[ha-Safran] Cataloging Workshop-February 24th, 2015, New York, NY

Save the date! The New York Metropolitan Area Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL-NYMA) will hold a cataloging workshop on Tuesday afternoon, February 24th, 2015, at The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, 122nd Street & Broadway, New York, NY. The workshop will focus o

[ha-Safran] Educational Resources for International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27)

Shalom. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is Tuesday, January 27, 2015 I posted on my website 170 links to learn about the Holocaust. Site languages include English, Hebrew, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. All 170 links have been reviewed / checked this week. ht

[ha-Safran] Winter 2015 Conference, January 27, 2015 10AM-1:30PM, Chabad-Lubavitch Library, Brooklyn, NY

The New York Metropolitan Area Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL-NYMA) will hold its Winter 2015 Conference on Tuesday, January 27th, 10 am-1:30 pm. The program will include a curated tour of the exhibition of rare Hebrew books and manuscripts "Ginzei Seforim" which focuses on

[ha-Safran] Responses to Conference Submissions

Dear Colleagues, All submissions to the AJL Jubilee Conference in June 2015 are being carefully considered, and responses will be sent in the very near future. We thank everyone who has submitted a proposal to the conference. However, please do NOT write to the conference co-chairs or members

[ha-Safran] Di Idishe landsmanshaftn

Hello, Kimberley and Michelle, This book is an excellent resource! And I agree that it is much easier to do a hands-on search with a paper book rather than online in many cases. We keep this at our reference desk and I have used it to find information about landsmanshaftn as well as congregations a

[ha-Safran] Book Database

Hi, I am working to put together a database of all books Jewish. If you can fill out and share this simple form it will be much appreciated. http://goo.gl/5v9ddZ Thank you, Shui Haber http://shuihaber.wordpress.com/ ᐧ __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individua

[ha-Safran] Now Open Access: Ma'agarim: The Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language

News comes that Ma'agarim: The Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language has a new website and is now free of charge (formerly it required at $50 /year subscription). And it now worlks on all standard browsers. See the entry in AWOL: The Ancient World Online http://ancientworldonline.blogspot

Re: [ha-Safran] Crumbling Yiddish Book from 1938 What to do With it?

Hello Michelle: Even though this title has been fully digitized at the Yiddish Book Center (see http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/books/search), there are times, as an author, when I prefer to do my research with hands-on paper sources. And so, my inclination would be to construct this kind of enclo

Re: [ha-Safran] News from the Price Library of Judaica

Congratulations, Rebecca - this is wonderful! Michelle On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:45 PM, wrote: > Wow!! This is truly a remarkable gift! We’re so proud of all you do, > dear Rebecca!! > Etta > > Etta Gold, MLS, RJE > Congregational Librarian > Temple Beth Am > The Janet z”l and Richard Yulman

[ha-Safran] לקראת שבת - רשימה קצרה מספריית הרמב"ם

בע"ה שלום על שמות מקומות תנ"כים בשימוש יום-יומי *העיר "נא אמון", המוזכרת בשערי ספרים כמקום הדפסה מוכר וידוע, היא העיר אלכסנדריה במצרים.* *מדוע כינו היהודים את אלכסנדריה בשם זה "נא -אמון"?* לקריאת הרשימה לחץ נא כאן . מומלץ לקבל אוטומטית הודעה על רשימה חדשה באמצעו