RE: [ha-Safran]: School project on Elijah stories

[Rettberg, Dan]

Weeding books is an at times necessary task, but story telling is an 
eminently good (and Jewish) way of helping the world. Try searching the 
websites of various Jewish renewal groups on the phrase "story telling". 
The Aleph Alliance is a good place to begin 
(http://www.aleph.org/).

Dan Rettberg
Rare Book and Manuscript Librarian
Klau Library
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Cincinnati, Ohio

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[ha-Safran]: School project on Elijah stories

[Rose Myers]

Friends,
As part of my introductory ILS course, I have to do a
50-hour project.  I would like to do something on the
basic theme of some Elijah stories: mysterious
stranger comes to town, changes people's lives, and
rides off into the sunset.  I want to look at good,
bad and neutral strangers and actions and expand the
literature to include Westerns, movies like the Music
Man, plays like The Rainmaker (redone as 110 in the
Shade), and stories like Stone Soup as well as
traditional Jewish folklore.  I enjoy comparing and
contrasting stories.

My professor wants me to do more than just a
bibliography and hopes that my project would be useful
to others.

My other idea is to do something with weeding books.
And if I did this, maybe I could do something towards
the listing, collecting, and keeping of old, outdated
Jewish children's books---the stuff I pull from my
library and then keep at home for historical interest.

The first idea would be lots of fun for me; the second
would probably be better for the world.
Any ideas, suggestions, comments?

Thanks,
Rose Myers
Fairfield, CT






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[ha-Safran]: Library

[Allan Spetter]

Yossi Galron at Ohio State has suggested that I
contact this address. I recently retired from the
state university in Dayton, Ohio, and I volunteered to
try to bring order to the library at Beth Abraham
synagogue. I have several dated pamphlets, the latest
version from the late 1970s, with the details of the
Weine system. Is it still in use? If so, can I obtain
the most recent version? Should I try to computerize
the library? Thanks to one and all. Allan Spetter









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