I am resending my posting from Dec 7th. I hope that it will be posted
in better format.
Amalia
Are you in charge of a synagogue, day school or community center library?
Do you want to enhance the view of your library within your
institution, its leadership and throughout the Jewish communit
Translation of Sipuro shel mefaked Altalenah was translated into
English in 1992. The title is To win the promised land by Eliyhu Lankin.
Amalia Warshenbrot
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Dear Friends,
Thank you all for your good wishes. We are blessed to have a
beautiful family and such kind and thoughtful friends.
Love,
Suzi Dubin
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Hi. At the synagogue preschool where I am librarian, we have a pretty
traditional Thanksgiving curriculum, with a strong emphasis on
turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indians. I'd like to see what alternative
suggestions I can come up with to get us refocused more on the
meaning of the holiday and less on
The first video for the Vilnius Jewish Library is now online at
Youtube. I would love to hear what everyone thinks about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daTf9Ij1l7w
The video was created by my friends at http://www.aj-images.com
Cheers,
Wyman Brent
shammes
Vilnius Jewish Library
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Dear Safranim,
Thank you to all those who responded so quickly. I now have several
leads on books and two articles on the subject.
You are all terrific.
Thank you again.
Happy Hanukkah to all.
Chaya Wiesman
Librarian
Ramaz Upper School
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Shalom.
I heard from others and now it happens to me too. I cannot access AJL
membership directory. I get an error sign and the boxes designed to
add the member's info are gone. Once in a while I mange to get around
it. I was told by a computer maven that the problem is with AJL
website's soft
Dear Sir / Madam,
We are happy to announce the recent publications of the following
titles. Please use the following Links:
* Needed Words: The Lexical Innovations of Yonatan Ratosh
By Michal Ephratt
ISBN 978-965-226-311-7
1,188 pp. Hebrew. Har
As Chanukah is coming to a close, so is our AJL survey.
Before the oil runs out -- here's the link again for those who may
have forgotten to do it
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ajlsurvey
We invite you to fill out the "free form" response at the end even if
some of the questions are not germane
Safranim,
I'd like to put together a blog post of AJL librarians' favorite
books of 2010. Would anyone like to submit a title or titles? Can be
anything-fiction, nonfiction, childrens, adult, religious, etc. The
only requirement is that it was published in 2010.
If you'd like to contribute, plea
Hello. We recently read in Hasafran about antisemitic events at
Indiana University, and about the desecration of Jewish religious
texts. Attached is a letter which AJL has sent to the president of
the university.
Jim
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James P. Rosenbloom
Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University
President, A
I am pleased to inform you that our news about AJL's Library Snapshot
Day is the lead article today on ALA's website, I Love Libraries at
http://www.ilovelibraries.org!
Thanks again to all participants and supporters,
Heidi Estrin
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This take on Jewish art deserves a home in your library if it hasn't
already mades its way in. $18.00 postpaid within the US. Overseas
additional. Libraries and institutions will be billed. Individuals
must prepay. Call 415-831-3228 or email to reserve a copy.
Godfrey, Mark. "Abstraction and th
A Kindle for Christmas? Spare Me
I remember passages by where they are in my booksÂthis or that detail
is two-thirds of the way through, on the bottom left. Physical memory
runs deep.
By DAN NEWMAN
I should be the perfect candidate for an e-reader: I own thousands of
books, lack space for mor
Dear librarian,
A collected list of a couple of titles that you may be interested in.
Ayin L'Tzion Tzofiah / HaSeret ha-'Ilem b'Eretz ha-Kodesh
(Israel Before Israel / Silent Cinema in the Holyland) by Hilell Tryster
This is a translation from the English from 1995 from the Spielberg Archiv
Hi Everyone!
I uploaded a new learn Hebrew video to the Internet.
The topic of the new video is: Small Things.
The 20 words in the learn Hebrew video include:
button, candies, cherries, coins, cookies, eraser, feather, fingernail,
gravel, matches, olives, paperclips, peanuts, raisins, seashells,
Dear Safranim
Hereunder two new titles for your consideration:
a) Suzan Gonul, Tout Passe, Tout casse, Tout Lasse, Mais Les
Souvenirs Restent, Gozlem Yayincilik, 2010, 77 p., ISBN:
978-9944-994-43-9 $ 20.- plus postage.
It's the memoirs in French of a Jewish lady of Istanbul concerning her li
Please call your local congressperson.
Good news! The U.S. House of Representatives has scheduled a vote on
the Museum and Library Services Act (MLSA) for Tuesday. Your phone
calls to Congress are especially important now as your
representatives will be making a decision on how they plan to v
Chaverim,
Recently our library came into possession of a few items in the
Danish language. Since these were not Judaica, I sent them to
the Danish American Archive and Library in Blair, Nebraska, which
collects such items.
In his thank-you note, the director of the DAAL added that his
a
The sixth issue of Safranim's Blog can now be accessed at
http://safranim.wordpress.com/%d7%92%d7%99%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9f-%d7%95-3/
This issue features articles (Hebrew) on
1) The appearance of the Ramban in a dream of the Hatam Sofer by
Rabbi David Aronovsky, Director of the library at Yad
Sending this on behalf of the playwright. Please contact Ellen
Cassedy, outre...@beautifulhillsofbrooklyn.com, for more information.
Faith
"Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn," a short film that illuminates the life
of a Jewish woman, is now available on DVD. It is both a moving
artistic experienc
Dear Friends:
I'm compiling a bibliography of Jewish books which promote
anti-bullying. I don't see any in the bibliography bank on the
website. There are a huge number of resources out there. Any ideas
are welcome - for all ages of students.
Thanks!
Toby Harris
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Save the date, January 18, 2011, in the AM, for the 2011 Reference
Workshop of the New York Metropolitan Area Chapter of the Association
of Jewish Libraries, which will be held at the New York Public
Library, Fifth Avenue at 42ndStreet.
Program:
Evaluating the Usability of Digital Informat
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