[ha-Safran]: ha-Mizrah he-hadash

2007-12-12 Thread Joseph Galron
Safranim, I have extra copies of volumes 10-14 (1960-1964) of ha-Mizrah he-hadash Please let me know if you are interested. - Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head, Hebraica Jewish Studies Library The Ohio

[ha-Safran]: What to do with Sforim?

2007-12-12 Thread Veronica Belling
Hi there Safranim I am seeking your advice, and I somehow think there was a discussion on this subject not too long ago. There is a large collection of sforim, could be close to one thousand, at our oldest synagogue. The books belonged to the Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and include Gemores

RE: [ha-Safran]: Different kind of query

2007-12-12 Thread Vanessa Freedman
The strangest question I've ever had was whether the phrase milk and olive oil (as opposed to milk and honey) appears in the Tenach. It turned out that the enquirer was an olive oil importer, and wanted to know it for a bet! By the way, is there a translation of Mein Kampf into Hebrew? Vanessa

[ha-Safran]: Books for free from Magnes Press

2007-12-12 Thread Joseph Galron
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[ha-Safran]: Books for free from Magnes Press

2007-12-12 Thread Karen Lasky
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Re: [ha-Safran]: Four part choral music

2007-12-12 Thread Kimberley A. Shaw
How about Transcontinental Music? My (secular) chorus just sang their 4-part arrangement of Zog nit keynmol. Transcontinental Press in NYC (Reform-affiliated, if that is relevant) http://www.etranscon.com/ Josh Jacobson has also arranged a number of pieces in 4 parts for the Zamir

Re: [Ha-Safran] Suggestions on good Hebrew-English pocket dictionaries

2007-12-12 Thread Marga Hirsch
A friend who is studying in Jerusalem this year as a 4th-year rabbinical student at JTS, said that the Oxford is the dictionary recommended by her teachers as well. Marga *** Marga Hirsch Library/Media Center Specialist PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL Stern

Re: [ha-Safran]: Different kind of query

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel Stuhlman
We have interesting questions every week. None of which I would classify as bizarre. Many times the question the person asks is not the one they need to ask for what they need to know. Here are some recent ones: Question: Where is the section on child development? Answer: BF 721, but what

[ha-Safran]: Cataloging Graphic Novels - addendum

2007-12-12 Thread Wendy Wasman
Many libraries, especially public libraries, choose to catalog all of their graphic novels under the one Dewey number (if they use Dewey): 741.5. However, other libraries, especially smaller ones such as synagogues or schools, like to catalog graphic novels by subject: as fiction if they are

[ha-Safran]: Movie called The only difference

2007-12-12 Thread Joseph Galron
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[ha-Safran]: Movie called The only difference

2007-12-12 Thread Beverly Geller
The only difference Does anyone know where I might locate this film—preferably for purchase, but also to borrow or rent, if necessary? Thanks in advance. Bev Geller Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the

[ha-Safran]: Stories from our Living Past

2007-12-12 Thread Heidi Estrin
Hi. Does anybody have a copy of Stories from Our Living Past by Francine Prose, published by Behrman House, that is NOT the c1974 edition? The reason I ask this weird question is that on page 81, in the middle of the story A Wife for Isaac, there is a chunk of text missing in my 1974 edition.

[ha-Safran]: AJL 2008 should get on this list of

2007-12-12 Thread Stanley Nachamie
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RE: [ha-Safran]: Different kind of query

2007-12-12 Thread Bernstein, Steven (Library)
As a cataloger, I don't get reference questions all that often. Once, however, a student approached me and asked if the librarians were Moshiachists. I asked him what he meant by that and he pointed out that the Lubavitcher Rebbe was listed in the catalog as follows: Schneersohn, Menah?em

Re: [ha-Safran]: Four part choral music

2007-12-12 Thread Yael Resnick
I sing in a Jewish women's choir and I am also a composer. I have composed a variety of music in three or four parts. Most of my pieces thus far are for three-part women's choir, but one is in four parts - and the ones in three parts can be adapted for SATB. All are based on Jewish texts,

Re: [ha-Safran]: Hanukkah podcast/present for you

2007-12-12 Thread alba toscano
Heidi and all you book-hounds out there. ...unedited talk recorded at the independent bookstore Books Books in Coral Gables, Florida with Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief (first ever winner in the Teen Category of the Sydney Taylor Book Award). I frequent Casa del Libro, a book shop