Thank you, Emily, for the very nice article you wrote about my circuitous path to Judaica librarianship and to a career as a librarian in general. And thank you, Amalia, for adding a note about my longtime activity and positions in AJL, dating back some 32 years.
I was also delighted to read the interview with fellow AJL veteran, Peggy Pearlstein, in the same issue of *AJL News and Reviews, *July | August 2022 (p. 5), "Who Knows Four? Peggy Pearlstein!" What an honor to share space in the digital pages of the bulletin with Peggy. She was a great guide in her position as R&S (now RAS) president during my time as vice-president of R&S (2004-2006) when we served on the Judaica Reference and Bibliography Awards Committee and then when I was RAS president (2006-2008). I could not have asked for a better mentor and role model. Peggy is an exemplary professional and one of AJL's great human treasures! Elliot *Elliot H. Gertel* *עלע־הערש גערטל / אליהו־צבי גרטל* *Irving M. Hermelin Curator Emeritus of Judaica * *The University of Michigan * *Ann Arbor, Michigan * *eger...@umich.edu* <eger...@umich.edu> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 10:46 PM Amalia Warshenbrot via Hasafran < hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > יוסי, אנא ראה למטה את המסר שלי ל-הספרן מיום שלישי שעבר. בכלל, מספר ההודעות > ב-הספרן נמוכות מהרגיל. אני תוהה אם חלק מהן לא מגיע ליעדן. תודה עמליה ו. To: > Amalia Warshenbrot From Yossi Galron <jgalron@ gmail. com> > > > יוסי, > > אנא ראה למטה את המסר שלי ל-הספרן מיום שלישי שעבר. > > בכלל, מספר ההודעות ב-הספרן נמוכות מהרגיל. > > אני תוהה אם חלק מהן לא מגיע ליעדן. > > תודה > > עמליה ו. > > To: Amalia Warshenbrot > > From Yossi Galron <jgal...@gmail.com> > > את תיבת הדואר שלי ולא מצאתי אותה. שלחי לפי הכתובת: > > יוסי > > > > > > > > *From: *Amalia Warshenbrot <amalia...@att.net> > *Sent: *Tuesday, August 23, 2022 2:22 PM > *To: *Hasafran <hasafran@lists.osu.edu> > *Subject: *The reason for warding the Fanny Goldstein Merit Award to > Elliot Gertel > > > > I read with interest Emily Bergman’s article about Elliot Gertel in the > last issue of *AJL News & Reviews* (pages 2-3). Since I assume that it > was a delayed info to offer the reasons to award Elliot the *Fanny* *Goldstein > Merit Award (2019)*, Allow me to add that the Fanny Goldstein Award, is a > combination of two previous awards to AJL members: one for contributions to > Judaic librarianship, which is listed in Emily’s article, and one to AJL. > > > > I wish to list Elliot’s positions on the AJL Board and Council: > > > > 1. Secretary of the Board and Council from 2002-2004 > > 2. RAS vice-president 2004-2006. In this position he chaired the Judaica > Bibliography and Reference Awards Committee. > > > > 3. RAS president from 2006-2008. Presidents take an active role in > planning a conference. It is never an easy task. > > All this in addition to more years than I can recall of acting as AJL > liaison to ALA. In this position, with compassion and diligence, he > represented AJL through many events and was fighting passionately to defeat > the repeated anti-Israel resolutions. > > > > Thank you, Emily, for highlighting Elliot’s many journeys. How little most > members knew! > > > > Amalia Warshenbrot, AJL past president > > > > > > > > > > > __ > 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.osu.edu > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!z30LR3_tag6pleIbYHccW-jkXD3pbPY9YLxzxeBHbzBctvyTPMaH1d2HFxyqKCcKauZeQsusrIdnpSNmrK0qdw$ > > Earlier Listserver: > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!z30LR3_tag6pleIbYHccW-jkXD3pbPY9YLxzxeBHbzBctvyTPMaH1d2HFxyqKCcKauZeQsusrIdnpSNmrK0qdw$ > > AJL HomePage > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.JewishLibraries.org__;!!KGKeukY!z30LR3_tag6pleIbYHccW-jkXD3pbPY9YLxzxeBHbzBctvyTPMaH1d2HFxyqKCcKauZeQsusrIdnpSPjh157qA$ > > -- > Hasafran mailing list > Hasafran@lists.osu.edu > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran >
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