[ha-Safran] The Book of Life Podcast: Family Meeting

2020-03-25 Thread Heidi Rabinowitz via Hasafran
Dear Book of Life Listeners, This special episode of The Book of Life Podcast is packed with news you can use. My husband Matthew helps me run a "family meeting" to share lots of information with you about my various projects and about resources you will find at Bookoflifepodcast.com. You can

[ha-Safran] FYI a list of known concentration camps-known in Russia-you may have to check information about each to possibly find out

2020-03-25 Thread Katalin Baltimore via Hasafran
*Russia* The real number of concentration and extermination camps established in occupied Soviet Union by the Nazis is unknown. The following list contains the name of the major camps. Some of these camps were under Romanian control; e.g. Akmétchetka or Bogdanovka where 54,000 were executed

Re: [ha-Safran] The 2020 AJL Conference has been cancelled

2020-03-25 Thread Elliot H. Gertel via Hasafran
I applaud Dina, Kathy, and AJL Council for making this very difficult decision as the health and safety of potential attendees is what has to be foremost. There really was no other choice but to cancel the 2020 AJL Conference. Please note that ALA made the same tough choice yesterday and

[ha-Safran] Child of Holocaust Survivor Looking for Publisher

2020-03-25 Thread Jacqueline Benefraim via Hasafran
*please respond directly to Grace at: * gracio...@gmail.com My memoir concerns being the first generation born in the US from parents who made it out of Germany before the worst. I grew up in Washington Heights-Inwood, in upper Manhattan and was born in 1939. Just in the past few years I have

[ha-Safran] The 2020 AJL Conference has been cancelled

2020-03-25 Thread Kathleen Bloomfield via Hasafran
[image: logo for AJL 2020 conference in Evenston] AJL Conference 2020 Update: March 25, 2020 After much research, discussion, and deliberation, the Association of Jewish Libraries has decided to cancel our annual conference scheduled for June 29-July 1, 2020 in Evanston, IL. We know that you are

Re: [ha-Safran] Good Jewish Websites for children and adults

2020-03-25 Thread books2gogh via Hasafran
openlibrary.org has thousands of ebooks to read totally free. The reading quality isn't always the best because they have been digitized by scanning the originals, which sometimes are many years back and the pages are yellowed. There are a lot of "golden oldies." Search for ebooks. Here is the

[ha-Safran] The loss of an amazing Judaica scholar- Mr. Yaakov Shelomoh Biegeleisen

2020-03-25 Thread Shirazi, Gail via Hasafran
It is with great sadness that I am writing to inform you of the passing of Mr. Yaakov Shelomoh Biegeleisen. For over 60 + years Mr. Biegeleisen has been supplying material to the Library of Congress and other institutions around the world. His excellent service, boundless knowledge of