[ha-Safran] Mishna and Tosefta Ketubbot

2015-07-19 Thread Celestina Levant
Hello We would like to introduce a book published by Magnes press: Mishna and Tosefta Ketubbot Text, Exegesis and Redaction By Robert Brodyhttp://www.magnes-press.com/Authors/Robert+Brody.aspx?name=Robert+Brody Mishnah and Tosefta Ketubbot: Text, Exegesis and Redaction includes new editions

Re: [ha-Safran] THE JEWS OF CHINA [???]

2015-07-19 Thread Lois Ruby
Is this the book you're looking for? The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion, by Xu Xin. I had the pleasure of traveling to Kaifeng with Mr. Xu a few years back to meet indigenous Chinese people who claim to be descendants of the Jews of China whose history goes back to

[ha-Safran] The Hebrew Language Portal

2015-07-19 Thread Jacob Richman
Hi Everyone! Over the past 10 days, I updated the 21 sections of the Hebrew Language Portal. http://www.hebrew-language.com The site includes a wide range of free Hebrew resources on the Internet including: Alphabet, Biblical, Dictionaries, Fonts, Forums, Games, Movies, Names, News, Reading,

[ha-Safran] Scholarly books

2015-07-19 Thread leah krieger
Willing to donate to a university library approximately 180 out-of-print scholarly books in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. Topics include Zionism, Jewish religion, philosophy and psychology, Jewish History, education and literature. (The earliest books are printed in 1898 and 1899.) If you are

Re: [ha-Safran] THE JEWS OF CHINA [???]

2015-07-19 Thread ALBA TOSCANO
Hey, campers, how's summer treating you all? The book for which I am looking would have a title along the lines of THE JEWS OF CHINA. How's about an excellant free course given by COURSERA? https://www.coursera.org/learn/jews-in-china It's terrific.- As for my annual beg-a-thon: If you happen

Re: [ha-Safran] THE JEWS OF CHINA [???]

2015-07-19 Thread Sherry Wasserman
My library has these two books: http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcoverfrontcoverimg=1zoom=1vid=ISBN0781808332 Jews in old China : studies by Chinese scholars : translated, compiled and edited by Sidney Shapiro. Published 2001 Product

Re: [ha-Safran] THE JEWS OF CHINA

2015-07-19 Thread Altschiller, Donald S
Dear Prof. Weinshank, Prof. Jonathan Goldstein has written two books on the Jews of China. Please check out this bibliography http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln270/Judaism/bibliography.htm for a full citation of his titles and a list of other works on Jews in China.

[ha-Safran] n'div lev and Exodus 36.6 with respect to The Jews of China

2015-07-19 Thread Donald Weinshank
I am profoundly grateful for the responses to my question about source materials regarding The Jews of China. Talk about those whose heart so moves them! As Moses says in Ex 36.6 6Moses thereupon had this proclamation made throughout the camp: “Let no man or woman make further effort toward

Re: [ha-Safran] THE JEWS OF CHINA [???]

2015-07-19 Thread Daniel E. Kestenbaum
White, William Charles. Chinese Jews. A Compilation of Matters Relating to the Jews of K’aifeng Fu. Three parts in three volumes: Historical; Inscriptional; Genealogical. Numerous photographic plates, illustrations, maps, etc. University of Toronto Press. 1942 Coming up for sale in our

[ha-Safran] Links between the National Library Catalog and the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book

2015-07-19 Thread Elhanan Adler
For those who were not present at the NLI session in Silver Spring: The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book Project (BHB) is a very detailed bibliographic record which aims to describe all published works in Hebrew script from the beginning of Hebrew printing up to 1960. The description is much more

[ha-Safran] The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book Project (BHB)

2015-07-19 Thread Eli Amsel
The cd version of The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book Project (BHB) had an invaluable biographical database of authors, what happened to it? Is it accessible anywhere? Cordially yours, Eli Amsel www.virtualjudaica.com 718 686 7937 - office 917 863 8239 - mobile __ Messages and