[ha-Safran] Sources for published Hebrew poetry : Tzvi Yosef (Hirsch) Wielodrusz (Harris Wohl) 1859/60 -1951

[Galron, Joseph via Hasafran]

From: Sylvia Simmons 
mailto:sarasylvia.simm...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 1:18 PM
Subject: Sources for published Hebrew poetry : Tzvi Yosef (Hirsch) Wielodrusz 
(Harris Wohl) 1859/60 -1951


I'm contacting you at suggestion of Prof Lewis Glinert (Dartmouth, formerly 
SOAS, London) and Peter S Salinger (formerly Hebraica & Near East Librarian, 
SOAS).
I am looking for online sources, bibliographic research tools, or published 
anthologies to find poetry by my late great-grandather, Tzvi Yosef (Hirsch) 
Wieldoruz/Wohl  (d. 1951).

I only become aware of this poetry after I translated his Ethical Will/Memoir 
(1935, unpublished). It includes a moving tribute to his recently-departed 
wife, in poetic Hebrew, with references to Piyutim and Hebrew liturgy. After I 
sent my translation to family members, his only surviving granddaughter (in her 
mid 80s) told ne that Grandfather Wielodruz/Wohl (name changed at UK 
naturalization) had published poetry during his stay in NY (sometime 1895-1905, 
dates unknown). Sadly no family members have copies.

It's also possible that he wrote in Hebrew (or Yiddish) when he was in Poland, 
or later in UK (then submitted for publication abroad).

I attach summary of information we have about the author. Can you kindly 
forward this email to Librarian(s) who can offer guidance and information?
Is there a discussion group or bulletin board, Association of Jewish Libraries 
or similar where this enquiry can be posted?

With thanks in advance for your guidance and any information you can offer.
Kind regards


Sylvia Simmons

Sylvia Simmons MCLIP
InfoResponse UK
Research- Consultancy - Publishing - Editing
London NW11 9AR - UK
Amsterdam 1083 JM - NL

www.sylviasimmons.com
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[ha-Safran] PLEASE POST ON HASAFRAN ASAP: Would like advice concerning copyrights on Congregational oral histories

[Judy Weidman via Hasafran]

A collection of oral histories recorded in the 1970s of members of our 
congregation was posted on our website (with permission). An individual with 
distant connections to the congregation has taken an interest in the 
interviews, and has asked to publish poems that "embellish or change the words" 
of the subjects. My response was permission must be obtained from the 
interviewees and./or surviving family members, which I thought was a 
no-brainer. I am up against some resistance from my superiors suggesting she 
should have free access to (which she obviously does) and ability to use for 
her purposes freely.
I am quite concerned, and would like some advice about how to present this 
issue about copyright, at the very least, not to mention ethical issues. Any 
help would be appreciated. Judy Weidman, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston.
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Re: [ha-Safran] Fwd: Seeking titles of Controversial Books onArab-Israeli Conflict

[Amalia Warshenbrot via Hasafran]

Dear Mrs. Kinberg,
It goes without saying that students at the impressionable age need to learn 
about both  sides.  The challenger becomes clear when it is unsupervised 
reading, like  when the book is  a part of the summer reading and the teacher 
does not dedicate time for discussion on each book.  The conflict is so  
complicated that one lesson of 45 minutes is not enough. Unfortunately most 
public school teachers and even Jewish educators  have minimal knowledge of the 
Israeli-Arab conflict.
Does the  reader about the “Palestinian child whose only experience of Jews is 
as fully armed soldiers” know about the child that will remain disabled for the 
rest of her life because of a bomb on the bus ?
This is not the place for discussion on  the Israeli Arab conflict. The books 
on the list below   (I’m nor familiar  with all)  are not balanced for sure. I 
underhand  Marjorie’s concerns that some books used in  PUBLIC schools are 
extremely hostile to Israel.
I hope to hear from Marjorie when she completes her research,
Amalia Warshenbrot





Dear Marjorie Gann,
I appreciate your close look at books for young readers about Israel and the 
Palestinian people, and your invitation to comment.
In my work as librarian at Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor, I have curated a 
collection of books for young Jewish people that includes diverse Palestinian 
points of view and I am pleased that our library offers diverse points of view 
from Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian writers that help our young people become 
critical thinkers. My library includes, several books on your list: 
The Cat at the Wall (2014)
Naomi Shihab Nye:  Habibi (1997)
Golbarg Bashi: P Is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book (2018)
Leanne Lieberman, The Book of Trees (2010)
Pamela L. Laskin, Ronit & Jamil (2017)
I was surprised that you called several titles "distortions of history or 
complicit in stereotyping or demonizing," specifically Tasting the Sky (which 
is on my to order list), Habibi, and Ronit and Jamil. I would appreciate seeing 
a list of titles from a Palestinian point of view that you would recommend. 
I'll never forget a lecture I attended by Marc Tessler, author of the massive A 
History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, when he told the story of a 
several year convening of Jewish and Palestinian historians in which the 
participants never came to agreement on the facts. 
Last year I taught our high schoolers a class on looking at points of view in 
Jewish and Palestinian children's books on Israel/Palestine. The class was 
wiser than me at the time. They pointed out that readers should not expect 
books to be "fair" and "balanced," particularly when involving difficult 
issues. Rather, readers should expect and be aware of bias. 
I hope you understand that I am not saying the Jewish narrative we are familiar 
with is false, but it leaves out the Palestinian experience. A book including a 
Palestinian child whose only experience of Jews is as fully armed soldiers may 
be a true reflection of a Palestinian child's experience. It's our crucial (and 
even sacred) responsibility as educators to fill out the picture, but 
suppressing pieces of it that are truthful within their own sphere doesn't help 
children who need to deal with a complex world when they grow up.
I also have had the experience of being asked by a public school teacher who 
had assigned A LITTLE PIECE OF GROUND, to teach a class on the book. That was a 
very challenging experience, as I was tempted to try to give a lecture on the 
whole Israeli/Palestinian conflict. 
I am very interested in hearing from others about experiences applying the 
values of critical reading of these books in the public school setting.
L'shalom,
Clare Kinberg, Temple Beth Emeth Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 11:46 AM Marjorie Gann via Hasafran 
 wrote:
Hello, Safranim,
I am working on a presentation -- a spinoff from a session I gave at the 2019 
AJL Conference-- on anti-Israeli propaganda in novels and memoirs for children 
and young adults. I am concerned that some books extremely hostile to Israel 
may be in use in schools.
I am aware of one school in the U.S. in which Elizabeth Laird’s A Little Piece 
of Ground, with its toxic anti-Israel message and its demonization of Israeli 
soldiers, has been used for class study.
I was wondering if anyone else on this list might be aware of the use of this 
or other anti-Israel books in schools (or in public readings for children) in 
the U.S. or Canada. Below you’ll find my list of some of the titles which, 
following detailed analysis, I’ve found to contain factual errors, distortions 
of history, or instances of demonization and stereotyping of Israel or 
Israelis. If anyone is aware of the use of any of these books,  or of public 
controversies surrounding the use of these or any other anti-Israel books, I’d 
appreciate your contacting  me off-list at marjoriega...@gmail.com. 
Thank you.
Marjorie Gann
Childr

[ha-Safran] online conversation - Feminine Power in the History of American Jewish Museums - Sept. 24, 2020

[Amanda Seigel via Hasafran]

Dear Safranim,

You are cordially invited to an online conversation:

 "Feminine Power in the History of American Jewish Museums"
Thursday, September 24, 2020
4 p.m. EDT

Ariel Cohen, University of Virginia

Online conversation via Zoom (link to be sent out 1 day prior)  - RSVP at
https://forever.fordham.edu/s/1362/18/interior.aspx?sid=1362&gid=1&pgid=8778&content_id=9153

Established in 1947, the Jewish Museum on 5th Avenue in the former home of
Felix Warburg and Frieda Schiff Warburg is America’s most widely known
symbol of Jewish art history. But what most don’t think about is that it is
also a symbol of what Ariel Cohen calls Jewish “feminine power.” What makes
Jewish Art History in America “feminine?” What is “feminine power?” In her
research on American Jewish museums, Cohen expected to find archives full
of the stories of the men who founded Jewish museums – Cyrus Adler, first
curator of Judaica at the Smithsonian in DC; Alexander Marx, chief
librarian of the Seminary and visionary of its Museum of Ceremonial
Objects; and others. What she found instead were the stories of four
American Jewish women who made Jewish public culture a “thing.” From a
Russian immigrant secretary to a rebbetzin, from a public philanthropist to
an artist and curator’s wife, these women are connected by a shared drive:
to offer Jews connections to their roots and ancestry, and to self-
describe Jews in galleries for a wide audience of Jews and gentiles. The
spaces they built would offer Jews deeper connections to their roots and
strengthen their Jewish identities. This talk will discuss the women who
changed the landscape of American Jewish culture indelibly. It will present
a body of evidence pointing to “feminine power” in American Jewish history
as found in American Jewish art museums.

Respondent: Susan Chevlowe, PhD, is Director and Chief Curator of Derfner
Judaica and The Art Collection at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale. She is a
former curator at the Jewish Museum, New York.

This event is co-presented with the New York Public Library and the Jewish
Museum.

RSVP -
https://forever.fordham.edu/s/1362/18/interior.aspx?sid=1362&gid=1&pgid=8778&content_id=9153


-- 

*Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel*

Librarian

Dorot Jewish Division, Room 111

The New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10018
212.930.0601 | x20601

nypl.org

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Re: [ha-Safran] : Would like advice concerning copyrights on Congregational oral histories

[Daniel Stuhlman via Hasafran]

This may be an contractual issue.  What agreements did the interviewees
sign?

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 6:47 PM Judy Weidman via Hasafran <
hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> A collection of oral histories recorded in the 1970s of members of our
> congregation was posted on our website (with permission). An individual
> with distant connections to the congregation has taken an interest in the
> interviews, and has asked to publish poems that "embellish or change the
> words" of the subjects. My response was permission must be obtained from
> the interviewees and./or surviving family members, which I thought was a
> no-brainer. I am up against some resistance from my superiors suggesting
> she should have free access to (which she obviously does) and ability to
> use for her purposes freely.
> I am quite concerned, and would like some advice about how to present this
> issue about copyright, at the very least, not to mention ethical issues.
> Any help would be appreciated. Judy Weidman, Congregation Beth Israel,
> Houston.
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Re: [ha-Safran] : Would like advice concerning copyrights on Congregational oral histories

[Andrea Rapp via Hasafran]

Surely Beth Israel has among its members an attorney who can advise on the 
copyright question.
Andrea Rapp

> On Aug 27, 2020, at 8:35 PM, Daniel Stuhlman via Hasafran 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> This may be an contractual issue.  What agreements did the interviewees sign?
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 6:47 PM Judy Weidman via Hasafran 
>>  wrote:
>> A collection of oral histories recorded in the 1970s of members of our 
>> congregation was posted on our website (with permission). An individual with 
>> distant connections to the congregation has taken an interest in the 
>> interviews, and has asked to publish poems that "embellish or change the 
>> words" of the subjects. My response was permission must be obtained from the 
>> interviewees and./or surviving family members, which I thought was a 
>> no-brainer. I am up against some resistance from my superiors suggesting she 
>> should have free access to (which she obviously does) and ability to use for 
>> her purposes freely. 
>> I am quite concerned, and would like some advice about how to present this 
>> issue about copyright, at the very least, not to mention ethical issues. Any 
>> help would be appreciated. Judy Weidman, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston. 
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