Shalom, I don't know what to make of this volume (*Mishpacht Kobo Rabbaneiah u'Gvireiah*) . Numerous free copies were sent to our library, addressed to members of the staff from various departments, including people with no obvious connection to acquisitions, cataloging or Judaica. The librarian in charge of donations was hard put to find people to take the copies, and some will eventually be left by the library entrance for anyone willing and able to lift this weighty tome. It is clearly a very comprehensive and well-designed volume, but the massive, indiscriminate distribution suggests some sort of well-funded "vanity press" venture. I've never heard of the Kobo rabbinic dynasty, but there are several items in our catalog by authors bearing that name. If anyone knows about the Kobo dynasty, or the circumstances surrounding this publication, I'm curious to hear more.
Best wishes, Yosef Branse Information Systems Department Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library University of Haifa On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Sanford Silverburg < sanfordsilverburgssil...@outlook.com> wrote: > > For some unknown reason I received a beautiful book (*Mishpachot Kobo > Rabinuh*) from a publisher in Jerusalem. I have no use for this volume, > but would like to donate it to a worthy location. If any potential > recipient would reply, I will send it to them, with the only request being > a receipt. > Sent from Windows Mail > > > __ > 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...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org > -- > Hasafran mailing list > Hasafran@lists.osu.edu > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > >
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