[ha-Safran] Thanks to conference organizers/participants; Free public lecture at NYPL

[Amanda Seigel]

Dear Safranim,

I just want to express my appreciation to all who organized and
participated in the AJL conference.

Thank you so much for your work to make the conference a great success,
with so many wonderful and interesting presentations, discussions, and
colleagues.

And, you are all invited to a free public lecture next Wednesday evening at
NYPL (details below) - please join us.

Sincerely,

Amanda

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Swindles and Seductions:
The Curious Affinity of Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer
A lecture by Dr. Miriam Udel, sponsored by the Dorot Jewish Division

Wednesday, July 5, 2017
6:30 PM
Mid-Manhattan Library
455 Fifth Avenue (at 40th St.)
New York, NY, 10016
Wheelchair accessible

Sholem Aleichem and Isaac Bashevis Singer are each household names,
and together, their writing careers spanned virtually the entire
twentieth century. Their deep affinity transcends their shared
celebrity, though. They defined the Yiddish response to modernity by
taking a stance against progress and the other developmental ideals
that had powered the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment). Drawing on the
speaker’s award-winning book Never Better!: The Modern Jewish
Picaresque, this talk will explain the central role of various
deceptions—the swindle in the case of Sholem Aleichem and the
seduction in that of Bashevis Singer—in illustrating a rapidly
changing world newly devoid of even secular pieties.

Miriam Udel is associate professor of German Studies and Jewish
Studies at Emory University, where her teaching focuses on Yiddish
language, literature, and culture. She holds an AB in Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, as well as a PhD
in Comparative Literature from the same institution. Her research
interests include Yiddish modernism, genre studies, Jewish children’s
literature, and American-Jewish literature. She is the author of Never
Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque (University of Michigan Press,
2016), winner of a National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought
and Experience. She is preparing an annotated, translated anthology of
Yiddish children’s literature called Honey on the Page, slated to
appear with New York University Press.

The lecture is free and open to the public on a first-come,
first-served basis. For more information, visit:

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2017/07/05/swindles-
and-seductions-curious-affinity-sholem-aleichem-and-isaac
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Re: [ha-Safran] How to educate the importance of the librarians in schools (religious and day schools)

[Joyce Levine]

Dear Chaya,

I echo Basya Karp's sentiment. I feel so bad that your career at Ramaz ended so 
abruptly and not at the time of your choosing. But I hope it may be the 
beginning of a new and interesting chapter in your life.

Love,

Joyce




From: Hasafran  on behalf of Amalia Warshenbrot 

Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 2:52:30 PM
To: Haim A Gottschalk; hasafran@lists.osu.edu
Subject: [ha-Safran] How to educate the importance of the librarians in schools 
(religious and day schools)

The Strategic Planning Committee is planning to send presenters  to each of the 
denominations conferences. They might not reach out to the day school 
directors, but it will be a start.We might need to do the same in conferences 
of Jewish Educators. The committee  has identified about 17 associations of 
Jewish educators like RAVSAK, NewCAJE, PEJE and many others. If anyone  plans 
to attend those we will try to support his/her attendance in exchange for a 
presentation on the librarian as an educator.
Thank you to Chaya for pointing out to her head school 2 articles from the ALA 
journal that cite research that, when libraries and professional librarians are 
eliminated, the students do not do as well.  It is too late for those that lost 
their position, but, it will be useful for other school librarians.
The links are below.
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2015/09/04/support-school-libraries/

http://www.slj.com/2013/03/research/librarian-required-a-new-study-shows-that-a-full-time-school-librarian-makes-a-critical-difference-in-boosting-student-achievement/
Amalia Warshenbrot
AJL President



From: Haim A Gottschalk
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 2:27 PM
To: Amalia Warshenbrot ; 
hasafran@lists.osu.edu
Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] end of an era
Here I wish we as an organization education he schools and synagogues what a 
librarian does. I think there is a misunderstanding. If we could invite the 
administrators of the schools and synagogues to an AJL conference and clue them 
in this might have a positive impact.

This is just my thought.

Haim



From: Amalia Warshenbrot 
To: Emily Bergman 
Cc: Hasafran 
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] end of an era

What can the association do ?
Amalia, AJL PRESIDENT

Sent from my iPad

On Jun 29, 2017, at 12:22 PM, Emily Bergman 
> wrote:

Unfortunately, this is happening to librarians in all kinds of libraries all 
over the country. Libraries are becoming other entities and librarians are 
being replaced by library assistants, people with subject degrees and not 
library degrees, or not at all. My sympathies to all those going through this. 
I had it happen in academic libraries twice (4 librarian positions eliminated 
and then when I did find another librarian position, the subject library was 
eliminated). Luckily, my Jewish library job is volunteer, so unless they decide 
they want the space for something else, I'll always have that job. I hope those 
in library school are being prepared for this new world.  Emily

Emily Bergman
Temple Sinai
Glendale, CA
emilyanneberg...@gmail.com

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Barbara Karp 
> wrote:
I share your pain. After 24 years, the school where I worked and built up two 
libraries told me the same thing. Even after two years, I feel a connection to 
a school whose former building no longer exists.

As this chapter (or book, as a friend put it at the time) draws to a close, it 
should be the beginning of a new and fulfilling one.

Basya Karp, former librarian
Shulamith High School and Shulamith School for Girls of Brooklyn

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 29, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Chaya Wiesman 
> wrote:

It is with sadness that I would like to inform you that after 23 years of 
working at Ramaz, I have been informed that I will no longer have a job there 
come September.

Anyone who want to contact me can reach me at my personal email,  
chaya...@gmail.com.

Chaya Wiesman
(former) Librarian
Ramaz Upper School

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Re: [ha-Safran] end of an era

[Lmoskovits .]

Unfortunately, there is not much the association or anyone can do. I also
recently lost my job after 17 years in the school. I am not being replaced;
there will be a room of books without any supervision. The new Head of
School does not know what he does not know and thinks this is a good idea.
He claims there is a deficit, but in reality it is simply that the library
is not his priority. The fact that we have 330 boys in our high school,
many of whom love the library does not matter. The fact that I just renewed
my advanced accreditation does not matter. The fact that not all boys go to
the gym during free periods and many come to the library does not matter.
The fact that numerous faculty spoke up in favor of having a librarian,
describing all of my research lessons and other ways in which I help them,
does not matter. Nothing matters. These people in power make decisions and
refuse to hear about reality. It is a real disservice to the students. I
will still be coordinating Book Day and the Yom HaShoah program, the only
two annual programs in the school, but that is small comfort.

Leah Moskovits
Torah Academy of Bergen County
Teaneck, NJ

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Amalia Warshenbrot 
wrote:

> What can the association do ?
> Amalia, AJL PRESIDENT
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 29, 2017, at 12:22 PM, Emily Bergman 
> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, this is happening to librarians in all kinds of libraries
> all over the country. Libraries are becoming other entities and librarians
> are being replaced by library assistants, people with subject degrees and
> not library degrees, or not at all. My sympathies to all those going
> through this. I had it happen in academic libraries twice (4 librarian
> positions eliminated and then when I did find another librarian position,
> the subject library was eliminated). Luckily, my Jewish library job is
> volunteer, so unless they decide they want the space for something else,
> I'll always have that job. I hope those in library school are being
> prepared for this new world.  Emily
>
> Emily Bergman
> Temple Sinai
> Glendale, CA
> emilyanneberg...@gmail.com
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Barbara Karp 
> wrote:
>
>> I share your pain. After 24 years, the school where I worked and built up
>> two libraries told me the same thing. Even after two years, I feel a
>> connection to a school whose former building no longer exists.
>>
>> As this chapter (or book, as a friend put it at the time) draws to a
>> close, it should be the beginning of a new and fulfilling one.
>>
>> Basya Karp, former librarian
>> Shulamith High School and Shulamith School for Girls of Brooklyn
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jun 29, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Chaya Wiesman  wrote:
>>
>> It is with sadness that I would like to inform you that after 23 years of
>> working at Ramaz, I have been informed that I will no longer have a job
>> there come September.
>>
>>
>> Anyone who want to contact me can reach me at my personal email,
>> chaya...@gmail.com.
>>
>>
>> Chaya Wiesman
>>
>> (former) Librarian
>>
>> Ramaz Upper School
>>
>>
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Re: [ha-Safran] end of an era

[Emily Bergman]

Unfortunately, this is happening to librarians in all kinds of libraries
all over the country. Libraries are becoming other entities and librarians
are being replaced by library assistants, people with subject degrees and
not library degrees, or not at all. My sympathies to all those going
through this. I had it happen in academic libraries twice (4 librarian
positions eliminated and then when I did find another librarian position,
the subject library was eliminated). Luckily, my Jewish library job is
volunteer, so unless they decide they want the space for something else,
I'll always have that job. I hope those in library school are being
prepared for this new world.  Emily

Emily Bergman
Temple Sinai
Glendale, CA
emilyanneberg...@gmail.com

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Barbara Karp 
wrote:

> I share your pain. After 24 years, the school where I worked and built up
> two libraries told me the same thing. Even after two years, I feel a
> connection to a school whose former building no longer exists.
>
> As this chapter (or book, as a friend put it at the time) draws to a
> close, it should be the beginning of a new and fulfilling one.
>
> Basya Karp, former librarian
> Shulamith High School and Shulamith School for Girls of Brooklyn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 29, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Chaya Wiesman  wrote:
>
> It is with sadness that I would like to inform you that after 23 years of
> working at Ramaz, I have been informed that I will no longer have a job
> there come September.
>
>
> Anyone who want to contact me can reach me at my personal email,
> chaya...@gmail.com.
>
>
> Chaya Wiesman
>
> (former) Librarian
>
> Ramaz Upper School
>
>
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Re: [ha-Safran] Papers of Hartwig Hirschfeld

[Michelle Chesner]

Apologies - the message sent before I was ready.

Archivegrid notes that CJH has the Thorsh family collection: http://
findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=478801 of which one folder (!) contains the
following:

Folder 2 contains documentation of the Hirschfeld family of Berlin, the
bulk of which pertains to Hartwig Hirschfeld and his son David Hirschfeld.
Documents pertaining to Hartwig Hirschfeld inlude birth, citizenship, and
membership certificates; marriage contract between Hartwig Hirschfeld and
Henriette Samuel; and euology for Hartwig Hirschfeld by his son David.
Documents pertaining to David Hirschfeld include birth and military
certificates; the text of an address given on the occasion of his 70th
birthday; document pertaining to his assets; and sheet music for songs with
lyrics by David Hirschfeld. The folder also contains a marriage permission
and license for Samuel Hirsch and Rösel Meyer; and will of Rösel Hirsch née
Meyer. A family tree is also included.

Michelle

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Michelle Chesner 
wrote:

> Archivegrid notes that CJH has the Thorsh family collection: http://
> findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=478801 of which one folder (!) contains the
> following:
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Freedman, Vanessa 
> wrote:
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>> I have been contacted by a scholar who is trying to locate the papers of
>> Professor Hartwig Hirschfeld, who taught at Jews’ College in London prior
>> to his death in 1934. I haven’t been able to locate them in any UK
>> institution and was wondering if by any chance they are held somewhere
>> overseas.
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