[ha-Safran] New Titles from ASP: The Pillar of Volozhin and Lives Lived and Lost

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the publication of five new titles in June! The Pillar of Volozhin: Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin and the World of 19th Century Lithuanian Torah Scholarship By Gil Perl ISBN 978-1-936235-70-4 291 pp. (cloth)

[ha-Safran] Convention Report on Pasadena Weather

We are so excited for your arrival but we want you to come prepared. Weather during the day in Pasadena can be in the 70s and rise into the 80s however every year Southern California experiences June gloom. Yes there is even a name for it. The morning hours can be quite over cast and sometimes a

[ha-Safran] Digital Commons as a publishing platform

Dear Colleagues, If any of your institutions is currently using Digital Commons, a publishing platform for libraries offered by Bepress, please contact me off-list. I would like to know what your experience has been like. Thank you, Rachel Rahcel Leket-Mor President, Research Libraries,