[ha-Safran] Schneider Korczak Press Release Corrected

[Barry Walfish]

Dear Safranim,

Gail Shirazi pointed out a problem with the author's email address, so I am 
sending the press release out again with the correct address. Sorry for the 
mixup.
The correct address is: mahry...@verizon.net

Best,

Barry  Walfish




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[ha-Safran] Press release

[Barry Walfish]

Dear Safranim,

I'm attaching a press release for a book by Marcia Talmage Schneider on Janusz 
Korczak and survivors of his orphanage. It came out a couple of years ago, but 
not many libraries seem to have picked it up and there are still some copies 
left.
Get them while they last.

Hag same'ah to everyone,

Barry

Barry Dov Walfish, Ph.D.
Judaica Bibliographer and Curator Emeritus
University of Toronto Libraries
Toronto, ON M5S 1A5
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[ha-Safran] time to say goodbye

[Barry Walfish]

Dear Safranim,

After 45 years in the profession, most of them at the University of Toronto, I 
am retiring at the end of this week.
It's been wonderful getting to know many of you over the years and being part 
of AJL, a great organization.
I wish you all success in your endeavours and hope to hear good things.
After this week, if anyone wishes to contact me, it would be better to use my 
personal email address: 
barry.dov.walf...@gmail.com.
All the best,
Barry

P.S. My latest publication, hot off the press:
http://www.brill.com/products/book/way-lovers-oxford-anonymous-commentary-song-songs-bodleian-library-ms-opp-625


Barry Dov Walfish, Ph.D.
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Collection Development Department and
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
University of Toronto Library
130 St. George St.
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Canada M5S 1A5

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[ha-Safran] Menorat ha-maor

[Barry Walfish]

Actually, Reinman did a whole series of translations of sections of the book 
throughout the 80s and early 90s. It doesn't seem like he did the whole work 
which is 770 p. in Hebrew. You can find some of the translations on Abebooks 
under Menoras Hamaor.

Barry

Barry Dov Walfish, Ph.D.
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[ha-Safran] Steinsaltz Talmud now freely available on Sefaria

[Barry Walfish]

Safranim,

This is very good news! People have been asking about a digitized searchable 
open access English Talmud, so here it is. It seems to be following the 
publishing program of the Koren Steinsaltz Talmud which is up to Bava Batra.

Barry




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Today, Sefaria is excited and humbled to announce the release of The William 
Davidson 
Talmud,
 a free digital edition of the Babylonian Talmud that will include English and 
Modern Hebrew translation by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, interlinked to major 
commentaries, biblical citations, Midrash, Kabbalah, Halakhah, and an 
ever-growing library of Jewish texts.

You can already access 22 tractates in English 
(Berakhot
 through Bava 
Batra)
 on Sefaria. The Modern Hebrew translations will begin appearing online later 
this year, and the remaining English tractates will follow.

For the Jewish people, our texts are our collective inheritance. Sefaria wants 
them to be available to everyone, with free and open licenses. Through the 
generous support of The William Davidson Foundation, Rabbi Steinsaltz's 
translations will be available with a Creative Commons Non-Commercial 
license,
 making them free for use and re-use -- even beyond Sefaria.

Learn more 
here!







Sefaria is a 501(c)3 charitable organization




Barry Dov Walfish, Ph.D.
Judaica Specialist
University of Toronto Libraries
Toronto, ON M5S 1A5
Canada
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[ha-Safran] The Bible Retold by Jewish Artists, Writers, Composers and Filmmakers

[Barry Walfish]

Dear Safranim,

Here is the announcement of my recently published book:
The Bible Retold by Jewish Artists, Writers, Composers and Filmmakers
Edited by Helen Leneman, 
Barry Dov Walfish.

Available from the usual sources.


Helen Leneman and Barry Dov Walfish, both specialists in biblical reception 
history, have compiled an unusually rich collection of new essays by experts in 
their fields. This book is a pioneering attempt to portray and analyse the 
visions of twentieth- and twenty-first century Jewish artists working in 
different media-visual art, literature (novels, poetry and short stories), 
music (opera, oratorio and song), and film-who have retold biblical narratives 
through their art. Reading these essays together will bring a new appreciation 
and understanding of what makes the perspective of these visual artists, 
writers, composers and filmmakers on the Hebrew Bible uniquely Jewish.

All of these Jewish visions can be considered a form of modern midrash, as the 
artists imaginatively fill in gaps in the biblical narrative, bringing a modern 
sensibility to the meanings of the stories.

Under the heading 'Biblical Women', the stories of the matriarchs, Hagar, and 
other biblical women are re-imagined in the visual arts, poetry and music. 
Several further chapters focus on the story of the Aqedah (Binding of Isaac), 
as represented in the visual arts, literature and music. Other retellings of 
biblical narratives through short stories are then examined, while yet other 
chapters explore the books of Esther and Psalms as envisioned and retold in the 
visual arts, opera, literature and film

These retellings, analysed and discussed by the authors of this ground-breaking 
volume, will stimulate the reader to view the texts in new ways or to confront 
their challenge to personal or traditional interpretations of those texts.

Helen Leneman is an independent scholar, singer and pianist living in Bethesda, 
Maryland.
Barry Dov Walfish is Judaica specialist at the University of Toronto Libraries 
and Curator of Judaica at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.


Series: Bible in the Modern 
World, 71

978-1-909697-93-5 hardback




Contents
I. Biblical Women

1. Edna Southard
Reclaiming the Biblical Narrative: Tradition, Innovation, and Gaze
in Abel Pann's Art and Politics

2. Lynne Swarts
Cultural Zionism, Gender and Orientalism:
Ephraim Moses Lilien's Bibelplan and its Biblical Heroines

3. Rachel Adelman
Breaking the Distaff of Silence -
The Voice of Rachel the Matriarch in Modern Israeli Poetry

4. Ellen Frankel
'What troubles you, Hagar?' On Writing the Lyrics for 'Hagar'
Andrea Clearfield
Musical Commentary by the Composer

II. The Aqedah

5. Yael S. Feldman
Deliverance Denied: Isaac's Sacrifice in Israeli Arts and Culture:
A Jewish-Christian Exchange ?

6. Nehama Aschkenasy
Reversing the Aqedah: The Biblical and the Mystical in Grossman's
'To the End of the Land'

7. Siobhán Dowling Long
The Death of Isaac:
A Musical Retelling by Judith Lang Zaimont

III. Biblical Narratives in Short Stories

8. Helen Leneman (and Ellen Feig)
A Transgressive Re-telling of Exodus: 'Plagued' by Shalom Auslander

9.Wendy Zierler
Ladders to the Sky: Jewish Hopes and Dreams

IV. Esther

10. Barry Dov Walfish
Images of Esther in Modern Jewish Art

11. Helen Leneman
Esther Re-imagined in Jewish Opera

12. Naama Harel
The Book of Esther and Persecutor-Persecuted Politics
in Manger's Megile Lider and Gitai's Esther

V. The Psalms

13. Max Stern and Helen Leneman
Setting the Psalms to Music:
Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms

14. Roberta Lander Markus
Spiritual Longings and their Expression in the Biblical Art of Benn


Best wishes,

Barry

Dr. Barry Dov Walfish
Judaica and Theology Specialist
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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
University of Toronto Library
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[ha-Safran] Press Release: “As it is Written”: Judaic Treasures from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

[Barry Walfish]

“As it is Written”: Judaic Treasures from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

Latest exhibition features items that span 1,000 years of Jewish history and 
culture

TORONTO (January 27, 2015) – A unique 10th-century manuscript of an 8th-century 
compendium of Jewish law and a 2014 facsimile of a Scroll of Esther – these are 
the two chronological bookends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library’s latest 
exhibition that spans a thousand years of Jewish manuscript and print culture. 
The exhibition, titled “As it is Written,” opened this week and features 112 
items that highlight the library’s diverse Judaic collections

“It’s quite remarkable that we are able to cover the span of a thousand years 
from our holdings,” says Barry Walfish, librarian and Judaica specialist at the 
Fisher Library and the exhibition’s curator. “It shows how rich the Fisher’s 
holdings are.”

Drawing primarily on the Fisher’s Friedberg Collection, the exhibition features 
Biblical manuscripts, works of Jewish law and liturgy, incunabula and rare 
Constantinople imprints, among many other items. Highlights include the 
manuscript of the Zohar, which belonged to the famous false Messiah Shabbetai 
Tsevi, and a tribute album presented to Jewish statesman and philanthropist 
Moses Montefiore in 1884 on the occasion of his hundredth birthday.

The exhibition also features contemporary works by Jewish and Israeli artists 
and book designers.  A section devoted to Canadiana features one of the 
earliest Canadian imprints, dating from 1752, as well as the first English 
translation of the Hebrew prayerbook (1770), among whose sponsors were the 
Canadian merchant Aaron Hart and his wife.
About a third of the  items come from the Friedberg Collection, donated to the 
library by Toronto financier Albert Friedberg and his wife Nancy beginning in 
1995. Walfish credits them with putting the library on the map as a major 
repository of rare Judaica.

The exhibition opened on January 26 and runs until May 1, 2015.

On February 11, David Stern, the Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of 
Classical Hebrew Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver a 
lecture, “The Lives of Jewish Books,” to celebrate the official opening of the 
exhibition. The lecture is sponsored by the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish 
Studies at the University of Toronto and the University of Toronto Libraries.

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library houses the Department of Rare Books and 
Special Collections of the University of Toronto, including books, manuscripts 
and other materials, and is the largest rare book library in the country. For 
more information about the Fisher, please visit its website at: 
http://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/. The University of Toronto Libraries system 
is the largest academic library in Canada and is ranked third among peer 
institutions in North America, behind just Harvard and Yale.


For more information, please contact:
Barry Walfish, Judaic Specialist, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
416-946-3176; barry.walf...@utoronto.camailto:barry.walf...@utoronto.ca

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[ha-Safran] New journal on the Karaites of Eastern Europe

[Barry Walfish]

The Karaite Archives journal was founded in 2013 by a group of European and 
Israeli scholars. It is dedicated to the languages, literature and history of 
the Karaites in Poland, Ukraine, Russia and other East-European countries. 
Detailed information on the contents of the first issue and subscription is 
available on this website: 
www.karaitearchives.amu.edu.plhttp://www.karaitearchives.amu.edu.pl

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[ha-Safran] Early Hebrew printing

[Barry Walfish]

The closest thing to what you're looking for is:

Hebrew incunabula in public collections: a first international census /
compiled by A.K. Offenberg ; in collaboration with C. Moed-van Walraven.
Nieuwkoop : De Graff, 1990.

But this is only for incunabula. It's a bit out of date, but covers the big 
collections. I don't know of anything that goes past 1500. There are also no 
auction results, just library holdings.

Barry Walfish

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