[ha-Safran] Judaica books from estate

2017-08-31 Thread Noah Witty
My father, Rabbi Yitzchak Witty, died in 2005 leaving a considerable number of judaica books, including sefarim, Jewish history Jewish education, history of Jewish education and journals, e.g. Bitzaron. My mother, le-orech yamim ve-shanim, has recently begun distributing these, sefarim, book

[ha-Safran] New books form Israel, cat. 473 - Sept. 2017; Elul 5777

2017-08-31 Thread Rubin Mass Ltd . , publishers and booksellers הוצאת ראובן מס
Dear librarians and book friends,   We are happy to send you our new catalogue of: NEW BOOKS FROM ISRAEL Cat. No. 473 – Sept.  2017 (Elul – 5777(   The catalogue contains 227 new titles which are divided into two main files: 1. Titles in Hebrew, including religious books (Sifre

[ha-Safran] New books form Israel, cat. 473 - Sept. 2017; Elul 5777

2017-08-31 Thread Oren Mass
Dear librarians and book friends, We are happy to send you our new catalogue of: NEW BOOKS FROM ISRAEL Cat. No. 473 – Sept. 2017 (Elul – 5777) The catalogue contains 227 new titles which are divided into two main files: 1. Titles in Hebrew, including religious books (Sifrei kodesh):

[ha-Safran] Diversity of collection

2017-08-31 Thread Devorah Bader
Hi all - My supervisor has asked me to assess the diversity of our Judaica collection and I'm not really sure where to start. Does anyone have a checklist or rubric of sorts to begin the diversity analysis? We have a wide variety of fiction, non-fiction, religious texts, movies, and cds but I ne

Re: [ha-Safran] Diversity of collection

2017-08-31 Thread Clare Kinberg
Devorah, It seems to me that there are many axes of "diversity" in a Judaica library collection. Does your supervisor mean diversity by genre, age, ethnicity/culture, denomination? Clare Kinberg, TBE Ann Arbor On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Devorah Bader wrote: > Hi all - > > My supervisor

[ha-Safran] Podcast about Israeli film The Last Shepherd

2017-08-31 Thread Heidi Rabinowitz
The Last Shepherd by Evil Sun Productions is a Hebrew-language indie comedy adventure scifi fantasy film with elements of Jewish mysticism and kabbalah.I interviewed the filmmakers over a year ago and then waited for the film to become available in North America. That hasn't happened, so if you lik

Re: [ha-Safran] Diversity of collection

2017-08-31 Thread Devorah Bader
I think they want all of the axes... [image: TVT logo_rgb.png] Devorah Bader Library, Media and Information Specialist 5 Federation Way, Irvine 92603 O: 949.509.9500 d ba...@tarbut.com On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Clare Kinberg wrote: > Devorah, > > It seems to me that there are many

[ha-Safran] New Book

2017-08-31 Thread Jean Lettofsky
*Jean Lettofsky, former Director of the Aaron Garber Library of the Laura and Alvin Siegal College of Judaic Studies* announces that a new volume-- /Studies in Judaism and Jewish Education/ /in Honor of Dr. Lifsa B. Schachter-- /has been published. She thinks it will be of interest to members