[ha-Safran]: Ira Nowinski: The Photographer As Witness

[Zachary Baker]

Ira Nowinski: The Photographer As Witness

The Stanford University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, is 
pleased to announce the exhibition Ira Nowinski: The Photographer As 
Witness. This exhibition highlights the Stanford University Libraries' 
holdings of San Francisco-based photographer Nowinski, and his series of 
works focusing on Holocaust memorials and sites, and the lives of Jewish 
emigres in San Francisco and abroad. Ira Nowinski: The Photographer As 
Witness will be on view at Stanford University's Cecil H. Green Library, 
Peterson Gallery, second floor of the Bing Wing from August 15 through 
November 30, 2004. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Photographer Ira Nowinski has been a fixture on San Francisco's artistic 
and cultural scene for over three decades. He earned a Master of Fine Arts 
degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1973. Nowinski subsequently 
embarked on projects that reflected a passion for social justice and that 
captured the social and cultural ambience of the Beat Generation in San 
Francisco, and the San Francisco Opera, for which he served as the official 
photographer, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In 2001, the Stanford University Libraries acquired over 15,000 negatives, 
1,200 study prints, and 600 archival prints of Nowinski's photographs from 
the early 1980s through the early 1990s. The photographs fall into three 
series: photographs published in the book, In Fitting Memory: The Art and 
Politics of Holocaust Memorials (text by the late Sybil Milton); Karaite 
Jews in Egypt, Israel, and the San Francisco Bay Area; and Soviet Jews in 
San Francisco.

Nowinski's Holocaust images document memorials and sites in Germany, 
Austria, and Poland. The photographs in the exhibition may be viewed in the 
context of recent studies of collective memory and lieux de memoire. Many 
of the sites that Nowinski visited during the 1980s, in the course of 
working on the book In Fitting Memory, had yet to be discoveredand 
integrated into the narrative of Holocaust memory. The bleak, mute, and 
largely unpopulated landscapes of camps and memorials underscore the 
horrors that once took place within their confines. The exhibition will 
also include Nowinskis photographs of sculptor George Segal's Holocaust 
memorial and the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

The lives of Jewish immigrants in San Francisco and abroad are also the 
focus of a series of works by Nowinski. There is a considerable body of 
scholarship on the traditions and history of the Karaites - a group that 
traces its origins to pre-rabbinic Judaism - but present-day Karaite 
communities are not well documented. Nowinski's photographs of Karaites in 
Egypt, Israel, and the Bay Area represent an exceptional source for the 
study of Karaites in these places. Similarly, Nowinski's photographs of 
Soviet Jews in San Francisco record a wide range of personalities, 
activities, and events. Images of Jewish holiday and life cycle 
celebrations, domestic scenes, workplace settings, Jewish community 
agencies, and political demonstrations will be included in the exhibition.

The photographs in the series titled Cafe Society, Nowinski's first photo 
essay to be published as a book, will send the viewer to the neighborhood 
of North Beach, San Francisco, approximately thirty years ago. Prominent 
players of the Beat Generation - including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence 
Ferlinghetti, and William Burroughs - can be seen in cafes, bars, parks, 
apartments, and bookstores, all representing the pinnacle of a bygone 
Bohemia on the West Coast.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Stanford University Libraries 
announces the publication of the exhibition catalogue Ira Nowinski: The 
Photographer As Witness. The catalogue includes over thirty reproductions, 
printed in duotone, of Nowinski's photographs, introductory essays by 
Professor John Felstiner and Dr. Anita Friedman, and an essay by Zachary 
Baker, curator of the exhibition and Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and 
Hebraica Collections at the Stanford University Libraries. Designed by 
Becky Fischbach and printed by The Stinehour Press in Lunenberg, Vermont, 
the catalog will be available in October of 2004. To order copies please 
contact the Department of Special Collections, Green Library, Stanford 
University, Stanford, CA 94305-6004; attn: Lisa Marie Hall, phone 
650-725-1021 or via e-mail at 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Vanessa Kam, Stanford University Libraries, Department of Special Collections

(per Zachary Baker)






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Re: [ha-Safran]: Jewish children's books

[shoshana langerman]

The discussion that goes on for some time in this group is a very important
and principal one in our profession. It has to do not only with children
literature, but with adult fiction that gets outdated, with reference books
and with journal, which take a very large space on the library shelves. How
long do we have to keep old journals? I know in Great Britain the British
Library had found a very good solution to this to this problem that bothers
every librarian. They have a place near the city of York, where there is a
huge library. Every library can send to them the books which they don't need
or books that are rarely used. They keep 3 copies of every title. The others
are destroyed. Every library is entitled to borrow from them in interlibrary
loan, if the book is needed. If an article is needed it could be purchased
via e mail. I tried to initiate such a program in Israel, but was not
successful. I am certain such a project is much needed. Not only for
historical research but to make our libraries more efficient and to save
money.






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[ha-Safran]: Available: 175 Original Yizkor and Yizkor-Type Books.

[Dan Wyman]

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest online book
catalog, Over 175 Original Yizkor and Yizkor-Type Books.

Please browse our catalog via our website, www.danwymanbooks.com

Thanks,

Dan
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[ha-Safran]: Article justifying libraries

[Heidi Estrin]

Hi. I recall that a few years ago, an article was making the rounds of AJL, 
on the theme of "why I love my Jewish library."  Does anyone have a copy of 
such an article?  If so, can you email or fax it to me (numbers below)?  I 
would really appreciate it!

Thanks very much,

Heidi Estrin
Association of Jewish Libraries, South Florida Chapter
c/o Feldman Children's Library at Congregation B'nai Israel
2200 Yamato Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
(561) 241-8118 ext. 206
Fax (561) 241-1701
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[ha-Safran]: Siddur Sale

[Salkluger]

Hello friends-  forsale- Siddur Eit Ratzon, a prayerbook for the morning
service of Shabbat and festivals with new
translations,commentaries,meditations,and prayers by Joseph G. 
Rosenstein.This is a traditional prayerbook designed
for those who seek spirituality and meaning beyond what they found in the
traditional prayerbook. This is a siddur for super davenning in both 
english and
hebrew.  $35.00. thx sal [simcha sales 11 imbrook lane aberdeen, n.j. 07747



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[ha-Safran]: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising book on SALE

[Shahar Geva]

Dear Safranim

New & Exclusive Offer from Israel-Catalog.com, now on SALE.

Brave and Desperate
The 60th anniversary of the Ghetto Warsaw Uprising !
The book depicts the harsh decrees, starvation, the murders, life inside 
the Ghetto, deportation to the
death camps and the last battle of the Ghetto - the Uprising.

List Price: $79.95
Our Price: $59.95
Sale Price : $24.95
Lower Delivery Cost!Only $5.95
Product no: 315
(Sale is valid until June 7)

Wholesale Prices (also for 1 week ONLY):
Set of 3 Brave and Desperate books  - 69.95 delivery $10
Set of 5 Brave and Desperate books  - 104.95 delivery $10
Set of 10 Brave and Desperate books  - 179.95 delivery $15
Up to 50% discount for more then 10 books, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

For more information & sales:
www.israel-catalog.com/holocaust_books.html
(click or copy & paste to your browser)


Description:
Description:
The tragic story of Warsaw Jewry from the conquest of the city by the German
army to the total destruction of the Ghetto. The book depicts the harsh
decrees, starvation, the murders, life inside the Ghetto, deportation to the
death camps and the last battle of the Ghetto - the Uprising.

Brave and Desperate tells the story of the heroes of the uprising: the
young men and women, liaison messengers and fighters, who chose to confront
the heavily armed and well-trained SS and German army troops, with only
pistols and Molotov cocktails at their disposal.

"Brave and Desperate- is a unique, fascinating and informative album, with
Hundreds of pictures, quotes and testimonies of one of the most horrific and
heroic chapters in the Jewish history.

"A unique album, suitable for every young man and woman"

Emmanuel Halperin (Today to Tomorrow, Channel 1-Israeli Broadcasting Network
(4/24/03)

"A spectacular and exciting album, rich in pictures, some published for the
first time, with a plethora of information on conditions in the ghetto and
its people."
Professor Dina Porat, Head of Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv
University (4/25/03)


To order off-line - Please contact us in one of the following methods:
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2.  Toll free numbers:  USA  888 750 7021
 Canada: 877 380 9511

  Israel:   03-5188255

3.  Our fax number: 972 3-5188256 (Israel)

4.  By mail:
Tal-Shahar Ltd.
POB 8162
Tel Aviv 61081
Israel.

5.  By check - please make check payable in the name of Tal-Shahar Ltd.



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[ha-Safran]: New Director appointed at the JLCR in Charlotte, NC

[Gail R Shirazi]

Congratulations to our friend and colleague, Amalia Warshenbrot who has
been appointed as the new director of the Levine-Sklut Jewish Learning
and Resource Center (JLRC)  in Charlotte, NC.

Here is an article that appeared about the Center in the Charlotte
Jewish News.

Kol ha-Kavod!

Happily Ever After at the JLRC
By Amy Krakovitz
Once upon a time there was a small Jewish community in North Carolina.
As that community grew, it established a library, and then an
educational resource center, and then a day school with lots of books,
and then its own historical society. For a long time these four entities
existed side by side.
And then the magic happened.
The Levine-Sklut Jewish Learning and Resource Center (JLRC) was born in
Charlotte, NC.
"The opening of the JLRC is the fulfillment of a dream for those of us
who have been involved in the library and CAJE for many years," says
Ruth Goldberg, who was the Federation liaison to the Speizman Jewish
Library and served on the CAJE Advisory Board.
The new JLRC will contain the entire Judaica collection of the Speizman
Jewish Library; books for reference and reading for the secular studies
of the students at the Charlotte Jewish Day School; the teacher resource
materials from the CAJE collection; and the historical records so
painstakingly gathered and catalogued by the Charlotte Jewish Historical
Society.
In addition to maintaining these important collections, the JLRC will
also plan programming for the community at large as well as teacher
workshops.
And then the search was on for the wizard who could direct this new and
remarkable center. "We conducted a search on a national scale," says Sam
Bernstein, chair of the JLRC task force. "We know that we hired the best
person for the job."
Amalia Warshenbrot is now the new Director of the JLRC.
"I've worked very closely with Amalia for many years," Goldberg
continues. "She's very qualified for the position."
Warshenbrot is thrilled with this new opportunity. After 16 years as
librarian of the Speizman Jewish Library, this is a major yet welcome
change. "This is a new beautiful, huge space," she gushes. "It will
allow us to make it a very inviting resource center that will attract
diverse people - young and old, Jewish and not Jewish, students and
teachers.
"Space is what we were missing before in the Speizman Jewish Library.
The new center is a good space for both the collection and
programming."
Among the programs planned for the coming year are two in partnership
with the Public Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County (PLCMC); one is
called "Let's Talk About It," a Jewish literature theme-based reading
and discussion series; the other is "Feeding the Fire of Hate" scheduled
to take place during "banned books week" and will feature books from the
Holocaust museum that were banned in Nazi Germany. There is also a
partnership with a Theatre Charlotte for a performance of Donald
Margulies' "Collected Stories" that includes a reading and discussion of
the poetry of Delmar Schwartz. Also planned is a program about Otto
Frank in conjunction with the Levine Museum of the New South, as well as
joint programs with all the agencies of Shalom Park for both teacher
workshops and family programming.
"The JLRC is like a microcosm of Shalom Park," Warshenbrot posits.
"We've taken several agencies and put them together in one place. It's
really what Shalom Park is all about."
She wants to thank the members of the task force, and especially Sam
Bernstein, for their hours of dedication to making this new center work
and for their devotion to Jewish education. Warhsenbrot has a special
thank you for Ruth Goldberg, who has supported her during her tenure as
librarian of the Speizman Jewish Library and throughout the selection
process for the director of the JLRC. And of course she is always
grateful to her library patrons and the teachers of Shalom Park for
their confidence and faith in her. "A special thank you to my family,"
she says, "Avi, Ory, and Ruthie.
"I really feel like the JLRC is where I belong. I was meant to be a
Jewish educator. I am looking forward to promoting Jewish literature and
knowledge in a big, beautiful, exciting atmosphere."
In order to make this work, the JLRC needs your help. Please use the
form below to make your contribution to the new Levine-Sklut Judaic
Library and Resource Center.
And we'll all live happily every after.



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[ha-Safran]: Can anyone help identify this story? Laif Yankel, Laif

[Henry Hollander, Bookseller]

A customer asks about this item which is unfamiliar to me. Can anyone help 
me out?

 "A collection of short stories that all took place in a shtetl. 
One story that she remembers was called Laif Yankel, Laif (run Jack, run). 
In this story Yankel steals an apple from a pushcart, and the people who 
witness this shout for him to run, so as not to get caught."

Best Wishes,
Henry


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San Francisco, CA 94121

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Re: [ha-Safran]: New Director appointed at the JLCR in Charlotte, NC

[Linda Silver]

Mazel tov to Amalia Warshenbrot upon her appointment as the new director of
the Levine-Sklut Jewish Learning and Resource Center of Charlotte, NC.  This
is a case of a happy ending and a new beginning!  All of Amalia's friends
will be thrilled, knowing how much she deserved this appointment.
Linda Silver




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