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Dear Librarians NEW TILE FROM GEFEN PUBLISHING HOUSE Subscribe the Gefen email newsletter and quarterly catalog for librarians. http://tinyurl.com/fydrh I Didn't Know That! Torah News U Can Use Joe Bobker ISBN: 978-965-229-398-5 Format: Hardback 400 pages Publish date: 5/2007 Publisher: Gefen Publishing House Price: $14.95 DESCRIPTION: Join Joe Bobker in his humorous adventure through Torah and Talmud, history and halacha, law and lore, and much more. This enjoyable volume on Jewish practice and law serves, in the author's words, as "an envelope to be opened from time to time in order to learn something new." Packed with nuggets of information, this pithy tome is a lighthearted introduction to the serious business of being Jewish. Follow this direct link to this title's details page on Gefen's web site: http://www.israelbooks.com/bookDetails.asp?book=606 ABOUT THE AUTHOR JOE BOBKER was born in 1947 in Ulm, a displaced persons' camp in Germany, to Polish Holocaust survivors Chaskel, zt"l, and Ida Bobker. On May 21, 1949, the family arrived in Sydney, Australia, as Holocaust refugees. Joe Bobker received his early Jewisheducation in an after-school cheder witha handful of other boys from Holocaust homes. His teachers, Rav Hertz and Rav Barzel, werefl own in especially from B'nei Brak to teach Torah tothe handful of children of survivors. Joe's main mentor was HaRav Osher Abramson, zt" l, also a Holocaust survivor. After graduating from the University of New South Wales, Joe Bobker pursued his Judaic studies at the famed Mercaz HaRav Kook Yeshivain Kiryat Moshe, Jerusalem. Over the years he has spoken frequently and written hundreds of articles about Jews and Judaism for a variety of newspapers - including the 100-year-old Los Angeles Jewish Times, of which he is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief. His work covers a wide variety of Jewish subjects from a very personal, philosophical - and often whimsical - perspective. Since 1980, he has lived in Los Angeles and New York with his wife Miriam, a barrister from Melbourne and herself a child of Holocaust survivors, Baruch, zt"l, and Rivka Cohn. When asked whatacts as his inspiration, Joe replied, "Eli, Avi, Benny, Dovi, Hadassa, Baylie, Layella, Devorah, Dalia, Toby, Chesky, Yoni, Baruch, Ze'evi, Mattie, Mordechai, Henny, Dovid, Shira and Osher - my sons, daughters-in-law, granddaughters and grandsons [as of Chanukah, 2006]." See what else is new at Gefen Publishing House. http://www.israelbooks.com/bookList.asp?catId=1&subCat=126 Send purchase orders for this and other Gefen Publishing House titles: By email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By fax: 516-295-2739 To place special orders for books of other Israeli publishers send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Avraham (Andy) Kohlenberg Israbook Special Orders and Marketing Gefen Publishing House Jerusalem / New York www.israelbooks.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 972 2 538 0247 fax: 972 2 538 8423 Hatzvi 6, Jerusalem, 94386 Israel Gefen Books 600 Broadway, Lynbrook, NY, 11563 USA tel: 1 800 477 5257 fax: 516 295 2739 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
