I also heartily agree that the best thing to do with certain materials is
simply to discard them. In the past, I wasted valuable time and space
trying to find homes for unwanted books. This summer, I filled at least
ten boxes and had the custodians cart them away. (It hurt for only a few
mi
This is always a problem -- balancing the time it takes to give books away
with wanting to do a nice deed, AND not throwing away books. Sometimes, one
has to throw away books, (or recycle them) -- not everyone has the time to
do the processing Rita mentions below.
For those who have the time, you
Yes, here are some I purchased this summer. Series
titles are in parentheses. I don't believe these are
"pro-Israel" but they were for the most part free of
the misinformation and flat-out bias that I saw in
many books. I wrote an article for our temple
newsletter about my experience looking for
Shalom safranim.
I have a quotation in Hebrew from Ze'ev Jabotinsky's address to the 17th
World Zionist Congress in 1931. If anyone has access to records of the
Congress, and it is not a bother, would you please let me know in which
language the address was given? (Jabotinsky mostly spoke in
Dear Ms. Schmulowitz
One is Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine by Samuel Katz, ISBN
0929093-13-5 for $17.95.
Very truly yours,
Shmuel Ben-Gad,
Gelman Library,
George Washington University.
"Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown."--Legolas
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Responsa of rabbi solomon ben adreth (london 1925)
I am trying to track down the above title by Isadore
Epstein. It was republished in 1967 by ktav or
sephron-herman press.
Thank you
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Hi, Folks.
I concur strongly with Rachel about the importance of keeping old
children's books. When I first read your post, Rita, I started to
write a response explaining how important a collection like the one you
might throw out could be to future scholars and researchers. I had to
stop becaus
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Dear Rachel,
I agree that old textbooks should be saved; they tell
us a lot about the times in which they were written.
I suspect, however, that the school, synagogue and
community libraries with which I am involved are not
the places to save them. As I learned at one of the
AJL workshops, they c
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Dear Rita,
>From a point of view of children's literature research, we librarians
should keep everything that's being published for the sake of any future
assessment of Jewish-American literature for children. "Bad" literature
will not become canonic, that's true, and is not likely to be checked
Shalom,
I wonder if you could help me with phrase that half-sticks in
my memory. I am considering using it for my father-in-law's
matzevah.
The way I half-remember the phrase is: "Ish tam v'yashar v'tzadik
b'chol ... " and here I don't remember whether it is "ma'asav"
or "d
Dear Rita,
Throwing old, outdated, useless books into the trash is exactly where
they belong. Librarians have this strange tendency to treasure even junk,
if it is bound and printed. Any good library is constantly being weeded and
if the books aren't suitable for giving away or if no one wa
Dear Rhoda,
The most current list of recommended books about Israel that I know of
is in AJL's New Jewish Valuesfinder, www.ajljewishvalues.org. The age range
is from Primary - High School, with a few of the titles appropriate for
adults and most current titles, if they are recommended, are t
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