[ha-Safran]: Jewish Literacy Quizzes

2009-02-03 Thread Bob Cohen
We are establishing a "literacy corner" near the entrance to our main exercise room. At that location we will have materials advertising our library including literacy quizzes. These will be short - 10 questions - on all subjects related to Jews: Jews and Sports, Jews and the Democratic Party,

[ha-Safran: New book

2009-02-03 Thread Pearl Berger
I have been asked to post this notice about a new publication: A new book has just been published that bridges, and demonstrates, a close connection between, three different intellectual disciplines. No one has ever published a book claiming and demonstrating a relationship between these apparen

[ha-Safran]: Possible grants for senior centers

2009-02-03 Thread Elona Vilinsky
Hi Safranim, I was just wondering if anyone is aware of any possible grants (Jewish or otherwise) to start a library in a senior center. Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank-you very much, Elona Litvintchouk Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are thos

[ha-Safran]: Collection of English literary criticism seeking home

2009-02-03 Thread Diane Romm
I am posting this for someone else. A professor of English literature in Israel who is retiring would like to donate his collection of about 1,000 volumes on English literature and literary criticism to an Israeli institution. If you know of anyone who might be interested in this collection, p

[ha-Safran]: Looking for seven SHORT Holocaust films

2009-02-03 Thread Witty, Emily
Dear AJL Community, I am looking for a set of seven Holocaust films that was recently for sale. I cannot find the information for it and was wondering if you had heard about this offer. I do recall that one of the films was the 1963 Polish film, Ambulance. The offer was for seven SHORT Holocau

[ha-Safran]: Hebrew Books Available via New Catalog

2009-02-03 Thread Dan Wyman
Dear Friends, Please take a look at our latest catalog, Catalog 92: Over 300 Titles in Hebraica & Related Works Now available for browsing online at http://danwymanbooks.com/hebrew1/hebrew1.htm This catalog includes many items we have never before offered for sale. All items are first come, f

[ha-Safran]: Subject heading (WAS Re: Children's holocaust

2009-02-03 Thread Lenore Bell
Dear Steve and Colleagues, Applicable LCSH headings may include: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Fiction. [Name of Individual Person]--Fiction. LCSH also has a form heading, "Biographical fiction" (for collections and criticial works). "Biographical fiction" is also a heading in ALA's Guidelin

[ha-Safran]: Florida Klezmer/Reading

2009-02-03 Thread Heidi Estrin
South Florida AJL will be co-sponsoring the opening event of Florida Atlantic University's first annual Jewish Kultur Festival on February 25, 2009 in Boca Raton. It will be called Klez4Kids and will feature Heidi Smith Hyde, author of AJL Notable picture book Mendel's Accordion, doing a readin

[ha-Safran]: Assistance with research

2009-02-03 Thread Barbjon2
Hello Friends, I am working on a project that includes researching Manhattan's Lower East Side during the early 1900's. I am trying to find a specific address for a business so that I can access the appropriate Sanborn of Bromley maps. I am in California which hinders my research somewhat. I h

Re: [ha-Safran]: Jewish teachers who perished in the Shoah

2009-02-03 Thread Congress for Jewish Culture
One fine source for identifying Jewish teachers who perished in the Holocaust is: Lerer Yizkor-bukh Lerer-Jiskor-Buk Teacher Memorial Book Redaktor Kh-Sh. Kazdan Aroysgeber: Komitet tsu fareybikn dem ondenk fun di umgekumene lerer fun di Tsisho shuln in Poyln, Nyu York - 1952-1954 (Editor Khay

[ha-Safran]: My query about the matzah film

2009-02-03 Thread Marion Stein
Dear Colleagues, After sending the last email, I 'googled' the subject and it came right up. For anyone interested, this film is wonderful.It is now available on DVD. I highly recommend it. It's called Let's Bake Matzos and it's from Sholom B. Goldstein NTSC. You can get it fro

[ha-Safran]: A video about how shmura matzah is made

2009-02-03 Thread Marion Stein
Dear Colleagues, Years ago while working at Yeshiva Har Torah, we had a wonderful video showing the steps to making shmurah matzah from the growing of the wheat in the field to the final baking of the matzah. If anyone has that video, I'd like to have the information about the producer

[ha-Safran]: "Throw Your Feet Over Your Shoulders"-New Book

2009-02-03 Thread Gail R Shirazi
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