This is my favorite all time reference question we received. In 2001
we received a typewritten letter from a 75 year old man from Chicago
seeking information on Albert Einstein, because, as he wrote, My
father claimed that I was the illegitimate son of Albert Einstein.
Can you help me find
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
By the way, is there a translation of Mein Kampf
into Hebrew?
The closest I've found was via
http://worldcat.org/oclc/32340306 :
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One of the most interesting queries I was given was by
a woman writing a Holocaust memoir. She gave me an
obscure name (I can't recall it, at the moment)
The NY Times has the back story on this specific translation:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE2D91739F936A3575BC0A964958260
There is also another work of his:
http://worldcat.org/oclc/166291563
Yakov
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Working in a public library, we get many strange and wonderful
questions such as:
The effects of pollution on orgasm (middle school students doing
science homework. When asked if they perhaps meant organisms, the
said,Whatever!
Why was Mozart a genius? When told that he came from a musical
Dear Vanessa -
As I started this thread of conversation, I'll assume I can go again!
My first week at Hebrew Union College in New York (January of 1974) a
distant cousin of my wife who was a librarian at a major Madison
Avenue advertising agency called with a similar question.
A client, a
Thank you, Steve. Of course an Akademon publication might only get
used in an academic setting. The question posed to me thirty years
ago was long before this was published in Israel, let alone the
existence of WorldCat (I basically went through decades of Kiryat
Sefer looking but coming up
The strangest question I've ever had was whether the phrase milk and olive
oil (as opposed to milk and honey) appears in the Tenach. It turned out
that the enquirer was an olive oil importer, and wanted to know it for a
bet!
By the way, is there a translation of Mein Kampf into Hebrew?
Vanessa
We have interesting questions every week. None
of which I would classify as bizarre. Many times
the question the person asks is not the one they
need to ask for what they need to know.
Here are some recent ones:
Question: Where is the section on child
development? Answer: BF 721, but what
As a cataloger, I don't get reference questions all that
often. Once, however, a student approached me and asked if the
librarians were Moshiachists. I asked him what he meant by that and
he pointed out that the Lubavitcher Rebbe was listed in the catalog as follows:
Schneersohn, Menah?em
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