[ha-Safran]: Welcoming Jasmin Nof to the Penn Libraries

n.edu Welcome Jasmin! Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 T. (215) 573-7431 F. (215) 898-0559 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday http://www.library.upenn.edu/c

[ha-Safran]: Fwd: [SephardicHorizons] Proposed Closing of

the National Authority for the Culture of Ladino X-Original-To: Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=KcRQQHkD c=1 sm=0 a=ugFvkfIBRL/WdPz6TiXDkA==:17 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=pGLkceIS:8 a=4H8qEQ8r:8 a=Vt2AcnKq:8 a=pSZzf3RB:8 a=R_4R28FhAcCYyz

[ha-Safran]: Taking Turns:,New Perspectives on Jews and Conversion

to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/fellows11/ Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron, Ph.D. Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Libraries Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center - Room 205 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 t. (215) 573-74

[ha-Safran]: Manfred R. Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop in

the History of the Jewish Book X-Original-To: Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=qyUSAyc82z9xLljZQc9ErY9Tl2GSEfqK/XYZS35I9d8= c=1 sm=0 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=ugFvkfIBRL/WdPz6TiXDkA==:17 a=CVkhZaI7:8 a=Vt2AcnKq:8 a=pSZzf3RB:8 a=3tS87DcNRPJRltPSC4MA:9 a=t7hfY

[ha-Safran]: Hebraica cataloging librarian position at the

osition is filled; however, applications submitted before March 30, 2011 will receive priority consideration. The University of Pennsylvania is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. -- Arthur Kiron Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania

[ha-Safran]: Middle East Studies Librarian position

Position Announcement Middle East Studies Librarian Rank C/D University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania Libraries seek an innovative and energetic Middle East Studies Librarian to develop and manage library resources from and about the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the pr

Re: [ha-Safran]: AJL response to antisemitic events at

h us. Best wishes, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 T. (215) 573-7431 F. (215) 898-0559 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/judaica/ Librar

[ha-Safran]: Solidarity in the face of hate

tactics. I would hope members of the Jewish community and places that have been vandalized know that (these are the acts of) a few people and not the majority of people in Bloomington." Anyone with information about any of these acts of vandalism, or about the described man, is encour

[ha-Safran]: Bibliography and censorship

Dear Safranim, Some of you may be interested to learn about a bibliographical matter Prof. Jeffrey Tigay, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible at the University of Pennsylvania, brought to my attention today. It involves the publication in the mid-1970s of a critical edition, based on manuscripts, of

[ha-Safran]: Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop

ANNOUNCEMENT Please Post THE MANFRED R. LEHMANN MEMORIAL MASTER WORKSHOP IN THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH BOOK The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at th

[ha-Safran]: Appointment of new Judaica Public Services Librarian

f the Babylonian Talmud. Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 T. (215) 573-7431 F. (215) 898-0559 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday http://www.library.upenn.edu/collec

[ha-Safran]: New Judaica web exhibit

Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron, Ph.D. Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Libraries Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center - Room 205 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 t. (215) 573-7431 f. (215) 898-0559 w. http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/judai

[ha-Safran]: A new book of original Yiddish songs by David Botwinik

from the League for Yiddish: i...@leagueforyiddish.org ($40 US each, plus postage) or from Alexander Botwinik: i...@botwinikmusic.com. Best wishes, Arthur Kiron Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 191

[ha-Safran]: Manfred R. Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop

Dear Safranim, There is still space available for those who would like to attend Penn's annual Lehmann Memorial workshop on the Jewish Book. Anyone interested should contact Chrissy Walsh -chwa...@sas.upenn.edu - as soon as possible. See below for the workshop announcement as well as a link to

[ha-Safran]: English-language Orthodox Jewish journals

Does anyone know of any English-language Orthodox Jewish journals published between 1924 and 1934? Thanks for any help you may be able to provide, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia

[ha-Safran]: Penn's Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

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[ha-Safran]: New web-exhibition: "Jews, Commerce, and Culture"

Dear Safranim: The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in partnership with the Penn Libraries have just launched their 2008-09 web exhibition: "*Jews, Commerce, and Culture*." The exhibit highlights the Fellows' year-long effort to understand th

[ha-Safran]: Michelle Margolis-Chesner appointed Judaic

Public Services Librarian and Archivist at the Penn Libraries X-Original-To: Hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 X-Spam-Score: 2.10 (**) [Tag at 5.00] MISSING_SUBJECT,PORN_RP_CUMS_ X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not availab

[ha-Safran]: sad news - loss of Helen Sarna z"l

Dear Safranim, For those of you who who haven't heard this sad news, we have lost a distinguished member of our profession. Mrs. Helen Sarna, z"l, who served for many years as a librarian at Hebrew College in Brookline, Massachusetts, died last week. Please find below an obituary I received

[ha-Safran]: Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop in History of

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[ha-Safran]: Facsimile of the journal Kerem Hemed

Everyone - we have a library patron who has been asking about a facsimile edition of the 19th century journal Kerem Hemed. Does anyone know if a facsimile edition of it exists and/or know if a copy is available for sale anywhere? Please respond to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Many than

[ha-Safran]: New Judaica Web-Exhibit! Jewish & Other

o view this on-line exhibition, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/fellows08/ Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 Tel: (215) 573-7431 Fax: (215) 898-0

[ha-Safran]: Help researching Jewish approaches to learning

EMAIL PROTECTED] Many thanks for any help you can provide, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Libraries 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 Tel: (215) 573-7431 Fax: (215) 898-0559 Wednesdays and Fridays at: Cent

[ha-Safran]: New look for Penn's CAJS library home page

Dear Safranim - we have just launched the new home page (the URL is the same, the look is new) for the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library: http://www.library.upenn.edu/cajs/ Any questions, comments, or suggestions for improvement are welcome! Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron

[ha-Safran]: Looking to purchase a book

member is trying to see if he can find an edition for a lower price. If you have a duplicate copy in your collection you would like to sell at a discount to a worthy scholar would you kindly be in touch with me directly? Many thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections Uni

[ha-Safran]: New Web Exhibit about Religious Communites in

t, for their technical support. Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 Tel: (215) 573-7431 Fax: (215) 898-0559 Wednesdays and Fridays at: Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library 420 Wal

[ha-Safran]: Seth Jerchower

rarch, and another about the history of Rabbinic Lexicography, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Marcus Jastrow, the father of American rabbinic dictionary making. We congratulate Seth on his appointment and wish him continued success in his career. Thanks, Arthur -- A

Re: [ha-Safran]: Job Opening - Center for Advanced Judaic

asp As I understand it, salary levels are commensurate with the level of responsibility of the position, the experience of the candidate, and other factors. Or to put it differently: I don't set the salary or benefits! Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University o

[ha-Safran]: Job Opening - Center for Advanced Judaic

Studies Library - University of Pennsylvania X-Original-To: hasafran@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.1.0 X-Spam-Score: 0.00 () [Tag at 5.00] X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . c

[ha-Safran]: Mediterranean Dialogues

http://www.primolevicenter.org/news/1.html http://www.primolevicenter.org/program/1.html -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 Tel: (215) 573-7431 Fax: (215) 898-0559 Wednesdays and Fridays at: Center

[ha-Safran]: Map quest

Dear Safranim, A visiting scholar at Penn, Prof. Rehav Rubin, this year has asked me to submit the following inquiry to you. If you can be of help to him, please contact him directly at the emails given below. Many thanks for your help, Arthur To the members of Ha-Safran, Dear Colleagues, I

[ha-Safran]: 2007 Lehmann Workshop on the History of the Jewish Boook

ANNOUNCEMENT Please Post THE MANFRED R. LEHMANN MEMORIAL MASTER WORKSHOP IN THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH BOOK The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Library and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Penns

[ha-Safran]: The journal Aleph

i.e., vols. 4-6). To subscribe directly, go to: https://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/journals/renew2.cgi?journal=aleph If you need additional information, you may want to contact the editor, Gad Freudenthal directly at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections

[ha-Safran]: New Web-exhibit on the Jewish Book trade

The University of Pennsylvania Library has just made public a new web-exhibit entitled "Printer, Publisher, Peddler: The Business of the Jewish Book." To view the exhibit, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/PrinterPublisherPeddler/ -- Arthur Kiron Curator

[ha-Safran]: New Web exhibit on the Jewish Book

bit, go to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/fellows06/ -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 Tel: (215) 573-7431 Fax: (215) 898-0559 Wednesdays and Fridays at: Center for Advanced Judaic Studi

[ha-Safran]: Conference on the Jewish Book at Penn, May 1-3, 2006

Dear Safranim, The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania will be hosting its 12th Annual Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies on the topic of "The Jewish Book: Material Texts and Comparative Contexts." The three-day event will take place on Monday, May 1-Wednesday,

[ha-Safran]: New Penn Judaica website

ighlighted link "Penn Judaica Collection"). If you have any questions or comments about Penn's new Judaica library site, please feel free to contact me or Seth Jerchower ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsyl

[ha-Safran]: Fate of the Yoseloff Publishing House

Dear Safranim, Does anyone know what happened to the Yoseloff publishing house and in particular who currently owns the copyrights to their publications? Many thanks for any help you can provide, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420

[ha-Safran]: 2006 Lehmann Workshop in the History of the Jewish Book

ANNOUNCEMENT Please Post THE MANFRED R. LEHMANN MEMORIAL MASTER WORKSHOP IN THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH BOOK The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Library and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the Univ

[ha-Safran]: New Judaica Web-Exhibit

who was the first to suggest this project. Arthur Kiron, Curator of Judaica Collections Seth Jerchower, Public and Reference Services Librarian, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library. Co-Curators -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420 Walnut Str

[ha-Safran]: Most recent URL for OAI

Dear Jewish Studies Communities: I've just learned that there is a new URL (which provides a revised and updated list of on-line sources of information about the open access initiative) for Penn's "Scholarly Commons": http://www.library.upenn.edu/scholcomm/ Thanks, Arthu

[ha-Safran]: Israel Scholar Works - Israel Scholar Archive home page

Dear Jewish Studies Communities, I just learned from a colleague at Penn, Mary Steiner, about an Israeli open access inititative website. For those of you interested in the effort to re-think and transform the current model of scholarly communication, and the pricing structures now in place fo

[ha-Safran]: New Web-exhibit on "Modern Jewish Literatures"

ages; and thanks in particular to Leslie Vallhonrat and the Penn Library Web Unit for providing all of their technical support mounting the exhibit. -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 Tel: (215) 573-7431 F

Re: [ha-Safran]: Marcia Goldberg Z"L

certainly attests to that! To those many of you who've been active in the Association of Jewish Libraries and know Marcia far better than I, I send you also my deepest sympathies. Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420 Walnut Street Philade

[ha-Safran]: UPenn Post-Baccalaureate Program in Hebrew and Jewish

Dear Safranim: The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, under the leadership of its director, Prof. David Stern, is launching a new post-Baccalaureate Jewish education program. Please share this announcement with anyone you think may be interested. Thanks very much! Arthur

[ha-Safran]: Manfred R. Lehmann Master Workshop on the History of

the Jewish Book X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.0.6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: lists X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN ANNOUNCEMENT Please Post

[ha-Safran]: Maggid: A (New) Journal of Jewish Literature

.: 02-566-6149 fax: 02-561-0875 Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 Tel: (215) 573-7431 Fax: (215) 898-0559 Wednesdays and Fridays at: Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library 420 Walnut

[ha-Safran]: New Web-exhibit

to the Fellows and to the Klau Library, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Cincinnati, Ohio) for providing scanned images; to Leslie Vallhonrat and Michael Winkler of the Penn Library Web Unit for providing all of their technical support designing and mounting the exhibit. -- A

[ha-Safran]: UPenn's New Post-Baccalaureate in Hebrew and Jewish

Studies] X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN Dear Safranim: For your and your constituencies' information, the Unive

[ha-Safran]: On-line access to the Sabato Morais Ledger and Marvin

questions about the Ledger, the Weiner catalog and/or the web-site, please feel free to contact me directly. Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 Tel: (215) 573-7431 Fax: (215) 898-0559

[ha-Safran]: RE: Kiryat Sefer

gt; not too distant future, all the university library catalogs will be > converted to the web-based Aleph 500 computer system. An independent > web-site for Kiryat Sefer is now being planned. So I hope by then > search in Kiryat Sefer will be easier. > Sincerely, > Shunit

[ha-Safran]: Workshop: History of the Jewish Book

Manfred and Anne Lehmann Foundation along with grants from Mr. Albert Friedberg, the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, and the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation. -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

[ha-Safran]: Conference on Rabbinic Lexicography

rge. Call 215-898-6654 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with questions. Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica Collections University of Pennsylvania Library 3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 Tel: (215) 573-7431 Fax: (215) 898-0559 =

[ha-Safran]: New Web-exhibit on Eastern European Jewry

/ and click on "current exhibit" or go directly to: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/tradition/ Special thanks to Seth Jerchower for designing and editing the exhibit and to Etty Lassman for her help with image scanning. Thanks, Arthur -- Arthur Kiron Curator of Judaica