line, you will never
be invited to join the closed faculty club. Moreover, you will be
ostracized and placed under a herem, as hinted by the writer of this
innocuous article.
Aviva Astrinsky
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From:
delinco...@yahoo.com
Rasputin and The Jews: A Reversal of History
Delin Colón.
The author is the great-great niece of Aron Simanovitch, Rasputin's
Jewish secretary.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1461027756
This book is an account of Rasputin as a healer, equal rights
activist and man
People today opened its digital
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University of Haifa. The Faculty of Education
2nd Conference: New Anti-Semitism - Educational Challenges:
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Thursday, 19 May 2011, Hecht Museum, main Building, University of Haifa
Chair: Prof. Ilan Gur-Ze'ev
Steering Committee:
Lithuanian Jewish communities
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Greetings from Canada,
I write to inquire as to if your library would be interested in
receiving a copy of Profs. Michael and Shlomit Kerens' We are Coming,
Unafraid: The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World
War. The Kerens' recently published book tells little-known stories
From: Elise Fischer
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 1:27 PM
To: Aviva Astrinsky
Subject: FW: Fleeing Nazi Germany to success in America?
Jewish woman's captivating story of fleeing pre-Nazi Germany to
success in America
MIAMI BEACH A Jewish woman who not only escaped Nazi Germany
A patron asks if any religious comic books are being published, who
are the publishers,
and where one can purchase them. Specifically, he has heard about Rovi books
and would like to know more about them.
Thanks for your help.
Aviva E. Astrinsky
Head Librarian
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
DR A ROBERT NEURATH [mailto:arneur...@att.net]
Has written a book on Bratislava's pre-Holocaust Jewish professionals,
artists and businessmen.
The color version of the book has now been completed.
More information about the book is available at the website
www.neurabooks.comand
JPR has pleasure in sending you the illustrated newsletter of Judaica
Europeana, a project which will bring Jewish heritage collections online.
JPR is a Partner in this Europe-wide initiative involving museums,
libraries and archives.
Please feel free to forward this email to anyone who might
Dear colleagues,
You may be interested to read this article which appeared in the
English edition of Haaretz.
Try to ignore the sensationalist title comparing the digitization of
printed newspapers to
Wikileaks
Aviva Astrinsky
YIVO Library
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/jewish
December Events at YIVO
This Theatre is a Battlefield: How Antifascist Zionist Performance
Forged a New Jewish-American Identity, 1933-1948.
THURSDAY 9 DECEMBER 2010 | 3PM
ROSE AND ISIDORE DRENCH MEMORIAL LECTURE MAX WEINREICH CENTER
Garrett Eisler, Doctoral Candidate, City University of New
Anniversary of his Birth
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Hi, Lee,
Thank you very much for sharing info about this title.
Our Library will acquire it.
I think Ha-Safran is the best forum for publicizing this kind of
information.
Aviva Astrinsky
YIVO
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Belfast's award-winning Kabosh Theatre Company transposes its
remarkable site-specific production of This Is What They Sang to
New York as part of the 1st Irish Festival, New York's only all-Irish
theatre festival. Directed by Paula McFetridge, and written by Gavin
Kostick, This Is What We
children books. As time
goes by, they as they become source material for literary and historical
research.
Please don't discard your old children's books. If you have no space for
them,
You can offer them to Jewish academic research libraries.
Aviva Astrinsky
YIVO
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Dear Colleagues,
You may want to read an interesting view point on the occasion of
launching
The Electronic Edition of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews of Eastern
Europe.
http://irdialogue.org/articles/the-people-of-the-book-teach-their-histor
y-online-by-joshua-stanton/
Aviva E. Astrinsky
Head
YIVO Launches Online Edition of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in
Eastern Europe:
Enhancement of Critically Acclaimed Print Encyclopedia Adds
Selections from YIVO'S Vast Archive of Images and Media
(New York City June 10, 2010) What is the history of the
shtetl? How far was Minsk from
We are pleased to announce the publication of Jewish Journeys in
Jerusalem: A Tourist's Guide by Dr. Jay Levinson.
Jewish Journeys in Jerusalem uniquely provides a Jewish understanding
of what there is to see in Jerusalem. Other tour books about Jerusalem
focus on the general tourist, giving
To Lovers of Hebrew,
If you wish to get the electronic newsletter of the Academy of Hebrew Language
and enjoy learning about the new Hebrew words that are being coined
every Monday and Thursday,
as they say in Yiddish, you are invited to send a message to:
- haaqade...@cc.huji.ac.il
Paul Glasser, Ph.D., a Yiddish Linguist at YIVO, had this to say about
Margo Gutstein's
post in Ha-Safran:
...she's absolutely wrong about mutual intelligibility - if that were
true, Czech and Slovak would be one language, Mandarin and Cantonese
would be two!
Aviva E. Astrinsky
Head Librarian
A few years ago I met two gentile ladies from Speyer, Germany (on the
Reine River), where Jews
had flourished from 1084-1349 C.E., and where Yiddish was born. Their
German dialect was
almost 100% Yiddish compatible. They even unknowingly used Hebrew
derived words.
What were they speaking?
The XIIIth Symposium for Yiddish Studies in Germany will be held
4-6 October 10 at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf.
This annual Symposium is organized alternately by the Yiddish
programs at the universities of Trier and Duesseldorf and is intended
to offer scholars the possibility
Academic Librarians 2010
Faster than the Speed of Bytes: Technology, Cognition, and the
Academic Librarian
June 7 8, 2010, Holiday Inn Downtown, Ithaca
This conference is brought to you by the Academic and Special
Libraries Section of the
New York Library Association and the NY 3R's
Global Antisemitism International Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS,
please circulate
YIISA: The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism
and
The International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA)
CALL FOR PAPERS
For The Upcoming Conference
Global Antisemitism:
From the fall 2009 of IMPACT, American Association of Ben-Gurion University:
FOR YIDDISH it's the 11th hour, says
Prof. Moshe Justman, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences. People with living memory of it as a
spoken language in Eastern Europe are growing older and fewer.
Top Egyptian Daily: Joseph's Era Coins Found in Egypt
An Egyptian paper claims that archaeologists have discovered ancient Egyptian
coins bearing the name and image of the Biblical Joseph.
The report in Al-Ahram boasts that the find backs up the Koran's
claim that coins
were used in Egypt
A final CYCO book sale on Thursday Aug. 6th, 2009, 3 - 6 PM
25 E. 21st street NYC 3rd floor - thousands of yididsh,english and
hebrew books for very low prices.
information: 212-505-8035; Hy Wolf (cycobo...@aol.com)
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New Book: My Children, My Heroes: Memoirs of a Holocaust Mother,
By Sonia Minuskin, Translated and Annotated by Her Son, Harold Minuskin
This is a powerful story of survival. My mother not only saved her
own life, but also
the lives of her two very young children. She eluded the first
roundup
Israeli Knesset marks Yiddish Day
For the first time since its founding, the Knesset is officially
marking Yiddish Language and Culture Day on Tuesday (May 26). A
Yiddish-Hebrew Knesset lexicon was released for the occasion.
The date for the parliamentary nod to Yiddish, a language once spoken
EPYC EDUCATORS SEMINAR ON EAST EUROPEAN JEWISH HERITAGE
22-25 JUNE 2009 | NEW YORK CITY
PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE
http://yivo.org/epyc2009/
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is sponsoring the third EPYC
Educators Seminar on East European Jewish Heritage, June 22-25, at
the Center for
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I move that AJL's President should send Mr. Jaffe's comments
(with some editorial changes) to the publisher under its own letterhead.
Aviva Astrinsky
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revisions.
However, when it comes to Jewish subjects, lies -- repeated often
enough -- become the truth.
See for instance The New Testament, a best seller for two millennia,
and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a best seller since the
beginning of the
20th century.
Aviva Astrinsky
YIVO
Messages
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to bring to your attention the review of
the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, which was recently published
by Yale University Press.
The review, by Kenneth Turan,
appeared this past weekend in the Los Angeles Times.
Aviva Astrinsky
YIVO
http
Aviva Astrinsky
YIVO
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about the importance of depositing 2 copies of each book at the respective
national libraries for the sake of posterity.
Librarians are best placed to be such educators.
As for myself, whenever someone sends me a self-published book,
I urge them to send copies to LC and JNUL.
Aviva
generations.
Is this really a disregard for posterity, or fear of the Israeli (and any
other) government, or just plain isolationism --
this is a topic for sociological research.
Aviva Astrinsky
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Dear Mr. Elazar,
Thank you for bringing this report to our attention.
We will add it to our antisemtica collection.
Aviva E. Astrinsky
Head Librarian
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
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You will get all the messages once a day, with a summary of their titles.
You will be able to delete the irrelevant ones -- one by one, or in one fell
swoop!
Cordially,
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YIVO
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YIVO-Institute for Jewish Research Presents:
The Rise and Fall of the Yiddish Empire
Thursday, March 13, 7 PM
Professor Benjamin Harshav
J H Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Yale University
Jewish majorities were found in towns and Shtetls of the vast
territories of
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to bring to your attention a new Yiddish textbook,
Shlisl zu Yiddish = Key to Yiddish by Miriam Hoffman, M.A.,
Published by the National Center for Jewish Cultural Arts, Inc. (NCJCA)
Hoffman is a lecturer in Yiddish Language and Culture at Columbia
University in New
February 19, 2008
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
New York, NY
United States
Dear Friends,
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims
Conference) is establishing a Worldwide Shoah Memoirs Collection in
electronic form of previously unpublished or unavailable memoirs
*Google and Libraries*
*An International Conference Sponsored by ILIAC, The Harriman
Institute and Columbia University Libraries, and METRO*
*School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University* 420
West 118th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive
*Monday, March 10,
The Yiddish translation of the New Colossus can be found on page 121 in:
Silver, Louis. Yidn in Amerike: epizodn un portretn. New York, 1955.
A reprint is available from NYBC.
Aviva Astrinsky
YIVO
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The 12th NY Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
February 7-14, 2008
Opening Night
Thursday, February 7th 7:30pm
Got No Jeep and My Camel Died
U.S. Premiere
Director: Ehud Tomalak. Producers: Aida and Amos Michaeli.
Israel, 2006, 65 mins. Hebrew w/English subtitles.
Inspired by the Jewish
Holocaust Archives Now Available At US Holocaust Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum announced today that it
is ready to begin providing information to Holocaust survivors and
their families from the International Tracing Service (ITS) archive.
The archive, located in Bad
original address: http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/19580/
Making the Vilnius Jewish Library a reality
Jan 09, 2008
By Steve Roman
TALLINN - I caught up with Wyman Brent at a hostel in Tallinn's Old
Town just after Christmas. A few days earlier the 45-year-old
American had e-mailed the
/071203fa_fact_brooks
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton
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YIVO
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and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL
collection in Queensborough Public Library
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Dear friends,
A reminder about our fall lectures
(in English):
Thursday, October 11, 7:00 PM
Justin Cammy (Smith College)
DINA ABRAMOWICZ MEMORIAL LECTURE
The Untold Story of Yungvald, Vilna's Last Literary Generation
Thursday, October 25, 7:00 PM
Jeffrey Grossman, University of Virginia
The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York
University, is pleased to present the Yiddish Seminar Program for the
Fall 2007. Seminars, conducted in YIDDISH, are supported by the
Forward Association and mark the 110th anniversary of the Yiddish
newspaper Forverts.
October 11,
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:47:28 -0400
Not long ago, the Libraries of The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York
and Jerusalem (the Schocken Library) announced the formation of a new
on-line journal dedicated to the history of the Jewish book. It is our hope
that this journal, entitled Quntress:
available through the Center for Jewish History, NY
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Dear Colleagues,
One of the deserts (among others) which was served at the Scottsdale Hilton
was chocolate-dipped giant strawberries. This inspired our colleague
Phil Miller
to coin a new Hebrew word: Tut meshuklad
(using the mishkal of meshukhlal).
The new term was an instant success. Elhanan
Libraries which collect Holocaust memoirs may want to acquire the
following book:
Petit Claude, the Orphan of Auschwitz and his French Rescuers: a true story,
1938-1945 / by Agnes Holzapfel Seugent.
Order from: www.Xlibris.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran
Heritage Month, 2007
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University of Maryland Libraries
College Park, MD 20742
Dear Yelena,
In reply to your message in Hasafran of February 8, and after
consulting with Dr. Carl Rheins,
Executive Director of YIVO, here is our
To all lovers of the Hebrew language,
You may want the new Hebrew word Petet. It is a translation of Chat
(as in chat room) . Petet stems of course from le-fatpet= to blabber.
I think it is a great word, which should be adopted widely.
Aviva Astrinsky
YIVO Institute
Messages and opinions
YIVO PRESENTS: TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2007 / 7 PM
GALICIA MON AMOUR:
LEON WIESELTIER in conversation with DANIEL MENDELSOHN
Leon Wieseltier, author of Kaddish, is the literary editor
of The New Republic
Daniel Mendelsohn, author of the recently published
HE LOST: A Search for Six of Six Million,
The Center for Jewish History is pleased to announce the web launch of
our new online catalog. The combined library and archives collections
of the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation,
Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, YIVO Institute for
Jewish Research,
International Conference
The Jewish National Movement in the USSR:
Awakening and Struggle, 1967-1989
December 2007
The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European
Jewry at the Hebrew University, in cooperation with the International
Center for Russian and East European Jewish
On Monday 11 December 2006, 10 p.m. in the Tri-state area PBS TV
NY Channel Thirteen WNET is screening Mame-loshn Kinder-loshn,
a documentary film with a complete Yiddish dialogue (with English sub-titles)
about the history of Yiddish in
Israel and its struggle for survival.
Messages and
ADL offers reading list on Israel
The Anti-Defamation League is offering a reading list of childrens
books on Israel.
The list, which offers books with a positive view of Israel for
children in kindergarten through 12th grade, will be available on the
ADLs Web site, at
To: Aviva Astrinsky
Subject: Re: [ha-Safran]: ADL offers reading list on Israel
Hi Aviva,
I went to the ADL web site and was surprised to find that their list
of resources about Israel (not the fiction books for children) was so
out of date -- most titles were from the 90's, nothing published
London Review of Books: Israel Lobby Debate~Online
A scholarly debate dealing with the article by John Mearsheimer and
Stephen Walt concerning the Israel lobby was held in London recently.
A video of the event is available at:
http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/10/11/israel-lobby/
Messages and
The Center for Jewish History is pleased to announce the launch of a
new web-based
searchable bibliography of unpublished Holocaust-related materials.
CJH Holocaust Resources: An Annotated Bibliography of Archival
Holdings at the Center for Jewish History is a compilation of materials
drawn from
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Contemporary/vintage art posters - the antique/vintage posters of
tomorrow...the art
Recently I have received inquiries about The Dictionary of Plant
Names in Yiddish
by Mordkhe Schaechter, published by YIVO, 2005. Below
is a short review and instructions on how to obtain it.
This groundbreaking Yiddish-English botanical dictionary draws on literary,
scientific, linguistic and
YIVO Presents:
Inaugural Sidney Krum Annual Concert
JEWISH CABARET IN EXILE, SONGS OF MODERNITY
New Budapest Orpheum Society (NBOS)
DATE: Thursday, September 14, 2006
TIME: 7 PM
VENUE: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, NYC
TICKETS: $20/$10
History Sponsored by YIVO
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We would like to invite you to two upcoming lectures, sponsored by
the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies:
Thursday, June 15, 7:00 PM
Workmen's Circle / Emanuel Patt Memorial Lecture
Dr. Joel Berkowitz (Professor of Judaic Studies, SUNY Albany)
False Messiahs in Yiddish Historical
Aaron,
You wrote:
Keyword can not cope with different authors
using different terminology (such as someone who doesn't know the
difference between Palestinian dinosaur tracks and Israeli dinosaur
tracks, or that the Rambam wrote books on Arabic drugs while Musa ibn
Maymun al-Qurtubi al-Andalusi
Astrinsky
PS: The word 'Why' denotes a question, not an accusation.
-Original Message-
From: Ellen Zyroff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 3:48 AM
To: Aviva Astrinsky
Subject: Re: Statement on LC
Gee, why do you accuse me of that because I've alerted
the organization
!!
but on the other resist the cataloging of individual titles
in monographic series -- too much work-- bad!!!
Hey, chevraya, wake up, we are in the age of Google! We all know how
do keyword searches!
Forget the card catalog already!
Aviva Astrinsky
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Lecture: Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
It has been 350 years since Spinoza's excommunication by the Jewish
community of Amsterdam. The explosive issues the rift raised and
Spinoza's responses are very much with us today - the limits of
religion's tolerance of freedom of
H-Judaic mourns the loss of two important scholars during Passover.
Dr. Isaac Barzilay, Professor of Hebrew Literature emeritus at Columbia
University, helped to train a generation of scholars and authored
multiple books and articles, notably on the Haskalah.. He also served
as President of
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
Library/April 27
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From: Goda Jureviciute [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 6:22 AM
Subject: The conference Jews in a changing world
Sixth International Conference
JEWS IN A CHANGING WORLD
Latvian and Baltic Jews at the Crossroads of European History
The
deviate from
the prevailing consensus, or are considered controversial-- then LCSH already
has the term CONTROVERSIAL LITERATURE.
Aviva Astrinsky
YIVO
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Yasher Koyekh and Yishar Koah to AJL-NYMA and its webmaster Steve Bernstein
on creating the Chapter's user friendly website!
It even includes scans of all past newsletters, reminding us that the
first newsletters
was typed on the first IBM PC acquired by JTS Library in 1985.
Way to go!
Aviva
CENTENNARY CELEBRATION.
The announcement did include the e-mail address of the organizers,
to whom all questions should be directed, yet some of you preferred
to address their
comments or concerns to the poor messenger. Yidn, have mercy!
Aviva Astrinsky
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
CALL FOR PAPERS
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND THE STUDY OF CULTURAL TRANSFER
A MORITZ-STEINSCHNEIDER CENTENNARY CELEBRATION
STAATSBIBLIOTHEK BERLIN, 20-22 NOVEMBER 2007
Moritz (Moshe) Steinschneider (1816-1907) was the first scholar who,
qua accomplished bibliographer, investigated systematically the
.html
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By popular demand, I am enclosing the transliterated version of the
Pessah Yiddish song,
In dem land fum piramidn.
The text is taken from: A naye hagode shel peysakh,
published by The Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33rd Street NY, NY.
http://www.circle.org
Available from its bookstore:
of singability.
We welcome any improvement -- provided it does not spoil the rhythm.
Happy Passover (2 months to go!)
Pyramids
Yiddish words: David Edelstadt
English translation: Aviva Astrinsky Miriam Hoffman
In the land of the Egyptians
There was once a wicked king
And the Jews were made his servants
Call for Papers
International Conference
Yiddish Culture in the Postwar Era in Communist Countries
Krakow 6-8 November 2006
The Department of Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow,
Poland, in cooperation with the School of Jewish Studies at University in
Potsdam, Germany,
Well, it seems that if you scratch deep enough
into the heritage of famous people, you find either librarians -- or Jewish
ancestry...
Aviva Astrinsky
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Lecture : Jews, Genes, and Intelligence
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
at the Center for Jewish History
Thurs . Dec. 1, 2005 7 p.m.
'Jews, Genes, and Intelligence'. Fact or fiction? Steven Pinker, Harvard
professor, will explore the
controversial subject of whether Askenazi Jews have
Memorial Day
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European Association for Jewish Studies
VIII TH EAJS CONGRESS
Past and present perspectives in Jewish Studies
JULY, 23-27, 2006, Moscow
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The executive committee of the European Association for Jewish Studies is
glad to announce that the next congress of EAJS will take
YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH
JEWS AND MEDICINE
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MAIMONIDES
THE JEWISH DOCTOR AS HEALER, SCIENTIST AND INTELLECTUAL
Date: November 6, 2005
Program:
8:45am - 9:15am Registration
9:15am - 6:00pm Conference
Venue:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
at the Center for
Date: September 12, 2005
Subject: Vilnius Yiddish Institute
As coordinator of the Vilnius Summer Program in Yiddish, I am very happy to
let you all know
that after missing (unfortunately) one summer, because of financial and
administrative
reasons (our institute was being integrated into the
Community of Salonika
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A reminder to all those who consider a full or a one day registration to the
14th World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.
The International Committee of AJL has arranged and sponsored two sessions
at the Fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies.
The Congress will take place at the Mount
Fringe
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AN EVENING OF BLUE FRINGE
LIVE JEWISH ROCK
Dear Colleagues,
If you are in the New York City area, you will not want to miss the
following exhibits
currently shown at the Center for Jewish History.
1. Printing the Talmud: From Bomberg to Schottenstein
through Aug. 28
This major exhibition documents the evolution of the 2,000 year-old
in proximity to their home towns.
Aviva Astrinsky
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