Re: [ha-Safran]: Encyclopedia on Race and Racism
First, can I do a bit of bibliographic verification here? I frequently see the publisher of this text given as Gale in the messages on this list. However, when I followed the link to Amazon, the publisher is given as Macmillan. The Macmillan edition on Amazon is three volumes and has a publication date of 2007 (ISBN 978-0028660202). But searching Google by title I found the same item on Gale's site, but again with the Macmillan imprint but with 2008 publication date. I just want to make sure that we're talking about the same edition and suggest that identify the publisher as Macmillan (or at least Gale/Macmillan) to be consistent with the information others will see. Second, I've added my review of the Zionism article to the Amazon site. Third, has anyone found anything about John Hartwell Moore, the editor? I'm on vacation so I don't have access to my academic sources, but he doesn't show up anywhere in Google except in connection with this edition. The article's author, Noel Ignatiev, however, is a nut-job with a long history of beyond-marginal racial issues. He runs a Web site called RaceTraitor.com with the theme that all racial identity is wrong. He was fired, according to Wikipedia, from a position as a tutor at Harvard for opposing the installation of kosher toasters in a dining hall. He has published academic works on the issue of race but it looks like it's been a while and I don't see anything in the mainstream press on Israel or Zionism. This seems to be an increasingly popular tactic on the anti-Israel front. Find a genuine PhD with no credentials or marginal credentials in any of the related areas to write a pseudo-academic article superficially about Zionism. Since they don't know anything about Zionism, they skate over the facts, or make them up off the top of their heads, whatever suits their larger theme. Terms like post-Zionism meaning that the concept is obsolete are showing up more and more. The racist tag is an older and once-discredited ploy that's making a comeback in a number of creative ways. Proving that Zionism, the foundational ideology behind the creation of the modern State of Israel, is flawed is part of a strategy to attack Israel. (Similar to those who claim there was no Holocaust, or that it was exaggerated, or was a ploy to bolster the Zionist movement, if you can undermine the founding drive to create a Jewish state, that there was no legitimate motivation, it's easier to criticize Israel.) It is important to ignore qualified scholars in the field because a hack will do the kind of half-assed hatchet job you need, overlooking the evidence that might undermine his position and highlighting the most skewed and prejudicial evidence available. We had a conference on post-Zionism at UCSC where the panel included a couple of reputable scholars, such as Judith Butler, but was mainly filled out by C-list academics. None of the panelists had any scholarly publications on Zionism to their credit. But all the panelists had taken active roles opposing Israel in their personal lives. That's what it takes to get on a dais or published in an encyclopedia these days, just a willingness to trash Israel without any qualifications or attention to scholarly standards. The convener was an anthropologist who does not teach, conduct research or write on the topic, not a political scientist or historian or Middle East scholar, and she refused any suggestions for speakers qualified to speak on the topic. Ironically, Butler choose to speak on Hannah Arendt as an example of opposition to Israel, however admitting that she hadn't read the _Jewish Writings_ while the editor of that edition sat in the audience. I read an exchange between Norman Finkelstein and one of his reviewers. The reviewer had trashed _Beyond Chutzpah_ saying F. had failed to do scholarly research. F. responded in the letters column that he'd combed through thousands of documents as part of his research. In the same issue, the reviewer responded to F. saying, Yes, but you brought forward only the evidence that supported your thesis and ignored the rest, and that's not scholarship. I spoke to a local scholar -- a real, dyed-in-the-wool scholar -- about this situation, and he said the thought American academia had come to model itself on the U.S. judicial system where opposing attorneys spend all their efforts trying to suppress the evidence that would hurt their case. Academics today seem to focus completely on establishing their thesis by selectively choosing which evidence to include and ignoring the rest. Had the anthropologist who convened the UCSC post-Zionism event conducted her research with the same focus on personal prejudice over scholarly integrity as she brought to assembling a panel of speakers, she could have been accused of academic fraud. There are some fields where cherry-picking evidence is not acceptable, but I fear that the social
Re: [ha-Safran]: Race Encyc. and NT
My thanks to Andrea for reminding me of Rabbi Michael Cook from HUC and his NT scholarship. Rabbi Cook is indeed a respected NT scholar who has views somewhat divergent from the scholars I had previously mentioned. I plan to read Rabbi Cook's new book in the near future. Mark 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]: Fwd: Gale Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
I refer, of course, to Jay Flynn's response from Gale that didn't carry over to my e-mail. K -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kathy Bloch Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 4:08 PM To: hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Subject: RE: [ha-Safran]: Fwd: Gale Encyclopedia of Race and Racism Wow. What a load of BS. Kathy Bloch Associate Director Asher Library Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies 610 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60605 Phone (312) 322-1745 Fax (312) 922-0455 www.spertus.edu 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]: Fwd: Gale Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
I'll second that! Dr. Yaffa Weisman Library Director The Frances-Henry Library Hebrew Union College-JIR 3077 University Ave. Los Angeles, California 90007 www.huc.edu/libraries/la 213.7652170 --- Message requiring your approval -- 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]: Fwd: Gale Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
This raises good issues for AJL and maybe for the public relations committee specifically. There are a lot of naive people who think that questions about Judaism or Israel are simply matters of opinion and that any objections we might raise are just different sides of the same coin. We need to combat the notion that saying that Zionism is racism, Israel is an Apartheid state or some scholars question whether the Holocaust actually took place, are valid intellectual propositions worthy of debate. We need to develop a series of position papers on instances like this and make a case that shows that these are not matters of opinion, that real issues are at stake. In this case, the author is unqualified, that specific statements are demonstrably false, that the author never addresses the topic at hand, that the nature of the comments, the lack of serious scholarly content, and an obvious bias in the selective presentation of fact, adds up to a flawed work unfit for a scholarly encyclopedia. It's not just a case that a good scholar did his research and is reporting his findings and that the editor did his due diligence, but that a fringe hack with no serious qualifications and a history of biased publication, was invited to contribute an article to what was supposed to be a serious scholarly encyclopedia. And he produced an unsubstantiated propaganda piece and the editors accepted it. That's the sort of shoddy academic and editorial work that it takes to make this happen. Let's expose shoddy work. That should be our task. -- Lee Jaffe, UC Santa Cruz 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]: Fwd: Gale Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
The part below is illuminating, as if an encyclopedia should be written as to fully satisfy all readers, rather than be written to present the information accurately. This seems to be where we are in much of academia today. Andrea I am not sure that any encyclopedia article on the subject could be written as to fully satisfy all readers. 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]: What worries me
Partisan politics does not belong on a professional listserve. Some of us our red, and some of us are blue (and some are kachol and lavan, but that's besides the point). Aaron Wolfe Kuperman LC Social Sciences Cataloging Division, Law Team This is NOT an official communication from the Library of Congress. Posted from home, not on company time or with a government server. 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]: What worries me
Maybe there is an object lesson here for us as librarians. I would encourage a healthy dose of skepticism to any friend of a friend messages. I try to make a point of fact- checking these sorts of items, especially when it is something I agree with. I believe in the old saw, when it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Many times, you quickly discover that the real person who is supposed to be the source of this information doesn't exist. You notice that the name is spelled wrong, that the organization they are supposed to belong to and the venue where the event took place don't exist. It's worth double checking. I often start with the rumor-checking site, snopes.com. In this case I couldn't find anything mentioning this particular email. Searching Google, I did find one blog site that noticed several different versions of Kilkenny email in circulation, suggesting that it may have been a planted item but in play by someone else. On the other hand, I found an article in the NYTimes about Palin's record as mayor and governor which mentions Anne Kilkenny as a source and describes some of the events quoted in this email. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?hp While a bit calmer than the email message, it still paints a devastating picture of what kind of person, politician and administrator Sarah Palin really is. And this from the NYT, not a friend of a friend. -- Lee Jaffe, UC Santa Cruz 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]: What worries me
but all of us are librarians... Dr. Yaffa Weisman Library Director Frances-Henry Library Los Angeles, CA www.huc.edu/libraries/la Phone: 213-765-2170 Fax: 213-749-1937 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]: What worries me
Many of us are civil servants, who aren't supposed to be involved in partisan politics on company time. Unless you have a patronage job gained through connections rather than merit, a civil servant is required to be willing to work whether the boss is red meat Republican or a bi-coastal Democrat, and all points in between, or even further extreme. Many Judaica librarians work for institutions who have specific stands on issues and won't be thrilled if a staff member takes an opposing position (do you really believe that an Orthodox institution won't be annoyed if someone identifying themselves as an employee, with an institution email, comes out for gay marriage and abortion, or if an institution affiliated with the Reform movement won't object if someone uses their email address to attack a candidate for being supportive of infanticide and sexual perversions. Judaica librarians are probably the less willing to support an absolutist policy on intellectual freedom, since many of the books people want to ban are vilely anti-Semitic. So if a newly elected mayor asks the village librarian of a library that is 100% owned and paid for by the village about acquisition policy, is that a political issue we should be discussing on a Judaica listserve (I am reasonably certain the books she objected to did not deal with Jewish conspiracies to rule the world, holocaust denial, etc.).??? 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]: What worries me
It's not clear from this post whether Yaffa received this email personally from the writer and actually knows the writer (Anne Kilkenny) or whether it is something being passed around the internet without a known provenance, or something she received second or third hand. 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
RE: [ha-Safran]: What worries me
Why is this being posted on this list?? Stuart Schnee Public Relations, Marketing Sales US Tel: 973-796-2753 Israel Tel: +972-54-790-9120 Fax: +972-2-561-0943 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]: What worries me
Dear Friends, Thank you for all the feedback, private and public, for and against, regarding my latest post. My posting goes to the issue of politicians banning books, questioning the judgement of professional librarians, and to librarians' responsibility to allow uncensored access to collections they manage- something I believe we should all be concerned about. And since this particular politician has a chance of being a heartbeat away from the Presidency - I believe this is the kind of information librarians should have. Dr. Yaffa Weisman Library Director The Frances-Henry Library Hebrew Union College-JIR 3077 University Ave. Los Angeles, California 90007 www.huc.edu/libraries/la 213.7652170 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]: Re: Alaskan letter/Snopes
Here is the snopes.com page about the letter, which according to snopes is legit. Andrea Rapp http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/kilkenny.asp 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]: off-topic also
I heartily concur with my colleague and friend Yaffa Weisman, and I hasten to add this to her message Phil -Original Message- From: [] Sent: Fri 9/5/2008 12:47 PM To: Philip E Miller Subject: While Mayor, Palin Tried to Ban Books From Public Library While Mayor, Palin Tried to Ban Books From Public Library Posted by Staff, People For the American Way Foundation at 3:57 PM on September 2, 2008. Time Magazine today reports that Alaska Governor, and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, attempted to ban books from her local library as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, and then threatened to fire the librarian who stood up to her for not giving full support to the mayor. People For the American Way president Kathryn Kolbert issued the following statement: People can disagree about a lot of things, but censorship is completely beyond the pale. Our democracy was founded on the belief that government shouldn't tell people what kinds of books to read or what kind of beliefs to hold. No one with that kind of history should be anywhere near the White House. Sarah Palin needs to clarify her stance on freedom of speech immediately, and John McCain needs to explain why he chose a running mate with so little regard for the Constitution. 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]: Golda Meir
I've been asked for a list of biographies of Golda Meir. Any suggestions for the most readable and accurate? You can reply to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Paula Sandfelder 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
FW: [ha-Safran]: What worries me
From: Adas Israel Librarian Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 9:01 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ha-Safran]: What worries me Yaffa, This is by now not new, but thank you for sending it in, regardless of any non-political stance we supposedly have. Some things, whether or not they are political, are issues for librarians, nonetheless. In fact, if we are doing our jobs right, and are aware of the world around us, a lot of so-called political items should be, must be, in our work and professional worlds. Book-banning and librarian firing are librarian and librarian organization issues, although they are by definition political. They are _not_ issues we can ever be neutral about. Madeleine Madeleine Cohen Oakley Director of Library Services Adas Israel Congregation Washington, DC 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]: Fwd: Gale Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Refunding your money is hardly the point, is it?! What is it they don't get about racism and anti-semitism? Madeleine Madeleine Cohen Oakley Director of Library Services Adas Israel Congregation Washington, DC 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]: Eisenhower and the Jews Found!
Thanks to Dan Wyman of Dan Wyman Books, Park Avenue Synagogue will soon have a well-preserved copy of Eisenhower and the Jews, complete with dust jacket and signed by Rabbi Nadich. Thanks, Dan, and thanks to everyone who wrote congratulating me on the new position. Marga * Marga Hirsch Librarian Park Avenue Synagogue 50 E. 87th Street New York, NY 10128 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]: Who is behind Librarians for fairness
Librarians for Fairness is, indeed, sponsored by StandWithUs. However, we have a substantial amount of autonomy...we are the librarians (and archivists) and we know library-related issues best. All of the librarians involved in it volunteer their time and work. None of us receive any financial remuneration of any kind for our involvement. Some of us have the computerized code for posting articles on our excellent (this is no time for modesty) website, and others simply recommend articles and links to be added. The basic idea for Librarians for Fairness originated back in 1992, at the time the ALA Council passed two very strong condemnations of Israel. In fact, no other nation in the world has been condemned so many times by the ALA Council, which has passed anti-Israel resolutions in 1984, 1992, and 2002. The ALA's SRRT also sponsored one in 1998. After the 2002 condemnation, several very pro-Israeli librarians decided to stop discussing the matter, moved ahead and organized. We knew that none of us had the time and resources to put LfF together on our own, so we contacted a number of Zionist groups. StandWithUs was the third we contacted and it liked the idea of Librarians for Fairnress. We have been growing and have members in both Israel and the United States, including an increasing number who also belong to AJL. We had a recruiting table at the 2004 AJL convention, which was held in Brooklyn. I think we were more open about things then...that was before we started getting hate mail...some of which has practically made my hair stand on end. There are some librarians who are most unfriendly to Israel who have been trying to find out who is involved in our organization. Not all of us work in Judaica libraries and some of us have legitimate concerns that belonging to LfF could hurt our careers. There are two Zionistic librarians I personally know of who have been effectively muted by anti-Israel activists in our profession. One of these pro-Israeli librarians even received anonymous, threatening phone calls, at the time he was most active on behalf of the Jewish State. We seek out members who work as professionals in libraries and archives. Those having at least an M.L.S. are preferred, but nobody has to mail us a photocopy of it. Liking Israel is not a sufficient enough emotion for acceptance. We are looking for library and archive professionals who LOVE Israel! 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]: More on the Encyclopedia of Race Racism
Just an FYI, this encyclopedia was wrongfully named an Outstanding Reference Source by ALA in January of 2008. http://www.ilovelibraries.org/booklovers/awardwinningbooks/fulllist.cfm?ID=20 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Steven Jay Bernstein Assistant Catalog Librarian Elihu Burritt Library Central Connecticut State University 1615 Stanley Street New Britain, Connecticut 06050 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ PHONE: (860) 832-2079 FAX: (860) 832-2053 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEBSITE: http://www.ccsu.edu/library/bernstein +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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
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Anyone interested in Heichal Shlomo's Shanah ba-shanah for 5737 and 5738? Beverly Geller 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]: Fwd: Gale Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
Jeannine, First of all, I applaud you and Mr. Flurry for taking this directly to Gale. Mr. Flynn's response appears to me to be an attempt to dodge the issues. I didn't believe there were questions to be asked. I thought that the veracity and the opinionated tone of the article were in question and there was also the issue of whether or not Zionism belonged in such a work. Once you start to ask questions, you run the risk of having them answered. And then there is nothing more to be said. This is a less than brilliant but nevertheless time-honored and effective form of deflection of criticism. Mr. Flynn's claim that: The topic of Zionism and its attendant relationship to racism and Race/Racism Studies could, after all, be the subject of an entire library full of doctoral dissertations, and I am not sure that any encyclopedia article on the subject could be written as to fully satisfy all readers. assumes that one is in accord that Zionism should be included in the encyclopedia at all. This inclusion was apparently an editorial decision and Mr. Flynn is supporting it,as one would expect. I do wonder if there is an article or any reference to dhimmi. The message I get from the message is that questions will be entertained primarily for the purpose of refuting them. I believe it might be fruitful to review the entire encyclopedia and review it from the point of view of legitimacy and evenhandness of content. Does that make me a volunteer? Perhaps this is a negative and distrustful reaction. What do you think? Anne Jaron Math teacher and tutor, New York City, former librarian 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
