[ha-Safran] Fwd: Weave board member opportunity extended!

[Vess, David Steven - vessds via Hasafran]

Hi,

I got your email from a friend who sends library jobs announcements from JMU to 
this email address.

I’m David, I’m a board member of Weave: The Journal of Library User Experience. 
We’re sending out a call for volunteers for our board. I wondered if you might 
share this call to your member’s email list?

Also, I wanted to say that I have more than enough professional service on my 
plate, but I decided to volunteer with Weave because they ask for article 
pitches. Weave’s volunteer editorial team actually work with authors to help 
them formulate ideas and help them through the writing process. Their passion 
for library UX and cultivating good writing in our field is inspiring.

I’m happy to answer any questions anyone may have. Thanks for considering!

David Vess
User Experience Librarian & Associate Professor
James Madison University Libraries
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The Weave team stands with activists around the world seeking justice, equity, 
and the dismantling of racist systems.

We realize that the best of our profession are out there advocating for 
systemic change. Putting together an application for a volunteer position at 
Weave might not be at the top of your to-do list. So we've extended our 
deadline for board applications to the end of the month.

There is alignment between UX and equitable design, and Weave encourages you to 
join us. As a board member, you'll be a part of a team that recognizes systemic 
inequities in academia—and in academic publishing specifically—and is committed 
to better advancing the work of Black and marginalized scholars. We are aware 
of the need to build a more racially diverse team, rethink traditional peer 
review, and dismantle established academic structures that support racial 
inequity.

We are committed to building an editorial staff that reflects the diversity of 
the library community and our users and specifically encourage applications 
from the BIPOC community.

If appointed, expect to spend 3-10 hours a month on the journal. Terms are for 
three years with a chance of renewal, beginning August 1, 2020. See full 
position 
description.

Your application should include a CV and a brief letter of interest. Send 
applications directly to lisa.gayh...@nyu.edu by 
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[ha-Safran] Collecting materials related to COVID and Jews/Judaism

[Michelle Chesner via Hasafran]

Dear Colleagues,

Many institutions, large and small, have started special collecting
initiatives relating to how COVID has impacted the Jewish community (very
broadly writ).  There is a multi-partner initiative working to collect
information about these collecting projects (no matter how large or small)
so that collecting and cataloging can be coordinated and made more easily
accessible to users.  If you are collecting materials that fit these
criteria, please fill out the form per the below by the end of the day
tomorrow:

If your institution is engaged in a COVID-19-specific collection effort,
please fill out this Google Form

with relevant information by EOD Friday, June 19.

Many thanks,
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[ha-Safran] Restart of Studia Rosenthaliana

[Cilia Werdmölder , Rachel via Hasafran]

Dear Safranim,

We're pleased to announce that Studia Rosenthaliana, Journal of the History, 
Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands will be starting up again. 
From 2020 onwards Studia Rosenthaliana will appear twice a year as a 
double-blind peer-reviewed, fully 'diamond' open access English-language 
journal.
It invites high-quality submissions with original research on any topic within 
the thematic scope of the journal. It does not charge authors APC (article 
procession charges).

More information on the journal, including submission guidelines, can be found 
here.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could spread this announcement in your 
personal network, or inform graduate students and/or colleagues working on 
topics that are relevant for the journal.

Kind regards,
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Re: [ha-Safran] [AJL-Council] Please welcome Megan Shulman!

[Rachel Leket-Mor via Hasafran]

Hello Megan!

Welcome to AJL and to the editing team of News and Reviews!
Rachel


Rachel Leket-Mor, MA, MLIS
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Curator, Open Stack Collections
IsraPulp Collection
Arizona State University Library
Phone: 480-965-2618

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From: "AJL-Council edu>" 
 on behalf of 
Council 
Reply-To: Amalia Warshenbrot 
Date: Thursday, 18 June 2020 at 10:24
To: Sally Stieglitz , "hasafran@lists.osu.edu" 
, AJL-Council , 
AJL Board , Lisa Silverman , 
Karen Ulric , Daniel Scheide , 
Ellen Drucker , Dina Herbert , 
Kathleen Bloomfield , Kathe Pinchuck 
, Rebecca Jefferson , Megan Shulman 

Subject: Re: [AJL-Council] Please welcome Megan Shulman!

Megan  is a welcome addiotnal to the  Reviews team.  Her life experience can 
only enhance the reviews.
Amalia W.



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Drucker; Dina 
Herbert; Kathleen 
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Chava; Jefferson, 
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Subject: [AJL-Council] Please welcome Megan Shulman!

Dear Safranim,

Please join me in welcoming Megan Shulman to our AJL News and Reviews team! 
Megan is one of our new co-editors for children's/teen's reviews.

Here is Megan's "hello" to you all:

My name is Megan Shulman, and I am, after many years of being involved with our 
synagogue’s leadership team and community, newly Jew-by-Choice. I am a 
transplant to the Deep South by way of New York, and enjoy learning about the 
diverse historical Jewish experience in our rural city in West Tennessee. I 
have fifteen years of experience as a school librarian, but have also worked as 
both a public and academic librarian. I have a passion for diverse, quality 
Jewish children’s and young adult literature. I am recently disabled, and make 
my home in the tiny town of Medina, Tennessee with my five year old son Calvin 
and my husband Andrew. I am very excited to soon be serving the AJL!

Wishing you all Shabbat Shalom,
Sally


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Re: [ha-Safran] Please welcome Megan Shulman!

[Arlene Ratzabi via Hasafran]

Wonderful having you join us!

Arlene Ratzabi 
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> On Jun 18, 2020, at 1:26 PM, Daniel Scheide via Hasafran 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> Welcome aboard!
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 10:15 AM Sally Stieglitz  
>> wrote:
>> Dear Safranim,
>> 
>> Please join me in welcoming Megan Shulman to our AJL News and Reviews team! 
>> Megan is one of our new co-editors for children's/teen's reviews. 
>> 
>> Here is Megan's "hello" to you all: 
>> 
>> My name is Megan Shulman, and I am, after many years of being involved with 
>> our synagogue’s leadership team and community, newly Jew-by-Choice. I am a 
>> transplant to the Deep South by way of New York, and enjoy learning about 
>> the diverse historical Jewish experience in our rural city in West 
>> Tennessee. I have fifteen years of experience as a school librarian, but 
>> have also worked as both a public and academic librarian. I have a passion 
>> for diverse, quality Jewish children’s and young adult literature. I am 
>> recently disabled, and make my home in the tiny town of Medina, Tennessee 
>> with my five year old son Calvin and my husband Andrew. I am very excited to 
>> soon be serving the AJL! 
>> 
>> Wishing you all Shabbat Shalom, 
>> Sally   
>> 
>> 
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>> Council
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>> http://www.lilrc.org
>> 
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[ha-Safran] Remote Job Postings: Judaic Cataloger / Metadata Librarian

[joanna katsune via Hasafran]

 Is there an online site sponsored by AJL or other libraries / archives / 
museums where job openings and positions are posted for Judaic librarians? I am 
seeking remote work as a Special Collections / Rare Materials cataloger and 
metadata librarian with expertise in working with print materials and 
electronic resources and in creating and editing online documentation in 
support of these materials.

  Thank you

  Joanna Katsune
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Re: [ha-Safran] Please welcome Megan Shulman!

[Kathleen Bloomfield via Hasafran]

Hi Megan,

So happy to have you on our team!  Welcome, and I hope you have a great
time.

Kathy B.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 1:40 PM Megan Shulman  wrote:

> Dear Elliot,
>
> Thank you for such a warm welcome!
>
> Yes, Medina is fairly close to Union City! Unfortunately, due to declining
> membership due to an aging population, the Union City synagogue closed a
> few years ago. The remaining members joined our synagogue B’nai Israel,
> located in Jackson, which has had a presence there for over 150 years. The
> building features indescribably beautiful stained glass that glows in the
> night and is now on the Historical Register.
> While I have never heard the term “Jew Store,” Jews in this area were
> often owners of upscale department stores. In Jackson, Kisber’s, owned by
> the Kisber family, was known for its high class items and exemplary
> customer service. In the 1950s, Kisber’s became the first store to
> integrate racially in terms of both staffing and customers. Anyone who
> opposed this decision would be met by Mr. Kisber himself and he would
> politely, yet firmly, state his stance on his hopes for a fully integrated
> society in Jackson. While Kisber’s was eventually replaced with larger
> department stores like Macy’s, Jackson is still blessed to have several
> independent Jewishly owned retail stores like Robert’s Jewelers.
> I’m excited to be volunteering with the AJL!
>
> Megan
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 2:52 PM Elliot H. Gertel 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello, Megan,
>>
>> Welcome!  Great to have you join AJL in such an active role.
>>
>> If I'm not mistaken Medina is not far from Union City, which makes me
>> think of Stella Suberman, O"h (1922-2017), a presenter at the 1999 AJL
>> Annual Conference in Boca Raton where she spoke about her fascinating,
>> slightly fictionalized memoir (mostly changing names) with the somewhat
>> troubling title--at least to this Northerner!--*The Jew Store* (Chapel
>> Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998) about growing up Jewish
>> in a rural Northwestern Tennessee town with a population of 5,318 in the
>> 1920s when her family settled there.  Stella made it clear that many small
>> Southern towns had dry goods stores that were called "Jew stores" back
>> then.  It's a great depiction of her experiences being raised in the only
>> Jewish family in a small Southern town.
>>
>> Thanks for pitching in with *AJL Reviews!*
>>
>> Hope to "see" you at AJL Digital Conference in two weeks and future
>> in-person conferences.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Elliot
>>
>> 
>> Elliot H. Gertel *עלע־הערש גערטל / אליהו־צבי גרטל*
>> AJL-ALA Liaison
>> Member, ALA EMIERT Jewish Information Committee, 2020-22
>> Chair, 2020 AJL Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Committee
>> Irving M. Hermelin Curator Emeritus of Judaica
>> The University of Michigan
>> Ann Arbor, Michigan
>> eger...@umich.edu
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 1:30 PM Sally Stieglitz via Hasafran <
>> hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Safranim,
>>>
>>> Please join me in welcoming Megan Shulman to our AJL News and Reviews
>>> team! Megan is one of our new co-editors for children's/teen's reviews.
>>>
>>> Here is Megan's "hello" to you all:
>>>
>>> My name is Megan Shulman, and I am, after many years of being involved
>>> with our synagogue’s leadership team and community, newly Jew-by-Choice. I
>>> am a transplant to the Deep South by way of New York, and enjoy learning
>>> about the diverse historical Jewish experience in our rural city in West
>>> Tennessee. I have fifteen years of experience as a school librarian, but
>>> have also worked as both a public and academic librarian. I have a passion
>>> for diverse, quality Jewish children’s and young adult literature. I am
>>> recently disabled, and make my home in the tiny town of Medina, Tennessee
>>> with my five year old son Calvin and my husband Andrew. I am very excited
>>> to soon be serving the AJL!
>>>
>>> Wishing you all Shabbat Shalom,
>>> Sally
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sally Stieglitz
>>> Communications and Marketing Coordinator  | Long Island Library
>>> Resources Council
>>> sstiegl...@lilrc.org | 631-675-1570 x2005
>>> http://www.lilrc.org
>>>
>>> [image: ORCID] http://orcid.org/-0003-1552-9188
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> )
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Re: [ha-Safran] [AJL-Council] Please welcome Megan Shulman!

[LOIS RUBY via Hasafran]

Welcome, welcome, welcome, Megan!

> On 06/18/2020 8:46 AM Association of Jewish Libraries via Hasafran 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello Megan,
> 
> Welcome to AJL's News and Reviews team! I look forward to working with 
> you and learning about rural Tennassee!
> 
> Shabbat Shalom,
> 
> Jackie
> 
> Jackie Ben-Efraim
> AJL Advertising Manager
> 
> ajladmana...@gmail.com mailto:ajladmana...@gmail.com
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> 
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> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 7:15 AM Sally Stieglitz via AJL-Council < 
> ajl-coun...@lists.osu.edu mailto:ajl-coun...@lists.osu.edu > wrote:
> 
> > > Dear Safranim,
> > 
> > Please join me in welcoming Megan Shulman to our AJL News and 
> > Reviews team! Megan is one of our new co-editors for children's/teen's 
> > reviews. 
> > 
> > Here is Megan's "hello" to you all: 
> > 
> > My name is Megan Shulman, and I am, after many years of being 
> > involved with our synagogue’s leadership team and community, newly 
> > Jew-by-Choice. I am a transplant to the Deep South by way of New York, and 
> > enjoy learning about the diverse historical Jewish experience in our rural 
> > city in West Tennessee. I have fifteen years of experience as a school 
> > librarian, but have also worked as both a public and academic librarian. I 
> > have a passion for diverse, quality Jewish children’s and young adult 
> > literature. I am recently disabled, and make my home in the tiny town of 
> > Medina, Tennessee with my five year old son Calvin and my husband Andrew. I 
> > am very excited to soon be serving the AJL! 
> > 
> > Wishing you all Shabbat Shalom, 
> > Sally   
> > 
> > 
> > --
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> > Communications and Marketing Coordinator  | Long Island Library 
> > Resources Council
> > sstiegl...@lilrc.org mailto:sstiegl...@lilrc.org  | 631-675-1570 
> > x2005 
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> > 
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Re: [ha-Safran] Please welcome Megan Shulman!

[Megan Shulman via Hasafran]

Dear Elliot,

Thank you for such a warm welcome!

Yes, Medina is fairly close to Union City! Unfortunately, due to declining
membership due to an aging population, the Union City synagogue closed a
few years ago. The remaining members joined our synagogue B’nai Israel,
located in Jackson, which has had a presence there for over 150 years. The
building features indescribably beautiful stained glass that glows in the
night and is now on the Historical Register.
While I have never heard the term “Jew Store,” Jews in this area were often
owners of upscale department stores. In Jackson, Kisber’s, owned by the
Kisber family, was known for its high class items and exemplary customer
service. In the 1950s, Kisber’s became the first store to integrate
racially in terms of both staffing and customers. Anyone who opposed this
decision would be met by Mr. Kisber himself and he would politely, yet
firmly, state his stance on his hopes for a fully integrated society in
Jackson. While Kisber’s was eventually replaced with larger department
stores like Macy’s, Jackson is still blessed to have several independent
Jewishly owned retail stores like Robert’s Jewelers.
I’m excited to be volunteering with the AJL!

Megan

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 2:52 PM Elliot H. Gertel  wrote:

> Hello, Megan,
>
> Welcome!  Great to have you join AJL in such an active role.
>
> If I'm not mistaken Medina is not far from Union City, which makes me
> think of Stella Suberman, O"h (1922-2017), a presenter at the 1999 AJL
> Annual Conference in Boca Raton where she spoke about her fascinating,
> slightly fictionalized memoir (mostly changing names) with the somewhat
> troubling title--at least to this Northerner!--*The Jew Store* (Chapel
> Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998) about growing up Jewish
> in a rural Northwestern Tennessee town with a population of 5,318 in the
> 1920s when her family settled there.  Stella made it clear that many small
> Southern towns had dry goods stores that were called "Jew stores" back
> then.  It's a great depiction of her experiences being raised in the only
> Jewish family in a small Southern town.
>
> Thanks for pitching in with *AJL Reviews!*
>
> Hope to "see" you at AJL Digital Conference in two weeks and future
> in-person conferences.
>
> Best regards,
> Elliot
>
> 
> Elliot H. Gertel *עלע־הערש גערטל / אליהו־צבי גרטל*
> AJL-ALA Liaison
> Member, ALA EMIERT Jewish Information Committee, 2020-22
> Chair, 2020 AJL Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Committee
> Irving M. Hermelin Curator Emeritus of Judaica
> The University of Michigan
> Ann Arbor, Michigan
> eger...@umich.edu
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 1:30 PM Sally Stieglitz via Hasafran <
> hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear Safranim,
>>
>> Please join me in welcoming Megan Shulman to our AJL News and Reviews
>> team! Megan is one of our new co-editors for children's/teen's reviews.
>>
>> Here is Megan's "hello" to you all:
>>
>> My name is Megan Shulman, and I am, after many years of being involved
>> with our synagogue’s leadership team and community, newly Jew-by-Choice. I
>> am a transplant to the Deep South by way of New York, and enjoy learning
>> about the diverse historical Jewish experience in our rural city in West
>> Tennessee. I have fifteen years of experience as a school librarian, but
>> have also worked as both a public and academic librarian. I have a passion
>> for diverse, quality Jewish children’s and young adult literature. I am
>> recently disabled, and make my home in the tiny town of Medina, Tennessee
>> with my five year old son Calvin and my husband Andrew. I am very excited
>> to soon be serving the AJL!
>>
>> Wishing you all Shabbat Shalom,
>> Sally
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Communications and Marketing Coordinator  | Long Island Library Resources
>> Council
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Re: [ha-Safran] Please welcome Megan Shulman!

[Annette Goldsmith via Hasafran]

Welcome, Megan! What a great addition you are to the team!

Best,
Annette

Sent from my phone, so please excuse typos. Thanks!

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>
> Please join me in welcoming Megan Shulman to our AJL News and Reviews
> team! Megan is one of our new co-editors for children's/teen's reviews.
>
> Here is Megan's "hello" to you all:
>
> My name is Megan Shulman, and I am, after many years of being involved
> with our synagogue’s leadership team and community, newly Jew-by-Choice. I
> am a transplant to the Deep South by way of New York, and enjoy learning
> about the diverse historical Jewish experience in our rural city in West
> Tennessee. I have fifteen years of experience as a school librarian, but
> have also worked as both a public and academic librarian. I have a passion
> for diverse, quality Jewish children’s and young adult literature. I am
> recently disabled, and make my home in the tiny town of Medina, Tennessee
> with my five year old son Calvin and my husband Andrew. I am very excited
> to soon be serving the AJL!
>
> Wishing you all Shabbat Shalom,
> Sally
>
>
> --
> Sally Stieglitz
> Communications and Marketing Coordinator  | Long Island Library Resources
> Council
> sstiegl...@lilrc.org | 631-675-1570 x2005
> http://www.lilrc.org
>
> [image: ORCID] http://orcid.org/-0003-1552-9188
>
>
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> )
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Re: [ha-Safran] Please welcome Megan Shulman!

[Fred Isaac via Hasafran]

Welcome.

We have a varied line-up, both as to reviewers and books. I hope you have
as much fun as I have over the years.

Fred Isaac
Oakland, CA

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> Dear Safranim,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Megan Shulman to our AJL News and Reviews
> team! Megan is one of our new co-editors for children's/teen's reviews.
>
> Here is Megan's "hello" to you all:
>
> My name is Megan Shulman, and I am, after many years of being involved
> with our synagogue’s leadership team and community, newly Jew-by-Choice. I
> am a transplant to the Deep South by way of New York, and enjoy learning
> about the diverse historical Jewish experience in our rural city in West
> Tennessee. I have fifteen years of experience as a school librarian, but
> have also worked as both a public and academic librarian. I have a passion
> for diverse, quality Jewish children’s and young adult literature. I am
> recently disabled, and make my home in the tiny town of Medina, Tennessee
> with my five year old son Calvin and my husband Andrew. I am very excited
> to soon be serving the AJL!
>
> Wishing you all Shabbat Shalom,
> Sally
>
>
> --
> Sally Stieglitz
> Communications and Marketing Coordinator  | Long Island Library Resources
> Council
> sstiegl...@lilrc.org | 631-675-1570 x2005
> http://www.lilrc.org
>
> [image: ORCID] http://orcid.org/-0003-1552-9188
>
>
>
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> )
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Re: [ha-Safran] Please welcome Megan Shulman!

[Elliot H. Gertel via Hasafran]

Hello, Megan,

Welcome!  Great to have you join AJL in such an active role.

If I'm not mistaken Medina is not far from Union City, which makes me think
of Stella Suberman, O"h (1922-2017), a presenter at the 1999 AJL Annual
Conference in Boca Raton where she spoke about her fascinating, slightly
fictionalized memoir (mostly changing names) with the somewhat troubling
title--at least to this Northerner!--*The Jew Store* (Chapel Hill, N.C.:
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998) about growing up Jewish in a rural
Northwestern Tennessee town with a population of 5,318 in the 1920s when
her family settled there.  Stella made it clear that many small Southern
towns had dry goods stores that were called "Jew stores" back then.  It's a
great depiction of her experiences being raised in the only Jewish family
in a small Southern town.

Thanks for pitching in with *AJL Reviews!*

Hope to "see" you at AJL Digital Conference in two weeks and future
in-person conferences.

Best regards,
Elliot


Elliot H. Gertel *עלע־הערש גערטל / אליהו־צבי גרטל*
AJL-ALA Liaison
Member, ALA EMIERT Jewish Information Committee, 2020-22
Chair, 2020 AJL Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Committee
Irving M. Hermelin Curator Emeritus of Judaica
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
eger...@umich.edu


On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 1:30 PM Sally Stieglitz via Hasafran <
hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Safranim,
>
> Please join me in welcoming Megan Shulman to our AJL News and Reviews
> team! Megan is one of our new co-editors for children's/teen's reviews.
>
> Here is Megan's "hello" to you all:
>
> My name is Megan Shulman, and I am, after many years of being involved
> with our synagogue’s leadership team and community, newly Jew-by-Choice. I
> am a transplant to the Deep South by way of New York, and enjoy learning
> about the diverse historical Jewish experience in our rural city in West
> Tennessee. I have fifteen years of experience as a school librarian, but
> have also worked as both a public and academic librarian. I have a passion
> for diverse, quality Jewish children’s and young adult literature. I am
> recently disabled, and make my home in the tiny town of Medina, Tennessee
> with my five year old son Calvin and my husband Andrew. I am very excited
> to soon be serving the AJL!
>
> Wishing you all Shabbat Shalom,
> Sally
>
>
> --
> Sally Stieglitz
> Communications and Marketing Coordinator  | Long Island Library Resources
> Council
> sstiegl...@lilrc.org | 631-675-1570 x2005
> http://www.lilrc.org
>
> [image: ORCID] http://orcid.org/-0003-1552-9188
>
>
>
> LILRC is a member of the Empire State Library Network (ESLN
> )
>
> Follow LILRC on Facebook  Twitter
>  Instagram
> 
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Re: [ha-Safran] Please welcome Megan Shulman!

[Elliot H. Gertel via Hasafran]

Dear Megan,

Thank you for your really nice message!

Thanks very much also for the update on Union City and especially for the
history of Kisber's and the forward thinking of Mr. Kisber to take such a
courageous stand and actions at a time when that was not only ahead of the
time by challenging the prevailing racism and Jim Crow mores of the South,
but very dangerous to do!  Amazing and heartwarming!  Thanks to you, I
looked at Congregation B'nai Israel's website at
https://congregationbnai-israel.org/  and some of the images there.  What a
rich history, founded in 1885 (the first congregation in Jackson dates to
the mid-1850s), and the building and the stained glass windows are indeed
striking.  What really caught my eye--and seems to be unique--is that there
are stained glass windows on the Ark.  If I ever have the fortune to find
myself in your area, I would definitely like to visit the synagogue.  I
have long been a lover of historic architecture and especially of shul
buildings.  I appreciate your telling me a bit about the neighborhood and
Jewish life there past and present.  It very nicely supplements what I
learned from Stella.

Be well.

Elliot


Elliot H. Gertel *עלע־הערש גערטל / אליהו־צבי גרטל*
AJL-ALA Liaison
Member, ALA EMIERT Jewish Information Committee, 2020-22
Chair, 2020 AJL Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Committee
Irving M. Hermelin Curator Emeritus of Judaica
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
eger...@umich.edu


On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 4:40 PM Megan Shulman  wrote:

> Dear Elliot,
>
> Thank you for such a warm welcome!
>
> Yes, Medina is fairly close to Union City! Unfortunately, due to declining
> membership due to an aging population, the Union City synagogue closed a
> few years ago. The remaining members joined our synagogue B’nai Israel,
> located in Jackson, which has had a presence there for over 150 years. The
> building features indescribably beautiful stained glass that glows in the
> night and is now on the Historical Register.
> While I have never heard the term “Jew Store,” Jews in this area were
> often owners of upscale department stores. In Jackson, Kisber’s, owned by
> the Kisber family, was known for its high class items and exemplary
> customer service. In the 1950s, Kisber’s became the first store to
> integrate racially in terms of both staffing and customers. Anyone who
> opposed this decision would be met by Mr. Kisber himself and he would
> politely, yet firmly, state his stance on his hopes for a fully integrated
> society in Jackson. While Kisber’s was eventually replaced with larger
> department stores like Macy’s, Jackson is still blessed to have several
> independent Jewishly owned retail stores like Robert’s Jewelers.
> I’m excited to be volunteering with the AJL!
>
> Megan
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 2:52 PM Elliot H. Gertel 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello, Megan,
>>
>> Welcome!  Great to have you join AJL in such an active role.
>>
>> If I'm not mistaken Medina is not far from Union City, which makes me
>> think of Stella Suberman, O"h (1922-2017), a presenter at the 1999 AJL
>> Annual Conference in Boca Raton where she spoke about her fascinating,
>> slightly fictionalized memoir (mostly changing names) with the somewhat
>> troubling title--at least to this Northerner!--*The Jew Store* (Chapel
>> Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998) about growing up Jewish
>> in a rural Northwestern Tennessee town with a population of 5,318 in the
>> 1920s when her family settled there.  Stella made it clear that many small
>> Southern towns had dry goods stores that were called "Jew stores" back
>> then.  It's a great depiction of her experiences being raised in the only
>> Jewish family in a small Southern town.
>>
>> Thanks for pitching in with *AJL Reviews!*
>>
>> Hope to "see" you at AJL Digital Conference in two weeks and future
>> in-person conferences.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Elliot
>>
>> 
>> Elliot H. Gertel *עלע־הערש גערטל / אליהו־צבי גרטל*
>> AJL-ALA Liaison
>> Member, ALA EMIERT Jewish Information Committee, 2020-22
>> Chair, 2020 AJL Fanny Goldstein Merit Award Committee
>> Irving M. Hermelin Curator Emeritus of Judaica
>> The University of Michigan
>> Ann Arbor, Michigan
>> eger...@umich.edu
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 1:30 PM Sally Stieglitz via Hasafran <
>> hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Safranim,
>>>
>>> Please join me in welcoming Megan Shulman to our AJL News and Reviews
>>> team! Megan is one of our new co-editors for children's/teen's reviews.
>>>
>>> Here is Megan's "hello" to you all:
>>>
>>> My name is Megan Shulman, and I am, after many years of being involved
>>> with our synagogue’s leadership team and community, newly Jew-by-Choice. I
>>> am a transplant to the Deep South by way of New York, and enjoy learning
>>> about the diverse historical Jewish experience in our rural city in West
>>> Tennessee. I have