[ha-Safran]: From AJL's Jewish ValuesFinder
Here are some children's books related to the subjects of the environment, ecology, and sustainability. More information about them can be found at www.ajljewishvalues.org. From AJL's Jewish ValuesFinder AuthorTitle Alexander, Sue Behold the Trees Biers-Ariel, Matt Seven Species, The: Stories and Recipes Inspired By the Foods of the Bible Biers-Ariel, Matt Solomon and the Trees Burstein, Chaya Kids' Catalog of Animals and the Earth, The Cone, Molly Listen to the Trees: Jews and the Earth Gershator, Phillis Honi's Circle of Trees LeTord, Bijou Noah's Trees Levine, Arthur Pearl Moskowitz's Last Stand Sasso, Sandy EisenbergNaamah, Noah's Wife Sasso, Sandy EisenbergPrayer For the Earth, A Watson, Mary Butterfly Seeds, The Zalben, Jane BreskinPearl Plants a Tree Zolkower, Edie StoltzIt's Tu B'Shevat Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Librarians for Fairness is writing a formal protest letter to the publisher (Gale) about this. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Annual Ben Yehuda Press Labor Day Literary
Hootenanny, Mon. Sept. 1 X-Original-To: Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 X-Spam-Score: 1.30 (*) [Tag at 5.00] MISSING_SUBJECT X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.146.216.130 X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN It was a pleasure meeting many of you at the AJL convention in Cleveland earlier this summer. We'd like to reciprocate by extending an invitation to our annual BBQ & Literary Hootenanny to all HaSafraniks (and their guests). The date is Monday, September 1st. Food will be served beginning at 1pm. We are inviting our authors to speak and perform starting around 2pm. Authors expected to appear and read include: Yori Yanovoer, author The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption; Sharon Rosenzweig and Aaron Freeman, creators of The Comic Torah: Reimagining the Very Good Book; Louis Reiser, author of The Hillel Narratives: What do Talmudic Tales of the First Rabbi Teach Us About Our Faith; Isidore Century, author of Poems From the Coffee House of Jewish Dreamers; Roslyn Bresnick-Perry, author of I Loved My Mother on Saturdays; and Larry Yudelson, editorial director of Ben Yehuda Press and author (with Yori Yanover) of How Would God Really Vote: A Jewish Rebuttal to David Klinghoffer's Conservative Polemic. Our address is 430 Kensington Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666. We hope to see you on Labor Day, rain or shine! Larry Yudelson Editorial Director Ben Yehuda Press http://www.BenYehudaPress.com Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Article "Zionism" in the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Safranim, After reading the article thanks to S. Bernstein I like to express solidarity with all the critiques published on Hasafran. I will not dwell on the long history of the way to to the national homeland. Instead I'll tell my own experiences that reject many of the anti-Jewish ideas of the article. I lived in Israel from 1972 to 1979 and taught in Haifa University. 45% of my students were Arabs and Druzes. There were no restrictions to their admissions, even they as a rule had a much lower school preparation than Jewish students. I befriended some of my students and visited some of their villages near Haifa and Tabor mountain. Among the Arab students were some that either belong to anti-Israeli organizations or just had anti-Israeli feelings. Many of them changed their opinions during the 70s. As an example I can bring the Arab and Hebrew poet Naim Araida (or Araidi), who from pro-PLO man became pro-Zionist. He was my student for couple of years. The problem was not only with Arabs, but also with Israeli left, which supported anti-Israeli Arabs and provoked them for anti-Israeli activities. The author of the article "Zionism" in his references brings works of only anti-Israeli Arabs and leftist historians-revisionists. This article like all the writings of the "post-Zionist" historians is harmful to state of Israel and to Jewish world and should be dealt as a propagandist literature similar to the Protocalls of Elders of Zion. Dr. Hayim Y. Sheynin Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Jewish Children's Book Writers' Conference
Some of you may be interested in the tenth annual Jewish Children's Book Writers' Conference on November 23 at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Conference organizers include AJL members Steve Siegel and Anna Olswanger. The conference will include presentations by Kathe Pinchuck, Chair of AJL's Sidney Taylor Book Award Committee, and Aileen Grossberg, Chair of AJL's Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award Committee. We invite everyone to attend. Please pass on the announcement below to others you think might be interested. Sincerely, Anna Olswanger, Conference Coordinator --- Anna Olswanger, Literary Agent Liza Dawson Associates 350 Seventh Avenue, Ste. 2003 New York, NY 10001 Direct tel.: +1-201-791-4699 www.olswanger.com www.shlemielcrooks.com www.host-a-jewish-book-author.com Tenth Annual Jewish Children's Book Writers' Conference Sunday, November 23, 2008, 9 AM to 5 PM 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY $95 before November 1, $110 after November 1 Fee includes kosher breakfast and lunch The 92nd Street Y Buttenwieser Library and the Jewish Book Council are cosponsoring the Tenth Annual Jewish Children's Book Writers' Conference at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan on Sunday, November 23, 2008, from 9:00 am to 5:00 p.m. Featured speakers are associate agent Michelle Andelman of Andrea Brown Literary Agency, publisher David E. Behrman of Behrman House, executive editor Michelle Frey of Alfred A. Knopf and Crown Books for Young Readers, editor Larry Rosler of Boyds Mills Press, director Joni Sussman of Kar-Ben Publishing, and illustrator's agent Melissa Turk of Melissa Turk & The Artist Network. Award-winning author Johanna Hurwitz will give opening remarks, and the day will include sessions on publishing and writing in Israel, the Sydney Taylor Book Award and Manuscript Competitions, and individual consultations with editors and agents from past conferences. The registration form is available for download at www.92y.org/content/pdf/jewishchildrensbookwriters.pdf. Call 212-415 5544 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for additional information or to request the form by mail. The final registration deadline is November 17. If you write or illustrate children's books for the Jewish market, this conference is for you! Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
Re: [ha-Safran]: Race Encyc. and NT
Not all scholars accept Mark Stover's assertions. In fact, there are those who argue that none of the gospel writers was a Jew. This is based on evidence such as misinformation about Jewish customs found even in the oldest gospels, Mark and Matthew (for example both seem to think that the Passover meal was eaten on the 2nd evening of the holiday, not the 1st, and that the lambs were slaughtered on the first day of Passover rather than on the day before. See Mark 14:12 and Matt 26:17). Further evidence is that Matthew did not understand the parallelism in Biblical poetry, to the point that he actually has Jesus riding into Jerusalem sitting on 2 donkeys at the same time. (see Matt 21:4-8). I think Mark is right that using the word "lies" may not be fair to a culture that did not have our concept of "scientific facts." But the claim by some that the hateful things said about Jews in the New Testament represents Jewish in-fighting can be understood as one more instance of blaming Jews for anti-semtism. Andrea Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
[ha-Safran]: Two new books on Latin American Jewry
Two new books on Latin American Jewry co-edited by Dr. Raanan Rein, TAU Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans Edited by Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein UNM Press This edited volume places Jewish-Latin Americans within the context of Latin American and ethnic studies. It departs from traditional scholarship that segregates Jews as inhabitants in Latin America republics rather than as citizens of Latin American republics. The essays draw examples primarily from Argentina and Brazil, the two South American countries with the largest Jewish populations, and span from the late nineteenth century into the 1990s. By giving primacy to the national identity of Jewish-Latin Americans, the essays included here emphasize human actors and accounts of lived experiences. Lesser and Rein's thought-provoking introduction outlines seven new formulations of the relationship between Jews, the nation-state, and their Diasporic experience. Individual contributors then pursue new perspectives of the Jewish experience, including those of the working class, labor organizing and anarchist activities, women, and the reconceptualization of racism and anti-Semitism. Contributors: Edna Aizenberg, Marymount Manhattan College of New York; Judah M. Cohen, Indiana University; Roney Cytrynowicz, the Arquivo Hist?*rico Judaico Brasileiro, Sandra McGee Deutsch, University of Texas at El Paso; Donna J. Gu, Ohio State University Jos?* C. Moya, UCLA and Barnard College at Columbia University; Rosalie Sitman, Tel Aviv University; Natasha Zaretsky, Princeton University; Erin Graff Zivin, University of Pittsburgh; Jeffrey Lesser is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of the Humanities and director of Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University. He is the award-winning author of numerous books, most recently,A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960-1980. Raanan Rein is professor of Latin American and Spanish history and vice rector of Tel Aviv University. Rein's many publications include: In the Shadow of Per?*n: Juan Atilio Bramuglia and the Second Line of Argentina???s Populist Movement. Di?*logos 6 x 9 304 pages 10 halftones $27.95 ( paperback ) 978-0-8263-4401-4 Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism Latin America in the Jewish World Edited by Judit Bokser Liwerant, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yossi Gorny, and Raanan Rein Publication year: 2008 Boston, Mass.: Brill Series: Jewish Identities in a Changing World, 8 ISBN-13: 978 90 04 15442 1 ISBN-10: 90 04 15442 6 Cover: Hardback Number of pages: xiv, 446 pp. (English) List price: 130.00 / US$ 193.00 This volume addresses key conceptual issues and case studies dealing with contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu. The book brings together a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches that range from political science to sociology and from art and literature to demography in order to offer the reader a multidimensional and multifocal analysis of the diverse constitutional elements of the Jewish experience. Using as its point of departure the wide horizon of historical trajectories and current challenges, the articles analyze the transnational, regional and local processes that inform the different Jewish Diasporas and Israel. Simultaneously, its content provides a snapshot of the current state of research on collective identity building processes and a lively analysis of the challenges posed by cultural diversity and primordial and civic belongings in the framework of political transitions, as well as new and old forms of expressing through cultural creativity individual and collective identities. Raanan Rein Vice Rector, Tel Aviv University Director,S. Daniel Abraham Center for International & Regional Studies Professor of Latin American and Spanish History E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 972-3-6407174, 972-3-6406660 Tel.: 972-3-6408280, 972-3-6406667/8 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) === Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
