Re: [ha-Safran] new recommended kid's book

2017-05-11 Thread Rachel Kamin
Thanks, Lisa! I shared The Language of Angels by Richard Michelson with every class in our school, PK-6th grade, this month. I used the Shalom Sesame video to introduce Eliezer ben Yehuda and with the older grades we also listened to the popular Isr

[ha-Safran] new recommended kid's book

2017-05-11 Thread Lisa Silverman
Hello all, I thought I would share this review of a new children's picture book about Eliezer Ben Yehuda by a Sydney Taylor Award winning author: http://jewishjournal.com/culture/218621/boys-life-birth-modern-hebrew/ Lisa Silverman Library Director, Burton

[ha-Safran] Proposal for new Uzbek Romanization Table

2017-05-11 Thread Johnson, Bruce
Proposal for New Uzbek Romanization Table 5/10/2017 A proposal for a Uzbek romanization table has been submitted to the Library of Congress and is available for review at Uzbek http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/uzbek.pdf [PDF, 70

[ha-Safran] Two New Translations of Interest to Jewish Libraries

2017-05-11 Thread Zvi Leshem
Shalom, I am forwarding a description of two important new translations of classic Jewish works by my colleague Rabbi Yaacov David Shulman. Details are below. Shabat Shalom, Zvi Leshem Jewish Spiritual Growth, by Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, translator Yaacov David Shulman (Dot Letter Word Pr