[ha-Safran] The Education of a Daffodil: Prose Poems

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub]

Dear Yossi,

Can you post the announcement below (without this request) on ha-Safran?

Many thanks,
Ahron



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Dear Friends,

I am delighted to announce the publication of my fifth book of poems, *The
Education of a Daffodil: Prose Poems/Di bildung fun a geln nartsis:
prozelider* (Saarbrücken, Germany: Hadassa Word Press, 2017).  Six poems
in the book also have a Yiddish version.  Links to some of the poems in the
collection previously published in literary journals can be found on the
"Books" page of my website (www.yataub.net).  Advance praise is below.  The
book is available via Amazon and the publisher's website.

Please circulate this announcement widely.  Many thanks in advance for your
interest and support!

All my best,
Yermiyahu Ahron

www.yataub.net


https://www.amazon.com/Education-Daffodil-Prose-Poems/dp/3639794974


https://www.hadassa-wp.com/catalog/details//store/gb/
book/978-3-639-79497-7/the-education-of-a-daffodil


Taub, Yermiyahu Ahron.  *The Education of a Daffodil: Prose Poems/Di
bildung fun a geln nartsis: prozelider*. Saarbrücken, Germany: Hadassa
Word Press, 2017. ISBN: 9783639794977. 114 pages.



*Advance Praise for *
*The Education of a Daffodil: Prose Poems*

Although he’s a prose poet, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s poems in *The Education
of a Daffodil* demonstrate that he is also part storyteller and part
playwright from another time. Somehow Taub weaves these genres together to
create striking narrative tales of trauma, loss, displacement, sexuality,
and xenophobia. Imagine a Yiddish bard from centuries past who creates
scenes that mark his place in this post-modern world: that is Yermiyahu
Ahron Taub. This courageous collection, which offers flickers of Lucille
Clifton and flashes of Marge Piercy, won’t let us forget that the past
flourishes in the present, and that the unexamined life is a terrible waste.



—Carmen Calatayud, author of *In the Company of Spirits*






A gifted story-teller, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub inhabits many worlds: the world
of the outsider, seeking connection, the immigrant, the yeshiva student,
the fragile daffodil, the one who is bullied for being different, for being
gay, the lover. This powerful book is his “extended sojourn into a
labyrinth of pain and recovery.”  Through this foray into ballads, fairy
tales, and parables, Taub gives us access to the journey of his own
healing.  This brave and brilliant book is a gateway to transformation, in
which the reader feels like a confidante, a treasured and trusted friend.



—Deborah Leipziger, author of *Flower Map* and co-founder of *Soul-Lit*, a
journal of spiritual poetry






In *The Education of a Daffodil*, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub offers his readers a
sober, beautiful, and wild human choir.  These delicate and powerful poems
sing of women waiting for bombs to fall, aunts in kitchens, black veils. We
hear of revolutionary lovers, alley kisses, an elderly woman who used to
ride buses.  We see a hero dance on a football field at night.  We listen
as he muses over the names the world has called him, the colors of his
clothes.  In this lush human chorus, we not only see the cruelties that
land on some of us, we also see survival.  It can be no surprise that this
survival beautifully comes to us in poems.  This collection of poems sings
of survival.  It’s a song we all need.



—Joseph Ross, author of *Ache*, *Gospel of Dust*, and *Meeting Bone Man*





In *The Education of a Daffodil*, Taub carefully studies the singular
experience of the *shlimazl (*a person who suffers through no fault of
their own), a both fragile and resilient character who faces an
estrangement from himself and others, and the essential foreignness of
being human. Driven by a natural gift for storytelling, Taub's creative and
meticulous prose poems find similarities between orphaned girls, an aging
dowager never brilliantly beautiful, and the Orthodox Jewish boy dancing to
the beat of a band in the shadow of a football stadium. With precision and
a understanding for the layers and shades of human suffering, Taub captures
what happens to the person who inherits “eyes ringed red from years of not
looking away.”  For me, *The Education of a Daffodil* reads like a personal
midrash on a single person's life. In an elegant and highly-tuned style,
Taub retells the story of the underdog, bestowing upon this suffering
figure the laurels of compassion, thus re-imagining him as a hero in his
own tale, one in which he can say, ultimately, *I lived, I survived*.



—Leslie Contreras Schwartz, author of *Fuego*






In *The Education of a Daffodil*, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub charts a young man’s
journey from innocence to experience across a treacherous, sometimes
painful landscape. These are meditative poems that look outward to
characters both historical and contemporary, as well as inward to the dark
corners of the heart. In poems that are by turns fearsome and ominous,
tender and 

[ha-Safran] Sydney Taylor Book Award

[Ellen Tilman]

Haverim -
Please put our "medals" on your Sydney Taylor Book Award winning and honor
titles.  Send me a stamped self addressed legal envelope and I will return
it to you with a set of "medals" (3 gold and 4 silver).

I am including a list of the winners.

Ellen Tilman
Chair, Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee
Meyers Library
Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel
8339 Old York Road
Elkins Park, PA 19027


email: ellen.til...@gmail.com


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[ha-Safran] Translation needed

[Robbin Katzin]

Hello Safranim,
I am in the process of creating new signs for the stacks, and would like to 
know how other libraries write Fiction and Nonfiction on their signs in Hebrew.
Thank you.
Robbin KatzinSchool LibrarianHillel Torah North Suburban Day School 
LibrarySkokie, IL

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Re: [ha-Safran] Jewish Heritage Trip to Prague

[Rebecca Landau]

> 

Does anyone know Barbara Weitz or about her trips to the Czech Republic?

Please contact me off the list to my personal e-mail.

Thank you

Rebecca
—
Rebecca Landau
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[ha-Safran] English - Hebrew Tu B'Shvat Vocabulary

[Jacob Richman]

Hi Everyone!

Get ready for Tu B'Shvat
English - Hebrew Tu B'Shvat Vocabulary

Do you know the Hebrew words for:
agriculture, almond, almond tree, apple, apricot, banana,
barley, blossom, branch, bud, carob, cherry, date, figs, fruit,
forest, garden, gardener, gardening, grape, greenery, ground,
hoe, Land of Israel, leaves, lemon, lime, nature, nature reserve,
nuts, oak, olives, orange, peach, pear, pineapple, pitchfork,
plant, raisins, rake, ripe, root, seed, seedling, soil, spade,
sprout, tree, vine, walnut, willow, wine, semi-dry wine?

My English Hebrew Dictionary has 10 study sheets with 100 words:
http://www.english-hebrew-dictionary.com/tu-bshvat-1.htm

Please share. Thank You!

Have a good day,
Jacob

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[ha-Safran] Fwd: Question about Jewish librarianship

[Nancy Sack]

Hello safranim ve-safraniyot,
This message was sent to us via the AJL website. Please respond directly 
to Sally if you can help her.

Thanks.
Nancy Sack

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Question about Jewish librarianship
Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:37:37 -0500
From:   Sally Stieglitz 
To: i...@jewishlibraries.org



Hello,

I am a Jewish librarian, but not a Judaica librarian. I have a question 
as to  whether AJL collects data on Jewish librarianship, such as what 
percentage we represent in the field, etc.


I have seen diversity data and presentations for other librarian groups 
(particularly those that are concerned about underrepresentation) but 
never for Jewish librarians. Do you have any resources that you could 
share or direct me to?


Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide.

Sincerely,
Sally Stieglitz
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[ha-Safran] Need to replace Elazar classification copy

[rhaus_com]

Dear Hasafranim,
After about a month of not cataloging, I got started again, only to discover 
that my copy of the 1997 edition of A Classification System for Libraries of 
Judaica by David and Daniel Elazar was missing! In the 10 years I've been 
library director, that book has never left my desk. After conducting an 
exhaustive search, and asking our entire congregation and school, the book's 
whereabouts are still a mystery. The hardest thing to lose are my 10 years of 
extensive notes and changes penciled in throughout.
Purchasing a new book (even used) is a bit expensive right now. Does anyone 
have a old copy (in whatever condition) he or she might be willing to sell for 
a nominal price? 
Thanks,
Rachel HausLibrary DirectorCongregation of Moses Fisher LibraryKalamazoo MI

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[ha-Safran] New AJL Jewish Fiction Award

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub]

Dear Yossi,

Can you post the press release below and the attached Submissions
Guidelines on ha-Safran?

Thanks so much,
A




*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

January 2017



*CONTACT:*

Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

ajljewishfictionaw...@gmail.com






*The Association of Jewish Libraries Announces New Jewish Fiction Prize*



 The Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) is pleased to announce a new
Jewish fiction award for adult readers.  The award will include a $1,000
cash prize as well as support to attend the AJL conference to receive the
award.  Books published in 2017 will be eligible for the 2018 award, and
the award winner will be announced in late February or early March 2018. The
Association of Jewish Libraries gratefully acknowledges the generous
support of Dan Wyman Books for underwriting this new award.


 All works of fiction with significant Jewish thematic content written in
English--novels, short story and flash fiction collections--by a single
author published and available for purchase in the United States during
2017 are eligible for the award.  Jewish thematic content means an extended
grappling with Jewish themes throughout the book, including Judaism, Jewish
history and culture, Jewish identity, etc.  Please see the accompanying
“Submission Guidelines” for more details.


 Amalia Warshenbrot, President of Association of Jewish Libraries, notes:
“In recent years, fiction featuring Jewish themes has become more prevalent
than ever before.  AJL is proud to support authors incorporating Jewish
topics into their work and to elevate the quality of Jewish fiction in the
literary landscape.”


The Association of Jewish Libraries promotes Jewish literacy through
enhancement of libraries and library resources and through leadership for
the profession and practitioners of Judaica librarianship. The Association
fosters access to information, learning, teaching and research relating to
Jews, Judaism, the Jewish experience and Israel.  For more information,
please visit www.jewishlibraries.org.


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