[ha-Safran]: Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed

I'm hoping that one the rare book librarians can help me. The recent catalog from the JNUL on their Maimonides exhibit indicates that the original text of the Guide was first published by S. Munk parts 1-3, Paris 1856-1866. My question is how is this different from all previous publications.

re : [ha-Safran]: Question

I didn't see the answer to this question at the hasafran archive (I may have missed it), so I'll give one. I found out that someone mentioned Jewish Book Week about a year ago on hasafran : http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/msg01934.html The website for this year's

[ha-Safran]: Question about cataloging The Secret Seder

Friends: I can't decide where to catalog the children's book, The Secret Seder, by Doreen Rappaport. Although it is a picture book, it is about a family celebrating Pesach during the Holocaust, so I'm putting in the older children section. But do I put it in Passover or Holocaust? Any input

[ha-Safran]: Looking for a website

I'm looking for a website that was very popular about a year ago; it was put up by a married couple who live in Netanya or Raanana, and it featured animated maps showing the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Does anyone know what it is? thank you Andrea Messages and opinions

[ha-Safran]: Out of print Judaica Catalogues

Schoen Books issues catalogues monthly of out of print scholarly Judaica in many languages and books on the Shoah. They can be accessed on our web site www.schoenbooks.com To receive our most recent list number 136 or get on our mailing list please write to to [EMAIL PROTECTED] We welcome

Re: [ha-Safran]: Looking for a website

I don't know if this is the one you were referring to, but there's an interesting historical presentation (like an animated slide show with maps) called History in a Nutshell by Udi Ohana at http://jewishinternetassociation.org/historynutshell/conflict.html B'shalom, Steve Messages and

re : [ha-Safran]: Question--Jewish Book Week

As the clock struck 03:49 PM 2/21/2005, S B took quill in hand and wrote: I don't know why an English Book Week was chosen in Spring/Summer when the American Jewish Book Month has always been in November. When Jewish Book Week was first established in the US, it was associated with Shavuot, the

Re: [ha-Safran]: Looking for a website

Yes, thank you, that indeed is what I was looking for. They did a couple of other presentations also, and their website is named at the end of the slide show you sent. www.conceptwizard.com is the Ohana's site, where you can click on Israel Presentations to see their other work on the topic. It

[ha-Safran]: Disturbing Talmud quotation

This isn't the first verse from the Talmud that I've disliked reading, nor even the first one that I've read that was sexist. What bothers me just as much is the image of books being burned (though I realize that it is not meant to be taken literally). The verse is from the Jerusalem Talmud,

Re: [ha-Safran]: Disturbing Talmud quotation

Evidently, neither Bruria nor Rashi's daughters took it literally... Joshua Sharf Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran,

RE: [ha-Safran]: Disturbing Talmud quotation Sotah 3:4

SB posted (in part) = My English translation [Jerusalem Talmud] reads The words of the Torah should be burnt rather than be taught to women. = Before proceeding further, let me make four comments. 1. We are not Biblical literalists, nor