[ha-Safran] Gail Shirazi's award - Congrats from South Africa

2024-04-29 Thread Veronica Belling via Hasafran
A special mazaltov to Gail from Cape Town in South Africa. Gail's inspiration and generosity helped me to advance my career as a librarian at the University of Cape Town Libraries and the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research. So that today even though retired I am still busy researching

Re: [ha-Safran] Tribute to Roberta Saltzman on her 10th yortsayt

2023-12-29 Thread Veronica Belling via Hasafran
Dear Amanda Besides knowing Roberta as a colleague at AJL, and as a dedicated and meticulous librarian, we were actually together in the Beginners Yiddish class at Yivo in 1998. Both of our names are Rochel in Yiddish, so we were Rochel Eyns and Rochel Tsvey. I remember congratulating her at the

Re: [ha-Safran] Sad news

2023-07-17 Thread Veronica Belling via Hasafran
I too remember Adaire as a very knowledgeable and helpful librarian. BDE. Veronica Belling, Cape Town On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 05:41, Amalia Warshenbrot via Hasafran < hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > This is, indeed, sad news. I have many fond memories of conversations with > Adaire. She was a

Re: [ha-Safran] !Yiddish words to describe 2020

2021-01-03 Thread Veronica Belling via Hasafran
Dear all It has been tough here in South Africa but one adjusts. I believe our numbers are the 5th highest in the world. However most people have followed the rules - masks sanitizing etc. We were initially confined to our homes for the whole day, (no exercise or even walking the dogs!!) for the

Re: [ha-Safran] !Yiddish words to describe 2020

2021-01-01 Thread Veronica Belling via Hasafran
Farkakte yor! Jahr/ Yahr is the German pronunciation!! Happy New Year!! Veronica On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 01:16 Amalia Warshenbrot via Hasafran, < hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > I’m not sure how to spell it in English. > > Farkakte yahr. > > Amalia > > > > > > > > *From: *Sally Stieglitz via

[ha-Safran] Early Hebraica and Judaica at the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies

2019-05-27 Thread Veronica Belling via Hasafran
Hi there Some of you will remember that I spoke about the closure of the Jewish Studies Library at the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town at the AJL convention in 2017. A Special Collection of approximately 2000 books - pre-1923 Judaica and Hebraica as

[ha-Safran] Israeli Theatre presentation at Library of Congress

2019-01-10 Thread Veronica Belling via Hasafran
Dear Gail and Uri Could you find out from the Israeli actor, why theatre in Yiddish is not included. It certainly exists in Israel. Thanks so much Veronica Belling Honorary Research Associate Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research University of Cape Town. -- Veronica Belling +27 (0)21

Re: [ha-Safran] PROGRAM ON ISRAELI THEATER AT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-February 4 at noon

2019-01-09 Thread Veronica Belling via Hasafran
Wish I could be there. But why is theatre in Yiddish not mentioned? Veronica Belling Honorary Research Associate Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research. University of Cape Town On 9 Jan 2019 23:18, "Shirazi, Gail via Hasafran" wrote: > > > WHAT: Israel’s Theatrical Scene: Welcome to