Contact the Israel Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum
http://ilmuseums.com/museum_eng.asp?id=7
Yoel Sheridan
Email yoel...@inter.net.il
www.tenterbooks.com
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As a former Holocaust educator (trained by Facing History and
Ourselves ,The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and Yad
Vashem), it would have been fairly easy to find the flaw in Angel
Girl by just reading about the camps and their set up. Why couldn't
it just have been presented as a
Dear Safranim,
I am having trouble contacting Yediot Achronot in Israel by phone and
fax about a problem with our subscription for Sha'ar Lamathil. Does
anyone know of a phone number to call in the US to find out
information about that newspaper. Thanks in advance.
Noreen Wachs
Librarian
Ramaz
Does anyone know if the Rambam Shailos and Teshuvos have been
translated into English?
Thank you
David
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I attended a seminar on identifying Jewish values in non-Jewish
children's books at the 2006 AJL convention. I don't see this
presentation in the conference proceedings, and would like to
track down the presenter to identify resources I might use for a
'Jewish Reading for Families'
Hi all,
I am a current graduate student in the School of Information and
Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill working on my MLS. I am very interested in pursuing a career in
Judaica librarianship and am currently looking around for possible
Judaica
book Angel Girl recalled)
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Dear Friends,
It's Dan Wyman Books' first offering of 2009, and we have something
special for those of you close to New York, as well as something for
those of you further afield.
1. For you in the New York region: We have just added hundreds of new
titles to our showroom at 12 W. 27th St. in
Hy Wolfe Herbert Kaplan in concert
Wednesday
Feb 4
7 pm
Yiddish Songs for the Soul with Hy Wolfe
Adults: $15
Students Seniors: $12
Title: An evening of Yiddish Theatre and Music with Hy Wolfe
Herbert Kaplan at the piano. Singer / Actor: Hy Wolfe takes his
audience through the pages of
Even though its another James Frey case, the title can still serve as a
Holocaust fiction story.
-
Heather Lenson
Librarian at Ratner Media Center
Jewish Education Center of Cleveland
2030 South Taylor Road
Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118
PH: (216) 371-0446 ext. 228
FX: (216)
I am not comfortable with that since the jacket flap says it was based on a
true story, and the last page of the book has a photo of Herman Roma
Rosenblat and tells the tale as a true version of what happened to them.
According to holocaust scholars and other survivors, what they describe
cannot
Dear Safranim,
To all those who responded to my request for the Godols Proof
article in Scientific American, I wish to thank you for your help. I
now have the article. If I ever needed proof that Safranim are the
greatest, this is it.
Chaya Wiesman
Librarian
Ramaz Upper School
Messages
In case you missed this exciting news:
The latest AJL monograph, 5th edition of Creating a Collection: A
Resource Booklist for a Beginning
Judaic Library by Merrily Hart is now available for purchase. This
very useful annotated subject bibliography is a guide to developing a
core collection in a
Kids Now Available for Online Ordering
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Dear Colleagues,
I have just purchased this new Gale product using my NYS
money. The format is very user friendly and allows a great deal of
variety. It includes several hundred news sources in it's list of
resources. It has many from Arab countries.
After a closer look
I am having trouble finding Judaic DVD's (or videos) on some topics
one of my teachers is asking for.
Any suggestions for good places to go to find Judaic movies in
general OR movies on the following subjects would be much appreciated.
Sephardic/Ashkenazi Jews (heritage and/or origins)
False
Yes, Rhonda, you are right. Gale's Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
was faulted by the ADL when it came out for including an article on
Zionism written by a person whom ADL claims is a known anti-Zionist,
Noel Ignatiev. I also found an article from Deborah Lipstadt
criticizing Macmillan of
For more information, contact:
Kathe Pinchuck, Chair
Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee
Association of Jewish Libraries
(973) 777-4504
ch...@sydneytaylorbookaward.org
www.SydneyTaylorBookAward.org
January 2009
For immediate release
MEDIA RELEASE
2009 SYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARDS
ANNOUNCED BY THE
JPS is pleased to announce publication of a new book:
Meneket Rivkah
A Manual of Wisdom and Piety for Jewish Women
By Rivkah bat Meir (author), Frauke von Rohden (editor)
http://www.jewishpub.org/product.php?id=178
With a critical introduction and commentary by Frauke von Rohden
A book of ethics
Shalom,
I don't know if this will be of much help, but there is an essay
entitled Goedel's Proof
by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman in the anthology The World of
Mathematics, edited by James R. Newman, published by Simon and
Schuster in 1956. The essay
appears in Volume 3, pp. 1666-1695.
Hi,
I am interested in a strategic planning that was done for a School
Center or synagogue library.
I will be happy to pay for the postage.
Thanks in advance,
Amalia
Amalia Warshenbrot, Director
Levine-Sklut Judaic Library Resource Center
5007 Providence Rd. Suite 107
Charlotte NC 28226
Phone
Film Collection
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From: Joan Tedlow jted...@templesolel.net
Subject: [ha-Safran]: Weeding of dedicated books
Hi All,
Im interested in discussing how other librarians handle the weeding
of dedicated books. We have a number of duplicate copies of books
with dedications
Hevre,
The senior rabbi here and I agree that my skills are not being fully
used. Its likely that I will take on additional duties in the ritual
realm and in programming; the rabbi has also asked me to collect some
synagogue library job descriptions from other congregations. If
anyone has one
Does anyone know of resources for a high school paper dealing with
the Bais Hakdash. What did it look like? What went on there on a
daily basis? etc. so that it can be very real for our students?
Thanks,
Aviva Wasser
Ilan High School
avivawass...@gmail.com
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Colleagues,
This is new product from Gale that has many fine features
in terms of its flexibility. It is rich and covers many
topics. But unfortunately it does have a bias that does not please
anyone who cares about Israeli coverage and an unbiased look at the
Middle East.
A Poetry Reading by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub (Yiddish English poetry)
Sunday, February 22, 2009 (at 10:15 AM) at Tikvat Israel synagogue
Address:
Tikvat Israel Congregation
2200 Baltimore Road
Rockville, Maryland 20851
Phone: (301) 762-7338
Fax: (301) 424-4399
Join us for a poetry reading and
The deadline for submissions to the Feb/Mar 2009 AJL Newsletter is
Tuesday Jan 20, 2009. Please send news, articles, columns, reports to
Libby White (lwh...@bhu.edu or llibby...@aol.com). Photos and
graphics should go to Nancy Sack (s...@hawaii.edu ). The Nov/Dec
issue is late as we
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone knew of a good anthology of Jewish
folklore/folktales that is available in large print. I'm looking for
something that grandparents might like to read aloud to children and
something that would be easy on their eyes. Amazon searches have not
turned up much;
SHATTERING THE RED LINES: THE DURBAN II DRAFT DECLARATION Updated
Analysis of New Dec. 26, 2008 Draft
http://www.unwatch.org/atf/cf/%7B6deb65da-be5b-4cae-8056-8bf0bedf4d17%7D/REVISEDSHATTEREDREPORT.PDF
The UN Watch has prepared a document dealing with the upcoming UN
(so called) Human
And, as promised, the answer is
A racehorse named Good Friday fell in a steeplechase race in England back in
1946. The race took place on an Easter Monday,
Best wishes for 2009 to you all
Yoel Sheridan
Email yoel...@inter.net.il
www.tenterbooks.com
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I wanted to reintroduce the idea of sharing Web links in a durable
way via a social bookmarking tool. The idea is, essentially, that we
save and/or tag items of common interest in central location. There
are several important advantages to this strategy.
For instance, as a personal tool, a
Greetings! I have a faculty member teaching World History and would
like to have access to some primary documents for his 11th grade
students. They are currently studying the Chinese dynasties (Han,
Song, Tang, Ming, Sui). Does anyone know of some websites or print
material that he can
I agree with Sherry Wasserman. The book jacket and the afterward
present the story as true, so without some major revision, I don't think
you can categorize it as fiction.
It doesn't matter how you dress up a lie, it is still a lie.
Eileen Polk, Librarian
Prentis Memorial Library
Temple Beth El
Dear Safranim,
I was asked to pass on this employment opportunity
Benjamin richler
5. Library Ets Haim-Livraria Montezinos, founded in 1616, is housed
in the complex of the Portugese Synagoge in Amsterdam and is the
oldest still functioning Jewish library in the world.
The collection
Hi Everyone!
I posted pictures of recent Israel support rallies from around
the world at:
http://www.jr.co.il/rally/world/index.html
If you have additional pictures that you took at a rally, please
send them to me and I will post them. Thanks!
Please pray for the safety of our soldiers:
We have several sets of Torah, Tanakh, Mishna, etc. Do you shelve
them according to Elazar number (and thereby intermixing sets) or by
set then by Elazar?
Thanks
Kathy Merkin
Congregation Kol Emeth
Palo Alto, CA
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Varda Books is pleased to announce an addition of new titles to its
Judaic Digital Library
Hi everyone-
I just spoke to Amy Moulton who handles my accountat Gale. I just
starting receiving global issues in context and she assured me that
it is a work in progress--that many newspapers have not as yet been
included-French newspapers for example. They will be including the
Jerusalem
Dear Safranim,
Kar-Ben Publishing is pleased to announce its new spring offerings,
now available at www.karben.com:
ALEF-BET YOGA FOR KIDS, by Ruth and Bill Goldeen
Kids can learn the Hebrew alphabet through yoga! Using traditional
and modified yoga poses, the author/photographer team teaches
As an imprint of the publisher, Lerner Publishing Group, we agree
that this book should not be re-shelved in libraries as fiction. If
you purchased your copy from Kar-Ben and would like to return it for
credit, you may do so by calling 1-800-4KARBEN. Even if you did not
purchase your copy from
I first heard Hilda Stern Cohen tell her story at a Yom HaShoah
gathering in 1996. She told us she was nine and living in the small
German village of Nieder-Ohmen when Hitler came to power in 1933. She
chronicled twelve years of a painful and yet inspiring story.
After she spoke, I mentioned in
I have professionally bound issues of the Jewish Frontier: A Labor
Zionist Journal from v. 20 (1953) v. 47 (1980) available for the
cost of shipping.
Thanks,
Karen Kriegel
kkrie...@sfpl.org
Acquisitions Librarian
San Francisco Public Library
95 Washburn Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-2610
There are many fictionalized accounts of historical events--even the
Holocaust: Sophie's Choice, The Cats in Krasinski Square, and many
others. They are based on actual facts but are presented in story
form. However, you know up front that they are fact-based
fiction. The problem is that
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