On Sunday afternoon, AJL's Greater Cleveland Chapter had its annual Jewish Book Month Tea. Abraham Socher, the editor of the Jewish Review of Books and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Oberlin College was the speaker and his talk, with lively discussion afterwards, inspired me to urge all Jewish librarians to subscribe to the Jewish Review of Books if you haven't already. The fourth issue will be published in January and in one short year, a whole new forum for Jewish ideas, Jewish books, and Jewish culture has emerged as a bright light in the Jewish community. Who writes for it? Some of the best thinkers in Jewish life today: Hillel Halkin, Robert Alter, Dara Horn, and Ruth Wisse to name a few. What is the writing like? Intelligent, erudite but readable accessible to the lay reader. What is its point of view? Here is Abe Socher's statement from the first issue: "The Jewish Review of Books is a forum, not a platform; a conversation, not a polemic. In particular, it is founded in the conviction that the ideas and achievements of Jewish religion, literature, and scholarship are interesting and valuable in and of themselves. They are not reducible to any position or program, no matter how worthy." The subscription rate is very low - $19.95 for one year in the U.S. and $29.95 in Canada - and subscription information can be found atwww.jewishreviewofbooks.com. If you don't already subscribe, do yourself, your library collection, and your readers a favor and sign up now. Jewish libraries are about ideas and ideas abound in the new Jewish Review of Books!
(Also posted on Facebook) Linda R. Silver The Jewish Valuesfinder, www.ajljewishvalues.org 3729 Meadowbrook Blvd. University Heights, OH 44118 silve...@roadrunner.com --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
