Hi David and Jackie,
I, too, liked this book a lot-- and wrote a review about it for AJL Reviews.
Rachel
From: Jacqueline Benefraim
Sent: 20 August 2021 06:27
To: david.hirsch1
Cc: Hasafran
Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Book recommendation
Hi David,
I just
Hi David,
I just finished reading *Concealed* for my Sisterhood Book Club and found
it a great read on many levels.
I learned about a community I barely knew about, a daughter of immigrants
trying to cope with living in two worlds and gleaned interesting insights
into mental illness which I hadn't
Our former colleague Nancy Pressman Levy of Princeton University asked me to
post thisI hope it's not the wrong forum:Dear All:A former colleague of mine
recently recommended a book that may be of interest to libraries that collect
in Jewish and Middle Eastern studies. I am passing along this
Dear safranim,
I’m reading a very compelling book: *Biblio Tech: Why libraries matter
more than ever in the age of Google,* by John Palfrey.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=john+palfrey+why+libraries+kirkus&t=ffab
I find that he articulates very well the moment we’re in as librarians,
archivists,
A fantastic new book I’ve read recently is Small Medium at Large by Joanne Levy:
“After she's hit by lightning at a wedding, twelve-year-old Lilah Bloom
develops a new talent: she hears dead people. Among them, there's her
over-opinionated bubby Dora; a comically prissy fashion designer; and an
Another oldie, King of the seventh grade, by Barbara Cohen. Amazon has multiple
used copies
>
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Roslyn Vanderbilt
>> wrote:
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>> I'm looking for recommendations for a 4th/5th grade book group. The group is
>> diverse, and I'd love a suggestion that would h
I loved Linda Glaser's Bridge to America.After finishing each chapter, you have
to read the next.I make the point that these Coming-to-America stories are the
stories of the children's own great grandparents, i.e. "your own stories" of
family members who courageously left the world they knew to
For something totally different, what about E.L. Konigsberg's *About the
B'nai Bagels*?
Best,
Sharon Elswit
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Roslyn Vanderbilt wrote:
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> I'm looking for recommendations for a 4th/5th grade book group. The group
> is diverse, and I'd love a suggestion that would
Betsy Rosenthal, charming,
free verse, easy read but thoughtful and insightful.
Andrea RappWise Temple, Cincinnati
From: Roslyn Vanderbilt
To: Hasafran
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 12:31 PM
Subject: [ha-Safran] Book recommendationcontinued
Yes, it needs to have Jewish content
Yes, it needs to have Jewish content. Sorry I didn't make this more clear.
Roslyn Vanderbilt
The Jewish Center
Princeton NJ 08540
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I'm looking for recommendations for a 4th/5th grade book group. The group is
diverse, and I'd love a suggestion that would have great appeal. I've done
Holocaust- related selections in the past and would like something different.
All suggestions much appreciated.
Roslyn Vanderbilt
Children'
Karen Armstrong is not a reliable source of accurate or impartial
information about Islam. Bernard Lewis is the best!
Linda R. Silver
3729 Meadowbrook Blvd.
University Heights, OH 44118
silve...@roadrunner.com
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From: "Linda Silver"
To: "'Hasafran'"
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:02:31 -0500
OMG – Armstrong? That apologist for every sort of Islamist excess. That
handmaiden of the imams.
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*Linda R. Silver*
3729 Meadowbrook Blvd.
University Heights, OH 44118
silve...@roadrunner.com**
From: Andrea Rapp
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:01:08 -0800 (PST)
On one of her dust jackets, she boasts of a reward she received from MPAC,
which authorities acknowledge to be a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group.
I have found her to be very naive, no historian. For that, I'd say
(again) stic
From: Bernard Horn
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:34:25 -0500
About Karen Armstrong, in *Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths* she gives
her anti-Israeli game away in the photographs she selects. All Israelis are
according to her photographs either untra-orthodox or in the army, while
all the Moslems a
From: jrcol...@aol.com
To: hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:01:48 -0500 (EST)
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I have read several of Karen Armstrong's books. "A History of God" was a
selection of my women's book group. I felt she was inaccurate in her
presentation of Judaism and a Catholic mem
From: Andrea Rapp
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:59:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Book recommendation
I would emphatically *not* choose a book by Armstrong, who has compared the
warrior Muhammed to Mahatma Gandhi, and in an apparent effort to make the
Muslim Brotherhood into a feminist
From: Lee Jaffe
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:03:20 -0800
I trust Karen Armstrong as a reasonably impartial writer on religion. She
has several books that might be good for your book group:
Islam: A Short History
Muhammad: Prophet for Our Time
The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism
The f
From: Andrea Rapp
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:47:58 -0800 (PST)
The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis.
Lewis is a great scholar of Islam, often called the dean of that field, and
has the training and virtues of a true historian.
Andrea Rapp
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From: "Susan
From: Abigail Yasgur
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:43:33 -0800
Reuven Firestone of Hebrew Union College has a book on Islam in which you
may be interested.
*An Introduction to Islam for Jews*
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*Abigail Yasgur *
Max Said Yes! The Woodstock Story
by Abigail Yasgur & Joseph Lipner
Illustrations
Friends,
Our Brotherhood Book Club is interested in reading a book about Islam.
They would like something that is objective and balanced. Do you have
any suggestions? Thanks.
Gil Rosen
Librarian
Rabbi Marshall R. Lifson Library
Temple Emanuel
385 Ward Street
Newton Centre, MA 02459
617 5
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