[ha-Safran] In the News: AJL works with ATLA and CLA on Preservation Survey

Thanks to AJL members Ilka Gordon and Elizabeth Stabler for participating in this collaborative project that AJL is doing with ATLA and CLA. This press release comes from the ATLA website and was also blogged on AJL’s site. – Heidi Estrin, President, AJL In Good Faith Project Prepares

Re: [ha-Safran] Fwd: Reference question for Safranim

The poems in tee beginning of the issue are by Else Lasker Schuller Haim 2014-03-12 18:13 GMT+02:00 igud.safranei.yahadut igud.safranei.yahadut igud.safranei.yaha...@gmail.com: Shalom I found the issue. It is der Indzl second year, June-July 1926, No. 3-4 (15-16) Haim Levy The National

[ha-Safran] Gaon Books Author Wins European Prize for Folklore

Gaon Books author and Israeli ethnomusicologist, Susana Weich-Shahak, has just won the European Prize for Folklore for her work on the Moroccan Sephardic Romancero, published 2013. This is an anthology of Judeo-Spanish ballads from the Spanish romancero tradition that have been preserved in the

[ha-Safran] Free author event

DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ADDRESS; ALL INQUIRIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO EAST END TEMPLE.   HELENE SPRING LIBRARY EVENT, featuring author Meg Wolitzer Sunday, March 30, 2014 1 pm East End Temple, 245 E, 17th Street, New York, NY 10003  Tel:  212 477-6444 No Admission Charge/Public invited Meg

[ha-Safran] Purim Plays and Purim Shpiels: History and commercial post

In honor of the upcoming holiday of Purim we have prepared a short research into the subject of the Purim Shpiel and the related and sometimes overlapping Purim Play. In addition I have prepared a list of American Purim Plays from the 1910s through the 1950s that I acquired some time ago but

[ha-Safran] More duplicates available ....

Colleagues, Here are some more books we are offering to other libraries: Arabesques : a novel / by Anton Shammas ; translated from the Hebrew by Vivian Eden (New York : Harper Row, 1988) [the same as above] (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001) An anthology of Jewish-Russian

[ha-Safran] Oooops - one more book to offer ----

One more book to offer Six Israeli novellas / by Ruth Almog, Aharon Appelfeld, David Grossman, Yehudit Hendel, Yaakov Shabtai, Benjamin Tammus / edited and with an introduction by Gershon Shaked ; translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu, Philip Simpson, and Marganit Weinberger-Rotman (Boston :

Re: [ha-Safran] Correction ! I meant Barbara Krasner

Dear friends, Barbara Krasner is the recipient of the Groner-Wikler Scholarship for AJL Conference. I think that in the spirit of Purim I became dyslexic and made a typo in her name. I also did not list all of her amazing accomplishments because I could not turn a Hasafran email into a