Re: [ha-Safran] Reference question

Holy Days: the world of a Hasidic family, by Lis Harris On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Kolodney, Uri wrote: > Does this ring a bell to anyone? > > I could not find anything. The patron is not sure of any of these clues… > but maybe the collective memory would help

[ha-Safran] Celebrating the Jewish Experience in Children’s Books, @ the Eric Carle Museum this Sunday!

Great to see this event happening! Celebrating the Jewish Experience in Children’s Books December 18, 2016 1:00pm Free with Museum Admission Join us for an afternoon celebrating the best Jewish books for children and the adults who love them. Meredith Lewis, Director of Content and Engagement

[ha-Safran] Reference question

Does this ring a bell to anyone? I could not find anything. The patron is not sure of any of these clues... but maybe the collective memory would help here :) Many thanks, Uri "I'm looking for a book that has to do with a woman's quest to reconnect with her Jewish heritage. I read it decades

[ha-Safran] Books in a Mikveh

Folks: Our shul's mikveh is building a small library and they are, understandably, worried about the effect of humidity on the books. Does anyone have any ideas about how to keep the books from getting too damaged too quickly? Micah Salb Librarian Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue

[ha-Safran] Looking for an article from the journal L'eylah

If anyone has access to the journal L'eylah, I am looking for the following article for a teacher at my school: Sacks, J. (1990). One People? Thinking About Jewish Unity. L'eylah, 293-8. I would very much appreciate it if it could be scanned and emailed to me. With thanks and

Re: [ha-Safran] Has anyone encountered this individual?

Yes, we got this as well, below: Very warm greetings, My name is Sam Mandel. I recently came by your synagogue’s website and have looked through it and I must say that I am very intrigued by the historical significance of your synagogue. It seems that Massachusetts used to be a very

Re: [ha-Safran] Has anyone encountered this individual?

He contacted our congregation as well, actually communicating with our Temple's President ​, regarding our library and​ our genizah. We have a small collection, entirely administered by volunteers. I expressed a note of caution ​, indicating that I had heard of book dealers who sometimes fished

[ha-Safran] Smuggled in Potato Sacks

Greetings from snowy Toronto... Does anyone have this book? If so can they reply to me off list? Smuggled in Potato Sacks by Solomon Abramovich (Editor),

Re: [ha-Safran] Has anyone encountered this individual?

We received this email as well. He’s clearly on a mission. Claire Uziel Special Projects Manager Research Assistance, Social Media, Publications Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington 701 Fourth Street, NW #200 Washington, D.C. 20001 T: 202 789 0900 / F: 202 789 0485

[ha-Safran] Last call for papers for the World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem 2017

Dear Safranim, The deadline for proposals to the World Congress of Jewish Studies conference in 2017 is rapidly approaching. I received very few responses to my previous call for ideas, but I think it would be great to put forward a panel within the Research Projects and Technology Division

[ha-Safran] author of Di Yidishe kolonial-bank

Greetings all, I have a copy of the 1901 work Di Yidishe ḳolonial-banḳ : ihr ṭheṭigḳayṭ und ihr tsuḳunfṭ / fun Ben-Zeʼev.  The current information in OCLC identifies Ben-Ze'ev as Hilel ben Ze'ev Malakhovski (authorized form: Malachowsky, H. (Hillel), 1860-1943); the National Library of