Re: [ha-Safran] weeding advice

[Toby Harris]

Hi , Deb:

You will find information about weeding materials in our resource manual at 
http://nesiya.wikispaces.com/Weeding+and+Discarding+Unwanted+Materials.

In addition, there may be past conference proceedings about this topic.  You 
can search those here:  http://jewishlibraries.org/Conference_Proceedings.

There will also be a session about transforming your library including weeding 
at our 2017 conference next June!

Let me know if you have other questions.  Thanks, Toby

Toby Harris, Librarian
Temple De Hirsch Sinai
206-693-3379 Seattle
425-559-2578  Bellevue
http://lib.tdhs-nw.org for library hours, programs and 
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From: Hasafran [mailto:hasafran-bounces+tharris=tdhs-nw@lists.osu.edu] On 
Behalf Of Deb Abner
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 2:37 PM
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Subject: [ha-Safran] weeding advice

I am weeding titles and I am worried that I will be removing titles of value 
since we have a large collection.  Does anyone have ideas of places I can check 
titles to evaluate their merit?  We might have first editions that are valuable 
as well.

Thank you,
Deb Abner
Library Director
Rabbi Marshall Lifson Library
Temple Emanuel
Newton
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[ha-Safran] Response to "Why Are Jewish Children's Books So Bad?"

[Heidi Rabinowitz]

The essay in Mosaic decrying the state of Jewish kidlit was ill-informed in my 
opinion, and I've written a comprehensive response on my blog, The Book of 
Life, at 
https://jewishbooks.blogspot.com/2016/11/response-to-jewish-kidlit-article-in.html.
 I hope you will read it and comment on it, and I hope even more that you'll 
follow my link to Mosaic and leave comments there.


Thanks everyone,

Heidi Rabinowitz

he...@cbiboca.org

Response to Jewish Kidlit Article in 
Mosaic
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[ha-Safran] weeding advice

[Deb Abner]

I am weeding titles and I am worried that I will be removing titles of value 
since we have a large collection.  Does anyone have ideas of places I can check 
titles to evaluate their merit?  We might have first editions that are valuable 
as well.

Thank you,
Deb Abner
Library Director
Rabbi Marshall Lifson Library
Temple Emanuel
Newton
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[ha-Safran] FW: AJL News and AJL Reviews

[Kolodney, Uri]

Dear Safraniyot and Safranim,
Please see below a message which was just sent to AJL members. Current issues 
of the News and Reviews are available online for members only.
Previous issues (more than one year old), are freely available to all at 
http://jewishlibraries.org/content.php?page=AJL_News___AJL_Review_Archive

Many thanks,
Uri

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[Association of Jewish Libraries]

AJL News and AJL Reviews


AJL members,

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should be sent directly to me by email. Reviews should be sent to the 
appropriate co-editors. Many thanks for your attention to this practice and 
deadline!

Uri

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[ha-Safran] Eight Conversations on the Epistle to the Hebrews

[Celestina Levant]

Hello,
We would like to introduce a new publication by The Hebrew University Magnes 
Press:
God’s Word Is Powerful
Eight Conversations on the Epistle to the Hebrews
By Yair 
Zakovitch,
 Serge 
Ruzer

The character of the Epistle to the Hebrews differs greatly from all other 
letters included in the New Testament. It is actually a sermon interpreting 
numerous biblical verses with the aim to substantiate its unique claim for 
Jesus' heavenly priesthood. The reliance on biblical proof-texts enables the 
writer to establish his innovative claims vis-a-vis both the broader Jewish 
tradition and the competing outlooks existing within the Jesus movement itself.

The eight conversations in the book discuss the Epistle's interpretative 
strategies in order to unearth the worldview of its author and the nature of 
its target audience.

Language: Hebrew
Price: $ 33.00
Available from EBSCO eBooks
For sample pages press here
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 purchase and more information  press 
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Re: [ha-Safran] Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel

[Amalia Warshenbrot]

Aaron, past chair of the DC conference and chai of the Fanny Goldstein Merit 
Award a and the new AJL Literary award as well as  a poet in his own merit is 
making us proud again.
Mazle tov Aaron! 
Amalia Warshenbrot
AJL President

From: Yermiyahu Ahron Taub 
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 7:28 AM
To: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu 
Subject: [ha-Safran] Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel
Dear Safranim, 

I am delighted to announce the publication of Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other 
Stories by Blume Lempel and translated from the Yiddish by Ellen Cassedy 
(www.ellencassedy.com) and me.  The book is co-published by Mandel Vilar Press 
and Dryad Press and is available for purchase via Dryad Press 
(http://www.dryadpress.com/Oedipus.htm), amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and 
Politics & Prose.  Advance praise is below.

For those of you in or near the Washington, D.C. area, the book launch will be 
held at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, 
D.C. 20008 on Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 1 p.m.  The event is free with no 
reservation required.  Please save the date.

Thank you in advance for your support!

All my best, 
Ahron

www.yataub.net




Advance Praise for Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel





>From Poland to Tel Aviv to Brooklyn, in lyrical prose, Lempel's stories give 
>voice to memory, longing, and loss in the rich tradition of Jewish 
>storytelling. Lempel's Jewish storytelling, illustrates, as the author puts 
>it: 'No world language is comparable to Yiddish, to the Yiddish sigh, the 
>Yiddish sense of humor.'



--Victoria Aarons, author of What Happened to Abraham? Reinventing the Covenant 
in American Jewish Fiction



Blume Lempel died at the end of the last century, leaving a remarkable legacy 
that this beautifully translated volume finally makes accessible to a wider 
audience. She writes about the erotic and intellectual life of (mostly) women 
and men, their psychological and historical motivations, the horror of the 
Holocaust and the desire to renew life even as one mourns. For these 
characters, as for Lempel herself, writing, thinking, lamenting, and loving in 
Yiddish is a vital expression of the will to live.



--Anita Norich, author of Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the 20th 
Century



Blume Lempel’s short story collection is a splendid surprise and a significant 
revivication of a brilliantly robust Yiddish-American writer.  Why should Isaac 
Bashevis Singer and Chaim Grade monopolize this rich literary lode?



--Cynthia Ozick, author of Foreign Bodies and Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and 
Other Literary Monsters



In all twenty-three of her collected stories Blume Lempel conducts a 
conversation across multiple time zones and spheres. She talks to Moses and 
Galileo; to the insects, birds, and primates; to the forests and fields; to the 
sun, stars, moon, and moon landing. Even as her memorable cast of characters 
relive their childhood and first love; even as they make breakfast, go out on a 
date, marvel at Yosemite Park or get caught in a blizzard, their minds are 
short-circuited by the horrors of what happened to the Jews of Europe. For this 
is a conversation against time and place, a heroic effort to create and sustain 
a choir of voices in Yiddish, her beloved and endangered language.



--David G. Roskies, author of Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe 
in Modern Jewish Culture





The thematic and stylistic scope of Blume Lempel's writing, as demonstrated 
admirably by Cassedy and Taub’s translations, is wide and richly integrated. 
Stories mingle the prewar East European past with the American present, 
personal memories and encounters with a provocative range of larger issues - 
memory, religion, sexuality, race, feminism, good and evil, death.



--Jeffrey Shandler, author of Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular 
Language and Culture



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[ha-Safran] 'The Book of the Soul of Man' - Commentary on Ecclesiastes

[Celestina Levant]

Hello
We would like to introduce a new publication by the World Union of Jewish 
Studies:
'The Book of the Soul of Man'
Commentary on Ecclesiastes
By Samuel Ben Judah Ibn Tibbon
Edited by: James T. Robinson
Samuel b. Judah ibn Tibbon (c. 1165-1232) is most famous for his translation of 
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed into Hebrew. He translated other writings as 
well, and produced original works of philosophy and biblical exegesis. This 
book makes available for the first time ever Ibn Tibbon's Perush Qohelet, a 
sprawling adaptation of Maimonides' method of exegesis to the complete 
verse-by-verse explication of a biblical book. The edition is presented with 
full annotation -- identifying Ibn Tibbon's sources and explaining his ideas 
and terminology -- and analytical introduction, which presents the life and 
writings of the author, describes the commentary itself in detail, explains the 
method and philosophy of the commentary, and charts its historical influence. 
In later medieval Jewish thought, few figures were unaffected by this 
foundational work of Maimonideanism.

Language: Hebrew
Price: $ 53.00
For sample pages press 
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[ha-Safran] Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel

[Yermiyahu Ahron Taub]

Dear Safranim,

I am delighted to announce the publication of *Oedipus in Brooklyn and
Other Stories* by Blume Lempel and translated from the Yiddish by Ellen
Cassedy (www.ellencassedy.com) and me.  The book is co-published by Mandel
Vilar Press and Dryad Press and is available for purchase via Dryad Press (
http://www.dryadpress.com/Oedipus.htm), amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and
Politics & Prose.  Advance praise is below.

For those of you in or near the Washington, D.C. area, the book launch will
be held at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW,
Washington, D.C. 20008 on Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 1 p.m.  The event is
free with no reservation required.  Please save the date.

Thank you in advance for your support!

All my best,
Ahron

www.yataub.net




*Advance Praise for Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel*





>From Poland to Tel Aviv to Brooklyn, in lyrical prose, Lempel's stories
give voice to memory, longing, and loss in the rich tradition of Jewish
storytelling. Lempel's Jewish storytelling, illustrates, as the author puts
it: 'No world language is comparable to Yiddish, to the Yiddish sigh, the
Yiddish sense of humor.'



--Victoria Aarons, author of *What Happened to Abraham? Reinventing the
Covenant in American Jewish Fiction*



Blume Lempel died at the end of the last century, leaving a remarkable
legacy that this beautifully translated volume finally makes accessible to
a wider audience. She writes about the erotic and intellectual life of
(mostly) women and men, their psychological and historical motivations, the
horror of the Holocaust and the desire to renew life even as one mourns.
For these characters, as for Lempel herself, writing, thinking, lamenting,
and loving in Yiddish is a vital expression of the will to live.



--Anita Norich, author of *Writing in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the
20th Century*



Blume Lempel’s short story collection is a splendid surprise and a
significant revivication of a brilliantly robust Yiddish-American writer.
Why should Isaac Bashevis Singer and Chaim Grade monopolize this rich
literary lode?



--Cynthia Ozick, author of *Foreign Bodies* and *Critics, Monsters,
Fanatics, and Other Literary Monsters*



In all twenty-three of her collected stories Blume Lempel conducts a
conversation across multiple time zones and spheres. She talks to Moses and
Galileo; to the insects, birds, and primates; to the forests and fields; to
the sun, stars, moon, and moon landing. Even as her memorable cast of
characters relive their childhood and first love; even as they make
breakfast, go out on a date, marvel at Yosemite Park or get caught in a
blizzard, their minds are short-circuited by the horrors of what happened
to the Jews of Europe. For this is a conversation against time and place, a
heroic effort to create and sustain a choir of voices in Yiddish, her
beloved and endangered language.



--David G. Roskies, author of *Against the Apocalypse: Responses to
Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture*





The thematic and stylistic scope of Blume Lempel's writing, as demonstrated
admirably by Cassedy and Taub’s translations, is wide and richly
integrated. Stories mingle the prewar East European past with the American
present, personal memories and encounters with a provocative range of
larger issues - memory, religion, sexuality, race, feminism, good and evil,
death.


--Jeffrey Shandler, author of *Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular
Language and Culture*
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