I called Gale and confirmed that John H. Moore is indeed the Dr. John
Hartwell Moore currently at the University of Florida.
Bingo. Give that librarian a kewpie doll.
Anne Jaron
New York
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and are not necessarily
First, can I do a bit of bibliographic verification here?
I frequently see the publisher of this text given as Gale in the
messages on this list. However, when I
followed the link to Amazon, the publisher is given as
Macmillan. The Macmillan edition on Amazon
is three volumes and has a
Unfortunately, Gale and many of the main publishing houses,
are not favorable to the Jewish position in general. I always
look very carefully when thinking of purchasing a book, many times
finding questionable statements. Even in the back of a Gale Holocaust
book, they mentioned that if Israel
Librarians for Fairness is writing a formal protest letter to the
publisher (Gale) about this.
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and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL)
Noel Ignatiev, the controversial author of this article did indeed
include references, they can be seen on the scan of the article that I
posted to ha-Safran yesterday.
http://www.ccsu.edu/library/Bernstein/Zionism.pdf
Steven
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Steven Jay Bernstein
I appreciate the efforts of Steven Bernstein and others to combat the
inaccuracies of the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism in regard to the
article on Zionism. However, I must disagree with Aviva Astrinsky
who, in a side comment in this thread, puts the New Testament and the
Protocols of the
Thanks to Steve for bringing this to our attention.
I would like to know if the writer of this entry
provided bibliographical references.
At Library School we were taught that encyclopedias are compilation of facts,
not of opinions. One exception was the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and
its
Dear Steve,
Thank you for alerting us to this article. I will write a letter on
behalf of AJL when I get back. This kind of misinformation should not
be tolerated.
Susan Dubin
AJL President
Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author
and are not necessarily
Thank you fro alerting us to this, Mr. Bernstein. I like the way you
frame the question of professional ethics, ethical obligation is to
put all items out there for our users or to put
factual items out there for them. Given that it is an encyclopedia
which people can lreasonably expect to be
In case anyone would like to read this article for themselves, I have
scanned it and posted it to my web space
http://www.ccsu.edu/library/Bernstein/Zionism.pdf
Steven
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Steven Jay Bernstein
Assistant Catalog Librarian
Central Connecticut State
The offending article should not go without challenge.
Also, Amazon's website
http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Race-Racism-Set/dp/002866020X states
-- Encyclopedia of Race And Racism (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) 3
Volume Set (Hardcover)
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May I
Formal letters to the publisher's corporate office with ccs to the
editor(s) would definitely be in order
Publishers often farm out work without realizing the extreme bias of
their writiers. Also, academics and quasi-academics with political
agendas approach respected publishers with
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