FW: [ha-Safran]: Hebrew script in authority records?!

2006-04-21 Thread Aviva Astrinsky
Dear Joan, We at the Center for Jewish History are very pleased to hear about the plans to incorporate Hebrew (and Cyrillic?) script in LC/NACO. While YIVO does not have machine-readable authority records with vernacular scripts, we do have a card authority file for Yiddish names, which we are

Re: [ha-Safran]: Re: The Collector of Bedford Street

2006-04-21 Thread Bernard Katz
Many thanks to Fred Lerner and Sharon Horowitz, whose personal e-mails to me (they didn't cc to Hasafran) preceded that of Larry Mark's, with the name of the film, Best Boy, released in 1979 by Ira Wohl, its director and the first cousin of Philly Wohl, the subject of the film. The full title

[ha-Safran]: 4/23 Symposium - The Legacy of The Goldbergs

2006-04-21 Thread Linda Harris
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[ha-Safran]: Paper Clips

2006-04-21 Thread Faya Cohen
Did anyone else order a copy of Paper Clips on DVD? Early this year I ordered it by phone and was told that they would be shipped in late March. I never heard from them, and neglected to save the contact information. Can you supply a number or e-mail address? Did you receive your copy yet?

[ha-Safran]: Important American Jewish Bibliographical

2006-04-21 Thread Dan Wyman
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[ha-Safran]: School Workshop

2006-04-21 Thread Rita Lifton
The New York Metropolitan Area Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL-NYMA) presents its annual Day School/High School Workshop on Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 1-4 pm, at the Ramaz Upper School. PROGRAM: Teaching Library Skills in the Day School/High School: A Demonstration - Chaya

[ha-Safran]: Taking It Personally

2006-04-21 Thread Weisman, Yaffa
JUST PUBLISHED Taking it personally: stores, poems a play, by Norma Fain Pratt. Quesadilla Press, Pasadena, 2006. 195 p. ISBN 0974048720 $20.00 My fictions are not merely about myself; they are about twentieth centruy immigrant American Jews and their gender and generational struggles.

Additional Benzion Eisenstadt Title Available

2006-04-21 Thread Dan Wyman
Dear Friends, Thank you for your tremendous response to our most recent offering, Benzion Eisenstadt's Anshe Ha-Shem Be-Artsot Ha-Berit . Many of you asked if we had additional material by Benzion Eisenstadt; in fact, we have several copies of another of his works: Eisenstadt, Benzion

[ha-Safran]: AJL Convention

2006-04-21 Thread Penny Schwartz
Time is running out but . . . you can still register for: Liberty, Learning, and Libraries Association of Jewish Libraries 41st annual convention June 18-21 Hyatt Regency Hotel Cambridge, Massachusetts Grace Paley - Keynote Speaker Who can resist the springtime panaroma of the Charles River,