stories, he is so impressed that
he asks her to contribute her diary to this Archive and Rivke agrees,
imagining her words rising up from the ground on wings.



Please contact Sydelle Pearl with any questions at pearld...@hotmail.com.
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[ha-Safran] Seeking Contact Information for the Heirs of S.Y. Agnon, Sol Liptzin, and Berl Kagan

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub via Hasafran]

Dear Friends,

Does anyone have any contact information for the heirs of the Estates of
S.Y. Agnon, Sol Liptzin, and Berl Kagan (Kohen)? I've found on Wikipedia
that the children of Agnon are Emuna Yaron and Shalom Agnon. The heirs of
Liptzin are Velva L. Lynfield and Karen Sitton. I have not found any heirs
for Kagan. One colleague has suggested that I write to Bet Agnon in
Jerusalem for information on the Agnon Estate, which I've done. I am
seeking permission to publish my translations into English of (very short)
Yiddish-language writings by these authors. If anyone has any information,
please e-mail me off list (yermiyahuahrontaub at gmail dot com). Thanks so
much!

All my best for a happy and healthy new year,
Yermiyahu Ahron
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[ha-Safran] Please Save the Date: Lecture by Jennifer Breger, Sunday, 9/22/2019, 10 AM-NOON

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub via Hasafran]

Dear All,

The next Association of Jewish Libraries/Capital Area Chapter (AJL/CAC)
program will be a lecture by Jennifer Breger from *10 AM until noon on
Sunday, September 22, 2019 *at Beth Sholom Congregation, 11825 Seven Locks
Road, Potomac, Maryland 20854. Please see below for more information on the
lecture. The program is co-sponsored by AJL/CAC and the Sisterhood of Beth
Sholom Congregation. Very special thanks to our guest speaker Jennifer
Breger, the Sisterhood of Beth Sholom Congregation, and Elisa Elfasi and
Gail Shirazi for their work on this program.

Please send your RSVP's to Nahid Gerstein at nahiddayan...@gmail.com by
Thursday, September 19, 2019.

We hope you can join us for what promises to be a fascinating program!

Regards,
Yermiyahu Ahron
President, AJL/CAC
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A Lecture on Women in Jewish Printing

by Jennifer Breger

Jennifer Breger will discuss women in Jewish printing, including Jewish
women copyists and typesetters. She will examine the role of Jewish women
historically involved in Jewish printing, including those who brought their
husbands’ work to press, those who inherited printing establishments from
their husbands after death, and those who seem to have run independent
printing shops over a long period of time. She will explore whether there
were examples of Sephardic women historically involved in Hebrew
printing besides the famous Dona Reyna Mendes, daughter of Dona Gracia, in
Constantinople. If not, why not? Additionally, she will touch on the role
of non-Jewish women in the printing of books in Hebrew and other Jewish
languages.



Bio


Jennifer Breger holds a B.A. and M.A. from St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and
an M.A. from the Hebrew University. She collects books, manuscripts,
documents and ephemera written for, by and about Jewish women, and books
printed by Jewish women.  An independent scholar, she has published on
Hebrew printing, as well as on the liturgy and literature of Jewish women
in *Antiquarian Bookman*, *The Jewish Book Annual*, *Encyclopedia Judaica*,
and the *Encyclopedia of Jewish Women*. She appraises books and Holy Land
maps for individuals and institutions including the Library of Congress and
the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and has curated and written catalogues for
various museum exhibits of Judaica. Her collection is a major source of
research on the sociology of Jewish women through the ages.
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[ha-Safran] AJL Jewish Fiction Award Committee is Seeking Two New Members

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub via Hasafran]

Dear Colleagues,

The AJL Jewish Fiction Award Committee is seeking two new members. This is
an exciting opportunity to immerse yourself in the vibrant field of
contemporary Jewish fiction; to connect with and learn from a group of wise
and committed colleagues; and to honor outstanding writers. We are looking
for avid readers who:

Enjoy reading literary fiction

Feel comfortable expressing an opinion about what they’ve read beyond “I
liked it” or “I didn’t like it.”

Are willing to commit the time to read 7-10 books in a 12-month period.

Past or current involvement in a book discussion group would be a plus.

I have completed my term as Chairperson of the Committee. As Outgoing
Chair, I will be handling all matters related to the 2019 Award. Rosalind
Reisner will be the Incoming Chairperson and will be handling the 2019
publications and the 2020 Award. Please write to Roz directly off-list if
you are interested in serving on the Committee. Roz's e-mail address is roz
at the reisners dot net.

It has been an absolute joy to helm this committee and to serve with such
distinguished, committed colleagues. Thanks so much!

Regards,
Ahron
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[ha-Safran] 2019 AJL Jewish Fiction Award

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub via Hasafran]

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Please find attached the press release regarding the 2019 AJL Jewish
Fiction Award winners. Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to
all those who submitted work for consideration. This was a very strong year
for Jewish-themed fiction. Special thanks to Dan Wyman of Dan Wyman Books
for underwriting this award and to the AJL Council for their support.
And many thanks to all of the Committee members for their insights and hard
work throughout the process.

All my best,
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, Chairperson
on behalf of the AJL Jewish Fiction Award Committee


AJL Jewish Fiction Award Press Release. 11JFeb2019.docx
Description: MS-Word 2007 document
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