Dear Daniel
You called in the grammar police??
Almost any noun in English may be turned into an adjective without
any change of form; as in an OAK fence, a MANCHESTER man, a KITCHEN
garden, DICTIONARY definitions.
So also with Judaica and so also (if I may) with grammar!!
Yoel (candidate for
If you are referring to American Jews - I don't have an answer. If you
are referring to Jews in general, you should consult the Israeli
Government Statistics Annual about book buying in Israel. I seem to
remember that the number of books per capita purchased by israeli Jews
are among the highest
Dear Anne (and Safranim),
We have a unique Holocaust series of 5 books that are thematic, pose
excellent subjects for discussion and could work well for your Holocaust
class. The series, which has been praised by School Library Journal and
Booklist, includes: Nazi Germany, Children of the
Here are some websites which may be helpful:
New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education
http://www.state.nj.us/njded/holocaust/curriculum/index.html
Cohn Center for Holocaust
Studieshttp://www.keene.edu/cchswww.keene.edu/cchs
United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum
Anne
Have you investigated what CAJE has in their Curriculum bank? If you are
not familiar with CAJE (the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish
Education, www.caje.org), perhaps someone else at your school is. I believe
you need to be a member to access the Curriculum bank, but they have
The Congress for Jewish Culture will be conducting a series of
lectures and video programs under the title
UNKNOWN YIDDISH LITERATURE
SOVIET YIDDISH WRITERS SINCE THE 1960s
The series will be led by Boris Sandler, editor of the Yiddish Forward,
and Professor Gennady Estraikh of NYU
Evening A)
Dear Safranim:
I am pleased to announce the publication of My Yeshiva College: 75
Years of Memories, a collection of essays that I have recently
co-edited celebrating the past seventy-years of Yeshiva College,
written from the perspective of former students and faculty
members-many of whom
THANKS to all for suggestions on where to locate benching in Spanish:
Artscroll siddur (Spanish) has benching and the following site and retailer
has benchers with Spanish:
http://store.kehotonline.com/index.php?stocknumber=S-VEDIB.BHdeptid=328
Abigail Yasgur
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Can anyone send me a sample MARC record for a board game, such as
Scrabble in Hebrew, the Aliyah Game, etc?
Thank you in advance,
Andrea
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Dear Ha-Safran members,
Here are some new aquisitions available from CYCO Books in New York City.
1. Pinskas Lodz/ Lodz Chronicle. Orthodox Library: NY, 2005. Compiled
and edited by Rabbi Yosef Friedenson. A yiskor book in Yiddish and
English. 370pp. (342 pages in Yiddish, 27 in English). Over
The video The Wave can be purchased from the Social Studies School
Service. It is quite expensive - $84! The link to the order page is:
http://catalog.socialstudies.com/c/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@cMYKFab1
GkAL2
Eve Panzer
Austin Jewish Academy
Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those
I was dismayed when I read the first posting - I thought there was an
error.
Some 40 years ago, Commentary magazine, I believe, ran a profile of
American Jewry, and one of the stats cited then was that Jews accounted
for some 20% of the books bought in the U.S. Not bad for 3% of the total
While I have great respect for the dangerous work our
grammar police have performed thus far on this topic,
I feel I must highlight a more important point.
The fact that the library's signage, publicity,
and barcodes would all have to be changed, I would
vote for retaining the existing name on
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