REACH FOR THE STARS: A Little Torah's Journey by Sylvia Rouss will be
presented to the families of the astronauts of the ill-fated Columbia
Space Shuttle at an official program in Israel this weekend. Joachim
Joseph, who read his Bar Mitzvah Parsha from this miniature Torah in the
Bergen-Belsen
I know that I once learned that Hypatia, keeper of the
ancient library at Alexandria, Egypt, was Jewish. Now
I cannot find that information anywhere.
Does anyone know?
Andrea
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To safranim in public and academic libraries, fyi.
Ann Abrams, Librarian
Temple Israel
477 Longwood Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
Yesterday we had a speaker, Joani Keller Rothenberg, whom I would like to
recommend to anyone looking for a program on Jewish childrens books.
Joani has illustrated three Jewish childrens books (Cain and Abel, The
Shabbat Angels, and Adam and Eve's first sunset). She is currently working
on
Gorgias Press is planning to reprint the following work:
al-Tabari, __Ta'rikh al-rusul wa-l-muluk_, ed. M.J. de Goeje et
al. Leiden: 1879-1901.
We are seeking a copy of the original or of the 1960 reprint. If anyone on
the list has the set and is willing to part with it, we will provide a
We would be interested in finding out whether there are any libraries who
currently circulate CD ROMs. Do you have policies or controls in place that
govern illegal copying of software?
Have you experienced any logistical problems (damage, theft, etc)?
Thanks for your help.
Penny Fransblow
Head,
Dear Safranim,
I seem to be using the list very often this week in order to find
something unusual. Does anyone have to lend Elie Wiesel's Un di Velt
Hot Geshvigen (in the original Yiddish)? It has a Buenos Ayres 1956
imprint.
We have tried to borrow it from our usual sources with no luck.
event
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The Herbert Eileen Bernard Museum and the Ivan M.
Stettenheim Library invite you to join us as we begin to
celebrate
350
Hello Safranim:
Sinai Library has received a number of wonderful, absolutely new books that
we do not want (we already own all of them) and we are selling them for VERY
reduced prices. Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing
any---note you will have to cover shipping charges by
Our high school Hebrew teachers have been showing episodes from the Israeli
TV series called : The Secrets of Kineret, which is available on video with
subtitles. It is difficult to find series that teenagers find absorbing, but
they are really enjoying this one. If you want to order episodes,
Author Sylvia Rouss has prepared a study guide for her new book, REACH FOR
THE STARS: A LITTLE TORAH'S JOURNEY, published by Pitspopany, 2004. You
can find it at: www.sylviarouss.com.
Linda R. Silver
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Hello,
My husband named his daughter Hypatia.
He says that she was killed by the Christians in 425, and she was not
Christian. We do have Charles Kingsley's book Hypatia, but my husband
says that it is actually an apology for the murder of Hypatia, trying to
explain the point of
The authors of the Elazar, A Classification System for Libraries of
Judaica have always emphasized the importance of the System as an
educational tool.
The System serves as an educational tool for those (librarians and
patrons) who are not well versed in Hebrew terminology
Andrea Rapp asked if Hypatia, keeper of the ancient library at
Alexandria, Egypt, was Jewish.
Sources on the Internet describe Hypatia as being a pagan, the daughter
of Theon, author of Theon's Commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest.
See The Primary Sources for the Life and Work of
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