[ha-Safran]: New website devoted to Jewish design and architecture

2008-06-17 Thread Bernard Cooperman
Jewishconstruct.org is a new "social network" dedicated to creating and serving an online "Jewish design and architecture community." The website is intended to become an online repository of images, maps, architectural plans, articles (scholarly and popular), and other information related to J

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2008-01-21 Thread Bernard Cooperman
[ha-Safran]: Accessing the Haaretz archive hello: If anyone responds to you directly about the HaAretz archive question, I hope you'll share it with the rest of the list. This is a problem I have wanted to find an answer to in a long time. Also, do you have any access mechanisms for other new

Re: [ha-Safran]: Text about Jews in non-jewish society

2007-09-09 Thread Bernard Cooperman
one thing you might try is the Barnavi "Historical Atlas of the Jewish People" published by Schocken. It has time lines, some simple maps, and lots of colorful illustrations. Bernard Dov Cooperman Louis L. Kaplan Chair of Jewish History Dept. of History 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall University of

[ha-Safran]: Marcia Goldberg Z"L

2005-02-28 Thread Bernard Cooperman
g the mourners of zion and Jerusalem. I am taking the liberty of attaching part of the email I received from her son last night in case people in the area want to attend the funeral or pay a shiva call. Bernard Cooperman Begin forwarded message: >From: "Aryeh Goldberg" <[EMAIL P

Re: [ha-Safran]: Distributor for Israeli Films

2004-11-11 Thread Bernard Cooperman
On Deborah Katz's questions about Israeli film sources, my experience has been that there is no single distributor that has all the films you want. We just purchased the entire catalogue of Ruth Diskin Films (e-mail Ruth diskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> website http://www.ruthfilms.com/ ) who market

[ha-Safran]: Re: slaughterhouse in Iowa

2004-10-02 Thread Bernard Cooperman
re Bloom: Postville, note that Iowa Public Television did a wonderful documentary about it. We got a copy from them and have added it to our video collection at UMd where I use it in my teaching. Bernard Dov Cooperman Louis L. Kaplan Chair of Jewish History Dept. of History Francis Scott Key Hal

[ha-Safran]: Re: 350 years of Jews in America

2004-09-26 Thread Bernard Cooperman
I am neither a librarian nor a lower-school/high-school educator so I really have no business respoonding to Leah Moskovits' request for ideas about marking the 350th anniversary, but I can't resist (if only because I wish my university students were a little more sophisticated when they get to

Re: [ha-Safran]: Question about Nachmanides

2004-08-27 Thread Bernard Cooperman
See Nahmanides commentary on Maimonides' Sefer ha-Mitzvot. At the end of standard eiditons there is a list of "Commandments that [Maimonides] forgot according to the opinion of Nahmanides" and in the section of Postiive Commandments, no. 4 is "that we were commanded to inherit [acquire] the lan

[Ha-Safran] address of bigeleisen's book store

2003-09-29 Thread bernard cooperman
Hello Safranim: Does anyone have the address, phone number, and/or email address of Biegeleisen's book store in Boro Park. I don't seem able to find it on the web and assume I'm spelling the name wrong. Thank you and gmar hatima tova to all. Bernard Dov Cooperman Louis L. Kaplan Chair of Jewis