[ha-Safran] July e-catalog + Unique Interfaith Book of Prayers

[judaica man]

To all Members of HaSafran:
Greetings! My July 2015 e-catalog is now available.  It contains 58 items 
relating to Hebrew literature, religious and not, history of the Yishuv in 
Eretz Yisrael, various journals, Jewish  education and rare children's books. 
As usual, we have just one copy of each item, first come first served.
During the summer months till October I will be on vacation and no catalogs 
will be sent.Specific topics sent to institutions who are on my mailing list 
will continue receiving my lists, and I will continue in searching for any 
specific topics of request from members, as well as rare Judaica objects and  
manuscripts.
In addition, I am proud to be able to offer a recently published book entitled 
Lord of Peace: A Prayer Book for Peace According to Jewish, Christian and 
Islamic Tradition. Edited by Dr. Avi Elqayam, Rabbi Roberto Arbib, and Shaikh 
Ghassan Manasra. Introduction by Pope Franciscus, Idra Publishing, 2015,  374 
pages, hardcover, off white fine paper (110 gram)Title pages are in colors 
blue,green and red for the respective Faiths. Prayer are translated into 
English, Hebrew and Arabic. The title pages are illustrated with a  dove 
papercut illustration by Pablo Picasso against the background of the Alhambra 
Palace in Granada, Spain. . Price $25 (not incl. postage).Also, I have a 
limited amount of copies of Dissertation entitled: The Responsa of the Rosh on 
Nezikim: Halachic Thought and Judgement by Dr. Tehilla Elitzur. Final 
Dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy, Ben Gurion University, 345 pages, 2009. 
Price $90 (not incl. postage)Sincerely, Dr. Baruch [buhi] Falach : Rare books, 
Manuscripts and Jewish Arts. Mobile: 972-544-860413 TEL / FAX: 972-9-8823392 
P.O. BOX 606.  4210601 Natanya, Israel E.MAIL: baruc...@013.net.il  
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[ha-Safran] New digital exhibition on Atlantic Jewish History

[arthur kiron]

Dear Safranim:

A digital presentation of the Penn Libraries' exhibition, 
“Constellations of Atlantic Jewish History, 1555-1890: The Arnold and 
Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica," may now be viewed 
on-line: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/kaplanexhibit/ . The physical 
exhibition, mounted in partnership with the National Museum of American 
Jewish History, originally was held in the Goldstein Family Gallery of 
the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at 
Penn from February 12, 2014-June 9, 2014. The Kaplan Collection, donated 
to Penn in November of 2012, consists of over 11,000 individual items 
that document an astonishingly broad range of commercial, social, 
religious, political, and cultural ties that connected Jews and the 
general public from the colonial era through the onset of mass migration 
at the end of the nineteenth century. The exhibition features a treasure 
trove of original documents, books, oil paintings, lithographs, and 
artifacts. Among the earliest items in the Collection is a late 
16th-century codex of the proceedings of the Inquisition in Mexico City 
against a New Christian accused of Judaizing and engraved maps dating 
from the 17th and 18th centuries which mark Jewish permanent settlements 
in the New World. A major component of the Collection focuses on the 
development of Jewish mercantile, social and religious activity in the 
Americas of the 19th century.


This digital version of the physical exhibition was made on the 
suggestion of Arnold Kaplan, who built the Kaplan collection with his 
wife Deanne over the course of nearly four decades. This format, 
displaying virtually the physical exhibition in its original setting, is 
the first of its kind to be presented by the Penn Libraries. This 
digital version was created thanks to the talent and hard work of Dennis 
Mullen, the Digitization and Date Management Specialist at the Kislak 
Center. The photography was carried out with great skill and on 
short-notice by Chris Lippa, the imaging assistant at the Schoenberg 
Center for Electronic Text and Image at the Penn Libraries.


The printed companion volume to the exhibition may be ordered at:

http://www.costore.com/pennlibraries/ProductEnlarged_v2.aspx?session={DEEF2490-CB52-4EC3-8607-73CAD577C134}&peid=1061&pid=5054066

If you have questions about the digital exhibition or have trouble 
ordering the companion volume, please feel free to be in touch.


Best wishes,

Arthur


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Arthur Kiron, Ph.D.
Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
T. (215) 573-7431
F. (215) 898-0559
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/judaica/

Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
T. (215) 238-1290 ext 202
F. (215) 238-1540
Wednesday and Friday
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[ha-Safran] Book Announcement: The Sons of Scripture by Mikhail Kizilov

[Maria Hrynkiewicz / De Gruyter Open]

Book Announcement: "The Sons of Scripture" 
by Mikhail Kizilov

14.07.2015

Today's Karaites who make up less than 1% of Israel's Jews were once as 
numerous as Rabbanites. Moreover, the slow but inevitable decrease in the 
number of the Karaites in Poland and Lithuania leads to the conclusion that the 
Polish-Lithuanian Karaites are one of the most endangered ethnoreligious groups 
in Eastern Europe. This vanishing community of non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking 
Jews, who had lived in Eastern Europe since the late Middle Ages, had developed 
though a unique ethnographic culture and religious tradition.

The new open access book by Mikhail Kizilov, "The Sons of Scripture", published 
by De Gruyter Open is a full and fascinating history of this remarkable 
community, from its beginnings in the early part of the 14th century, until its 
near destruction during the Second World War, Holocaust, and years of Communist 
regime. The book offers the first comprehensive study of the dramatic history 
of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaite community in the twentieth and twenty first 
centuries.

Drawing on a variety of archival sources in the host of European and Oriental 
languages, Kizilov deals with the history, ethnography and the complex ethnic 
identity of the Polish-Lithuanian Karaites. It includes an analysis of the 
dejudaization (or Turkicization) of the community, which saved some of the 
Karaites from the horrors of the Holocaust. The author relies upon previously 
untapped sources on the Eastern European Karaites in Vilnius, Berlin, New York, 
Warsaw, Krakow, Halicz, Moscow and Simferopol.

"Mikhail Kizilov, one of the foremost scholars of East European Karaite 
history, has produced in Sons of Scripture an exhaustive and authoritative 
study of this endangered ethno-religious community, whose origins, identity and 
history have often been misunderstood, misinterpreted and politicized 
externally and internally. That history, in particular that of the tortured 
20th century, navigated by Kizilov with admirable clarity and meticulous 
scholarship, has now been recovered" says Peter B. Golden, Professor Emeritus 
of History from the Rutgers University.

This book aims, in addition to its academic objectives, at reminding the public 
of the necessity to help numerous ethnic and religious minorities inhabiting 
the continent to survive in the twenty-first century.

The book is available fully in open access to read, download and share on De 
Gruyter Online. 
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[ha-Safran] FW: Fig Tree Books Newsletter: July 2015

[Rachel Kamin]

AJL gets a shout out in the Fig Tree Books Newsletter!  See below for more 
information on how to subscribe.  

 

Rachel Kamin, Director

The Joseph and Mae Gray Cultural & Learning Center

North Suburban Synagogue Beth El

1175 Sheridan Road

Highland Park, IL 60035

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[ha-Safran] Jewish Studies 50

[Celestina Levant]

Hello
We would like to introduce a book published by Magnes press:
Jewish Studies 50
Journal of The World Union of Jewish Studies
Edited by: Ithamar 
Gruenwald,
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Kasher,
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The articles in the volume:
Cult as Literature in Second Temple Judaism (Papers from the 16th World 
Congress of Jewish Studies)
Anne Katrine Gudme - Dyed Yarns and Dolphin Skins: Temple Texts as Cultural 
Memory in the Hebrew Bible
Line Sogaard Christensen - Cultural Evolution in the Hebrew Bible: Animal 
Sacrifices, Blood Sprinkling, Sacred Texts, and Public Readings
Soren Holst - Provisional, Primordial, and Preexistent Temples in the Dead Sea 
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Martin Friis - "Aaron...The Most Deserving of Us": Josephus on the Priestly and 
High-Priestly Offices in the Jewish Antiquities book 3-4
ABSTRACTS
HEBREW SECTION
Efraim Sand - Traces of Byzantine Jewish Exegesis in Rashi's Commentary
Eran Viezel - The Composition of the Bible in the Writings of R. David Kimhi
Yaron Naim - Djerba's Rabbis: Orthodox Judaism in Islamic Territories?
Yael Shemesh - Jewish Feminist Biblical Scholarship: Possible Directions
Book Review
Abraham David - Review: Guide to the Hebrew Manuscripts collections Benjamin 
Richler, Guide to Hebrew Manuscript Collections, Second edition, Jerusalem, The 
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2014, 410 Pages
Eliezer Schweid - Review Essay: Germans Against Germans? Moshe Zimmermann, 
Germans Against Germans: The Fate of the Jews 1938-1945, Am Oved, 251 pps.,
Moshe Zimmermann - Response to Eliezer Schweid
New Books and Periodicals in Jewish Studies
Manuscripts and Annoted Critical Editions
Journals
Anthologies, Jubilee and Memorial Book
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[ha-Safran] A special offer: Otsar ha-hokhma, only US$ 1,800.00

[Oren Mass]

 


Dear SAFRANIM,

You probably know the "Otsar ha-hokhma" project. It contains now about
71,500 titles of religious books in all kinds. You can read the entire book,
serach in all 71,000 books at once, with various options of searches.

It comes with a special USB device.

 

We sell it now for only $1800. Only ONE copy in stock. The first one to
write me will have it.

Be well,

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