[ha-Safran]: Retirement

2005-09-28 Thread Benjamin Richler
Dear fellow Safranim Having reached the mandatory retirement age, I will retire at the end of September and no longer be on the staff of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts at the Jewish National Library. It will take me about a year to complete some projects I began in the

[ha-Safran]: International Conference Russian Jewish New York

2005-09-28 Thread Aviva Astrinsky
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[hasafran] DVD care

2005-09-28 Thread Library
Dear Hasafran friends- I need guidance on the care and maintenance of an extensive DVD collection. Patrons frequently return a DVD and tell me that it didn't work. I clean it with a DVD repair kit (soft cloths and some liquid) that I purchased from one of the library supply catalogs. Then I

Re: [ha-Safran]: Inaccurate video about Israel

2005-09-28 Thread Stanley Nachamie
The video says ... that people went to the concentration camp from the boat Exodus in 1947. I think I once heard in a film, that some of the ships trying to get to what was then still Palestine after WWII, were brought back to Europe into displaced persons camps, some of which were located at

[ha-Safran]: Available: 19th Century American Jewish Imprints Book

2005-09-28 Thread Dan Wyman
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[ha-Safran]: Core Judaics collection for middle school

2005-09-28 Thread Sue Albert
Our middle school rabbinics teacher would like to develop a wishlist for donations to the library. We are asking you for suggestions. From your experience, what would be your top 10 choices of reference materials for your students? We have an Ency. Judaica and the Kehati edition of the

[ha-Safran]: Jewish library bookplates

2005-09-28 Thread Sylvia Schafer
Does anyone know where reasonably-priced Jewish library bookplates can be obtained? Please reply privately to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Sylvia Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL