[ha-Safran] creating an online catalog

2012-09-25 Thread patgivens
Dear Synagogue Librarians, We are creating a unified online catalog for the three small synagogue libraries in Bend, Oregon, called the Bend Jewish Library, and are exploring options for the software or service. Our combined collection is about 1,500 items. We have been testing Library World

[ha-Safran] lemon tree

2012-10-29 Thread patgivens
My rebbitzin read Lemon Tree with her non-Jewish book club, and while she found it fairly balanced, she thought the Palestinians were portrayed more sympathetically than the Israelis. She would like to find another book to recommend to her book club, that deals with the Israeli-Palestinian

[ha-Safran] kindertransport books

2012-12-13 Thread patgivens
Has anyone read the novel My Family for the War by Anne C. Voorhoeve? It is a fictionalized account of the kindertransport program during WWII. Ever since Sara's Key, I have been wary of certain fictionalized accounts of WWII events. A non-Jewish school librarian thinks it is well done and

[ha-Safran] ha-aretz english edition

2014-08-13 Thread patgivens
Dear Friends, I am having a hard time finding an English edition of Ha-aretz for September 13, 1996. A professor at my academic library needs copies of articles on Algeria that appeared in the September 13, 1996 issue of Ha-aretz. We received microfilm in Hebrew from a research institution