[ha-Safran]: Ira Nowinski: The Photographer As Witness
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 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Vanessa Kam, Stanford University Libraries, Department of Special Collections (per Zachary Baker) Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to:
[ha-Safran]: Available: 175 Original Yizkor and Yizkor-Type Books.
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 ~ Dan Wyman, Books http://www.DanWymanBooks.com 47 Dartmouth St. Springfield, MA 01109 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: 413.846.6357 e-fax: 208.567.8926 We Find Good Homes For Nice Jewish Books Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Article justifying libraries
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising book on SALE
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: 1. Via E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Can anyone help identify this story? Laif Yankel, Laif
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 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. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
