Unfortunately, a favourable review of the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
has appeared in the March 2009 issue of College and Research Libraries.
Shmuel Ben-Gad,
Gelman Library,
George Washington University.
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Dear Safranim,
I have been reading the thread about the new Gale encyclopedia with
the article equating Zionism with racism with great interest. I just
received a volume of the Historical Dictionary of Zionism (2008)by
Rafael Medoff and Chaim I. Waxman for the Jewish Theological Seminary
Libra
Librarians for Fairness is writing a formal protest letter to the
publisher (Gale) about this.
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I appreciate the efforts of Steven Bernstein and others to combat the
inaccuracies of the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism in regard to the
article on Zionism. However, I must disagree with Aviva Astrinsky
who, in a side comment in this thread, puts the New Testament and the
Protocols of the El
I went to Gale's web site to get a description of this work. The
description clearly states that the work examines "anthropological,
sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race
and racism in the modern era." The very fact that there is an
article entitled Zionism makes
Noel Ignatiev, the controversial author of this article did indeed
include references, they can be seen on the scan of the article that I
posted to ha-Safran yesterday.
http://www.ccsu.edu/library/Bernstein/Zionism.pdf
Steven
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Steven Jay Bernstein
Assi
Formal letters to the publisher's corporate office with ccs to the
editor(s) would definitely be in order
Publishers often farm out work without realizing the extreme bias of
their writiers. Also, academics and quasi-academics with political
agendas approach respected publishers with proposal
The offending article should not go without challenge.
Also, Amazon's website
http://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Race-Racism-Set/dp/002866020X states
"-- Encyclopedia of Race And Racism (Encyclopedia of Race and Racism) 3
Volume Set (Hardcover)
No customer reviews yet. Be the first."
May I sugge
In case anyone would like to read this article for themselves, I have
scanned it and posted it to my web space
http://www.ccsu.edu/library/Bernstein/Zionism.pdf
Steven
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Steven Jay Bernstein
Assistant Catalog Librarian
Central Connecticut State Univers
Thank you fro alerting us to this, Mr. Bernstein. I like the way you
frame the question of professional ethics, "ethical obligation is to
put all items out there for our users or to put
factual items out there for them." Given that it is an encyclopedia
which people can lreasonably expect to be
Dear Steve,
Thank you for alerting us to this article. I will write a letter on
behalf of AJL when I get back. This kind of misinformation should not
be tolerated.
Susan Dubin
AJL President
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Thanks to Steve for bringing this to our attention.
I would like to know if the writer of this "entry"
provided bibliographical references.
At Library School we were taught that encyclopedias are compilation of facts,
not of opinions. One exception was the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and
its revisi
This morning, I was cataloging "The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism"
(Gale, 2008) andas I flipped through the pagescame across an
article in the third volume on Zionism that insinuates that Zionism
is a form of racism.
Among the things he claims on the first page of the article:
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