[ha-Safran] New Yizkor Books Translations Available

[Donald & Sandra Hirschhorn]

The Yizkor-Books-In-Print project is proud to announce that we now have 22 
books in English available for purchase,including hard-cover versions of Yizkor 
books from these towns:

Brzeziny, Poland
Buchach, Ukraine
Ciechanow, Poland
Czestochowa, Poland
Dzialoszyce, Poland
Jaslo, Poland
Jurbarkas, Lithuania
Navahrudak, Belarus
Orhei, Moldova
Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland
Podhajce, Ukraine
Rozhnyativ, Ukraine
Ruzhany, Belarus
Telekhany, Belarus
Yampol, Ukraine
Zgierz, Poland

These are translations of books originally published in Yiddish and Hebrew
in the 1950s and 1960s by survivors and former residents of these towns and
give an excellent picture of the environment our families came from.

In addition we have published 3 books on LIthuanian Jewish Communities
containing histories and information on 102 Litvak communities by the noted
Litvak historian Josef Rosin.

Further we have published two memoirs dealing with Czestochowa Poland:
"Flight to Survival" and "The Maple Tree Behind the Barbed Wire."  Both
fascinating personal memoirs worth reading.

Details on ordering our books can be found on
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/ybip.html

This project is part of the Yizkor Books Project of JewishGen.  We publish
books that are fully translated by the Yizkor Books project.  We publish
the books at as low a price as possible, so as to be a service to the
Jewish community in retaining the history of our ancestral towns in Europe.
All work is done by volunteers.

Watch for books on these towns in the near future:

Antopol, Belarus
Horodenka, Ukraine
Dokshitz, Belarus
Bacu, Iasi and Podu Iloaiei, Romania
Korczyna, Poland
Drohiczyna, Belarus
Lyubtch and Delyatich, Belarus
Osiek and Novy Zmigrod, Poland
Kamenets, Belarus

Sandra Hirschhorn
Publicity Specialist
Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project of JewishGen, Inc.
Monroe Township, NJ
sdh2...@comcast.net 
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[ha-Safran] article needed

[Ilka Gordon]

  A patron is looking for an article by R.E. Friedman in Near Eastern Studies 
v. 22 (1981) p. 31.
Title of the article: Sacred History and Theology : the Redaction of Torah.  
The article is also in  Creation of Sacred Literature pp.25-34.  Can anyone 
please send me this article?

Ilka Gordon
igor...@jecc.org
On Site Director, Aaron Garber Library
216-371-0446 ext. 269


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Re: [ha-Safran] Looking for books for HS students- both literary and "kosher"

[aidonna]

What about The Phantom Toolbooth. It's funny and sophisticated enough for high 
schoolers .

Aileen Grossberg
Lampert library
Congregation Shomrei Emunah 
Montclair nj


On Nov 20, 2013, at 7:54 PM, Rose Myers  wrote:

> Are you looking for Jewish books?
> What about the traditional classics? 
> Here is a list I did a few years ago:
> 
> Classic Literature - One Opinion (as of September 10, 2008)
> 
> Here are my suggested literary classics, with very brief comments. This 
> definitely incomplete list is based on what I read and enjoyed as a young 
> adult. It includes characters and stories that are part of our cultural 
> heritage, stories that ask important questions, and, occasionally, books that 
> were recognized as classics in my youth. There are many other lists of 
> classics available from libraries and websites; my list overlaps those at the 
> Westport Public Library. At least for now, the only order to this list is 
> stream of consciousness. I want to thank my husband for his contribution to 
> this list.
> 
> 
> Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. Also try Emma, Sense and Sensibility, 
> Persuasion, etc.
> 
> Wonderfully complicated, clever use of language.
> Use of the "unreliable narrator."
> Justice triumphs over mercy: Jane Austen is not kind to her characters. As 
> opposed to
> Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre.
> 
> Gothic novel: innocent young woman; brooding man with a secret; mysterious 
> goings on in a large, old house.
> Also, good and bad educational environments.
> Coincidence or fate plays an important role.
> The author lets the heroine's rivals live happily ever after.
> Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A 
> Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, etc.
> 
> The dialect in Huck Finn put me off the book, which I now think is about the 
> moral growth of the main character. Tom Sawyer is a terrible person in it.
> A Connecticut Yankee ends in disaster, as readers familiar with the King 
> Arthur story will already know.
> Mark Twain lived in Hartford.
> Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
> 
> Positive portrayal of Jews.
> Robin Hood appears.
> The character of Rebecca is supposed to be based on Rebecca Gratz (as in 
> Gratz College) of Philadelphia.
> Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The Story of King Arthur and 
> His Knights, etc.
> 
> An important illustrator of children's books.
> Retold and popularized old stories and legends.
> C.S. Forester, Captain Horatio Hornblower (series)
> 
> Young man goes to sea in the British Navy.
> Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, etc.
> 
> The world's most famous detective.
> Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None, The Mirror Crack'd, A Pocketful of 
> Rye, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, etc.
> 
> Creator of Miss Marple and Hercules Poirot.
> Most famous mystery writer of the 20th century.
> Some of her stories are based on real life news stories.
> Edgar Allen Poe, "The Purloined Letter," "Annabelle Lee," "The Bells," "The 
> Raven", "The Imp of the Perverse," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The 
> Masque of the Red Death," etc.
> 
> Horror stories, poetry, mysteries.
> He creates a mood very well; avoid his horror stories if you don't like that 
> mood.
> Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
> 
> Early example of a superhero (albeit without magical powers) with a secret 
> identity.
> There are sequels to the book.
> Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, etc.
> 
> Being forced to read the beginning of David Copperfield and having to answer 
> simple questions at the end of each chapter turned me off Dickens. 
> Nevertheless, I read A Tale of Two Cities on my own and went around quoting 
> the ending; of course, that may have been from seeing the Ronald Coleman 
> movie version.
> 
> P.G. Wodehouse, 
> 
> One of my favorite authors. Anything he wrote is good.
> Wrote the lyrics to "Bill" in the musical, Showboat.
> Lots of references to poetry, Shakespeare, adages. Finding the sources of the 
> quotes would provide a good education in poetry.
> Wonderfully pleasant and clever writing.
> I maintain that Bertie Wooster is a saint and Jeeves has is own interests at 
> heart.
> I prefer his earlier works (but after his boarding school books) to his later 
> ones. Not that it matters, but Wodehouse does sometimes repeat himself.
> There is no evil in the worlds he creates, I think because there was none in 
> him.
> J.R.R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit.
> 
> I had trouble getting into The Hobbit until I finished The Lord of the Rings.
> My husband and son enjoyed the books more than I did. I guess I prefer a 
> little more character interaction and fewer descriptions and adventures.
> What impressed me most was the mountain that was older than the concepts of 
> good and evil.
> 
> J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
> 
> Captain Hook and the Darling children's father are acted by the same person 
> in the play.
> One of those books that has means different things at

Re: [ha-Safran] Looking for books for HS students- both literary and "kosher"

[Becky Schastey]

I subscribe to some emails from Torah.org and just received one that has
this in one of them was this message,

 

"This is a plug for the fantasy novel my son published a year ago, The Ring
of Fate. It is an exciting, "can't put down" read, and has received very
positive feedback since its publication. It is also completely kosher in
both subject matter and language. It is available as both paperback and
ebook. It is sold by Booklocker.com (http://booklocker.com/books/6519.html),
as well as by Amazon
(http://www.amazon.com/The-Ring-Fate-Zvi-Rosenfeld/dp/1621418561/) and all
the major on-line sellers. 

Thank you in advance! 
Dovid Rosenfeld"

 

 

Hope it help!

From: hasafran-boun...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:hasafran-boun...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Ruth
Bryskier
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 5:58 PM
To: 'Aviva Adler'
Cc: Hasafran
Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Looking for books for HS students- both literary
and "kosher"

 

Some might be a bit outdated, but have you looked at:

 

http://chinuch.org/item_details.php?mid=4552

 

This might be the same thing:

 

http://lecfl.com/media/pdf/583/dEfP5831584.pdf

 

 

Kol tuv,

Ruth Bryskier

 

From: hasafran-bounces+mommycat=bryskier@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:hasafran-bounces+mommycat=bryskier@lists.service.ohio-state.edu]
On Behalf Of Aviva Adler
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 12:41 PM
To: hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Subject: [ha-Safran] Looking for books for HS students- both literary and
"kosher"

 

I'm trying to put together a list of books appropriate for high school
students that are both literary (meaning suitable for a book discussion
group) and "kosher" enough for yeshiva students. The Jewish novels I am
familiar with are not very literary and the secular YA literature is rarely
"kosher" enough. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,



-- 

Aviva Adler

Librarian,

Shevach High School

Flushing, NY 11367

aad...@shevachhs.org

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[ha-Safran] Yehuda Bauer in Spanish

[Efraim Zadoff]

Safranim yekarim,

I am happy to announce that I have edited and published a new book. 

Yehuda Bauer, Reflexiones sobre el Holocausto. ISBN 978-965-90691-4-9

It is the translation into Spanish of his book: Rethinking the Holocaust
(English) and Hirhurim al haShoa (Hebrew).

I will wait for your orders.

Shabat shalom,

Efraim

Dr. Efraim Zadoff
E.D.Z. Nativ Ediciones
P.O.Box 23526
Jerusalem 9123402
tel. 972 2 5865596
cel. 972 50 7393887
fax. 972 2 5860829 
zad...@zahav.net.il 

 

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[ha-Safran] Jews and comics

[Hasafran]

Date:Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:01:17 +0200

From:Katherine Aron-Beller 
Subject: Workshop: Comics and Jewish Studies at Columbia in January

"TENT: Comics" will explore the role that Jews have played in the
development of comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels, from their
invention to the present. A group of fans, scholars, and emerging artists
and writers in the field will gather to explore the richness of
contemporary comics and the current state of the industry. Participants
will read classic comic strips and comic books, as well as rare and
archival examples, and discover the unsung Jewish artists and entrepreneurs
who helped to shape the form of the serialized comic book and innovated in
the development of the graphic novel. Meeting some of the leading
contemporary creators of comics and graphic novels, we will consider how
this art form has become a major medium for expressions of religious,
ethnic, and national identities.

Tent: Comics at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, New York City
January 19-26, 2014

*If required, lodging will be provided; most meals will be provided.
Participants are responsible for their own transportation to and from New
York City.*

For more information about this workshop, email drk2...@columbia.edu.

Application deadline: November 24, 2013 (There are still limited spaces
available!)

For more information: http://www.tentsite.org/2014/comics

TENT: Encounters with Jewish Culture provides immersive, intense, free,
week-long workshops for anyone, ages 21 to 30, who's curious about the
connections between Jewishness and modern culture.
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Re: [ha-Safran] New Holocaust Education Book

[Johnson, Naomi]

Thank you for the information about this book - it looks fantastic.

It could possibly be used with this film:
http://www.asseenthroughtheseeyes.com/

Has anyone seen this film and if so, - any thoughts?

Naomi

From: hasafran-boun...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu 
[mailto:hasafran-boun...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Becky 
Schastey
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:53 AM
To: hasaf...@lists.osu.edu
Subject: [ha-Safran] New Holocaust Education Book

Hi everyone!

The Stones Weep, a new book by Miriam M. Brysk and Margaret G. Lincoln, is a 
unique, engaging, and effective Holocaust Education book that combines multiple 
aspects of a survivor's art - emotional, impressionistic digital creations - 
with teacher-created and tested lesson plans that meet State and National Core 
Curriculum Standards. Learn More: 
http://www.gihonriverpress.com/the-stones-weep/

Any questions or thoughts, please feel free to respond to this email.

Thank you!

Becky
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[ha-Safran] Mutlimedia presentation on Yiddish operetta - NYC, Nov. 24, 2013

[Amanda Seigel]

Dear Safranim,

I am forwarding this announcement on behalf on the National Yiddish
Theatre - Folksbiene. I had a chance to see this presentation by
retired librarian Michael Ochs earlier this year, and it was
excellent. Please see details below.

Sincerely,

-- 
Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel
Librarian
Dorot Jewish Division, Room 111
The New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
42nd Street and Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10018

Reference Desk: 212-930-0601
Fax: 212-642-0141
Email: amandasei...@nypl.org
Website: http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/jewish-division
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DorotJewishDivisionNewYorkPublicLibrary

Join National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene for Coffee and Conversation
Our acclaimed FREE guest speakers at Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue (Enter building on 25th Street) in the Engelman
Recital Hall, New York, NY
Take the elevator to the B2 level.

UNCOVERING A HIDDEN TREASURE
Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Michael Ochs, former Harvard University Librarian,
leads an enjoyable and educational multi-media presentation
about his restoration of  DI GOLDENE KALE (The Golden Bride)
an operetta from the golden age of Yiddish Theater, written by
Joseph Rumshinsky in 1923, and last heard in New York in 1948.
Join us later in the season for a concert presentation of
the delightful music from this 2nd Avenue hit.

No reservations necessary.
For more information, please call 212-213-2120
or visit: http://www.folksbiene.org

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[ha-Safran] THE FLAT is a must for your Film Collection/Course

[Ruth Diskin]

THE FLAT by Arnon Goldfinger is "One of the best movies of the year. It
plays like a great mystery - and it is. This is what a documentary should be
- smart, moving, profound and unpredictable - in other words, what we look
for in a great film. The Flat is all of that and more." Michael Moore,
Filmmaker and Executive Director of Traverse City Film Festival

What are you waiting for.!?

Already purchased by leading universities worldwide, THE FLAT is a must for
your collection as well.

The buzz around this most successful documentary is all true. Winner of over
20 international prizes, and screened at numerous conferences and
educational symposiums, THE FLAT leads the way for a new take on discussions
of the Holocaust. The burdens of the third generation are not those of the
previous ones, and in this mind-boggling story, the filmmaker is able to
take on his family's history in ways not even dreamed of by his mother. THE
FLAT opens many discussions and paves the way for debate about the very
nature of the way we look at the Holocaust. The film places the Holocaust in
the larger context of modern Jewish history - and of one family's complex
place within the framework. 

You can read much more about THE FLAT and see a trailer at:

http://www.ruthfilms.com/the-flat.html

or please contact us at   r...@ruthfilms.com

Ruth Diskin Films 

Tel: ++972-2-6724256

Fax: ++972-2-6724210

  r...@ruthfilms.com

  www.ruthfilms.com

ALWAYS BREAKING THROUGH..

 

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[ha-Safran] Newsletter Jerusalem Books Ltd. Thanksgivukka 2013

[Jerusalem Books]

Newsletter Jerusalem Books ltd Autumn 2013 

Dear Friends, 

The Shaul Lieberman institute, aka, the Society for Interpretation of the
Talmud, under Shamma Freidman has published new volumes of the Talmud
Ha-Iggud. Having done so in the past I will say, telegraphically, that this
is a modern Talmud series, scholarly and using critical analysis of texts.
The new volume on Sukkah by Moshe Benovitz:  a comprehensive explanatory
commentary to the fourth and fifth chapters of tractate Sukkah, which deal
mostly with the ceremonies that took place in the Mikdash - Simhat Bet
HaSho'evah, Halel and more. 816 pp. + English summaries. 078-965-7442-05-0.
Cat   $36.00The new volume on Sanhedrin, (hayu bodkin)
is a comprehensive explanatory commentary to the fifth chapter of tractate
Sanhedrin, which deals mostly with the examination of witnesses within the
judicial system. 260 pp. and English abstract, by Netanel Baadani  isbn
978-965-7442-04-3  Cat.   $32.00

Uriel Rappaprt has written, 'Bet Hashmona'i,''the House of the Hasmoneans,
the People of Israel in the Land of Israel in the Hasmonean Period,'
published by Yad Izhak Ben Zvi 978-965-217-351-5. From the Hellenic times
through this dynasty. From Antiokhus and Judah the maccabe through Jonathan,
King Yannai, Queen Shlomzion, this is classic, modern, scholarly Jewish
History. Cat. 82086   $38.00 

Yad Samuel Franco, the Ahavat Shalom institute have published, 'Shir
Hadash,' the Song of Songs along with the commentary of Rabbi Yakov Ha-Rofe
of Baghdad, first published in 1843.The scholarly work with the Hebrew text,
Aramaic and the commentary includes four indices, 1) verses, 2) Rabbinic
articles, 3) books, 4) persons. Rabbinic figures and manuscripts. Cat 82777
$22.00

An important recently 'self' published book, entitled, 'Rabi Itsele,' is a
730 page work on the life and teachings of Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer of
Peterburg (St. Petersberg). The subject of the book who was a student of R'
Israel Salant(er) was chief Rabbi of St. Petersberg in the 19th Century CE
and later moved to Kaunas / Kovno, Lithuania. He was an important figure in
the Mussar movement. The movement, an ethical and spiritual movement of
Ashkenazi Jewry in the 18th and 19th Cent. CE was an orthodox alternative to
Hassidut, Enlightenment or Reform Judaism. The book charts much history of
the Mussar movement and many affiliated Rabbinic courts There are photos and
footnotes and facsimiles of letters.  Cat 82768 $46.00

Ben Gurion University (Press) has published some very interesting and
important titles. 'Or Same'ah,' is a scholarly treatment and analysis of
"Halakha and Jewish Law," on R' Meir Simcha Hakohen's writings on
Maimonides' Code, by Yitzhak Cohen. R Mair of Divinsk was an important
figure of the 19th Cent CE until after WWI in Russia and Latvia. This book
on R Meir of Divinsk's commentaries on the Mishne Torah, is by an author who
is both a Rabbi and Doctor of Law, is a senior lecturer on the faculty of
Qiryat Ono Law School and researcher at Columbia University School of Law.
The book is significant as a scholarly and critical treatment of Rambam's
codification of Jewish Law as well as its analysis of R Meir Simcha's
teachings, all of which exemplify the influence and implementation of
Talmud, (Yerushalmi and Babylonian) in practical Jewish Law matters like
marriage, conversion and inheritance. Isbn 978-965-536-093-6,(2012) Cat.
80622  $33.00

Just to add other titles published by Ben Gurion University, first, in
passing, I believe I have previously mentioned, 'Hurban Yehude Eropa,'
published in Hebrew by Yad Vashem and Ben Gurion Univerity
978-965-308-419-3. The classic work was written by Raoul Hilberg and edited
by David Benkir and Bella Guterman. The work was originally published in
English and was at the very least, somewhat ignored here in Israel for
decades while becoming a classic of Holocaust Studies around the world. The
Hebrew edition includes a speech given by Hilberg in 2004 and an intro with
discussion relating to the earlier editions. (three volumes $135.00)
Second, in a totally different area, Israel and Zionism, let us mention,
'Golda,' biography by Yossi Goldstein. This 649 page scholarly work covers
from the former Israeli PM's childhood in Kiev through Milwaukee, Zionist
political activity, the founding of Israel, through her premiership and the
Yom Kippur War and it's aftermath. Isbn 978-965-536-091-2, Cat. 80272 $
36.00

In English, I would like to mention some worthwhile titles. Rabbi Binyamin
Lau had authored important and fascinating book on the prophet 'Jerimiah,
the fate of a prophet.'  The book is full of really important and clear
biblical history. Especially important and interesting is the analysis of
the historical and political circumstances surrounding not only Jeremiah but
earlier and later prophets and kings. The work is published by Maggid, isbn
978-159-264-194-9, Cat 82588 $29.00  

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[Schelly Talalay Dardashti]

CALL FOR PAPERS
24th Annual Conference - Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies
July 20-22, 2014, in Dallas, Texas

The keynote speaker will be Miriam Bodian, professor of history at the 
University of Texas at Austin and author most recently of Dying in the Law of 
Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World.

Papers are invited on crypto-Judaism from any discipline (e.g., anthropology, 
history, sociology, philosophy, literature, music, etc.) and from any 
geographic location or time period. We also welcome papers on all aspects of 
the Sephardic experience and that of other communities exhibiting crypto-Jewish 
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Mexico, and Southern Colorado are particularly welcome. 

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on specific topics. Indicate if presentation represents completed research or 
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