[ha-Safran]: Yiddish lecture, Bronx, Sun. 12/20/09

2009-12-14 Thread Amanda_Seigel
Tayere Safranim / Dear Safranim, You are cordially invited to a Yiddish-language lecture in the Bronx on Sunday, December 20, 2009. The topic is The Treasures of Nahum Stutchkoff: Yiddish Radio Scripts in The New York Public Library. Please see below for details. Sincerely, Amanda

[ha-Safran]: Looking for a book...

2009-12-14 Thread Etta Gold
Help! I have a patron who is looking to borrow: Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation with Merek Edelman, One of the Last Surviving Leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Hanna Krall, Lawrence Weschler There does not seem to be one available for purchase under $150! Please let me know

[ha-Safran]: ALA filing rules

2009-12-14 Thread Amy Wissoker Graham
I am in search of a copy of the ALA Filing Rules. I know it's still available from the ALA store, but they wanted $9 to ship a $15 book! I'm hoping that someone has a copy they no longer need. I would gratefully pay for it. Thanks in advance! Amy Amy Wissoker

[ha-Safran]: FW: establishing a Jewish library

2009-12-14 Thread Rita Lifton
From: M. Avrum Ehrlich [mailto:avrum.ehrl...@gmail.com] Hello, I thought i might contact you on the subject; establishing jewish libraries at major chinese universities. i have been working at shandong university for five years and we have collected books, now i would like to build a library

[ha-Safran]: The Pogroms of E. Europe 1903-1906

2009-12-14 Thread Lee Jaffe
I'm forwarding this item I received through another list ... -- Lee Jaffe, UC Santa Cruz The Museum of Family History would like to announce the presence on its site of an important report and a table of pogroms committed between 1903 and 1906. First, you will be able to read the introduction

Re: [ha-Safran]: Yeshiva-Appropriate YA fiction

2009-12-14 Thread Ruth D. Bryskier
Have you looked at chinuch.org? If you sign in and search for Secular Book List you will find some good information: Description: Newly updated as of September 2009! List of over 2000 secular children's and young adult books with notations for acceptable, unacceptable and questionable. There

RE: [ha-Safran]: Yeshiva-Appropriate YA fiction

2009-12-14 Thread Yeshivah Secondary Library
Hi Aviva I am the librarian (retiring tomorrow!) at a Chabad boys' school in Melbourne, Australia. I just put together a rough document for evaluating resources which I am attaching for you. As it is the end of the school year here, we are busy winding down, but I can email you some books that

[ha-Safran]: Job exchange

2009-12-14 Thread Vanessa Freedman
Dear Safranim Is anyone interested in the possibility of a job exchange for up to 6 months in the second half of 2010? I am the subject librarian for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. My role includes collection management, academic liaison, responding to enquiries, and

[ha-Safran]: LibraryWorld.com

2009-12-14 Thread Clare Kinberg
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[ha-Safran]: Small library

2009-12-14 Thread Marlene Schiffman
I received this query from a friend who is working at a Chabad House. She writes: We have a new library, not huge, but I'd like to organize it. Someone at the shul is a librarian at a community college and she suggested organizing it by subject, i.e. a shelf called History, etc., similar

[ha-Safran]: Florida bound.

2009-12-14 Thread Abigail Yasgur
Friends: I will be in Florida on Monday, December 14th reading and signing Max Said Yes! The Woodstock Story. December 14, Monday evening 6 PM Books Books- Bal Harbour 9700 Collins Avenue Earlier in the day I am reading and teaching Max at the Jacobson Sinai Academy in North Miami Beach. If

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2009-12-14 Thread tucsonjewishcommunitylibr...@gmail.com
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[ha-Safran]: FYI - The Jewish Story Finder

2009-12-14 Thread Sharon Elswit
...is now out as a sturdy paperback at almost half the price of the hardcover. It is available from McFarland Publishers, Inc. and all the regular distribution channels. With wishes for warm lights this Hanukkah, Sharon --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the

[ha-Safran]: Kosher Face video

2009-12-14 Thread Heidi Estrin
Our Youth Director at Congregation B'nai Israel here in Boca Raton has created an awesome music video, Kosher Face, that has GONE VIRAL (getting 1000 views a day!). It's informative, entertaining, funny and inspiring... GREAT for Jewish Identity! You can see it

[ha-Safran]: Yiddish Theater, a Love Story, DVD sale

2009-12-14 Thread salkluger
Hello Friends, forsale-an important DVD documentary, in color,in english with some yiddish subtitles, 80 minutes.An array of yiddish stars as ,Felix Fibush, Seymour Rechzeit,Zypora Spaisman. and other yiddish luminaries as Zalman Mlotek.Only film about current yiddish theater scene.You will

[ha-Safran]: HebrewBooks.org Official Blog

2009-12-14 Thread HebrewBooks.org Official Blog
HebrewBooks.org Official Blog New Seforim Added This Week Posted: 09 Dec 2009 06:08 AM PST We are happy to announce that we added 129 newly scanned seforim, bringing the total amount of seforim available through our website to 40,952. A complete list of newly added titles can be found here.

[ha-Safran]: My Hebrew Songbook - Chanukah Songs

2009-12-14 Thread Jacob Richman
Hi Everyone! Just in time for Chanukah, My Hebrew Songbook is back and now has its own domain and website. http://www.my-hebrew-songbook.com Enter the songbook and choose the category Chanukah. You can view any song online or create printed song sheets with several songs together for a sing

[ha-Safran]: Books available tolibraries in Southern California

2009-12-14 Thread Susan Dubin
The Bureau of Jewish Education of Los Angeles is making books from the collection of the Jewish Community of Library of Los Angeles that have not been added to the AJU collection available to libraries , schools, and synagogues in the Southern California area. To arrange a time to get these

[ha-Safran]: Check out and contribute to the AJL wiki

2009-12-14 Thread Diane Romm
If you haven't seen it already, check out the new AJL wiki at http://ajlwiki.pbworks.com It's our one-stop knowledge base about Judaica librarianship. Please consider contributing your ideas and expertise to it. Chag Chanukah sameach, Diane Romm and Joyce Levine Co-chairs, AJL Technology

[ha-Safran]: Selected stories of Y.L. Peretz -- Hebrew text

2009-12-14 Thread nira wolfe
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[ha-Safran]: help finding a video

2009-12-14 Thread Chaya Wiesman
Dear Safranim, A teacher did a search on Wikipedia and came up with a description of the following video : .In 1974 for The Marranos of Portugal the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) sent reporter Ron Ben Yishai to carry out interviews with families about their religious practice. After

[ha-Safran]: New Holocaust Rfugee Memoir: Switzerland

2009-12-14 Thread Frieda Forman
NEW HOLOCAUST REFUGEE MEMOIR: SWITZERLAND Frieda Johles Forman *Jewish Refugees in Switzerland during the Holocaust: A Memoir of Childhood and History* U.K., Vallentine Mitchell, 2009 This is the first English-language memoir of the

[ha-Safran]: Librarian of valor?

2009-12-14 Thread Faya Cohen
I remember years back someone wrote a variation of Aishes Chayil for the librarian. We are doing a tribute scrape book, and this would be a very appropriate addition. Does anyone know where I could find a copy? Any other ideas are welcome. Thanks and Chag Urim Sameach, Faya --- Messages

[ha-Safran]: New books for young readers - From Feldheim

2009-12-14 Thread Stuart Schnee
Feldheim Publishers is pleased to announce the publication of wonderful new titles for young readers. These books are available from Baker Taylor or from the publisher at 845-356-2282 Torah Our Treasure A Show 'n Tell Window Book By Etti Goldzand ISBN: 978-1-59826-421-0 Binding: Hard

[ha-Safran]: Need some help with resources

2009-12-14 Thread Leah Hauser
Has anyone has developed reading guides or materials to use with the book A Bottle in the Gaza Sea which was a 2009 Sidney Taylor Award winner? Thanks! Leah Hauser Librarian CJE Baltimore 410-735-5018 --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and

[ha-Safran]: Planet Esme Podcast

2009-12-14 Thread Heidi Estrin
The Book of Life podcast's newest episode features an impromptu discussion held during a party at the Planet Esme Book Room, between author/readiologist Esme Raji Codell, podcaster Mark Blevis (of Just One More Book), author Richard Michelson (As Good As Anybody), and myself. Among other

[ha-Safran]: Search for Illustrator

2009-12-14 Thread Silverburg, Sanford R
Can anyone on the list provide me with names of potential illustrators for a Jewish juvenile book? TIA. Sanford Silverburg Sanford R. Silverburg, Ph.D Professor Department of History and Politics Catawba College Salisbury, NC 28144 US ssil...@catawba.edu --- Messages and opinions expressed

[ha-Safran]: Kohelet

2009-12-14 Thread Frantz
Does any one know where can I buy a copy of the following book? Title: Kohé let : introducció n al existencialismo judío by David Tabachnik. Publisher: Jerusalem : FundaciiÌ on Moises Vainer-Shimshon Feldman : Ariel United Israel Institutes, [2004?] Call Number:BS1474.S6 T32 2004 Thank

Fs: Childrens bks By Sid Fleischman and 2 by Doreen Rappaport

2009-12-14 Thread Henry Hollander
We are glad to offer at a 50% discount postpaid the following Jewish Children's books. Prices include domestic postage. Contact me for rates outside the US. We ship and bill to libraries. Individuals must prepay. Call 415-831-3228 or email to reserve a book. Too bad that these books didn't

[ha-Safran]: New online Catalog of recent Hebrew Sifrei Kodesh

2009-12-14 Thread V-G
Be Shaah Tova our new website www.virtualgeula.info is up and running in beta version. This the first site on the web that will display IYH weekly new Seforim as they appear plus Seforim in demand with full cataloging and views inside. Over the next few weeks we will be busy filling it with

[ha-Safran]: Recommendation for an Israeli magazine for a US

2009-12-14 Thread Ann Abrams
public library, in Hebrew X-Original-To: Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=XSDLthMC:8 a=LZno8Q45:8 a=Vt2AcnKq:8 a=pSZzf3RB:8 a=HsNBMhsb12l3_ZNsnzgA:9 a=g5W7mUw0l_-MQw5jF_oA:7 a=xsxF4ShFoiC2Lq4KRdLsiyxbIQ4A:4 a=hnvv7Q6phsYA:10 a=Sh4im6_5bFYA:10

[ha-Safran]: Library and Information Services Delegation to Israel

2009-12-14 Thread Sherry Wasserman
Has anyone else received an invitation to participate in a trip to Israel as a delegate to the Library and Information Services Delegation to Israel? I have received two of them, one from Camila A. Alire who I believe is the current President of ALA and a follow up one from People to People

Re: [ha-Safran]: Looking for a book...

2009-12-14 Thread rebsn...@juno.com
fyi: both www.bookfinder.com and www.addall.com show a copy for $45 including shipping is available from amazon.ca. It ships from California. These sites search multiple used book sites and rank them by price (including shipping). There are also several copies of the ALA Filing Rules