Thank you, Erika! I was moved by Sara Lippman's essay and learned a delightfully melancholy new word there. "Vellichor," coined by John Koenig (*The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows*), means "the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time — filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured." Source: World Wide Words http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-vel4.htm
Shabbat shalom! Annette -- Annette Goldsmith, PhD Librarian, Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, Los Angeles, CA Chair, Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI) 2020 Translated YA Book Prize Committee Currently reading: *Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster *by Jonathan Auxier (Amulet Books, 2018) "A book is like a world you can carry around with you." Liniers, *Written and Drawn by Henrietta* (TOON Books, 2015) On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 8:45 AM Erika Dreifus via Hasafran < hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > Good morning, everyone: > > As many of you know, each week I post a collection of "Pre-Shabbat Jewish > Literary Links" on the My Machberet blog. This week's post kicks off with a > magnificent essay by Sara Lippmann (on the popular book-focused site The > Millions) on the dismantling of a Jewish library. > > Also in the post: the announcement for the part-time job that AJL is > advertising. And a few other things. Link: https://wp.me/p4x0h8-c3L > <https://t.co/Sp6kBqMF7a>. > > Shabbat shalom, > Erika > > > > -- > *Erika Dreifus* | Reader. Writer. Publicist. Resource Maven. > (w) http://www.erikadreifus.com > (t) http://twitter.com/erikadreifus > (f) http://facebook.com/erikadreifusauthor > <http://facebook.com/erikadreifusauthor> > > *Look for my next book, Birthright: Poems (Kelsay Books), in November > 2019.* > __ > 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...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org > -- > Hasafran mailing list > Hasafran@lists.osu.edu > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran >
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