[ha-Safran]: For Sale: Three Important Aramaic reference works.
We have recently gotten in copies of these three items which we offer here at roughly half their published prices. Libraries will be billed. Call 415-831-3228 or email to reserve copies. Thank you for your interest. THE BOOKS 1) Charlesworth, James, et al. Miscellaneous Texts From the Judean Desert: Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXXVIII. Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 2000. First Edition. ISBN: 0-19-924261-5. Large quarto in dust jacket, xviii, 252 pp., 26 pp. figures, XXXVI pp. b/w photographic plates, Hebrew and Aramaic Concordances by S. and C. Pfann, Indicis to the Greek Documentary Texts by N. Cohen. Hardbound. This volume presents texts from sites in the Judaean Desert other than Qumran, mainly Aramiac and Grek documentary papyri with the addition of a few Hebrew papyri. It also includes several literary texts which are mainly leather fragments of the Hebrew Bible. (22179) $75.00 2) Hillers, Delbert R. and Cussini, Eleonora. Palmyrene Aramaic Texts. Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0-8018-5278-1. Quarto, maroon cloth with gold lettering, xviii, abbreviations and text sigla, bibliogrpahy, 458 pp., glossary, English-Aramaic Index to Glossary, Personal Names, Appendix: The Calendar and Dating, Maps, Concordances of Text References. Hardbound. This is the third publication of The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project. The project is projected to take decades to complete and this item and the item that follows are efforts to make some of the projects scholarship available in advance of the completion of the final Lexicon. This volume deals with the Aramic particular to the region around Palmyra. (22180) $50.00 3) Kaufman, Stephen A. and Sokoloff, Michael. A Key-Word-In-Context Concordance to Targum Neofiti: A Guide to the Complete Palestinian Aramaic Text of the Torah. Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. First Edition. ISBN: 0-8018-4707-9. Large quarto, red cloth with gold lettering, x, 1494 pp., index of DJPA references. Hardbound. Done with the assistance of Edward M. Cook. This is the second publication of The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project. The volume has its origins in the preparation of Sokoloff's A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period, Bar Ilan University, 1990. This volume was them heavily edited. By placing words in context it has a different function from the work it is the tangential based of. (22246) $100.00 END Henry Hollander, Bookseller 843 Twenty-Fourth Avenue San Francisco, CA 94121 http://www.hollanderbooks.com 415-831-3228 fax 415-831-3226 Jewish books in all fields and languages. === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Shalom Ireland CD sale
Hello friends-this is the musical soundtrack from the film Shalom Ireland[ jewish community in Ireland]. The music is mostly klezmer and traditional Irish music and an infusion to meld these two incredible musical cultures. The band members [Ceilzemer] are from both cultures. 17.00. thx sal [simcha sales] 11 imbrook lane aberdeen, n.j. 07747. === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: The Ten Plagues
Does anyone have a copy of the article that appeared in the Biblical Archaeology Review (I believe) regarding a possible scientific explanation of the Ten Plagues? Any other source that would list the entire explanation would also be welcome. Thank you in advance. = Poshi Mikalson Congregation B'nai Israel Sosnick Library 3600 Riverside Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95818 (916)446-4861 ext. 18 __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Onlline libraries vs. Library Software
Hello, all: Having been following this list for some time now, I've noticed a recurring theme, namely that of finding a book (such as the example below). There is inexpensive software that enables you to do this, called BookWhere. If you're interested and would like to support an Israeli startup, then navigate to www.e-libraries.co.il [select English]. However, I haven't noticed much discussion regarding Library automated software. Should anybody have any particular questions regarding Inmagic or VTLS software, then I'll try to be helpful. Cheers, Avi Avi Shoub E-libraries Israel Authorized Inmagic Dealer Authorized WebClarity Reseller Authorized VTLS Representative (02) 999-7543 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.e-libraries.co.il Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:39:57 -0400 From: Michal Avrahamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ha-Safran]: Online libraries Hi everyone, Does anyone know how I can check which libraries have a certain book? When I was in Hebrew University we had an online library, and I can imagine that many libraries in the States have an online library service as well, but is there a place where I can find at once for many libraries? === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Two programs on the Iraqi Jewish Diaspora
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A PROGRAM ON IRAQI JEWS FEATURING A FILM AND LECTURE BY PRODUCER CAROLE BASRI. THERE WILL BE TWO PRESENTATIONS. THE FIRST ONE AT MAGEN DAVID SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION IN ROCKVILLE, MD (14TH OF DEC.) AND THE SECOND AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IN WASHINGTON, DC. (15TH OF DEC.) WHAT: FILM : SEARCHING FOR BAGHDAD; A DAUGHTERS JOURNEY. PRODUCER CAROLE BASRI WILL BE PRESENT FOR DISCUSSION FOLLOWING FILM. DELICIOUS IRAQI DESSERTS WILL BE SERVED WHEN: SUNDAY, DEC. 14, 2003 TIME: 1:00 PM WHERE: MAGEN DAVID SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION 11215 WOODGLEN DRIVE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20852 Reservations Requested: $10.00 in advance $12.00 at the door Make checks payable to Magen David Sephardic Congregation For further information call 301-770-6818, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] SECOND PROGRAM ON DEC. 15 WHAT: FILM AND LECTURE BY CAROLE BASRI WHEN: MONDAY DEC. 15, 2003 TIME: 12:00 -1:00 (LUNCHTIME) WHERE: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ROOM LJ119 (MAIN BUILDING) INDEPENDENCE AVE., WASHINGTON, DC. (CAPITOL SOUTH METRO). THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROGRAM IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Carole Basri, a New Yorker of Iraqi descent, has produced a series of films on Iraqi Jews. What started out as a project entitled, The Last Jews of Baghdad, has grown into a three-part documentary, of which The Life of Frank Iny is the first. In this film, granddaughter Carole Basri investigates the 200,000 strong flourishing Jewish community of Baghdad of the early 1900s as it dwindled to less than 30 today. In the second film , SEARCHING FOR BAGHDAD; A DAUGHTERS JOURNEY, Ms. Basri travels to India, Hong Kong, Burma and Singapore visiting these various Iraqi Jewish communities discovering some of her own relatives along the way. === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Stolen book
Two months ago a rare book was lost or stolen from the office of Yeshayahu Vinograd in Jerusalem. The book is Maaseh Rav by Issachar b. Tanchum, Vilna-Horodna 1832. This particular copy was printed with broad margins, bound in leather and stored in a green box. It was sent by the author to R. Zvi Hirsch Lehren, the outstanding leader of the Jewish community in Amsterdam. At the beginning of the book there is a dedication by the author to Lehren transcribed by a professional scribe in a Rashi letters and signed by the author. This copy was described in Vinograd's recent publication, Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon (Jerusalem 2003) no. 808. Facsimiles of the title page and dedication are on p. 334. The entire book was printed in facsimile at the end of the new edition of the Siddur ha-Gra (Ezor Eliyahu) published by Vinograd (Jerusalem 5664=2003) . If the book is offered for sale, be aware that it was not acquired legally and belongs to Mr Vinograd.If anyone has seen the book or has any information about its whereabouts, Mr. Vinograd would like to be informed at any of the following addresses: Bezalel 16, Jerusalem Tel. 972 2 62642475; 067 7279969 (cell) Fax 9722 6242396 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Benjamin Richler Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts Jewish National and University Library POB 39105 Jerusalem, Israel 91390 Tel. 02-6586233 FAX 02-6511771 === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Herzl article
Last week I asked if anyone knew where I could find Theodroe Herzl's The Menorrah. I was sent to Alex Bein's article in Philip Goodman's classic 1976 The Hanukkah Anthology, p. 109. (translated by Maurice Samuels) Bein's 4 page article does indeed quote and summarize Herzl's article. However, my congregation's rabbi would like to see the original article, or its translation. Can anyone help? Footnotes on . 431 say that the article, The Menorrah, originally appeared in Die Welt (Hanukkah, 1897), a publication of the Zionist organization. Thanking you in advance Irene K. Seff, Librarian Westchester Jewish Center Mamaroneck, NY 10543 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Sephardic Music Project
From: Joel Bresler The Sephardic Music Project (SMP) is preparing a World Wide Web site dedicated to Sephardic music. The site will list all known commercial recordings of Sephardic music, catalogued by artist, songs and other identifying information. Users will have a chance to listen to samples of over 8,000 song performances. The site will serve individuals, researchers, libraries and others interested in collecting, studying, preserving, performing and promoting Sephardic music. We will also support practical research on Sephardic music and preserve commercial 78 r.p.m. Sephardic recordings at risk of being lost forever. If there are scholars who will be in Boston next month for the AJS meetings that would like a preview of this work in progress, kindly email me separately and I will do my best to oblige. Welcome to Boston! [EMAIL PROTECTED] sephardicmusic.com (forthcoming) - === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Protocols of the Elders of Zion On Display at the
Alexandria Library X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Special Dispatch - Egypt/Arab Antisemitism Project December 3, 2003 No. 619 To view this Special Dispatch in HTML format, please visit: http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD61903 Jewish Holy Books On Display at the Alexandria Library: The Torah the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' Recently, a manuscript museum opened at the new Alexandria Library, which was renovated by the Egyptian and Italian governments via UNESCO. In the November 17, 2003 issue of the Egyptian weekly Al-Usbu', correspondent Jihan Hussein reported(1) that the museum had added The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to the display case of the holy books of the monotheistic religions, next to a Torah. The book on display is the first translation of the Protocols into Arabic, by Muhammad Khalifa Al-Tunisi, and its binding, according to the report, features a Star of David, the Bolshevik Jewish symbol, surrounded by symbolic snakes. The following is an interview with the museum's director, Dr. Yousef Ziedan, in which he explains why he decided to add the Protocols to the exhibit: 'The Protocols of Zion Are More Important Than the Torah' When my eyes fell upon the rare copy of this dangerous book, I decided immediately to place it next to the Torah. Although it is not a monotheistic holy book, it has become one of the sacred [tenets] of the Jews, next to their first constitution, their religious law, [and] their way of life. In other words, it is not merely an ideological or theoretical book. Perhaps this book of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' is more important to the Zionist Jews of the world than the Torah, because they conduct Zionist life according to it... It is only natural to place the book in the framework of an exhibit of Torah [scrolls]. Dr. Ziedan maintains a website for heritage and manuscripts where he posts, among other things, articles that he writes. In his article WWW and the Informatics Plexus [sic], Dr. Ziedan writes of the difference between reality and reporting on reality: ...There is no doubt that every 'news item' originates in a [particular] event, but the distance between the event and the news item is great... I will give an example: When Hitler's atrocities are mentioned, [people] immediately point out the cremation of the Jews in the gas chambers. This happens because of the knowledge that is passed on regarding the Holocaust. This is knowledge that has reached the world via a diverse stream of information from journalists' reports, historical research, compensation, [the] unceasing buzz in the media, and films such as Schindler's List which made the entire world cry and which was banned in our country [Egypt] so that we won't cry too over the fate of the poor Jews! 'Only 1 Million Jews Were Killed by the Nazis... There Wasn't Enough Cyanide' What is important is that the information arrived, but what about reality? In reality, 50,000,000 fell victim to the Nazis, among them 1,000,000 Jews and the rest Gypsies, Poles, and other nations. In reality, an analysis of samples from the purported gas chambers has proven that these were sterilization chambers, without a sufficient quantity of cyanide to kill. In reality, had Hitler wanted to annihilate the Jews of Europe, he would have. He had an opportunity. The distance between events and widespread knowledge about them is great. Endnote: (1) Al-Usbu' (Egypt), November 17, 2003. * The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent, non-profit organization that translates and analyzes the media of the Middle East. Copies of articles and documents cited, as well as background information, are available on request. MEMRI holds copyrights on all translations. Materials may only be used with proper attribution. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) P.O. Box 27837, Washington, DC 20038-7837 Phone: (202) 955-9070 Fax: (202) 955-9077 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.memri.org If you no longer wish to receive this publication via email, please reply and enter only the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
RE: [ha-Safran]: Why Jews don't believe in Jesus
Rabbi Yaakov Emden (d. 1776) wrote at length on the positive aspects of Christianity. See translation and scholarly analysis by Harvey Falk, Jesus the Pharisee: A New Look at the Jewishness of Jesus (Paulist Press, 1985). Another work, in Hebrew, is by Rabbi Eliyahu (Elias or Elie) Zevi Soloweyczyk , Kol Koreh (reprinted by Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies and Research, 1870). I imagine there are other orthodox rabbis, besides these two, that have positive evaluations of the origin and role of Jesus in the world. Sincerely, Hananya Goodman Beit Shemesh/Ashdod === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Self-check-out
Several years ago, I set up a do-it-yourself checkout system for a library with about 1500 books. It is still in use and books are still being borrowed and returned. However the library has a limited number of people wandering in. Now I am at a library with about 15,000 books and there is a lot more traffic. We would probably do this for 2-4 hours on any given day. My question to you is: Has anyone had experience using a do-it-yourself system with this size library? Roberta Berman [EMAIL PROTECTED] === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
