[ha-Safran]: 2 research queries

2010-02-01 Thread Yael and Monty Penkower
Dear safranim: I would appreciate help with two research queries: a. Can someone locate the pages for an article, published by Yisrael Shepansky in Ohr HaMizrah, vol. 22 (April-July 1973), entitled Galut Mitsrayim, Galut Bavel, v'HaGeula HaAtida? b, Does anyone know if there is an address

[ha-Safran]: Query on Max J. Kohler book

2009-10-16 Thread Yael and Monty Penkower
Dear safranim: I am seeking the full reference for a book written by Max J. Kohler (most probably published between 1930-1933) on Jews and minority rights. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Monty N. Penkower --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the

Re: [ha-Safran]: Jewish Libraries in the Middles Ages

2009-07-04 Thread Yael and Monty Penkower
You should look at the several books and phds written about RADAK. e.g. by F. Talmage, Yitzhaq. Berger. Naomi. Grunhaus, (L.FInkelstein). (As suggested by Prof. Yitzhak Penkover). And for Nancy, check too in RAMBI for ' Medieval and Libraries ' Yael Penkower --- Messages and opinions

[ha-Safran]: My new e-mail address

2009-06-29 Thread Yael and Monty Penkower
Dear safranim, Please note my new e-mail address, and drop the old one: ympenko...@gmail.com Thank you, Yael Penkower --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL)

[ha-Safran]: Reference question

2009-06-15 Thread Yael and Monty Penkower
Dear safranim, I am trying to locate the full time in Hebrew of an article and a book. The author is Haim Peles, and the article is about how Agudas Israel viewed settlement in Eretz Israel during the years 1912-1923. This article appeared in a volume, edited by Shmuel Ettinger, whose Hebrew

[ha-Safran]: Penkower e-mail address

2009-06-03 Thread Yael and Monty Penkower
Dear safranim, Please note my new e-mail address; ympenko...@gmail.com Cordially, Yael Penkower --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL)

[ha-Safran]: Palestine immigration query

2009-01-05 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear Safranim, Does anyone have a reliable source giving the number of Jewish refugee illegals who reached Palestine between May and September 1939, and for 1939 as a whole? Thank you. Professor M.N. Penkower Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and

[ha-Safran]: A MSS collection

2008-09-02 Thread yael and monty penkower
Shalom. Lately I came across this web page. I did not know about it before and thought that maybe others would be interested too. I think it is incredible that such a collection' of world importance is in one hand - and not a museum - even if not in one place.

[ha-Safran]: Query on Felix Frankfurter

2008-08-12 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear safranim, An article by S. Norwood, in volume 92 (June 2004) of American Jewish History, discusses Harvard University's granting cachet to Nazism. Can anyone tell me if there is a discussion in that essay of how Felix Frankfurter, then a Harvard Law School professor, responded to

[ha-Safran]: Query on Arab Revolt

2008-06-23 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear safranim, Does anyone know a reliable source for how many Palestinian Arabs, then engaged in the Arab Revolt, were hanged by the British between November 1937 (when martial law was introduced in the country) and June 1938? If so, what is the number given? Cordially Professor Monty N.

[ha-Safran]: NEW BOOK The Holocaust and the Book

2008-05-30 Thread yael and monty penkower
--- The Holocaust and the Book Destruction and Preservation Edited by Jonathan Rose Essays on the Nazi campaign against the written word Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an

[ha-Safran]: Query re Hebrew story

2008-02-13 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear safranim, Does anyone know the author and date of the Hebrew story yisurei Avshalom, dedicated to the memory of Shlomo ben-Yosef, and where this story was published? Thank you. Monty N. Penkower Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not

Re: [ha-Safran]: Different kind of query

2007-12-13 Thread yael and monty penkower
To AJL safranim, As the husband of a (recently) retired librarian, I appreciated this a lot, and especially the last pun. Here's an idea: perhaps the AJL could publish a booklet giving the various replies received to this fascinating question. Best wishes, Monty Noam Penkower Messages and

[ha-Safran]: Books

2007-12-01 Thread yael and monty penkower
Subject: Books My friends and I thought you might be interested in the following Newsweek cover story (last week's issue) about The Future of Reading. http://www.newsweek.com/id/70983/output/print PS in the print version, there is a picture of an illustrated megillah (which i couldn't find

Re: [ha-Safran]: Getting the host name and ports for z3950

2007-10-21 Thread yael and monty penkower
It is not so. Just google Jewish national University Library and you can get it. At the same time you can also check out RAMBI Shavua'h Tov Yael Penkower Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of

[ha-Safran]: Stamp for Uri Zvi Greenberg or Yehoshua Yeivin

2007-05-29 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear safranim, Does anyone know if Israel issued a stamp in honor of either Uri Zvi Greenberg or Yehoshua Yeivin? M. Penkower Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL)

Re: [ha-Safran]: Outstanding Librarian Prize

2007-02-27 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear friends, I attended the conference, which Bracha Weisbarth eluded to. This International Librarians conference was called Shaveh LiKro - Reading AdVentures ( worth reading). The prizes for some other librarians as well, were presented at The Librarian Day in conjunction with the

[ha-Safran]: Reference queries

2007-01-10 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear safranim, Can someone give me this bibliographical information? 1. The pages of the poem Travelogue for Exiles, published in Karl Shapiro's Poems of a Jew (New York, 1958). 2. The pages of the essay The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!, published in George Eliot's Impressions of Theophrastus (London,

[ha-Safran]: Query on Kafka

2007-01-03 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear safranim, Can anyone locate the source for Kafka's letter to a friend, remarking that all the realistic arguments for hatred of the Jews are only fashionable cloaks? Thanks, Yael Penkower Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not

[ha-Safran]: Max Weber on Zionism

2006-12-19 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear safranim, Can anyone suggest writings by, as well as about, Max Weber re his views on Zionism? Thanks, Yael Penkower Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL)

[ha-Safran]: Query re NY Times and Israel

2006-12-19 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear safranim, Can you recommend a study or studies on the position of the New York Times's editorials and news coverage regarding the State of Israel (from 1948 onwards)? Thank you. Yael Penkower Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not

[ha-Safran]: Query re Alfred Dreyfus

2006-12-04 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear safranim, I would greatly appreciate an answer to this query: I am told that Alfred Dreyfus wrote the following to his wife, either from his cell before being exiled to Devil's Island or once he was imprisoned on Devil's Island: Si tu veux que je vive, fais-moi rendre mon honneur. Can

[ha-Safran]: Query re encyclopedia britanica

2006-12-04 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear safranim, Does anyone have access to the edition of the first Encyclopedia Britainica that was published in the 20th century? If so, can you supply me with the date of publication, as well as the entry on Jews or Judaism? Thank you. Yael Penkower Messages and opinions expressed on

[ha-Safran]: Book query

2006-11-16 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear Safranim, Does anyone know where I can find a copy for purchase of Barbara McDonald Stewart's book United States Government Policy on Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1940? Ditto for R. Graves, Experiment in Anarchy. Thanks! Yael Penkower Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of

[ha-Safran]: Research query

2006-10-16 Thread yael and monty penkower
Can anyone tell me the page numbers for an article by Felix Frankfurter on Palestine in the journal Foreign Affairs (April 1931), volume 9? Thank you. Yael Penkower Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the

[ha-Safran]: Research query

2006-09-20 Thread yael and monty penkower
Does anyone know the first name of a Judge Devanney of Minnesota in the l930's? Toda! Yael Penkower Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL)

[ha-Safran]: Contemporary Jewish Record query

2006-06-24 Thread yael and monty penkower
Dear safranim, Does anyone know the pages to the Contemporary Jewish Record issue of December, 1944, for Horace Kallen's article Of Them Which Say They Are Jews? Thanks. MN Penkower Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed

[ha-Safran]: Sad news

2006-02-15 Thread yael and monty penkower
We just got this massage from YU in Israel We mourn the untimely passing of Rabbi Dr. Reuben M. Rudman, ZL, BTA, YC, BRGS, RIETS, husband of Idelle Rudman, Central, TIW. The funeral will be today, Wednesday February 15 at 4:45 PM at Bet HaHesped (opposite Herzog Hospital). Shiva at Bet