As far as I can tell, 41 volumes of the Bavli have been printed so
far. A projected 2 vols on Hullin and one on Niddah will total, when
finished, 44 volumes. The 42 vol complete set advertised on the
Steinsaltz site includes the 41 printed on the Bavli, and the one on
the Yerushalmi.
Yisrael
Safranim shalom,
Just the blurb describing the movie bothers me.
The words Holocaust and Nakbah should not be used together. There
should not be the slightest hint of comparison.
And why Nakbah terror? Is there a woman representing Palestinian
terror? The trailer shows the Jews suffering
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce the publication of
Encounters of Consequence: Jewish Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
and Beyond by Michael Oppenheim.
ISBN: 978-1-934843-67-3
Publication date: Nov 2009
Cloth: $59.00
Bibliographic
I am posting the following letter on behalf of Rabbi Jonathan Plaut:
I have a collection of remainder books authored by W. Gunther Plaut,
Elizabeth S. Plaut and myself, which I want to donate to Jewish
institutions throughout the world. This is the second (and last)
notice for these titles.
I
I'm just getting around to adding this children's book, by Sarah
Marwil Lamstein and illustrated by Neil Waldman, to our library
collection for Hanukkah.
I wonder who wrote the afterword, which says: In the Old Testament's
First Book of Maccabees, we read the story of Mattathias
But
congregational library!
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I recently had the pleasure of introducing a panel at the Miami
BookFair International in which Michael Goldfarb spoke. (He's an
American living in London for about 20 years - NPR's London
correspondent and more...) His latest book has just been released:
Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's
I received this from Frank's colleagues at Columbia University.
With great sadness I convey the news that Frank Unlandherm
passed away yesterday afternoon. Frank began working at
Columbia University Libraries in 1965, after earning a
degree in Near East Studies from Princeton, traveling and
Hi Everyone!
You are cordially invited to my first Virtual Chanukah Party on
Facebook. No entrance fee and you may bring all your friends.
The virtual address:
http://bit.ly/virtual-chanukah-partyhttp://bit.ly/virtual-chanukah-party
See you online.
Chodesh Tov - Have a good month,
Jacob
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Hello. I would like to remind members of the Research Libraries,
Archives and Special Collections Division of AJL that we are still
looking for presenters at the July conference in Seattle. We welcome
all subjects, including collection development,cataloging,
e-resources, reference services,
Thanks! Will add to our website and blog, as well
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Director, Publications
520 8th Avenue, 4th floor
New York, NY 10018
(212) 201-2921
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Yelina,
An article in the Jerusalem Post Nov. 12 Talmud for the Masses
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFullcid=1257770044841
says that the last 2 volumes will be coming out this year and next
year: On December 9 of this year Steinsaltz will produce tractate
At the National Library of Israel we did a very extensive search for
a picture of Moses Elias Levy and came up with many articles and
books with information about him. In the biography Moses Levy of
Florida, the author C.S. Monaco writes in his introduction:
Admittedly, it is very unusual for a
Dear Friends,
I am really excited about the new Rabbi Rocketpower book, Rabbi
Rocketpower and the Half-Baked Matzah Mystery- A Particularly
Peculiar Passover. Last year my fourth grade students had an
opportunity to read an advance copy and send comments to the Rabbi
Susan Abramson. She
Dear safranim,
I want to share with you this short video, made by a novel Jewish
director in Mexico - Ariel Zylbersztejn [Spanish with English translation]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nalP2eUADTQ
Be well,
Efraim
Dr. Efraim Zadoff
E.D.Z. Nativ Ediciones
P.O.Box 23526
Jerusalem 91234
tel. 972
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Academic Studies Press is pleased to announce that the 2010 Jewish
Studies Catalogue is now available online at
http://www.academicstudiespress.com/Files/jewish_series_lowres.pdf.
All titles are available through library wholesalers or can be
ordered directly.
Marsha Labovitz, librarian at New York's East End Temple, has asked
me to post the following about an event which might be of interest to
Judaica librarians.
From: East End Temple
245 East 17th Street
New York, NY10003
Contact: Sharon Shemesh at
Feldheim Publishers is pleased to announce the publication of:
Religious Compulsions and Fears:
A Guide to Treatment
Under the guise of religious observance, countless Jews are held prey
to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and this book has what it takes to
break out of the horrible cycle of
I am admittedly biased in the matter, but in my opinion if a public
library has the budget and the constituency for a reference work such
as the YIVO Encyclopedia, then acquiring it is really a
no-brainer. This is one of the most important Jewish encyclopedias
to have been published since the
Library Collection
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We have 450 different illuminated leaves available from the
facsimiles of the Kennicott Bible, Rothschild Miscellany, Barcelona
Haggadah and a few from the North French Miscellany.
Please
click http://www.manuscriptleaves.com/manuscripts/en_specimen.html
for more information.
All good wishes
I have been asked by a colleague to post the following:
Message for Jewish Studies librarians and for all interested in Yiddish Studies
As of this writing, WorldCat lists 67 libraries as owners of Rella
Israly Cohn's Yiddish Given Names (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press,
2008), a lexicon
Hello Annette: Your request for children's English language books
has found it's way to me and you have come to the right place! I
have cc'd all the parties involved in the inquiry so in the future if
they receive another request like yours, they can refer them to the
Jade Bar-Shalom Books
Dear Colleagues,
At long last, volume 15 of our journal, Judaica Librarianship, is at
the printer's. I expect that it will come out within the next several
weeks. Here is the table of contents.
Zachary
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A Mind-Boggling Implication: The Hebrew Bible,
Dear Safranim and book friends,
We'll be happy to send you, upon your request, the new PDF format of
our catalogue:
Recent Books From Israel
No. 434, November 2009 (Kislev 5770).
The catalogue contains 555 new titles that are divided into two files:
1. Hebrew general titles - (New Israeli
IT'S ALMOST TIME! If you're thinking about it, go for it! Present
in Seattle - a great and wonderful place to come!
CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
Association of Jewish Libraries
45th Annual Convention
July 4-7, 2010
Seattle
The Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) will hold its 45th annual
A high school in our area has chosen Habibi as the assigned class novel.
Can anyone direct me to some good critiques of this book?
Andrea Rapp
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Does anyone know if the Mobile Library Mystery series by Ian Sansom
- The Case of the Missing Books, Mr. Dixon Disappears, The Book Stops
Here, and the newest installment, The Bad Book Affair - have
significant or any Jewish content? The main character, Israel
Armstrong, is described in the
Decoding Dead Sea Scrolls Designations
Finding Articles About the Tanakh
Finding Articles About the Tanakh (Part 2 - RAMBI)
Name, Title, or Honorific?
Join the conversation at takea...@jtsa
http://www.jtslibrarytakeaway.blogspot.com/
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I received the following announcement from another list. -- Lee
A NEW JOURNAL ON ANTI-SEMITISM
The Journal for the Study of Antisemitism has issued its inaugural
issue, available online. Click journals at http://www.jsantisemitism.org
--
Lee Jaffe
Assessment Planning Librarian
3366 McHenry
VNS Group, Inc. is looking for a Cataloger to work on a short term
project involving cataloging of books in Hebrew language.
Experience using OCLC Connexion, applying AACR2 rules, LC subject
headings, LC classification and LC romanization table for Hebrew
language are required.
This
This looks like what has come to be called the Arab narrative.
This narrative--i.e. version of history-- now permeates academia,
textbook publishing and much of trade-book publishing.
It is full of falsehoods and bias.
Andrea
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