Hey all. Hope Thanksgiving was lovely and an the up-coming Januca equally so.
We are doing some serious cataloging and organizing of material in the modest library of the Sinagoga "La Javura". We're going to be using Weine. At the moment we're assigning general categories. We read bits of the book and the blurbs on the covers. Here's a question that's come up: What's your take on "personal narrative", "memoire", and "autobiography" or autobiography/biography in the guise of ficcion? And yesterday we all got into a dither over "drama" v.s. "theatre". For example, every time we have to pay the phone bill or decide which kind of candles we should get or figure out where the intro to judaism class should meet, everyone starts talking like teacups and tempests spanish style (more like coffee cups, nobody drinks tea around this popsicle stand). The distinction between the two has to have more than just with how the words are gathered on the page. For instance, I can't imagine putting the dialogues of Plato on Broadway. Well, yes, actually, as someone who has suffered through Waiting for Godot, I can imagine it. Besos de Valencia Alba Toscano Sinagoga conservador/masorti La Javura http://www.uscj.org/world/valencia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
