Re: [ha-Safran] Hasafran Digest, Vol 616, Issue 4

[Rayzel Raphael via Hasafran]

I got this  request from another list: would love your suggestions:

 
I’m hearing from community members who want to help their public schools
find resources to teach about antisemitism in age-appropriate ways.
 
 
I’m specifically looking for resources that are appropriate for grades
K-4th, which perhaps might be less for the students and more for the
parents. What might you suggest that is appropriate for parents of children
from any religion?

Rabbi Rayzel
  
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[ha-Safran] Assisting small Jewish organizations with preserving their archives

[Rachel Greenblatt via Hasafran]

Greetings, and a special greetings to Archivists,

My friend and colleague, Prof. Jacob Labendz, Director of the Gross Center
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey
 has a challenge, and would like to work
towards a solution. As Director of a local, visible, Jewish academic
center, he often gets calls from small Jewish organizations that are about
to close--small Holocaust centers, synagogues, etc.--looking for new homes
for their books. Jacob is able to take the books (please ask another time
about how he handles that!), but often finds that in accepting the boxes,
he also receives the organization's papers. As a center director, he lacks
information about how to match these organizations with potential archival
homes for their own papers. He would like to develop a procedure for
handling these queries when he receives them, an efficient way of matching
the owners of small collections with appropriate archives. Jacob envisions
gathering a small group of archivists to help him with this. If you are
able & willing to participate, please contact him: jlabe...@ramapo.edu

Thanks,
Rachel

Rachel L. Greenblatt, Ph.D.
Judaica Librarian
Affiliated Faculty, Department of History
Brandeis University
Voice mail: (781) 736-4688
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Schedule an appointment


*אַחֵֽינוּ כָּל בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל הַנְּ֒תוּנִים בַּצָּרָה וּבַשִּׁבְיָה
הָעוֹמְ֒דִים בֵּין בַּיָּם וּבֵין בַּיַּבָּשָׁה הַמָּקוֹם יְרַחֵם עֲלֵיהֶם
וְיוֹצִיאֵם מִצָּרָה לִרְ֒וָחָה וּמֵאֲפֵלָה לְאוֹרָה וּמִשִּׁעְבּוּד
לִגְ֒אֻלָּה הַשְׁתָּא בַּעֲגָלָא וּבִזְמַן קָרִיב וְנֹאמַר אָמֵן:*
*[As for] our sisters and brothers, the entire House of Israel who remain
in distress and captivity, whether on sea or on land, may the Omnipresent
have compassion on them, and bring them from distress to relief, from
darkness to light, from servitude to redemption, at this moment, speedily,
very* soon.
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[ha-Safran] Lunch break? - Monday, November 13, 2023, 12 pm: Virtual Collaborative Rare Book Workshop: JPL Montreal & the Library of the LBI NY: Christian-Jewish Discourses in the Medieval & Early Mod

[Renate Evers via Hasafran]

Dear colleagues:
On November 13, 2023, at 12 pm EST, the Jewish Public Library in Montreal, and 
the Library of the Leo Baeck Institute New York
present a virtual, collaborative rare book workshop illuminating examples of 
Christian-Jewish Discourses in the Medieval & Early Modern Period.

Registration 
Link

The early modern period (15th-18th centuries) in the Holy Roman Empire was a 
time of anxiety, transition, and alternating friction and rapprochement between 
Jews and Christians. The speakers will present examples of early printed books 
from their rare book collections that not only provide insights into important 
Christian-Jewish discourses of their time, but also shaped them. We will cover 
the Nuremberg Jewish Oath of 1484, probably the first Jewish oath ever printed, 
which became the dominant model for oath formulas until the eighteenth century; 
the raging pre-Reformation debate in the early 16th century over whether or not 
to burn Jewish books-also known as the Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn debate or the 
Battle of the Books-which was inconceivable without the new medium of printing; 
and lastly, Moses Mendelssohn's Bi'ur (1794), the first German translation of 
the Pentateuch, in context with the author's published memoirs. This one-hour 
virtual workshop is open to the public and will be followed by a 
question-and-answer period with the audience.

Presenter biographies:

Eddie Paul, Senior Director of Library and Learning Services, Jewish Public 
Library

Eddie oversees collections development, cataloguing, and reference services at 
the JPL. For the last few years, he has also developed education outreach 
programming that includes the Michael D. Paul Rare Books Initiative, the Where 
Do You Think You Come From genealogy workshops for youth, and a series of other 
projects designed to create convergences between the JPL's Archives and Special 
Collections and the public through storytelling. He has worked in various 
capacities at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library at McGill University, 
Scott Library at York University, the Toronto Public Library, as well as 
Library & Archives Canada. In 2014, he curated the JPL's first rare book 
exhibit and catalogue entitled A Roomful of Dwellings, in addition to having 
co-curated an exhibit in 2017 with the Jacob Lowy Collection (Library & 
Archives Canada) entitled Decanting Memory: 500 Years of Jewish Printing. The 
rare book workshop program has included collaborations with LAC, University of 
Toronto, McGill University, Carleton University, the Montreal Holocaust Museum, 
the National Library of Israel, as well as important Judaica rare book 
collections in universities across the US.

Renate Evers, Bruno and Suzanne Scheidt Director of Collections, Leo Baeck 
Institute

Renate Evers has been serving as the Bruno and Suzanne Scheidt Director of 
Collections at the Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin (LBI) since 2016, 
coordinating the work of LBI's three collections departments - Archives, Art, 
and Library. She holds an MLS and MIS from German universities, an MCIS from 
Rutgers University, and an MA in Jewish Studies from Columbia University. She 
has worked in various capacities in special collections, archives, and 
university libraries, building and preserving physical and digital collections. 
Her research focuses on German-Jewish topics in the early modern period.

Please join if you find time.
Very best
Renate


Renate Evers
The Bruno and Suzanne Scheidt Director of Collections
Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin
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[ha-Safran] Updated Klau Library Events!

[Bacon, Abigail via Hasafran]

In order to support our students and faculty attending the rally in Washington 
on Tuesday, our Lunch and Learn with Joseph Skloot has been moved to Monday 
(i.e. both events will now take place on Monday). Please see below for further 
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Feld Memorial Lunch and Learn

Printing, Praying, and Performing Jewish Identity in Early Modern Italy: Maḥzor 
kimḥa d’avishuna
with Rabbi Dr. Joseph A. Skloot
*Note* New Date: Monday, November 13th
Time: 12:30 PM ET
Location: Klau Library, Cincinnati and Online

In 1540, a group of silk weavers from the city of Bologna, who called 
themselves “the partners” (ha-shutafim), printed a two-volume compendium of the 
Jewish liturgy for the yearly worship cycle. This maḥzor (prayer book) included 
both a commentary on the liturgy by R. Yohanan b. Joseph Treves, entitled Kimha 
d’avishuna (Flour Milled from Roasted Grain), and a commentary on Tractate Avot 
of the Mishnah (an oft-quoted anthology of rabbinic wisdom) by R. Obadiah b. 
Jacob Sforno. This volume subsequently became the standard prayer book used by 
those Jews who traced their ancestry to Italy, and Rome in particular (in 
contrast to those in Italy, for example, who traced their lineage to Spain or 
Germany). The maḥzor was the last of nine titles produced by the painters and 
it differs from their earlier works in both the monumentality of its 
aspiration—to establish, once and for all, the proper text of the 
Italian-Jewish synagogue service—and its physical size. It is also the only 
title of the nine to list the partners by name. This paper uses the partners’ 
maḥzor as a basis for considering the way the printed liturgy was a locus of 
self-fashioning for Italian Jews in the early modern period.

A light catered Kosher lunch will be provided.

Rabbi Joseph A. Skloot, Ph.D., is the Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Assistant Professor 
of Modern Jewish Intellectual History at HUC-JIR/New York and the Associate 
Director of the Tisch/Star Fellowship program. He received his Ph.D. in Jewish 
History from Columbia University, his rabbinical ordination from HUC-JIR, and 
his A.B. in History from Princeton University.

Skloot is a historian of Jewish culture and religious thought in the early 
modern and modern periods. His research explores the history of Hebrew books, 
Jewish-Christian relations, the development of Jewish law, and Reform Jewish 
theology. His book, First Impressions: Sefer Ḥasidim and Early Modern Hebrew 
Printing, will be published by Brandeis University Press. It describes how 
sixteenth century Hebrew printers (Jewish and Christian) transformed a 
heterogeneous corpus of manuscripts into canonical book, and by extension, how 
Jewish sacred texts, long thought to be eternal and unchanging, were in fact 
created by and for human beings, with specific agendas and interests.


Feld Memorial Lecture and Reception
Hebrew Books and the Global History of Printing (Hybrid Event)
with Dr. Alexandra Gillespie
Date: Monday, November 13th
Time: 6:30 pm ET
Location: Klau Library, Cincinnati and Online

This talk will consider how the long history of Hebrew printing can transform 
dominant narratives about the history of the book and the origins of modernity. 
Starting in Fustat, Egypt, in the thirteenth century, travelling to 
fourteenth-century France, Iberia, and

Istanbul, we will describe the diffuse, often precarious, trans-cultural and 
trans-national role of Jewish diasporic communities in the development of early 
printing outside of East Asia. This discussion will highlight the central 
importance of the Hebrew book in understanding early print’s global impact.

Light refreshments will be served.

Alexandra Gillespie is a Vice-President of the University of Toronto and 
Principal of U of T Mississauga, where she is a professor of English, medieval 
studies, and global book history. Her research and teaching range widely: from 
the poetics of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to the history of text technologies, 
from scientific approaches to book history to literary theory and philosophy. 
On these topics she has published more than fifty articles and six co-edited 
volumes, plus a monograph, Print Culture and the Medieval Author. Her new 
monograph, Chaucer’s Book, is forthcoming, and her current research project, 
Hidden Stories, supported by the Mellon Foundation, brings together more than 
130 collaborators from 60 institutions around the world to develop new 
interdisciplinary understandings of premodern books in their local and global 
contexts.

Abigail Bacon, MLIS

(she/her/hers)

Head of Public Services and Outreach

Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion

Klau Library, Cincinnati

aba...@huc.edu

(513) 487 – 3279

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[ha-Safran] 85th Anniversary of Kristallnacht - November 9-10, 2023

[Jacob Richman via Hasafran]

Shalom Everyone!

This week is the 85th Anniversary of Kristallnacht - November 9-10, 2023.
jr.co.il/t/kristallnacht.htm
We Must Not Forget!

Please share. Thank You!

Please continue to pray for and support Israel.
jr.co.il/prayers/

May the wounded have a complete and speedy recovery.
May the hostages be freed now.
May God protect the IDF, the police, the security forces
and all of Am Yisrael.

Shabbat Shalom,
Jacob
jrichman @ jr.co.il

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