In my original posting yesterday I completely neglected to mention that
Gottlieb goes into extensive detail about Leonard Bernstein's
Jewishness.
Others may have mentioned it in passing, but only Gottlieb goes into it
extensively.
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Dear friends and colleagues,
I rarely go online to the Association to recommend a new book by a
standard trade publisher, but I am in the midst of reading a book
that I think may be of interest to your library users.
The book is entitled: WORKING WITH BERNSTEIN.
The author is Jack
I find this discussion fascinating.
I am sure that at some point that cross-over generation of German
Jews that initially spoke the Western dialect of what we call Yiddish
and aspired to speak proper Hochdeutsch, were certain that the
mixed dialect they spoke - and wrote - was Hochdeutsch, but
In connection with this, on Monday I received a message on Facebook from
a childhood friend whom I have known on Facebook since Day One.
The message contained a link and read, Hey, Phil - Check this out!
Bob
Unsuspecting, I clicked on it and my filters caught it as a virus.
Before deleting it,
For those who do not know, the Librarys stacks are on the Third
Floor. Faculty members with an office on that floor have a key to the
elevator. Otherwise, everyone else must use the stairs and be
buzzed in from the circulation desk, a colossal nuisance.
Book as Witness
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Alba -
Yes, it might also be a Sanskrit YA. As I have been looking at Tibetan
lately, it was the first thought that struck me.
But the Giving Peace motif seems to fit!
Good to hear from you at your new e-mail address!
Felipe / Fayvel / Phil
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In all honesty, it appears to be not so much a Star of David with a
Hebrew letter in it as it does a stylized lotus blossom with the Tibetan
letter BA in the middle.
What does all this mean? I do not know.
Phil Miller
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Nothing like starting 60 years after the fact!
PEM
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Interesting article from Der Welt.
http://www.welt.de/english-news/article2443760/Berlin-libraries-research-books-stolen-by-Nazis.html
I heartily concur with my colleague and friend Yaffa Weisman, and I
hasten to add this to her message
Phil
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While Mayor, Palin
Dear Aaron -
I used the train from the airport to the hotel, and it was a
farshlepter zakh. Yes, it was inexpensive, but it took forever! And
then to add insult to injury, we had to shlep the bags from the train
stop to the hotel. By the time I arrived I was oysgematet and knew I
had made a
This is a follow-up to an earlier posting I forwarded to Hasafran on
behalf of the New York Board of Rabbis.
PEM
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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:54 PM
To: Miller, Philip
Subject: Thank you
Dear Jewish Librarians - Todah Rabah - THANK YOU
and the Sarajevo Haggadah
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I invited you to read my most recent entry on our Blog, Needle in the
Bookstacks, which is devoted to the late Jacob Dienstag.
http://www.huc.edu/libblog/librariantalk.html
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Dear Vanessa -
As I started this thread of conversation, I'll assume I can go again!
My first week at Hebrew Union College in New York (January of 1974) a
distant cousin of my wife who was a librarian at a major Madison
Avenue advertising agency called with a similar question.
A client, a
Thank you, Steve. Of course an Akademon publication might only get
used in an academic setting. The question posed to me thirty years
ago was long before this was published in Israel, let alone the
existence of WorldCat (I basically went through decades of Kiryat
Sefer looking but coming up
Here is a different kind of query
Many years ago someone asked me what the strangest or most bizarre
reference question I had ever fielded. This person and I had not been
in contact for almost twenty years, until yesterday, and the first
thing he did was remind me of his question.
This was
This morning I shared a remarkable experience with Yaron Kapitulnik,
a second year rabbinic student. While perusing a book published in
2004 and written in English and Polish about Lopuszno, a Polish
shtetl destroyed during the Holocaust, I happened upon some
photographs of people named
I am posting this for a friend This event in the NYC area might be
of interest to some.
Shabbat Shalom and Shanah Tovah
Phil
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Please read my latest blog entry, Too Good to Miss #7
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Forwarded from a friend:
We have a first edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica we are willing to
donate to another library or shul. Could you ask some of your
colleagues if they want/need it? Have them respond to me at
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Thanks,
Scott
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My warmest congratulations and thanks to one and all who put together
such a wonderful (and for me especially, a most memorable) convention!
For those who heard the Feinstein Lecture I presented Monday afternoon,
let me say that I had a most interesting reference experience with an
agent of the
This is a copy of my most recent posting to the HUC Librarians' Blog,
Needle in the Bookstacks...
A Reference Desk Experience in Phoenix International Airport
The subject of the Eleventh Rosalind and Meyer Feinstein Lecture I
delivered on June 18, 2007 at the Forty-Second Convention of the
My apologies to one and all for posting an incorrect telephone number
for Florence Horn, who is seeking to give away a library
The correct number is: (212) 928-4275
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Dear Colleagues -
This morning I received a telephone call from Florence Horn who has a
library of Judaica to give away.
We have no room here and are accepting no gifts at this time.
Ms. Horn is afraid that after she is gone the books will be trashed.
If you and/or your library is at all
Gates may have included printings.
For example, HUC, NY has one published in Warsaw by Zuckerman in 1897
that is hotsaah 2 u-metukenet.
That means there was an earlier printing as well, and that the 1902
might have been a reprint of the 1897.
This would indicate that there was both the interest
Dear Yaffa et al.
The issue may be v-e-r-y hard to find. I forwarded the message to a good
friend who knows of such matters, and below is his reply:
I remember the incident. The issue was removed. The article should
not have been published. I say this even as a liberal in favor of a
free
Perhaps you mean: LAUFER ?
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Congratulations to our member Anna Olswanger, whose book Shlemiel
Crooks was singled out by childrens lit writer and critic Daniel
Pinkwater on National Public Radio as one of the outstanding
childrens books of 2006!
Forwarded from the H-Africa mailing list:
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Dear H-Africa colleagues -
Effective late December 2006, the Library of Congress will close its
African and Middle Eastern
Somehow I missed the earlier posting and could not locate it in the
archives.
When I was national president (1982-1984) the question arose of our
relationship with/to the Church and Synagogue Library Association.
This is what I recall - -
Mae Weine (of blessed memory) told me that many years
I heard they actually would prefer $$$. I mean, 100 librarians send 100
old books in varying condition. The result is not a library but 10,000
volumes in a jumble.
And who is going to organize them into a library? And who is going to
pay for it?
Honestly, I do not know if this is an urban
Not to besmirch the reputation of a man who did defy the generals of the
Junta, but Timmerman was persecuted because he was a gad-fly; his being
Jewish was incidental. Once he was released, he was welcomed to Israel
as a poster boy for Jewish suffering. But he turned on his hosts when
he
I was dismayed when I read the first posting - I thought there was an
error.
Some 40 years ago, Commentary magazine, I believe, ran a profile of
American Jewry, and one of the stats cited then was that Jews accounted
for some 20% of the books bought in the U.S. Not bad for 3% of the total
Wasn't Laura Bush a librarian at one time? (Well, so was Mao Tse Tung!)
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We have one in our collection, Lee, but it is kept in our Special
Collections, with other military prayer books from World Wars I and II.
Because they were meant to be used, those that were past out usually got
used up, lost and/or eventually thrown away/buried.
Why not simply contact the
FYI: filled with paste = empastado = Bound
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Dear Mr. Mrs.
I want to comment to
It would have been remarkable for a Jew to live in Finland in the 17-18th
century as Finland at that time was a province of Sweden, and Jews were
precluded from living there. Jews only established a presence there in the
mid-19th century, and even then had to petition the Tsarist government for
I personally find this discussion perplexing. For more than twenty years I
have missed almost every Fathers' Day with my family because it uncannily
coincided with AJL Convention.
When I asked (a number of years ago) why, davka, our Convention is held the
third weekend in June, I was told, In
Not be labor Charyl's point, I would merely point out that that when I was
AJL president (more than 20 years ago) I suggested that conventions be kept
to one of two cities and that a national convention committee be incharge
of programming, rather than have everything fall on the local
I agree with Donald, it is not funny, but for another reason.
True, derogatory words belong in n one's vocabulary, but deleting them is
only one satep - First one must lost the hate and prejudice behind them.
I was recently having dinner with friends, and someone brought along this
book, from
That's one I never heard and would be curious to know the answer.
The closest I know is the Yiddish equivalent of making a silk purse out of
a sow's ear, namely, One cannot make a streimel out of a pig's tail.
Phil Miller
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I do not
be aware to the correct ISBN: 0-8444-1130-2
Phil
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Dear Phil,
SUNY Press is pleased
Khuda hafez [God protect] is goodbye in Farsi.
There are several sites for leaning Farsi, one of which is:
http://www.easypersian.com/http://www.easypersian.com/
But at the supposed time of Esther and Mordecai, Aramaic was the imperial
language! Commoners spoke Pahlevi, an earlier form on
As I understand it, the Freiheit was Stalinist to the end, and its
important people consequently left the US for Europe, which may explain how
its papers ended up at the Bod.
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