[ha-Safran] Message for Hasafran members about Patron use of the Posen Digital Library

2020-10-02 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
*Because the Posen Library collection is curated by leading Jewish scholars, you may already have on your shelves volumes of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization published by Yale University Press. You and your patrons might also want to note that most of this material is also

[ha-Safran] A special Jewish Book Launch with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Posen Library

2020-11-30 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
*Dear Librarians.* *You still have time to join this Tuesday’s online lecture from the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, featuring its editors, David Roskies and Samuel Kassow.* *Posen Library Vol 9: Catastrophe and Rebirth: 1939-1973 *

[ha-Safran] Posen Library of Jewish Culture is publishing a new series of Readers Discussion Guides

2021-01-16 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
News for AJL librarians. The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization is creating a new series of Readers’ Discussion Guides that should stimulate lively conversations and rich learning among your patrons, rabbis, congregation book groups and teaching staff. I'm proud to direct you to

[ha-Safran] Posen Library feature at the Jewish Women Amplified blog

2021-01-27 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
I hope this week finds each of you in a productive, optimistic frame of mind. Today, Jan 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021, is focused on the importance of education and truth. The circumstances of persecution, imprisonment, genocide are often disputed by groups and individuals,

[ha-Safran] A half-remembered, half-imagined place shared within the pages of the Posen Digital Library

2021-06-16 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Welcome to Summer, Friends! I expect that like myself, you are looking forward to a rich summer of real and imagined travels. Here is an excerpt from Deborah Dash Moore, Posen Library Editor in Chief’s recent SUMMER newsletter to registered users. The entire message is posted in entirety at

[ha-Safran] Using the Posen Library for historical background

2021-05-12 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
I have recently heard interviews with the author Judy Batalion about her latest riveting history, *THE LIGHT OF DAYS: **The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos*. I have just begun reading the 500+ page account of its daring characters and find the Posen Digital Library a

Re: [ha-Safran] What's New in the Bible? Please join Posen Library's free online program on April 28

2021-04-28 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
*Registration is still open for the Posen Library free live webinar discussion about its latest volume, * *The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 1, Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings through 332 BCE*

[ha-Safran] A wonderful reason to visit the Posen Library's YouTube Channel

2021-02-09 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
I recommend some of the recent Holocaust Remembrance Day interviews with our Posen Library’s Editor in Chief, Deborah Dash Moore.

[ha-Safran] Posen Library news about ANCIENT ISRAEL from its Beginnings through 332 BCE

2021-04-01 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Posen Library news from our Editor in Chief, Deborah Dash Moore, online@ https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.posenlibrary.com/frontend/deborah-dash-moore-on-for-want-of-a-cloak__;!!KGKeukY!iQ4Ie8lYZHO-Rasax1I3WkjHnslGvNZVW45PWDRoyYPiwgD5GdSfGWSDMn6DuWIyvv4$ She shares an analysis of a

[ha-Safran] ANCIENT ISRAEL from its Beginnings through 332 BCE Just released from The Posen Library and Yale University Press!

2021-03-18 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Print copies of *The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 1: Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings through 332 BCE* are available for purchase and you can explore its online content at The Posen Digital Library.

[ha-Safran] What's New in the Bible? Please join Posen Library's free online program on April 28

2021-04-14 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Hello friends. I hope that you're doing well and will consider attending the next Posen Library online webinar in two weeks with our partner/host the Siegal Lifelong Learning program at Case Western Reserve University. For two thousand years, Jews and Christians have been reading the Hebrew

[ha-Safran] Posen Library September newsletter

2021-09-21 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
*Hello Friends and Associates,* *I hope that if you observe Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur that you had a meaningful welcome to 5782.* *Attached is my September newsletter containing some Posen Library news about using the PDL as a research database tool. * *There are some upcoming Posen Library

[ha-Safran] Posen Library Readers Discussion Guides

2021-09-28 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Librarians and academic curriculum staff, Wishing you a Yom and Shana Tova and meaningful Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah as we begin the annual cycle of reading the Torah. I hope that you have registered and encouraged your patrons to use the free Posen’s Digital Library for research and

[ha-Safran] Fwd: An American Jewish Thanksgiving

2021-11-18 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Dear Friends and Professional Colleagues. I hope that you have each signed up to directly receive Posen Library newsletters from our Editor in Chief, Deborah Dash Moore. To commemorate the Thanksgiving Holiday in the U.S. the text below is her latest message. She also mentions the addition of

[ha-Safran] The solemn day of weeping

2021-07-17 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
We are about to commemorate Tisha B’av tomorrow, the profound day of mourning to commemorate the destruction of the First and Second Temples. When searching “Solomon’s Temple” in the Posen Digital Library online database, I find at least 45 results about the reigns of King David and King Solomon

[ha-Safran] Posen Library Purim Festival Newsletter

2022-03-15 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
*Colleagues and Friends.* *Although Purim brings us to an annual event of gratitude that the Jewish people of Persia were spared a violent end, we find our world in another terrifying period. In reviewing the stories of the Posen Library volumes and its digital pages I discover heroic

[ha-Safran] Interview with Posen Library Editor in Chief

2022-02-10 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Dr. Dash Moore emphasizes the treasures within the Posen Library for teachers, students and general library patrons.

[ha-Safran] "A weighty collection, to be sure, but one that's consistently engaging" -Kirkus awards Posen Library Volume 9 a starred review in its April issue.

2022-04-05 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Jewish Librarians: Are you representing the current five volumes of Posen Digital Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization? Please note in the April issue of Kirkus Review magazine. "A *starred* KIRKUS review for The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume Nine: Catastrophe

[ha-Safran] Kirkus Reviews The Posen Library as “An essential collection of Judaica that ably combines the known and the obscure.”

2022-08-01 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Featured in the recent July 15, 2022 Kirkus Reviews

[ha-Safran] This month's posting by Kirkus of Posen Library's Vol 8 Between the Wars

2022-08-30 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
*Featured in the recent August 2, 2022 Kirkus Reviews*

[ha-Safran] Free Online Event with Posen Library and the Maltz Museum

2022-10-25 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Register now for next month's free event with the Maltz Museum. *Part of "Creating a Movement" Series! ** Behind the Camera: The Photographers of This Light of Ours (Online)* *November 18 | 12 pm | Free* Join Dr. Deborah Dash Moore, Editor in Chief of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and

[ha-Safran] Posen Library event with Yiddish Book Center Thurs Oct 27 7 P.M.

2022-10-26 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Friends. You still have time to join tomorrow's event with Posen Library hosted by the Yiddish Book Center. The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization is a vibrant, growing collection curated by leading Jewish studies scholars. Spanning biblical times to the 21st century, the Posen

[ha-Safran] Yiddish Book Center Posen Library event this Thurs Oct 27 at 7 P.M.

2022-10-26 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Librarians: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization is a vibrant, growing collection curated by leading Jewish studies scholars. Spanning biblical times to the 21st century, the Posen Library offers unprecedented access to excerpts from thousands of sources reflecting Jewish

[ha-Safran] Please visit Posen Digital’s Library newest resource page for the High Holidays.

2022-09-19 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Boker Tov Posen Library users and fans. The Posen Library recommends resources from The Posen Digital Library (PDL) collection to inspire your teaching, learning, and reflections during the High Holiday Season. There are ideas for sermons and discussions spotlighting images and texts from the

[ha-Safran] Deborah Dash Moore's Food themed newsletter

2022-12-15 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
Enjoy reading some fascinating examples of Jewish Food culture from Posen Library's latest newsletter.

[ha-Safran] Using the Posen Library to enhance recreational reading

2023-02-02 Thread Pamela Turner via Hasafran
*Am enjoying an excellent historical family memoir TEARS OVER RUSSIA: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine’s Pogroms by Lisa Brahin with vivid characters among Brahin’s ancestors. With the narrative of a dramatic novel, the time period is post WWI. I’ve searched many of the events using