[ha-Safran]: FS: Yiddish Theater Comic Book

2009-05-07 Thread Henry Hollander
We are pleased to offer for sale, hot off the presses (Es Brent!) the best and perhaps only comic book about the Yiddish theater. Joel Schecter and Spain Rodriguez's: Rivington Street. Vol. 1 No. 1, April 2009. San Francisco, Kropotkin Club of Northern California, 2009. Royal octavo, stapled p

[ha-Safran]: Ostrow Library digital collection ribbon cutting May 6

2009-05-07 Thread Patricia Fenton
Dear Friends, The Ostrow Library of American Jewish University is thrilled to invite you all to join us at the ribbon cutting for our digital collection of nearly 200 photographs. Our collection is part of the Local History Digital Resources Program under the auspices of the California Digita

[ha-Safran]: New AJL podcast episode

2009-05-07 Thread Heidi Estrin
The 2008 convention session "How to Run an Effective AJL Chapter" is now available on the AJL Podcast at www.jewishlibraries.org/podcast. To go directly to this lecture, visit the URL http://jewishlibraries.org/podcast/?p=257. Thanks! Heidi Estrin --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasaf

[ha-Safran]: Reb Zalman's new book - Available this month

2009-05-07 Thread Naomi Rosenblatt
A Heart Afire: Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters By Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Netanel Miles-Yepez The latest book from the founder of the Jewish Renewal Movement, available May 2009 "… a tour-de-force that will take its place beside the efforts of Buber and Wiesel … Savor the

[ha-Safran]: AJL Newsletter Book Reviews

2009-05-07 Thread Deborah Stern
Good news! Sara Rofofsky Marcus, Electronic Resource and Web Librarian at Queesnborough Community College, srofofskymar...@qcc.cuny.edu, and Nancy Sack, AJL's webmaster, s...@hawaii.edu, are collaborating on making the AJL Newsletter Book Reviews searchable and available online. If you would li

[ha-Safran]: Takeaway @ JTSLibrary - New Blog - URL

2009-05-07 Thread Naomi Steinberger
Welcome to The Takeaway @ JTSLibrary Join the Conversation... at http://www.jtslibrarytakeaway.blogspot.com/ Inquiring minds want to learn... JTS Librarians want to teach... Here's how it works: Based on questions we receive at the reference desk, we post our comments and suggestions. You respo

[ha-Safran]: Early Hebrew detective stories

2009-05-07 Thread Shmuel Ben-Gad
Shalom safranim. Some years back, I heard Batya Gur z"l speak and she mentioned someone who wrote detective stories in Hebrew. I believe this was early in the twentieth century. Alas, the name of the author eludes me. If anyone knows, would you please let me know? B'chavod rav. Sh