Re: [ha-Safran] on today's My Machberet

Thank you, Erika! I was moved by Sara Lippman's essay and learned a delightfully melancholy new word there. "Vellichor," coined by John Koenig (*The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows*), means "the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time — filled with

[ha-Safran] publishers for Holocaust memoirs

Dear Safranim, I've received a few inquiries recently from researchers/writers seeking publishers for Holocaust memoirs in English. Amsterdam Publishing, Azrieli Foundaiton (Second Story Press), and Gefen Publishing are a few of the names I've encountered so far. Do you have any experience with

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Re: [ha-Safran] Artifacts in the catalog

Hi Daniel, At Columbia, Art Properties is under the jurisdiction of the Libraries, and so we have artworks listed in the catalog. You can see a sampling here: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog?q=%5Bformat%5D%5B%5D=Art+Work+%28Original%29_field=all_fields=Search We have a separate format for it:

[ha-Safran] on today's My Machberet

Good morning, everyone: As many of you know, each week I post a collection of "Pre-Shabbat Jewish Literary Links" on the My Machberet blog. This week's post kicks off with a magnificent essay by Sara Lippmann (on the popular book-focused site The Millions) on the dismantling of a Jewish library.

[ha-Safran] Artifacts in the catalog

Shalom, Does anyone library have artifacts or realia in your library catalog? I'm starting a collection of kippot. I have developed some rules for cataloging them, but I just want to see another opinion. Thanks, DS -- Daniel D. Stuhlman Chicago, IL dstuhlman at gmail.com Blog:

[ha-Safran] Weekly Update #14 from your Conference Chairs

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[ha-Safran] Weekly Update # 14 from your Conference Chairpersons

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[ha-Safran] 13M Documents from Nazi Concentration Camps Online

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/holocaust/13m-documents-from-nazi-concentration-camps-online/2019/05/22/ -- Shmuel Ben-Gad, Gelman Library, George Washington University. "[I]n Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they

Re: [ha-Safran] First-person accounts

Hi Anna, Here are some possibilities: Elie Wiesel, The Jewish of Silence, 1966 Paul Novick, Jews in the Soviet Union, 1965 Shelomo Even-Shoshan, Sipuro shel masa, Tel Aviv, 1964 Zvi Rudy, Die Juden in der Sowjetunion, 1966 A. Werth, Russia: Hopes and Fears, 1969 (based on several author's

[ha-Safran] Collection of Holocaust ephemera of about 800 items on offer

Dear Safranim, We would like to offer a vast collection of Holocaust ephemera, spanning around 800 items, consisting of pamphlets, proclamations, photographs, drawings, posters, letters, postcards, identity cards, etc. The collection represents Jewish life on the brink of WWII, under Nazi