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Aviva Astrinsky
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link should be:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/noscript.shtml?/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/archivehour
The YIVO documentary was broadcast last Saturday. It had good publicity
including a whole page article in the London Jewish Chronicle and many
appreciative reactions from listeners.
Aviva
European Association for Jewish Studies
VIII TH EAJS CONGRESS
Past and present perspectives in Jewish Studies
JULY, 23-27, 2006, Moscow
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The executive committee of the European Association for Jewish Studies is
glad to announce that the next congress of EAJS will take
Attached is a press release recently issued by the Association for
Jewish Studies and
American Academy for Jewish Research in response to the recent decision
by the British Association of University Teachers to boycott two Israeli
universities. The press release was sent to The New York
The Program in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley is
proud to sponsor The 3rd Annual Berkeley Yiddish Conference
Fartaytsht un Farbesert: Translation and Yiddish Culture
23 - 24 May 2005 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Schedule of Events
May
Dear Chaya,
I have had the privilege or misfortune to work in 4 renovated and/or new
libraries.
All of them were built by architects who had never done libraries or
museums before.
All of them looked pretty (which is the architects's main interest),
but were not functional whatsoever. As a
While I am not offended by A.D. and B.C., I still think this is an outdated,
non-inclusive, non-neutral term. After all, the majority of the world's
population today
is not Christian (c.f. China, India, Japan, Indonesia),
but they all use the Gregorian dating scheme. Why not, then, call it:
the
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:47:32 -0500 (EST)
From: NEIL JACOBS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Yiddish Ashkenazic Studies Conference
Call for Papers
The Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies Program of the Department of Germanic
Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University, and the YIVO
Institute
1. On Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 7:30 PM, YIVO and the Leo Baeck
Institute are sponsoring at CJH a lecture and book signing by Professor
Bryan Mark Riggs on the topic of his new work, Rescued from the Reich: How
One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Yale University
Press,
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
and The Union for Traditional Judaism
take great pleasure in inviting you to
a Distinguished Scholars Lecture
The Last Jewish Nobility of Vilna -
Father and Son -
Rabbis Shmuel and Matisyahu Strashun
Rabbi Professor David Weiss Halivni
Reish Metivta
THE FOURTEENTH WORLD CONGRESS OF JEWISH STUDIES notes the availability of
research scholarships for postgraduates and postdoctoral fellows at European
institutions which can be used as travel funding for the Congress:
13 September 2004
Dear friends,
We are pleased to inform
BRITISH LIBRARY ZEROES IN ON E-LEARNING
Inspiring Learning for All is a framework for a new program developed by
the British Library for creating accessible learning in museums, archives
and libraries. It is founded on four simple principles, which describe the
characteristics of an accessible
VILNIUS UNIVERSITY
The Vilnius
Yiddish Educator Seminar 6-20 May 2005
An Advanced Intensive Program Conducted Entirely IN YIDDISH
for professional educators and teachers-in-training
A program sponsored by
THE FRIENDS OF THE VILNIUS YIDDISH INSTITUTE
with generous assistance from the
RIGHTEOUS
Due to construction work, the Center for Jewish History's Reading Room
will be closed from
April 5 through April 14.
Patron's are advised to call ahead after April 14, to make sure the
Reading Room is in fact open.
Aviva E. Astrinsky
Head Librarian
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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Dear Colleagues,
I am forwarding a query which stymied us at YIVO, in the hope that the
collective
knowledge of all of you would be able to give this patron a lead.
Many thanks,
Aviva
Aviva E. Astrinsky
Head Librarian
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
From: Joel Bresler
The Sephardic Music Project (SMP) is preparing a World Wide Web site
dedicated to Sephardic music. The site will list all known commercial
recordings of Sephardic music, catalogued by artist, songs and other
identifying information. Users will have a chance to listen to
USA
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FYI.
The web page of the committe to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Jewish
Life in the USA can be found at:
FYI: British Association for Jewish Studies website
The British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) advertises its
activities and the activities of related organisations on its website at
www.BAJSBulletin.org and annually in its Bulletin. In addition to general
news (including jobs), there are
The American Academy for Jewish Research, the Association For Jewish
Studies, and the National Association Of Professors Of Hebrew have issued
a statement expressing their concern over the restrictions imposed by
numerous American and Canadian universities on undergraduates who wish to
participate
Dear Librarian:
I thought I should send you a brief summary of a recently published book.
Fiets Vase and other stories of survival. Europe 1939 -1945by Alison Leslie
Gold. These are stories of survival, Each record of 'a life wrested from
extinction' reads like a miracle, a silver chalice
NEWS -- From B'nai B'rith International
BBI Romanian Jewish Heritage Project Unveils Plaque for Father of Yiddish
Theater
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Karen Brunwasser
(202) 857-2739
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Washington, D.C. (October 23, 2003) - A new plaque for a statue honoring
Abraham Goldfaden
GHETTO, SHTETL, OR POLIS?
The Jewish Community in the Writings of Karl
Emil
Franzos, Sholom Aleichem and Shmuel Yosef Agnon
by
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Invites You to Attend a
Mini-Symposium and Exhibition Viewing
Co-sponsored by The YIVO Archives, The Skirball Department of
Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and Glucksman Ireland
House at New York University
On the occasion of the 100th
Dear Anita,
I am looking at the just-published book Marc Chagall and his Times/ by
Benjamin Harshav (Stanford, 2003).
On page 334 it is written that Chagall used a Yiddish Bible, translated by
the American-Jewish poet Yehoash (pseud. of
Solomon Blumgarten, 1972-1927).
Best,
Aviva E. Astrinsky
Volume 4 of the new series of YIVO-bleter, the Yiddish-language research
journal
has just been published by
the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and is available for purchase
from the
Jewish Book Center of the Workmen's Circle
45 East 33 Street
New York, New York 10016
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