[ha-Safran] libraries and bed bugs

[Lisa Silverman]

Uh oh- another thing to worry about...

The NY Times reports on the phenomenon of bed bugs infesting libraries when 
patrons return books

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/garden/bedbugs-hitch-a-ride-on-library-books.html?partner=rss&emc=rss




Lisa Silverman
Library Director
Sinai Temple Blumenthal Library
10400 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310-481-3215

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[ha-Safran] JBM Bibliography brochures have arrived

[Lisa Silverman]

Finally the AJLSC Jewish Book Month brochures are available!  We apologize for 
the late date, but the brochures can be downloaded and made into a nice 3-fold 
brochure (printed back to back-preferably on larger sized paper) and the date 
on them says 2013. Therefore, they can be used all year as useful annotated 
bibliographies of the best books of the previous year. Almost all the titles 
are 2012 publication dates.

One is for children/teens, and one is for adults. Please download and print to 
your heart's content-Happy Hanukkah!

http://ajlsc.org/links.html





Lisa Silverman
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Sinai Temple Blumenthal Library
10400 Wilshire Blvd.
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[ha-Safran] Last issue of Hasafran #54 #3

[Judy Weidman]

Yossi-the issue I received today had a number of things that were not readable, 
and I wonder if you received comments from others. Of concern was Toby's entry 
for the Call for papers for the conference. The first part was a jumble- the 
text about what was needed was clear but did you have some graphic that didn't 
translate at the beginning?

And there were lines and lines of question marks in the rambaml entry. Is it 
just my computer? Judy


Judy Weidman

Librarian, Congregation Beth Israel

5600 N. Braeswood Blvd.

Houston, TX 77096

713.7716221 X 370

jweid...@beth-israel.org

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[ha-Safran] chat with JT Waldman - tonight

[Steven M. Bergson]

Those of you who couldn't attend the session with JT Waldman at the AJL 
conference this past June can hear his shpiel about his collaboration with the 
late Harvey Pekar (Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me) tonight between 6:30 
and 8:00 PM (EST). Details below.

***

copied from 
http://sequart.org/magazine/17504/sequart-co-sponsors-tufts-university-live-chat-with-artist-jt-waldman/

Sequart Research & Literacy Organization is proud to sponsor a free live online 
chat with JT Waldman, collaborator with Harvey Pekar on the graphic novel Not 
the Israel My Parents Promised Me. The open talk, which will occur this 
Wednesday evening, 5 December, is part of the Tufts Experimental College’s 
“Religion and the Graphic Novel” course with Dr. A. David Lewis.

Beginning just after 6:30pm EDT, the event will be open to the public online, 
either through Google Hangout On Air for those with Google accounts or through 
this page on Sequart’s website.

"Religion and the Graphic Novel” has had several guest lecturers both times it 
has been taught at Tufts by Dr. Lewis, including Christine Hoff Kraemer 
(Managing Editor for Patheos.com Pagan Channel), Saurav Mohapatra (India 
Authentic, Mumbai Confidential), Mark Smylie (Artesia), and others. Waldman has 
announced the title of his guest lecture as “The Making of Not the Israel My 
Parents Promised Me” and plans to take questions and commentary thereafter.

The book’s publisher Macmillan describes the graphic novel as follows:

In Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me, the final graphic memoir from the man 
who defined the genre, Pekar explores what it means to be Jewish and what 
Israel means to the Jews. Over the course of a single day in his hometown of 
Cleveland, Ohio, Pekar and the illustrator JT Waldman wrestle with the 
mythologies and realities surrounding the Jewish homeland. Pekar interweaves 
his increasing disillusionment with the modern state of Israel with a 
comprehensive history of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present, 
and the result is a personal and historical odyssey of uncommon power.

Sequart Research & Literacy Organization has offered its site for viewers who 
may not have access to the open Google+ on Wednesday evening. Those with access 
to Google+ can get further information at 
https://plus.google.com/events/c0ae9f54mq6cjv9fbof9pvoqufs.

Follow the lead-up to the event, hear about the potential announcement of 
special guests, and post questions in advance on Twitter under #comicsreligion 
hashtag.

The Experimental College (ExCollege) at Tufts offers non-traditional and 
multidisciplinary courses that any undergraduate student can take along with 
department and program based courses. Each semester, more than 20 courses are 
offered that are new to the Tufts curriculum. Most instructors are recruited 
from the vibrant community of accomplished professionals in the Boston area.


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Re: [ha-Safran] Tour of Manuscript Exhibit, Columbia University, 12/12/12

[fredis...@aol.com]

Safranim --

I saw the exhibit last Friday. It'ssmall but spectacular. Yashar Koach to 
Michelle for putting it together. 

In addition, I've realized over the intervening days that it points to numerous 
places that might house Hebrew treasures that no one knows about. There must be 
thousands of individual pieces in small college archives and elsewhere all over 
the country.


Fred Isaac




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From: Rita Lifton 
To: Hasafran ; ajl-nyma 

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Sent: Wed, Dec 5, 2012 8:18 am
Subject: [ha-Safran] Tour of Manuscript Exhibit, Columbia University, 12/12/12



The New York Metropolitan Area Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries 
(AJL-NYMA) invites you to a special tour of the exhibit The People in the 
Books: Hebraica and Judaica Manuscripts From Columbia University Libraries. The 
tour will be led by the exhibition’s curator, Michelle Chesner, the Norman E. 
Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia University.
 
The tour will take place on Wednesday, December 12th at 2 pm, at Butler 
Library, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 6th Floor East, 535 West 114th 
Street, New York, NY 10027. Kindly RSVP to Michelle Chesner by December 10th at 
mc3...@columbia.edu. 
 
About the exhibit:
A printed book and a manuscript codex may contain the same text, but one can 
argue that the latter is inherently richer.  The printing press produced a 
multitude of identical copies, but each manuscript is unique and individual.  
In a manuscript, each page had to be carefully prepared and every letter 
required painstaking work.  Ultimately, each manuscript contains more than just 
the text within it.  Isaac Mendelsohn, author of the first catalog of the 
Hebrew manuscripts at Columbia, wrote, “An old Hebrew book is ... more than a 
mere collection of bound sheets on which a given text is [written].  The notes 
on the flyleaves, the remarks on the margins the names of its various owners, 
and the countries in which it saw service actually make it into two books - one 
containing the text, the passive part, and the other the history of the persons 
who owned and used it.”
This exhibition attempts to show the second kind of book: the book that tells a 
story about its authors, its owners, and its users.  Occasionally, the story is 
found within the main portion of the text, but it is also found in the 
paratext: in the wine stains on a Passover Haggadah, in the candle wax in a 
prayer book, or in an odd notation on a title page or in a colophon.  On a 
journey through the exhibit, it is our hope that visitors will find at least 
one story that inspires, intrigues, or ignites the imagination.
 
 
 

 
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[ha-Safran] Tour of Manuscript Exhibit, Columbia University, 12/12/12

[Rita Lifton]

The New York Metropolitan Area Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries 
(AJL-NYMA) invites you to a special tour of the exhibit The People in the 
Books: Hebraica and Judaica Manuscripts From Columbia University Libraries. The 
tour will be led by the exhibition's curator, Michelle Chesner, the Norman E. 
Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia University.

The tour will take place on Wednesday, December 12th at 2 pm, at Butler 
Library, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 6th Floor East, 535 West 114th 
Street, New York, NY 10027. Kindly RSVP to Michelle Chesner by December 10th at 
mc3...@columbia.edu.

About the exhibit:

A printed book and a manuscript codex may contain the same text, but one can 
argue that the latter is inherently richer.  The printing press produced a 
multitude of identical copies, but each manuscript is unique and individual.  
In a manuscript, each page had to be carefully prepared and every letter 
required painstaking work.  Ultimately, each manuscript contains more than just 
the text within it.  Isaac Mendelsohn, author of the first catalog of the 
Hebrew manuscripts at Columbia, wrote, "An old Hebrew book is ... more than a 
mere collection of bound sheets on which a given text is [written].  The notes 
on the flyleaves, the remarks on the margins the names of its various owners, 
and the countries in which it saw service actually make it into two books - one 
containing the text, the passive part, and the other the history of the persons 
who owned and used it."

This exhibition attempts to show the second kind of book: the book that tells a 
story about its authors, its owners, and its users.  Occasionally, the story is 
found within the main portion of the text, but it is also found in the 
paratext: in the wine stains on a Passover Haggadah, in the candle wax in a 
prayer book, or in an odd notation on a title page or in a colophon.  On a 
journey through the exhibit, it is our hope that visitors will find at least 
one story that inspires, intrigues, or ignites the imagination.



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