[Ha-Safran] of Los Angeles interest and for our colleagues in AJL

[Abigail Yasgur]

  The Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles
presents
The Best in Children's Jewish Literature with expert Ellen Cole
Explore the best in children's Jewish literature for your family with
national Jewish book reviewer, Ellen Cole.  As your personal guide to the
greatest Jewish literary treasures for young people, Ellen will introduce
you to beloved classics as well as premium hot off the press releases.

Wednesday evening November 5, 20036 PM-7:30 PM
@Los Angeles Public Library/Robertson branch
1719 S. Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90035
info: 323.761.8648
This program was made possible through a grant from the Library Services and
Technology Act of the California State Library

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[Ha-Safran] Miriam Roshwald, GHETTO, SHTETL, OR POLIS?

[Aviva Astrinsky]

GHETTO,  SHTETL, OR POLIS?
  The Jewish Community in the Writings of Karl 
Emil
Franzos, Sholom Aleichem and Shmuel Yosef Agnon
 by
Miriam  Roshwald

Karl Emil Franzos (1848-1904) wrote novels and stories in German, 
advocating the assimilation to European culture as a way for Jewish 
emancipation from the self-imposed ghetto--an approach charactertistic of 
the Jewish Enlightenment. Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916), the well-known 
Yiddish writer
, presented the Jewish shtetl in a deeply affectionate manner, 
commiserating with its plight through tears and laughter. S.Y. Agnon 
(1888-1970), the polished Hebrew writer and Nobel laureate, painted an 
idealized picture of  the orthodox Jewish community in days by-gone, a 
veritable polis--not in the political sense, but in its religious-cultural 
sovereignty. In some of his books he describes and deplores the decline of 
the community due to external forces and internal degeneration.

While this book can be classified as a study in Comparative Literature, 
perhaps its main place is in the domain of the Social and Cultural History 
of the Jews. This fairly recent history, though victim of material 
destruction, still casts its lights and shadows on contemporary Jewry. The 
divergent perspectives of the three writers are as much a part 
of  the  story of the past, as is the  subject-matter they deal with.

Miriam Roshwald presents the complex picture with personal involvement, 
which makes the book a lively and readable presentation.

  The publishers of the above book, The Borgo Press, went out of
  business after twenty-four years of activity. All the reights
  reverted to me and I have bought all the residual copies of my
  late wife's book.

  If you wish to purchase the book for your library, please contact
 Mordecai Roshwald, 8811 Colesville Road, #502,
 Silver Spring, MD 20910-4332;
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 Tel.: 301 585-1352
  `Price: $19.00, plus $3.00 (postage etc)



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[Ha-Safran] publicizing our book

[jpollock]

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   We would be grateful if you would post the following information on
White Tulip's publication Divinely Inspired: Spiritual Awakening of a Soul
ISBN 0972386602  authored by Jerry J. Pollock Ph.D. The book sells for
$14.95 and can be ordered at  www.barnesandnoble.com, special ordered at
ether Barnes & Noble or Borders, or by call ing toll free at
1-800-431-1579. If the book is ordered directly from the publisher at
631-632-8924, the price of the book will be reduced to $11.95 which
includes free shipping. You can E-mail the author at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dr. Pollock is Professor at Stony Brook
University on Long Island.

   Divinely Inspired is a spiritual memoir based upon unusual spiritual
experiences that has captured the hearts of those who have read this
original story. The book provides an easy read and vivid description of how
Dr. Pollock incorporated spirituality into his life to become whole again.
It's about resolving a non-nurturing upbringing and mental illness (Bipolar
Disorder) with the help of spirituality. The theme of the book is also abou
we finding God or He finding us (the author's case) and as a result we
doing meaningful things in our life.

   Thank you so much. We promise that your readers will not be
disappointed. Rather we hope that they shall be inspired.

   Warmly,

   Jerry Pollock, Ph.D.
   Co-President of White
Tulip

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Set of Jewish Encyclopedia

[Ramer1492]

Safranim,

I have a full set of the Jewish Encyclopedia in mint condition for anyone 
who can arrange to pick it up.
Please respond directly to me.

Roz Friedman
Ma'ayanot Yeshiva HS For Girls
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[Ha-Safran] Controversial Books

[Linda Silver]

There is a review of Christine Laird's A LITTLE PIECE OF GROUND in the 
Sept/Oct. issue of the AJL Newsletter.  It agrees with Hanna Geshelin's 
opinion, expressed in an earlier HaSafran posting.

There is a review of THE ENEMY HAS A FACE by Gloria Miklowitz in the Fall 
issue of Jewish Book World.  It essentially agrees with Hanna Geshelin.

Reviews of WE JUST WANT TO LIVE HERE will appear in the Nov/Dec issue of 
the Newsletter and the Winter issue of Jewish Book World.  Both reviews 
disagree with Hanna Geshelin.

THE ENEMY HAS A FACE and WE JUST WANT TO LIVE HERE are both recommended in 
the New Jewish Valuesfinder.

Linda R. Silver

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[Ha-Safran] derech eretz

[Heidi Estrin]

Hi. I am planning a preschool storytime on derech eretz, in the sense of
courtesy, friendliness, good citizenship, and generally acting like a
mensch.

If anyone has a fingerplay, song, or other cute activity on this theme, I
would love to hear about it.

Thanks very much!
Heidi Estrin
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[Ha-Safran] New Book Announcement

[Norman A. Ross]

Dear Friends:

Attached is an announcement of our newly published "Catalog of Jewish 
Manuscripts in the Institute of Oriental Studies."  Please note the 
slightly new name of our company.  I'm still Norman Ross but the company is 
now Ross Publishing.



Regards,
Norman A. Ross, President
Ross Publishing Inc.
330 West 58th Street, Suite 306
New York, NY 10019
TEL: 212-765-8200; FAX: 212-765-8296
Mobile:  917-952-1184
www.rosspub.com




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Catalog of Jewish Manuscripts is Published 40 Years after Death of Author



In the 1930s and early 1940s, a dedicated Russian-Jewish bibliographer, I. 
I. Gintsburg, labored relentlessly on his magnum opus, a catalog of the 
Jewish manuscripts he found in the Institute of Oriental Studies in 
Leningrad.  As he neared completion of the work, the guns of war exploded 
to the West.  Russia was invaded.  Leningrad was surrounded and remained 
under siege for nearly 900 days, with little food available. More than a 
million souls died of starvation and the effects of malnutrition.  Among 
them was I. I. Gintsburg.

Gintsburg's death, which occurred during the most trying days of the siege, 
prevented him from publishing his most important work. Although he did 
everything in his power to polish the work and leave it in a state suitable 
for publication, and although it was prepared for publication by other 
scholars several times over the ensuing decades, until now it had never 
been published.  The Catalog, published in October 2003, is available from 
Ross Publishing Inc., 330 West 58th Street, New York, NY 10019 at 
$100.  For more information: www.rosspub.com



Iona Iosifovich (Osipovich) Gintsburg was born in Russia in 1871 into the 
family of a civil servant.  From his childhood years Gintsburg studied 
ancient Hebrew and the Torah and Talmud.  In 1934 he was matriculated into 
the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which 
had been formed not too long before from the Asiatic Museum of the Academy 
of Sciences. >From that day until the end of his life Gintsburg worked in 
the Manuscript Division of the Institute, devoting himself to a 
scientifically systematized catalog of the Jewish Collection.  The title of 
each manuscript is listed in Hebrew, while the descriptions are in Russian.

Despite his advanced age, Gintsburg was still intensely engaged in his 
research throughout the 1930s, almost as if he were making up for lost 
time.  By early 1941 Gintsburg's Catalog was nearly finished.  However, his 
health was in decline, and by the onset of winter he was no longer able to 
leave the house. In April of 1942, at age 70, Iona Gintsburg died and was 
laid to rest in St. Petersburg's Jewish cemetery.

Of all Gintsburg's works that have survived him, the most enduring is his 
Catalog of Jewish Manuscripts, a work that tangibly illustrates his 
dedication and his love for the literature of his people.  He spent five 
years (19361941) creating a systematic description of the entire collection 
as it existed at that time, which was only possible due to his matchless 
abilities and exhaustive knowledge of Jewish literature, the study of which 
consumed his entire  life despite the many barriers and difficulties he 
encountered along the way.



Jewish Collection in the Institute of Oriental Studies Manuscript Division

By 1863 the Jewish Division of the Asiatic Museum held a considerable 
number of Jewish printed books and fifteen Jewish coins. The foundation of 
the Jewish Manuscript Collection comprised a collection of 300 works 
presented as a gift to the Academy of Sciences by L.P. Friedland. This 
collection subsequently grew gradually as a result of individual 
acquisitions and contributions, large and small, from various private 
donors and institutions. By the time Gintsburg was nearly finished with his 
Catalog, the following major additions to the collection had occurred:

1. JudeoPersian manuscripts from Teheran, 1898, 16 items;

2. Manuscript collection from the library of Professor D.A. Khvol'son, 
1909, 40 items;

3. JudeoPersian collection from Bukhara, 1915, 28 items;

4. Manuscripts from Karasubazar in the Hebrew and KaraimTatar languages, 
1930, 53 pieces (manuscripts, fragments and one scroll);

5. The most recent and largest collection of manuscripts (approximately 
1,000 titles) in Hebrew, Arabic, and KaraimTatar from the Karaim National 
Library in Eupatoria in 1931.



The majority of manuscripts are furnished with Masoretic notations in the 
margins, vocalization, punctuation and accentuation, which is of great 
interest for studying the history of their appearance and development. One 
codex of the later prophets (D 62) written on crude parchment bears the 
date 707 AD and has the aforementioned features. There are two complete 
Hebrew Bible codices of the 12th Century on par

[Ha-Safran] New Book announcement

[Norman A. Ross]

Dear Friends:

Attached is an announcement of our newly published "Catalog of Jewish 
Manuscripts in the Institute of Oriental Studies."  Please note the 
slightly new name of our company.  I'm still Norman Ross but the company is 
now Ross Publishing.

Thanks.

Regards,
Norman A. Ross, President
Ross Publishing Inc.
330 West 58th Street, Suite 306
New York, NY 10019
TEL: 212-765-8200; FAX: 212-765-8296
Mobile:  917-952-1184
www.rosspub.com

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[Ha-Safran] Why don't the Palestinians Care About Us?

[Eli Wise]

The conversation on this line has been quite interesting in recent days.
There seems to be anxiety over materials that relate to the conflict between
the Israelis and the Palestinians. I think that people are confusing their
professional outlook with their personal outlook. I echo Dr Sheynin that
this line is not a place for politics. However, I think there is a serious
professional issue. We can have in our libraries a balance of intellectual
output. This does not mean that we personally have to reflect that balance.
As professionals we often deal with materials we disagree with yet we
perform our professional tasks to the best of our ability. It is unfortunate
that anyone would go beyond that point and have their professional side be
affected by their political side. If that is the true then ALA was correct
in condemning Israel for destroying Palestinian Libraries and culture with
no mention of the  attempted destruction of Israeli society by homicide
bombers. The bomber shows no deference to educational institutions, places
of worship, or any other gathering place of civilians. To favor or
sympathize their position without mentioning the other equally terrible
piece is unfair and obscene. Have we forgotten about our brothers and
sisters who have been wantonly murdered over the last three years. When will
we learn that the Palestinians are bent on our destruction either our
institutions or ourselves. Balance is proper for a collection and is
improper when it comes to our people and their survival.

I was once listening to a talk show on my way into work. The host took a
phone call where the caller said that librarians build their collections
based on their own problems. As to our discussion the caller would seem to
be right. It seems from responses that librarians take their politics into
the library. I called the program and informed the host that librarians
concern themselves with information needs of the users of the library not
their own. I believe that this conversation has no place on this line. This
is a forum for professional issues. If we are deciding whether to buy such a
film then that is valid. If our politics motivate us to buy the film it is
professional irresponsible.

I don't mean to blame anyone. All are entitled to their opinion but let us
refrain from pushing an agenda. Our organization did not answer ALA's
obscene resolution as strongly as it could have. What will we say if a
homicide bomber will inflict pain on any of our institutions. Will we still
be this political. This is AJL let it not become ALA




Eliezer M. Wise
Library Director
Tuttleman Library of Gratz College
7605 Old York Road
Melrose, Park, Pa.  19027
215-635-7300 x 159
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[Ha-Safran] Circle of violence

[Andrea Rapp]

"History shows us that violence creates its own
circle."
===
  History shows that there are conquerors and victims, warmongers and
peaceful societies.  Cultures are different. Some (very few, like ours)
value choice and individual freedom.  Others (traditional societies)
don't value choice at all, but knowing one's role, accepting received
tradition without question, aiming to live as ancestors did in an
imagined, idealized past.
  It is a New Testament, but not a Jewish teaching teaching, that says
"do not resist the evildoer."
  Had no one resisted the Nazis, for fear of perpetuating the "circle,"
none of us would be here.
Neither would any of our Jewish books!

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[Ha-Safran] more on evenhandedness

[Andrea Rapp]

Shutting ourselves into a box of "everyone who does not agree
completely with how I feel is an enemy"
==
An "enemy" is what I call people who have created the most enormous body
of literature of demonization of Jews since Germany in the 1930's.  It
is completely comparable.  American Jewish Committee has an excellent
pamphlet by esteemed historian Robert Wistrich entitled "Muslim
Antisemitism." All should read it.
The leading Muslim intellectual of the late 20th century, Sayyid Qutb,
wrote a piece called "Our struggle with the Jews."  There is an English
translation by Ronald Nettler.  This piece reads like Ford's The
International Jew, or worse.  Jews are described as the "eternal enemy"
of Allah and of Muslims, the cause of every disaster from the poisoning
of the Prophet to the fall of the Ottomon Empire and beyond.  This work
and others like it have huge audiences in Arabic.
  Americans and American Jews are (again, as in the 1930's) refusing to
face reality.
Pretending that "they are just like us Americans"
  -- does not serve us well.


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[Ha-Safran] New historians

[Andrea Rapp]

Regarding the "new historian" mentioned by Mr. Katz, I think it
worthwhile
topoint out that the scholar Efraim Karsh has challenged the worth of
at least some of their work
===
And some of these historians, e.g. Benny Morris, have come to explicity
repudiate their earlier work.

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[Ha-Safran] Conversos

[Eve Panzer]

Thanks so much to all who responded to my inquiry about allowing students 
to do self-checkout on an automated system. For right now, I have worked it 
out so I have adult volunteers helping. At some point I may select some 
trustworthy Middle School students to be my library aides and check out books.

I have another question. A woman in our Jewish community is thinking about 
writing a book about the Conversos for an age group somewhere between K - 
8. She is  thinking  perhaps a picture book. She will probably focus on 
what happened to the Jews who left Spain and may concentrate on the 
Conversos who settled in Mexico. She had several questions:

1. Are there any books for K - 8th in this subject area?

2. Would there be an interest/market for a book on this subject for this 
age group?

3. Where can she get background information about the Jews/Conversos during 
the Inquisition, Conversos who left Spain and what happened to them?

Thanks in advance for your input!

Eve Panzer
Librarian
Austin Jewish Academy
7300 Hart Lane
Austin, TX 78731
(512) 735-8350 or (512) 735-8470
Fax (512) 735-8351

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Re: [Ha-Safran] Hebrew form of institute name needed

[David Hirsch]

Well. I found a reference to it on a Hebrew website as:

Mekhon S.tefan Ro.t le-.he.ker an.tishemi'ut .ve-giz'anut bat-zemanenu 
be-Universi.tat Tel Aviv. I found this by just doing a Hebrew keyword 
search in GOOGLE for Makhon and antishemi'ut in Hebrew characters.

David


--On Thursday, October 23, 2003 7:54 AM -1000 Elisheva Schwartz 
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>I turn to your collective wisdom
>We're doing an authority record for the Stephen Roth Instiute for the
>Study  of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism (U. Tel Aviv), based on an
>English-language publication.

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Re: [Ha-Safran] Relentless

[Suzanne Smailes]

Shalom,

There is also a review of Chesler's book in the Sept/Oct 2003 issue of the 
AJL Newsletter (p. 18).

Your friendly adult book review editor,

Suzanne

At 07:46 AM 10/23/2003 -1000, olivia hibel wrote:
>  This is to bring to the attention of Hasafran members an important
>new work dealing with  anti-Zionism.  Written by a superb Jewish woman,
>Phyllis Chesler, it is:
>THE NEW ANTI-SEMITISM: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It,
>   published by Jossey-Bass. $24.95.

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[Ha-Safran] new publication

[Noreen Wachs]

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For the attention of your librarian

  Please find attached details of our publications and new publication - 'A
Guide to
Organising
Your Family History Records'  which will be published in January 2004 but
available from us in December.

This is the 4th publication in the 'Jewish Ancestor' series.

  Further details may be seen on our web site: www.jgsgb.org.uk

Would there be any way of forwarding this information to the libraries in
your area?


  With best wishes.
Rosemary Wenzerul
Publications Department
Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
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RE: [Ha-Safran] Relentless

[malka9]

Well said.
Madeleine Cohen Oakley
 > While I appreciate Mr. Sheynin's perspective, I must disagree with him
 > that HaSafran is not an appropriate forum for political discussion.
 > Librarianship is inherently a political profession, and it seems to me
 > that we must engage in these difficult questions even though we will often
 > disagree about them.  Librarians work with books, and even more
 > significantly, select and champion or denounce books, and libraririans
 > serve communities of people.  Books are political objects (among many
 > other things), and patrons are political beings.  To ignore the difficult
 > political issues that librarians must face is, to my mind, extremely
 > dangerous, if not impossible.
 >
 > June Cummins

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[Ha-Safran] a balanced view

[brendan bell]

I haven't seen Relentless so I can't make any comments about it.  I do 
think that a library should present a balanced view.  Is Israel correct in 
everything it does?  No, of course not.  It is a country where failable 
human beings make mistakes.  Is the use of terroism an acceptable way of 
life?  No, of course not.  Yet how can you face an enemy you do not 
understand.
History shows us that violence creates it's own circle.  The news tells 
us that innocent people on both sides suffer from that violence.  I believe 
that only knowledge can break that circle.
  I think that a balanced view should also be about the differences 
that the Jewish people have among themselves.  I think that only by 
understanding each other can we repair the world.  A library is a place of 
learning, of understanding, of becoming a better version of yourself.  I 
think a balanced view promotes this.  Thanks for listening to my two cents.
J. Brendan Bell-McGonigle
Temple Shalom
Wheeling, WV

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RE: [Ha-Safran] Relentless

[malka9]

Bernie,
Thanks for your statement.  Even in these unspeakably terrible times, we 
must be honest, true to ourselves, and to our intellects. For instance, 
there can be no question regarding the standing of the authors you 
mention.  Shutting ourselves into a box of "everyone who does not agree 
completely with how I feel is an enemy" -- or is part of a plot against us 
-- does not serve us well.

Madeleine Cohen Oakley
Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy
Rockville, MD

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[Ha-Safran] Hebrew form of institute name needed

[Elisheva Schwartz]

I turn to your collective wisdom
We're doing an authority record for the Stephen Roth Instiute for the Study 
of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism (U. Tel Aviv), based on an 
English-language publication. I can't find the Hebrew form of the name 
anywhere. If you go into the Univ. website and click on Mehkar it brings 
you to an English-only site!
Could anyone give me the Hebrew if it's easily available? (I assume it's 
got a Hebrew name!!!)
;-)
Many thanks, all
Elisheva

Elisheva Schwartz
Cataloger
New York University
Library of the School of Law
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Re: [Ha-Safran] Abraham's age at the Tower of Babel incident

[Barbara Karp]

According to the English Ishei Hatanach, Encyclopedia of Biblical 
Personalities, compiled by Yishai Chasidah, published by Shaar Press:
"At the time of the Dispersion (Haflagah), Abraham was forty-eight (Seder 
Olam 1)." (page 18)

Basya Karp
Shulamith School For Girls Librarian

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[Ha-Safran] Biased research and library materials

[Nancy Sack]

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Some years ago when I was historian for a professional society, I became 
acquainted with the chief archivist at one of New England's foremost 
universities; my society's materials were part of that collection.  She and 
I had many conversations about acquisitions policies and problems. 
Archivists, like any other librarian or civilian who collects materials, 
have acquisition policies and select what they will and will not keep. 
These policies have everything to do with the kind of research that comes 
out of that archive.



Hebrew University was begun by Jewish intellectuals  (Buber, Freud and 
others) whose philosophical view was that the Jews should establish an 
intellectual enclave in the middle of the Arabs, and would spread 
intellectualism and liberalism without establishing a state of their own. 
So HUs early archivists' policies probably were very anti-statehood, 
therefore anti-conservative groups, Zionist revisionists, the Irgun-types, 
as well as the religious. Freud was anti-religious and Buber was big in the 
Enlightenment. They were also pretty much anti-Sefardi because the Sefardim 
weren't intellectuals. So any research that comes out of Hebrew 
University's archives is certainly going to be limited in scope.



Also, don't you think it's naïve to believe that researchers don't have an 
axe to grind, and won't select data depending on whether it fits their 
world-view? I have read things written by Israeli "scholars" that directly 
contradict things that I clearly remember from the era of the 6-Day-War, 
living in Israel in 1968 and 1969, and subscribing to _Near East Reports_ 
and other publications for many years after that. My memory is wrong and 
their "scholarly research" is right? I don't think so; not so often and 
only in these particular ways!



In 1988, when I was working as a Jewish storyteller, I read about 40 books 
about the establishment of Israel. Many of them were published in the 50's 
and 60's. They covered a wide variety of viewpoints across the political 
spectrum. While each one discussed events not covered in the 
others---personal experiences of the authors---they also covered the same 
events from different perspectives. These books were written early enough 
after statehood and by people who disagreed strongly enough with each other 
that collusion can be discounted. And they disagree with many, many of the 
points made by revisionist "scholars" like Segev and Benvenisti.



I had a much younger friend who got a Ph.D. in Linguistics at MIT under 
Noam Chomsky. Her politics did a 180-degree reversal as she became aware 
that unless she espoused and actively supported left-wing, pro-Palestinian 
politics her professional career would go nowhere. Segev and Benvenisti 
have earned thousands of dollars and countless accolades due to their 
political positions and "research," while right-wingers have been at best 
ignored and at worst jailed (in Israel) for their views.  People who tout 
Segev, Benvenisti and their ilk as truth-tellers have to take a long look 
at the possibility that they sold out like my friend.



Hanna Geshelin













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[Ha-Safran] Another children's book about the Middle East situation

[Nancy Sack]

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In the recent past weve discussed _We Just Want to Live Here_ and _A Little 
Piece of Ground_, both of which are very one-sided. I just finished reading 
_The Enemy Has a Face­_ by Gloria D. Miklowitz, published by Eerdmans, a 
YA.  Its listed on the AJL recommended reading list and I just want to 
mention it again here in case people havent noticed it there. Its 
excellent---a readable, engrossing novel for young YAs that portrays a 
balanced picture of the Israel-Arab situation.



Hanna Geshelin

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[Ha-Safran] New Historians

[Shmuel Ben-Gad]

Shalom lachem.

Regarding the "new historian" mentioned by Mr. Katz, I think it worthwhile
topoint out that the scholar Efraim Karsh has challenged the worth of
at least some of their work (e.g. in his book "Fabricating Israeli history
: the 'new historians.'"

  Shmuel Ben-Gad,
  Gelman Library,
  George Washington University.

Mme de Gramont...was called before the Revolutionary Tribunal  to stand
trial for her life.  "Had she ever aided the aristocrats who had escaped
abroad?" the court asked her.  Mme. de Gramont knew that if she answered
yes she would be guillotined at once. For some seconds she looked at her
judges in silence, then, "I was going to answer no," she said, "but life
is not worth the lie."--as related by Whittaker Chambers in Life magazine,
September 15, 1947.

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[Ha-Safran] New Book on R.Elijah Gaon

[RICHLER]

Yeshayahu Vinograd: Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon, Jerusalem 5763.
57, 414 pp. $50

This comprehensive bibliography includes all the worksby and on the Vilna Gaon,
R. Elijah b. Solomon Zalman. It includes over 1600 books divided into 25
categories: 8 categories of subjects, Bible, talmud Grammar and Science etc,
Approbations issued by the Gaon , Biographies of the Gaon, his connection to
Eretz Israel, Commentaries on his books, Letters of the Goan, Eulogies and
tales about the Gaon, selected articles on the Gaon, books by members of his
family, Maps of Eretz Israel and drawings of the Third Temple by the Gaon,
reproductions of portraits of the Gaon and about 150 reproductions of title
pages of rare editions of his works. The reproductions are on glossy paper and
many are in full colour. There are also indexes of names, titles, places etc
and lists of editions by year and by place of printing. The descriptions of the
editions are very detailed and include transcriptions of the text of the title-
pages and quotations  from the prefaces.

The book may be ordered from the author at 16 Bezalel St, Jerusalem 94591, Tel.
02-5242475, fax 0097226242396, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Benjamin Richler
Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts
Jewish National and University Library
POB 34165 Jerusalem 91341
Tel. 972-2-6586233  FAX 972-2-6511771
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[Ha-Safran] 200 Online Pictures of Mini Israel

[Jacob Richman]

Hi Everyone!

This week I visited the Mini Israel exhibition near Latrun.
The park contains models of famous sites in Israel.

For those of you in Israel and overseas who have not
visited the park, I took 200 pictures of the park and
have placed them on the Internet.
The address of the online picture gallery is:

http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/israel/mini-israel/index.html



Enjoy!
Jacob

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Re: [Ha-Safran] Relentless

[olivia hibel]

 This is to bring to the attention of Hasafran members an important
new work dealing with  anti-Zionism.  Written by a superb Jewish woman,
Phyllis Chesler, it is:
   THE NEW ANTI-SEMITISM: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It,
  published by Jossey-Bass. $24.95.

 Phyllis Chesler's first book "Women and Madness" 1972, was a
landmark work and paved the way to a new and just way to treat women by the
psych. profession.
   Let us hope this book does the same for the treatment of Israel!
Here is a review:
   http://www.jbooks.com/interviews/index/IP_Pearlman_2.htm

Best wishes, Olivia Hibel

  Olivia Hibel * 5838 Douglas Street * Pittsburgh PA 15217 *412 421-9851

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