Drafts of the program of this year's World Congress of Jewish Studies held at Hebrew University have been posted online in English: http://www.jewish-studies.org/imgs/uploads/Congress/pdffileeng.pdf and in Hebrew http://www.jewish-studies.org/imgs/uploads/Congress/pdffile.pdf
You can register to attend here. http://www.jewish-studies.org/ShowDoc.asp?MenuID=118 Here are the listings for the 2 AJL sessions: Judaica Librarianship: Cultural and Historical Studies Chairperson: Roger S. Kohn Sunday (2/8/2009) 11:00 - 13:00 Room: 2405 Benjamin Richler (E) The Establishment of a Beit Midrash Library in 1693 Rachel Simon (E) The Contribution of Hebrew Printing in Istanbul to the Development of Ladino Scholarship and Culture Daniel Scheide (E) "Tzadik Ka-Tamar Yifrah": Radical Jewish Culture and the Future of Jewish Music Rachel Leket-Mor (E) When Kliff Gones Spent the Night at Stalag 13: Valuing Popular Israeli Literature in Academic Libraries Judaica Librarianship: Digitization and Bibliography Chairperson: Yael Penkower Sunday (2/8/2009) 14:30 - 16:30 Room: 2405 Edith Lubetski (E) Considerations in Preparing a Biblical Bibliography Roger S. Kohn (E) Recent Trends in Judaica Bibliography Elhanan Adler (E) Digitization of Hebrew Manuscripts: The Final Frontier Peggy K. Pearlstein (E) The World Digital Library and Other Digital Internet Resources for Jewish Studies I also noticed 3 other AJL members will be presenting papers as well (perhaps there are others, this is just what I noticed off the bat): Tuesday (4/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 2718 Marlene Schiffman (E) Names and Governments: The Historical Effect of Modern Governments on Jewish Names Monday (3/8/2009) 11:30 - 13:30 Room: 4809 Pinchas Roth (H) Sources of Sefer haPardes: Bibliography and History of Halakhah in the Middle Ages Monday (3/8/2009) 09:00 - 11:00 Room: 2715 Judith S. Pinnolis (E) "Cantor Soprano": The Career of Julie Rosewald Daniel Scheide --- 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: hasaf...@osu.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
