[ha-Safran] Kima Historical Gazetteer: Place Names in the Hebrew Script

2017-12-05 Thread Charles E. Jones
An interesting project: Kima Historical Gazetteer: Place Names in the Hebrew Script "The Pelagios Resource Development Grant of the first round has enabled us to launch the project Kima, a Hebrew script, attestation-based historical gazetteer. The resulting resource was a promising database,

[ha-Safran] Sad news

2017-12-05 Thread Rita Lifton
I am sorry to inform you that Naomi Steinberger's mother (Hadassah Markson, z"l) passed away on Saturday, Dec. 2nd. Naomi is the Director of Library Services at JTS and a past president of AJL-NYMA. The funeral was held at on Monday, December 4th at Plaza Memorial Chapel, NY, NY. Naomi and her