[ha-Safran] Curators' conference at the National Library of Israel
I attended a few curators’ conferences at the National Library of Israel in its former home on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University. The first such conference to be held in the NLI’s new building took place in May — I wish I could have been there. The NLI blog includes this account: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://blog.nli.org.il/en/judaica_curators_conference/?_atscid=3_2269_123571650_10364349_0_Tzx3fdzwf3dsa2pdc2a_source=activetrail_medium=email_campaign=*20English*20Newsletter*20-*2013.06.2024__;JSUlJQ!!KGKeukY!x5-AXe-giZFC5nu7qCpFViu0xc9h9AxD0OOBrhhfXMIw14gYx5yOy0KbyUC7GG4TfBHIgrVJilQ_zm043k5tdgolMc-plmqK3jM$ > [ozrim1200.jpeg] Keepers of Jewish Treasures: The International Judaica Curators Conference<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://blog.nli.org.il/en/judaica_curators_conference/?_atscid=3_2269_123571650_10364349_0_Tzx3fdzwf3dsa2pdc2a_source=activetrail_medium=email_campaign=*20English*20Newsletter*20-*2013.06.2024__;JSUlJQ!!KGKeukY!x5-AXe-giZFC5nu7qCpFViu0xc9h9AxD0OOBrhhfXMIw14gYx5yOy0KbyUC7GG4TfBHIgrVJilQ_zm043k5tdgolMc-plmqK3jM$ > blog.nli.org.il<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://blog.nli.org.il/en/judaica_curators_conference/?_atscid=3_2269_123571650_10364349_0_Tzx3fdzwf3dsa2pdc2a_source=activetrail_medium=email_campaign=*20English*20Newsletter*20-*2013.06.2024__;JSUlJQ!!KGKeukY!x5-AXe-giZFC5nu7qCpFViu0xc9h9AxD0OOBrhhfXMIw14gYx5yOy0KbyUC7GG4TfBHIgrVJilQ_zm043k5tdgolMc-plmqK3jM$ > I hope that there will be a follow-up, describing the topics that were discussed during the conference. Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.osu.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] 2024 Fanny Goldstein Award
The irrepressible Gail Shirazi — congratulations on this well-deserved honor! Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.osu.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Paul Hamburg, z'l
News of Paul Hamburg’s passing is sad indeed. We first crossed paths at AJL conferences, probably back in the 1990s (when they were still called “conventions”), and we became close colleagues when he joined the library staff at UC-Berkeley in 2002 as its Judaica librarian. He was an ideal fit for the thriving academic and library milieus that he joined in Berkeley. Paul made his presence felt there early on; he unleashed his “inner impresario” by organizing literary evenings that took place in Doe Library’s fabulous Morrison Room. (I fondly remember one that was devoted to the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever.) Fred Isaac has mentioned the 2005 AJL Conference, which he and Paul co-chaired. The stars aligned beautifully, which is not to say that there wasn’t a lot of hard work involved — and “a cast of thousands” — in organizing that conference. Paul was justifiably proud of his engagement with the UC-Berkeley’s Jewish Studies community, as evidenced by his heartfelt introduction to the keynote address by the Hebrew literary scholar and translator Robert Alter at the 2005 conference. Paul and I remained in close contact over the years right up to his retirement. He made his mark in Berkeley, both professionally and personally, and will be greatly missed by all who knew him. יהי זכרו ברוך! Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.osu.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Discovery and Recovery: Uncovering Nazi Looted Books in the UCLA Library and Repatriation Efforts
The latest issue of College & Research Libraries (vol. 84, no. 6, 2023) includes this article by Diane Mizrachi, of the UCLA Library, and Michal Bušek, at the Jewish Museum of Prague: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26099/34021__;!!KGKeukY!2Rsl2tp1CXyAb4vvgB1YVDrSCqzzsWazJRKbv1kr7pp3OMi-96bapCITZVPtRitScA5O0BPdYA54bUAlqP30k4JLCj6Zruj_30w$ > Discovery and Recovery: Uncovering Nazi Looted Books in the UCLA Library and Repatriation Efforts | Mizrachi | College & Research Libraries<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26099/34021__;!!KGKeukY!2Rsl2tp1CXyAb4vvgB1YVDrSCqzzsWazJRKbv1kr7pp3OMi-96bapCITZVPtRitScA5O0BPdYA54bUAlqP30k4JLCj6Zruj_30w$ > crl.acrl.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26099/34021__;!!KGKeukY!2Rsl2tp1CXyAb4vvgB1YVDrSCqzzsWazJRKbv1kr7pp3OMi-96bapCITZVPtRitScA5O0BPdYA54bUAlqP30k4JLCj6Zruj_30w$ > [favicon.ico]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26099/34021__;!!KGKeukY!2Rsl2tp1CXyAb4vvgB1YVDrSCqzzsWazJRKbv1kr7pp3OMi-96bapCITZVPtRitScA5O0BPdYA54bUAlqP30k4JLCj6Zruj_30w$ > Abstract: This is the story of six books looted by Nazis from the Jewish Religious Community Library in Prague (JRCLP) that were discovered recently in the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Library. No scholarly literature describing similar experiences of North American academic libraries was found, nor were any professional guidelines for repatriating library materials. We describe our repatriation process, explore the historical contexts of the Nazi confiscation of millions of books and describe the Allies’ post-war restitution efforts. As the digitization of academic library holdings worldwide progresses, the probability of uncovering more material of questionable provenance increases. This case study can open a dialog on the issue. Here is a brief excerpt from the article, where an NLI-AJL initiative is discussed: "The International Forum on Judaica Provenance is a recent initiative of the National Library of Israel and the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL). The forum consists of thirteen curators and scholars from the arts, law, history, and Judaica in seven countries whose goal is to develop a White Paper of recommendations. At the AJL conference in June 2023, members realized that a handful of institutions are currently working on issues related to Nazi-looted books in their collections. A task force was formed to promote the sharing of various activities and to support one another. Some of the goals include creating an ownership stamp database, and a curriculum for provenance research training. This White Paper could serve as a model for other communities as well." Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.osu.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Jewish LearningWorks ends ties with Jewish Community Library of San Francisco
Here is an informative report by Dan Pine of the J - Jewish News of Northern California, on the recently announced separation of the Jewish Community Library of San Francisco from its long-time parent agency, Jewish Learning Works (formerly the Bureau of Jewish Education). From the article: On July 1 the library<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jewishlearning.works/2023/06/the-next-chapter-of-the-jewish-community-library/__;!!KGKeukY!2qI41QaJ3QYfpZG0ALS1u2aCNhtKM48sBf8OXEG4FGObwmZasuTDFuveZsaWnfFNX3oGheiEQC-mFkfboieT5M6K5QW9STRo3ws$ >, which houses more than 40,000 Jewish-themed titles, became independent when Jewish LearningWorks officially ended its long-standing ties with the 62-year-old institution. The change came after Jewish LearningWorks<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/jewishweekly?a=d=JW20140516.1.8=1=---en--20--1--txt-txIN-*22jewish*learningworks*guide*helps*young*families*22---__;JSsrKysrJQ!!KGKeukY!2qI41QaJ3QYfpZG0ALS1u2aCNhtKM48sBf8OXEG4FGObwmZasuTDFuveZsaWnfFNX3oGheiEQC-mFkfboieT5M6K5QW9_J5ESpw$ > finished a strategic planning process in 2022. The S.F.-based agency decided to narrow its focus<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jewishlearning.works/our-story/our-mission/__;!!KGKeukY!2qI41QaJ3QYfpZG0ALS1u2aCNhtKM48sBf8OXEG4FGObwmZasuTDFuveZsaWnfFNX3oGheiEQC-mFkfboieT5M6K5QW9-L5F1-E$ > to a core mission: professional development of educators. That meant a parting of the ways with the library. During a three-year transitional period, Jewish Learning Works will continue to provide partial funding to the Jewish Community Library. As the library’s head, Howard Freedman, observes, the JCL is “one of a handful of community Jewish libraries in the country. We very purposefully want to reflect the entire spectrum of the Jewish experience, from literature to music and art to history and religion. Our goal is to reflect, because I respect the diversity of our community.” Even those who are not able to have direct access to the JCL’s collections have benefited from the excellent online public programs that it sponsors. Among the JCL’s “alumni” (and longtime AJL members) are Nanette Stahl, who served as Yale University’s Judaica librarian, and Paul Hamburg, who was the UC-Berkeley Libraries’ Judaica specialist. <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jweekly.com/2023/07/11/san-franciscos-jewish-community-library-breaks-from-parent-org/?utm_source=J.*The*Jewish*News*of*Northern*California_campaign=b2abf6c7b5-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_medium=email_term=0_93a945700b-f394910354-*5BLIST_EMAIL_ID*5D__;KysrKysrJSU!!KGKeukY!2qI41QaJ3QYfpZG0ALS1u2aCNhtKM48sBf8OXEG4FGObwmZasuTDFuveZsaWnfFNX3oGheiEQC-mFkfboieT5M6K5QW9dpJmg-o$ > [13-Jewish-Community-Library.jpeg] San Francisco's Jewish Community Library breaks from parent org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jweekly.com/2023/07/11/san-franciscos-jewish-community-library-breaks-from-parent-org/?utm_source=J.*The*Jewish*News*of*Northern*California_campaign=b2abf6c7b5-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_medium=email_term=0_93a945700b-f394910354-*5BLIST_EMAIL_ID*5D__;KysrKysrJSU!!KGKeukY!2qI41QaJ3QYfpZG0ALS1u2aCNhtKM48sBf8OXEG4FGObwmZasuTDFuveZsaWnfFNX3oGheiEQC-mFkfboieT5M6K5QW9dpJmg-o$ > jweekly.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jweekly.com/2023/07/11/san-franciscos-jewish-community-library-breaks-from-parent-org/?utm_source=J.*The*Jewish*News*of*Northern*California_campaign=b2abf6c7b5-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_medium=email_term=0_93a945700b-f394910354-*5BLIST_EMAIL_ID*5D__;KysrKysrJSU!!KGKeukY!2qI41QaJ3QYfpZG0ALS1u2aCNhtKM48sBf8OXEG4FGObwmZasuTDFuveZsaWnfFNX3oGheiEQC-mFkfboieT5M6K5QW9dpJmg-o$ > Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.osu.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Free online textbook: The Holocaust: Remembrance, Respect, and Resilience
The historian of Jewish dance Judith Brin Ingber has brought to my attention this free online textbook: The Holocaust: Remembrance, Respect, and Resilience<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://psu.pb.unizin.org/holocaust3rs/__;!!KGKeukY!1arJZu96z-Fi0RIT60rv13yCYglwBbM48HKMZegbRc6wndKdf4RuqpPTkKIJNBAooyaRGWWgfnu9wQoEKAra-RqhwkqNU2XCTfw$ >, edited by Michael Polgar and Suki John. It was released in January 2023 by Penn State University Press in collaboration with Penn State University Libraries. From the publication’s “About” page: This project began with efforts to develop teacher trainings for Holocaust and Human Rights Education (HHRE) led by the US Holocaust Memorial and Museum (USHMM) and TOLI<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.toli.us/__;!!KGKeukY!1arJZu96z-Fi0RIT60rv13yCYglwBbM48HKMZegbRc6wndKdf4RuqpPTkKIJNBAooyaRGWWgfnu9wQoEKAra-RqhwkqN5yIEK5c$ >. Our concept to create a free and accessible online text (an OER<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.unesco.org/en/open-educational-resources__;!!KGKeukY!1arJZu96z-Fi0RIT60rv13yCYglwBbM48HKMZegbRc6wndKdf4RuqpPTkKIJNBAooyaRGWWgfnu9wQoEKAra-RqhwkqNnSnR3Xk$ >) became a cross-campus and later an international collaboration thanks to training with Rebus<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://rebus.community/__;!!KGKeukY!1arJZu96z-Fi0RIT60rv13yCYglwBbM48HKMZegbRc6wndKdf4RuqpPTkKIJNBAooyaRGWWgfnu9wQoEKAra-RqhwkqNOY0ua88$ > and to multiple Penn State University communities, including our Teaching and Learning with Technologies (TLT)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tlt.psu.edu/__;!!KGKeukY!1arJZu96z-Fi0RIT60rv13yCYglwBbM48HKMZegbRc6wndKdf4RuqpPTkKIJNBAooyaRGWWgfnu9wQoEKAra-RqhwkqNHWxrC4Q$ > department and our Penn State Libraries<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://libraries.psu.edu/__;!!KGKeukY!1arJZu96z-Fi0RIT60rv13yCYglwBbM48HKMZegbRc6wndKdf4RuqpPTkKIJNBAooyaRGWWgfnu9wQoEKAra-RqhwkqN2xqijL8$ > […] Our goal in this open textbook is to inform and inspire, to understand and to remember. We chose three ‘Rs’ in our title to represent our shared purposes: Remembrance, Respect, and Resilience. In remembering the Holocaust, we work towards respecting the memories of millions of people who were killed and who died in the wake of war and genocide […] The textbook contains approximately 30 scholarly essays and is subdivided into the following sections: Enablers; Protagonists; Settings; Aftereffects; Representations. (Judith Brin Ingber’s essay, “Exterminating Pests: Fireflies, Ladybugs and Children<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://psu.pb.unizin.org/holocaust3rs/chapter/exterminating-pests-fireflies-ladybugs-and-children/__;!!KGKeukY!1arJZu96z-Fi0RIT60rv13yCYglwBbM48HKMZegbRc6wndKdf4RuqpPTkKIJNBAooyaRGWWgfnu9wQoEKAra-RqhwkqNIey5ads$ >,” appears in the textbook’s “Settings” section and is devoted to the production of the children’s play Broučci [Fireflies] by four artists imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.) Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.osu.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] The ‘All-of-a-Kind Family’ books are set to become a TV show
Article in today’s NY Jewish Week: (New York Jewish Week<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jta.org/newyork__;!!KGKeukY!xOFfRcyU3zy2GLmPiTmHimHBpbL0sacVjFwF-QRI5gBKpu5G2TQ_0ARtshbmS7Ds7nVty8Ib2iw54hHbtCIQfMXm-wxfJB4$ >) – The Lower East Side’s most famous set of Jewish sisters — Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertrude — may soon become TV stars: “All-of-a-Kind Family,” Sydney Taylor’s award-winning 1951 book, is being developed into “a live-action one-hour drama series<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://deadline.com/2022/09/jim-henson-company-developing-drama-series-all-of-a-kind-family-based-on-sydney-taylor-books-1235123306/amp/__;!!KGKeukY!xOFfRcyU3zy2GLmPiTmHimHBpbL0sacVjFwF-QRI5gBKpu5G2TQ_0ARtshbmS7Ds7nVty8Ib2iw54hHbtCIQfMXmqoRUtdQ$ >” […] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jta.org/2022/09/22/ny/the-all-of-a-kind-family-books-are-set-to-become-a-tv-show?utm_source=JTA_Maropost_campaign=JTA_DB_medium=email=1161-48827-281130__;!!KGKeukY!xOFfRcyU3zy2GLmPiTmHimHBpbL0sacVjFwF-QRI5gBKpu5G2TQ_0ARtshbmS7Ds7nVty8Ib2iw54hHbtCIQfMXmWZzpfiM$ Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.osu.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.osu.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] American Jewish University is selling 'all or part' of its Los Angeles campus
Signs of the times? A sobering piece of news via JTA (with italics added): https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jta.org/2022/02/11/united-states/american-jewish-university-is-selling-all-or-part-of-its-los-angeles-campus__;!!KGKeukY!iL3waUI2u-2ry12b9Nyiz3V6Kde-xJjg14mXMuFTZplSFrbg5Z3MqvIX1CnBYfF1ANKg10FG7fVm$ >From the article: After some 45 years occupying an iconic piece of real estate in Los Angeles, American Jewish University plans to sell “all or part” of its 35-acre campus…. American Jewish University announced the decision in a letter to its students that said the sale would help pay for more academic offerings and community programs as the institution increasingly turns digital…. AJU President Jeffrey Herbst called the decision by the university’s board to proceed with the sale “bold” and “strategic”…. The campus also features offices, a cafeteria, an events space, a library with a small but significant collection of rare books, and a mikvah or ritual bath. It’s unclear what the university will do with its library collection." Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Dr. Maurice Tuchman (1936-2022)
Long-time AJL members will recall with fondness Dr. Maurice (aka Murray) Tuchman, who has just passed away. Murray was active in AJL; after he retired from his position at Hebrew College (Boston) he became a professional appraiser of Judaica books and manuscripts. Professor Jonathan Sarna, of Brandeis University, has posted the following obituary in H-JUDAIC: H-Judaic is saddened to learn of the passing January 1 of Dr. Murray Tuchman (1936-2022), who for thirty-six years served as Director of the Library, at the Boston Hebrew College. Born in Brooklyn, Dr. Tuchman graduated from Brooklyn College and earned his Doctorate in Information and Library Science from Simmons. During his tenure, he worked to build the Hebrew College library on Hawes Street into one of the best Jewish community libraries in the United States. Generations of Hebrew College students, faculty and alumni, along with others in the Boston area, benefited from his quiet, calm demeanor, helpfulness, and learning. Following his retirement, Dr. Tuchman volunteered for the Boston Literacy Coalition. His family reports that he enjoyed "a long and full life that included world travels, satisfying work, interesting hobbies and the love and company of family and friends." For a full obituary, see https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mdislander.com/obituary/murray-tuchman__;!!KGKeukY!kuENeQ_TFIyHnEDllFxC088XQQSg2sDO-vNSiHUD91Q09CZyHQUDkReJZZayd7odB3I21t1sRchW$ . We extend deepest condolences to Helene Tuchman and the entire Tuchman family, as well as to his Hebrew College colleagues, alumni, and to all those who benefited from the library that he did so much to build. Jonathan D. Sarna Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
Re: [ha-Safran] Who taught the course on Romanization of Hebrew at YIVO?
Who else but the one and only Bella Hass Weinberg? Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> On Oct 26, 2021, at 12:19 PM, Marion Stein via Hasafran mailto:hasafran@lists.osu.edu>> wrote: Marion Stein __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu> To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!lc_X1nyN9D9wh9KHCwCHCXDoGuVwl1mj0qm7SS_0_Nv1fUx5gtfrwVoF3D0y8gij4Jcy8OiDId5O$ Earlier Listserver: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran*40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html__;JQ!!KGKeukY!lc_X1nyN9D9wh9KHCwCHCXDoGuVwl1mj0qm7SS_0_Nv1fUx5gtfrwVoF3D0y8gij4Jcy8Cp4Bna_$ AJL HomePage https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.JewishLibraries.org__;!!KGKeukY!lc_X1nyN9D9wh9KHCwCHCXDoGuVwl1mj0qm7SS_0_Nv1fUx5gtfrwVoF3D0y8gij4Jcy8KwyVIT7$ -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Celebrating (and Accessing) Jewish Archives, Collections, Libraries: In Italy, the UK, and in Europe
This announcement is from the latest Jewish Heritage in Europe newsletter: JHE primarily deals with Jewish built heritage -- but also with the variety of issues linked to and concerning it, from museums and exhibits to tourism. Today, we celebrate Jewish Archives, Libraries, and Archival Collections -- and highlight three projects Read More Here: https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2020/07/24/celebrating-jewish-archives/ Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu zekhar...@gmail.com Sent from my iPad __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] AJL Conference 2020
I’d like to express my profound appreciation and gratitude to all of the organizers of and participants in this year’s AJL conference. The coronavirus pandemic turned the conference into an impressively international event, with a steady flow of excellent sessions. It was great to “see” everybody — and I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that learned a lot. Next year in...? Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu zekhar...@gmail.com Sent from my iPad __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Fanny Goldstein Merit Award
Neil Zagorin, on behalf of the Yiddish Book Center, and I made to Buenos Aires in November 1994, in the wake of the terrorist bombing of the AMIA Jewish community building. The New York YIVO’s sister organization, Fundación IWO, had its headquarters in the AMIA building, and much of its library and archival collections were damaged or destroyed as a result of the bombing. Being guided through the ruins firsthand was one of the most powerfully moving experiences I have ever had. My time as YIVO’s Head Librarian coincided with my most active involvement in the Association of Jewish Libraries, when I served on its Council and Board in several capacities, including as AJL’s President (1994-1996). Subsequently, I served as President of AJL’s sister organization, the Council of Archives and Research Libraries in Jewish Studies - CARLJS (1998-2002), whose annual meetings took place at AJL’s conferences. And it was during those same years that I traveled to Kiev as part of a YIVO delegation (early 1992), to visit the Vernadsky Library just at the moment that its incredible collections of Judaica were being opened. In early 1997 I was part of a survey team commissioned by the Foundation for Jewish Culture to document the National Library of Lithuania’s Judaica holdings, in Vilnius, and explore possible avenues of cooperation with that library. The other members of the team were Herbert Zafren and Pearl Berger. Although I have always considered myself a “research librarian,” in was only during the later phase of my career that I worked in a university setting, namely, Stanford. I soon came to appreciate just what a privilege it is to be a subject specialist in a great university library. At Stanford, I was able to work on several notable acquisitions, including the Ira Nowinski photograph archive, the Samson-Copenhagen Judaica Collection, the Eliasaf Robinson Collection on Tel-Aviv, and born-digital portions of Amos Gitai’s film archive. While at Stanford, I edited two book-length publications, Judaica in the Slavic Realm, Slavica in the Judaic Realm: Repositories, Collections, Projects, Publications (Haworth Information Press, 2003), and Ira Nowinski: The Photographer As Witness (Stanford University Libraries, 2004), and — somewhat belatedly — produced The Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays: An Annotated Bibliography<https://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/marwick/marwickbibliography.pdf> (Library of Congress, 2004). My collaboration with the Yiddish Book Center continued as well, in connection with its 1000 Essential Yiddish Books<https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/digital-yiddish-library/1000-essential-yiddish-books> website (2006). These last two publications, like my “Resources in Yiddish Studies” research guide (In geveb<https://ingeveb.org/>, 2017), were online-only. I think that it was a combination of just showing up every year (and occasionally giving a paper or chairing a panel) and also being affiliated with Stanford University, that led to my serving on the Board of Directors of the Association for Jewish Studies for ten years (2007-2017), including four years on its Executive Board, as Secretary-Treasurer (2013-2017). I feel that my serving on the AJS Board represented recognition by the field's leading learned society, of the value that librarians and archivists contribute to Jewish Studies scholarship. From 2010 to 2017 I was privileged to serve as Stanford’s Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development (Humanities and Social Sciences). For me, the pain of having to submit and defend annual budget proposals was more than outbalanced by the opportunity to work with and learn from an incredible team of subject librarians, whose passion and devotion to their areas of specialization was every bit as intense as mine was (and remains), to the Jewish Studies field. Since retiring in early 2018, I have pursued a multi-pronged — and very enjoyable — research project in an area of particular interest: the history of the Yiddish theater in South America, especially Argentina. You can find some of my “findings” on the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project<https://web.uwm.edu/yiddish-stage/>’s website. חג שמח — Happy Passover! Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40l
[ha-Safran] "Leksikon" translation completed
Here is an exciting announcement from my friend Josh Fogel: Just a brief note to say that, after five and one-half years of work, I have finished my translation of "Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur" (8 volumes plus Berl Kagan's volume of additions and corrections). I've also added information from Chaim Beider's Leksikon of Soviet Yiddish writers. Please let me know of corrections and additions to the 7086 biographical entries (fo...@yorku.ca<mailto:fo...@yorku.ca>). The entries can be located at yleksikon.blogspot.ca<http://yleksikon.blogspot.ca>. Josh, who was a college classmate of mine, is a Professor of Modern Chinese and Japanese History at York University (Toronto). He studied Yiddish at Columbia University, while in grad school. Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Job openings at the Yiddish Book Center
Colleagues, The Yiddish Book Center has a number of job openings of possible interest, including the following: Metadata Librarian<https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/about/employment?fbclid=IwAR0BB2K9NiR3ndRz9-oA7VW8KJQY_9QHCl67CPzwPSLVrNPI5JvZF4TQuXY#> The Yiddish Book Center seeks a Metadata Librarian for our print and digital collections. The Metadata Librarian will have the opportunity to work with a variety of unique and rare collections, which include rapidly growing collections of print and digitized Yiddish books, digitized archival audio and audiobooks, and born-digital video. Assistant Video Editor for the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project<https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/about/employment?fbclid=IwAR0BB2K9NiR3ndRz9-oA7VW8KJQY_9QHCl67CPzwPSLVrNPI5JvZF4TQuXY#> The Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project seeks an experienced and committed full-time Assistant Video Editor to provide on-site technical support for the ongoing processing of the Wexler Oral History Project’s rapidly expanding digital collection of one- to two-hour in-depth oral history interviews about Yiddish language and culture. Here is the link to the detailed descriptions for these and other positions that the Yiddish Book Center is seeking to fill: https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/about/employment?fbclid=IwAR0BB2K9NiR3ndRz9-oA7VW8KJQY_9QHCl67CPzwPSLVrNPI5JvZF4TQuXY#ML. Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> zekhar...@gmail.com<mailto:zekhar...@gmail.com> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] AJL conference program book
Thank you, Jackie, for sharing the link to the AJL conference program book. The programming looks terrific, all across the board, and from all accounts it was a very successful conference. I’m very sorry I wasn’t able to partake of the offerings. And belated congratulations, aka mazl-tov, to Elliot Gertel, for his well-deserved Fanny Goldstein Merit Award! Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu zekhar...@gmail.com Sent from my iPad __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Leah Adler z”l
It is so sad to hear that Leah Adler is no longer with us! She had such elegance of manner and spirit. All who had the good fortune to know her will greatly miss her combination of integrity, intelligence, and tact. May her memory be blessed. Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu zekhar...@gmail.com Sent from my iPad __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Judaica and Hebraica curator position at Stanford
Dear Friends, As some of you have heard, in January 2018 I will be retiring from my position as Judaica/Hebraica Curator at Stanford. The position opening has just been posted. I can attest to the observation that my colleague Sarah Sussman has made when she circulated this announcement to the Stanford Libraries' Humanities and Area Studies Resource Group, that this is a great opportunity for a talented librarian/scholar with strong academic and language expertise in Jewish studies: The Stanford University Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of the Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections. Scholars and/or Librarians having a strong background in Jewish Studies and the humanities in general, and who are interested in supporting world-class research and teaching through a combination of traditional and new collections and services are encouraged to apply. This position is dual posted at Librarian or Senior Librarian. The Libraries seek a subject specialist with graduate training in Jewish Studies to develop and manage general and special collections supporting this interdisciplinary field. The scope of the Curator's collecting responsibilities includes not only the full range of published texts in all formats, printed and electronic, but also unpublished primary resources, including digital ones; in short, Stanford Libraries' curators are responsible for building both general and special collections. The Curator also provides advanced reference and bibliographic assistance appropriate to the needs of Stanford's faculty and students and plays an important role in the overall development of Jewish Studies at Stanford. The Curator should possess a deep understanding of research and teaching in Jewish Studies. The curator is responsible for library programs that directly support the needs of Stanford's faculty and students affiliated with the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, coming from such departments and programs such as History, Religion, English, Music, Education, Economics, and the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. The Curator is responsible for building and maintaining effective relationships with the faculty and students in Stanford's programs in Jewish Studies as individuals and as members of the Stanford Community. The Curator is a member of the curatorial team responsible for humanities and area studies collections in the Stanford University Libraries, and will work collaboratively with other colleagues in the library. In addition, the Curator will have demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills that enable contributions to the programs and projects of the Libraries and to the University. Appointment to the rank of Senior Librarian requires evidence of an exceptionally high level of professional development and accomplishment. For more detailed info on the position and to apply: http://bit.ly/2gDTGR3 (Please note: I am not participating in the job search.) Zachary --- Zachary M. Baker Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 Telephone 1-650-725-1054 Fax 1-650-723-9325 E-mail zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> http://library.stanford.edu/people/zbaker __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Article in an old issue of Pakn-treger
Friends and colleagues, I'd like to track down Abraham Nowersztern's article, "Dos Poylishe Yidntum," in issue no. 15 of The Book Peddler = Pakn-treger (1991), pp. 16-19, according to RAMBI. The issue is lacking in both at Stanford and in my personal genizah. Thank you in advance, Zachary Zachary M. Baker Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 zba...@stanford.edu Sent from my iPad __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Conservation of rare books in the Stanford Libraries
Colleagues, I'm pleased to share this link to two short videos documenting the recent conservation treatment of the Stanford University Libraries' copy of the 1722, Amsterdam edition of Menorat ha-ma'or: http://purl.stanford.edu/jv402cb2554. The link leads to a record in our catalog interface for the Stanford Digital Repository [SDR], "Conservation treatment documentation of Menorat ha-ma'or, 1722." Embedded in that record are links to the two videos - before (BT4851.mov) and after (AT4851.mov) treatment - and to a PDF of the form used by the conservator who worked on this volume. The file sizes for the videos are fairly large and may take a while to download. The videos are narrated by Elizabeth (Beth) Ryan, a conservator who has worked on this and other rare Hebraica books in the Stanford Libraries. In addition to noting the obvious conservation issues (loose pages, chipping of the parchment binding), she makes some interesting observations regarding the ways in which the sewing practices differ from what she has encountered in contemporaneous books in Western languages. (These differences in sewing and binding practices were addressed by Nicholas Pickwoad in his article, "The Problems Presented by the Jewish Books of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries," in International Conference on Conservation and Restoration of Archival and Library Materials, Erice, 22nd-29th April 1996, ed. by Carlo Federici and Paola F. Munafo, with the assistance of Daniela Costantini [Palermo: G. B. Palumbo, 1999], vol. 1, pp. 333-345.) Stanford's copy of this edition of Menorat ha-ma'or previously belonged to the late Rabbi William Braude, of Providence, RI (whose library was acquired by Stanford in the mid-1990s, during Roger Kohn's curatorship). The videos on the conservation of Menorat ha-ma'or and other rare items reflect an expansion of the Stanford University Libraries' Conservation Services treatment documentation. For additional background, see this post on the Digital Library Blog for the SDR Deposit of the Week: https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/digital-library-blog/2015/12/sdr-deposit-week-conservation-services-treatment-documentation. Happy Hanukkah, Zachary --- Zachary M. Baker Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 E-mail zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> http://library.stanford.edu/people/zbaker __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Webinar: Resources for Eastern European Jewish Studies: Repositories, Collections, Databases
Friends and colleagues, "Resources for Eastern European Jewish Studies: Repositories, Collections, Databases" is the title of a webinar that I led on October 15th, under the joint sponsorship of the Association for Jewish Studies and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. The webinar has been archived and is now accessible at: https://pitt.app.box.com/s/w1unyrh0fmczyc5g3p90z40das7d99g0. I've been invited to write this up for the journal Slavic and East European Information Resources. The bibliography that was distributed to the webinar's registrants will be included (in a slightly expanded version) in my forthcoming article. Cheers, Zachary --- Zachary M. Baker Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development - Humanities & Social Sciences Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraic a Collections Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 E-mail zba...@stanford.edu<mailto:zba...@stanford.edu> http://library.stanford.edu/people/zbaker __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
Re: [ha-Safran] Bibliography of the Hebrew Book
Alas, I cannot help with that. Our friends in Jerusalem (or Columbus?) should have the answer. Zach - Original Message - From: Heidi G Lerner ler...@stanford.edu To: Zachary M Baker zba...@stanford.edu Cc: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 2:19:34 PM Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Bibliography of the Hebrew Book Yes indeed it does. Another question, I can't seem to locate the biographical database of the authors. This valuable resource must surely still be available. Any thoughts on how I can access it and search it? - Original Message - From: Zachary M Baker zba...@stanford.edu To: Heidi G Lerner ler...@stanford.edu Cc: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 2:13:43 PM Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Bibliography of the Hebrew Book Switch to the Hebrew interface and click on this link: כניסה לקטלוג הביבליוגרפיה של הספר העברי The link leads to the BHB. Zachary M. Baker Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6004 E-mail zba...@stanford.edu - Original Message - From: Heidi G Lerner ler...@stanford.edu To: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 1:56:20 PM Subject: [ha-Safran] Bibliography of the Hebrew Book Dear safranim, I would like to search ONLY the catalog of the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. When I go to URL: http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/infochannels/Catalogs/bibliographic-databases/Pages/the-hebrew-book.aspx I click on the link to the Enter catalog bibliography of the Hebrew book. However, it takes me to the catalog of the National Library of Israel. If I click on Other Libraries| Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 (MBI) It takes me to the new Merhav Library Catalog. The options available to me there are either the entire catalog or other units within NLI but there is not option for the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. Any advice on how to access it would be appreciated. Thanks, Heidi Lerner -- Heidi G. Lerner Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica Metadata Development Unit Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 e-mail: ler...@stanford.edu ph: 650-725-9953 fax: 650-725-1120 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran -- Heidi G. Lerner Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica Metadata Development Unit Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 e-mail: ler...@stanford.edu ph: 650-725-9953 fax: 650-725-1120 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
Re: [ha-Safran] Bibliography of the Hebrew Book
Switch to the Hebrew interface and click on this link: כניסה לקטלוג הביבליוגרפיה של הספר העברי The link leads to the BHB. Zachary M. Baker Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6004 E-mail zba...@stanford.edu - Original Message - From: Heidi G Lerner ler...@stanford.edu To: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 1:56:20 PM Subject: [ha-Safran] Bibliography of the Hebrew Book Dear safranim, I would like to search ONLY the catalog of the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. When I go to URL: http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/infochannels/Catalogs/bibliographic-databases/Pages/the-hebrew-book.aspx I click on the link to the Enter catalog bibliography of the Hebrew book. However, it takes me to the catalog of the National Library of Israel. If I click on Other Libraries| Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 (MBI) It takes me to the new Merhav Library Catalog. The options available to me there are either the entire catalog or other units within NLI but there is not option for the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. Any advice on how to access it would be appreciated. Thanks, Heidi Lerner -- Heidi G. Lerner Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica Metadata Development Unit Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 e-mail: ler...@stanford.edu ph: 650-725-9953 fax: 650-725-1120 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] 2015 Fanny Goldstein Merit Award
Let me add my voice to the chorus of those who congratulate Joy for this well-deserved honor! Zachary M. Baker Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 E-mail zba...@stanford.edu http://library.stanford.edu/people/zbaker __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Yung-Idish digitized
I'm pleased to announce that the Stanford University Libraries have digitized a complete set of the rare (and fragile) avant-garde Yiddish literary and artistic journal Yung-Idish . All three issues were published in Lodz, 1919, and the digitized versions are found at the following URLs: http://purl.stanford.edu/xs149kg0644 http://purl.stanford.edu/vz646sg6431 http://purl.stanford.edu/vr126xr7917 For background on the Yung-Idish group, see the entry in the YIVO Encyclopedia : http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Yung-yidish . The founding of Yung-yidish, the first Yiddish artistic avant-garde group in Poland , grew out of a meeting in 1918 between poet Moyshe Broderzon and a group of visual artists centered around Yitskhok Broyner, Yankl Adler , and Marek Szwarc. Eventually, the group included some 20-odd members including Yitsḥak Katzenelson , Yekhezkl-Moyshe Nayman, and Hershele, as well as younger people discovered by the group, such as the artist Henekh Bartshinski and the writers Elimelekh Shmulevitsh, Khayim Leyb Fuks, and Yisroel Shtern . Yung-Idish was also the subject of a scholarly monograph by the Polish art historian Jerzy Malinowski: Grupa Jung Idysz i żydowskie środowisko Nowej Sztuki w Polsce, 1918-1923. Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Sztuki, 1987. In addition, I see that there is a Facebook page devoted to the group. Stanford's set of Yung-Idish is part of the Ezra Lahad Collection, which was acquired by Roger Kohn for Stanford in 1998. The issues, on crumbling thin cardboard stock, were painstakingly conserved by the Stanford Libraries' professional conservators in 2012, prior to their digitization. Zachary Zachary M. Baker Stanford University Libraries E-mail zba...@stanford.edu __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Kiruv material
Shanah tovah, g'mar tov, one and all! A graduate student at Stanford is researching the evolution of the kiruv phenomenon in North America (early 1950s to Present) and is looking for archival materials: ephemera, divrei torah, lesson plans, etc., that relate to the education/representation/material culture of authentic Judaism to non-Orthodox Jewish audiences. If you know of any libraries, archives, or private collectors/repositories that might help, please let me know and I'll pass along the information. Thanks, Zachary Zachary M. Baker Stanford University Libraries E-mail zba...@stanford.edu __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] New American Cantorate web site
Forwarding a message to the Music Librarians' list, which has just crossed my desk. Zachary From: Alec McLane amcl...@wesleyan.edu To: ml...@list.indiana.edu Cc: Mark Slobin mslo...@wesleyan.edu Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 1:25:00 PM Subject: [MLA-L] New American Cantorate web site Dear MLA-L, I’m happy to announce a new Web site devoted to a musicological project from the 1980’s, the History of the American Cantorate, undertaken by Mark Slobin (Wesleyan University) and Mark Kligman (Hebrew Union College). The current project makes use of our institutional repository, WesScholar, a Digital Commons site, to store and disseminate documents and recordings. We’ve made available the audio examples from Mark Slobin’s book, Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate (University of Illinois Press, 1989), which grew out of the project, but additionally all the audio interviews, sung examples, and various documents and surveys that formed the raw data for the original project are available here as well. The main American Cantorate site is at http://cantorate.wesleyan.edu/ . Our institutional repository page for the project is at http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/cantorate/ , and there are multiple links from the American Cantorate pages to this repository. Please forward this announcement to interested researchers. Alec Alec McLane Music Librarian/Director of the World Music Archives Wesleyan University mailto:amcl...@wesleyan.edu Middletown, CT 06459 http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/collections/music/index.html --- Zachary M. Baker Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6004 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Study on the Jewish press in Poland
Friends, A recently published study on the Polish Jewish press has just crossed my desk: Studia z dziejów trójjęzycznej prasy żydowskiej na ziemiach polskich (XIX-XX w.) [translation: Studies on the history of the trilingual Jewish press on Polish lands (19th-20th centuries) ]. Editor: Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov; with the assistance of Grzegorz Paweł Bąbiak and Agnieszka Cieślikowa. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Neriton; Instytut Historii PAN, 2012. 573 p., facsims. ISBN 978-83-7543-229-9 The 22 essays in the volume, primarily by contemporary Polish scholars, discuss specific newspapers and periodicals (such as the Warsaw daily Haynt and the weekly Literarishe bleter ) as well as broader themes covered by the Polish Jewish press. The three languages in which Jewish serials were published in Poland were Hebrew, Yiddish, and Polish. The essays in this collection are in Polish and are accompanied by English abstracts. (Unfortunately, the editor's introduction -- which takes the form of a brief historical survey -- does not include an English abstract.) At the end of the volume there is a 311-item, multilingual bibliography of works about the Polish Jewish press. At Stanford we acquired this volume on approval from our Polish vendor, Lexicon. If you would like to have that vendor's contact information, please send me e-mail. Zachary M. Baker Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6004 __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Polish-language history of Hebrew printing
A recently published book by the Polish bibliographer Krzysztof Pilarczyk has just crossed my desk: Drukowana ksi ążka hebrajska a religia (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Antykwa, 2012). 210 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 64 unnumbered pages of plates, 5 unnumbered maps: illustrations, color maps; 24 cm. ISBN 978-83-7676-128-2 and 978-83-60154-29-8 The title roughly translates to: The Printed Hebrew Book and Religion (corrections to my translation are welcome!). It appears within the series Vademecum bibliogiczne (Bibliographical Handbook), under the sponsorship of the Jagiellonian University's Institute of Religion (Instytut Religioznawstwa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego) and the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Polska Akademia Umiejętności). It provides an overview of the history of Hebrew printing through the 18th century, and includes bibliographies, maps, and facsimiles of title pages. It is one of the only surveys of its kind -- perhaps the only survey -- in Polish. The author, who is affiliated with the Institute of Religion at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, has published several other book-length bibliographies, primarily in the field of Polish Jewish studies, and also on Judaica and Hebraica in Poland. At Stanford, we received this book as part of our approval plan with the Lexicon book agency in Warsaw. I will be happy to provide contact information via e-mail. Zachary M. Baker Stanford University Libraries __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
[ha-Safran] Paula Hyman
I am forwarding Jonathan Sarna's post in H-JUDAIC, concerning the passing of Paula E. Hyman - sad news indeed. As noted below, she was the co-editor (with Deborah Dash Moore) of Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia . This pioneering work received the AJL Reference Award in 1997. May her memory be blessed. Zachary M. Baker Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 From: Jonathan Sarna [ mailto:sa...@brandeis.edu ] Sent: Thu 12/15/2011 10:20 AM Subject: Death of Prof. Paula Hyman H-Judaic is greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Prof. Paula E. Hyman (1946-2011), Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University. Professor Hyman, a widely-known scholar of French Jewish history, made her reputation in that field with her book, From Dreyfus to Vichy: The Remaking of French Jewry, 1906-1939 (1979). She also pioneered the field of Jewish Women's History, co-authoring *The Jewish Woman in America *(1976) while still a graduate student. She continued to publish important works in both of these areas throughout her career. Indeed, she took great pride in the fact that a new Hebrew word for gender was invented for the Hebrew translation of her *Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History *(1995). Prof. Hyman not only wrote history, she also made history as an advocate for women's issues and as a leader inf the movement to transform the place of women in Conservative Judaism. She also trained some of the foremost women scholars who today work in the field of Modern Jewish history, and helped to build the remarkable program in Jewish Studies at Yale University. Prof. Hyman battled cancer repeatedly over four decades. In this too she was a role model: her courage and indomitable spirit gave strength to others struck down by this disease. Prof. Richard Cohen of the Hebrew University penned a long biographical appreciation of Prof. Hyman and her work in JEWISH WOMEN: A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA (which Prof. Hyman coedited). It may be found here: http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hyman-paula-e . We extend deepest sympathies to the entire Hyman family. Jonathan D. Sarna Chair, H-Judaic __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) == Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
