I just returned from the Regional Conference on American Jewish History sponsored by the Greater Cleveland Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries. Even though I was unable to attend the morning sessions, I heard glowing reports from other attendees about these and the afternoon sessions. I can personally vouch for the very high quality of the keynote speech by Linda Silver entitled: "What Fanny, Mamie and Sadie Did: The Birth of an American Jewish Children's Literature." The afternoon session that I attended was very interesting; we can look forward to the opening of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage this June in Cleveland. A bonus was an informative talk by Prof. Marc Lee Raphael of the College of William and Mary entitled "What is American and What is Jewish about the American Jewish Experience?" In addition, displays of new books were available for browsing, accompanied by both adult [<http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/publications/bklist04_adult.pdf>http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/publications/bklist04_adult.pdf] and children/teen [<http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/publications/bklist04_juvi.pdf>http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/publications/bklist04_juvi.pdf] booklists.
Mazal Tov to the entire chapter on an entertaining and informative conference, and especially to the chairpersons, Merrily Hart and Jean Lettofsky. Laurel Laurel S. Wolfson, Vice President Association of Jewish Libraries Klau Library Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati OH 45220 phone: 513-487-3274 fax: 513-221-0519 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the 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: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
