RE: [ha-Safran]: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Librarians

2011-03-15 Thread Stahl, Sheryl
At the Library of Congress Chronicling America site, they have links to digitized newspaper accounts of the fire. http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/triangle.html Sheryl Stahl Senior Associate Librarian Frances Henry Library Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion 3077 University Ave.

Re: [ha-Safran]: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Librarians

2011-03-15 Thread Janina Wurbs
Oh, I see. Well, I would be very much surprised if the National Yiddish Book Center digitized all the Forverts issues - this would really be a major project... I am sure they did not do that (and it also would not fit into their agenda, as far as I understand). I looked for older Forverts

Re: [ha-Safran]: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Librarians

2011-03-13 Thread Janina Wurbs
I just subscribed to this list, so I don't know what the original question was nor have I read previous messages in an ongoing discussion. I only want to confirm that the Forverts and the Forward Association indeed do not digitize older issues nor do they have an archive of older issues. They

Re: [ha-Safran]: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Librarians

2011-03-13 Thread Marcia Schertz
have you tried the yiddish book center? i haven't been there in years ( but hope to go next month) but i seem to remember something about the Forward there. marcia schertz temple israel portsmouth, n.h. --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are

Re: [ha-Safran]: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Librarians

2011-03-11 Thread Kimberley A. Shaw
YIVO, alas, appears to have no plans to digitize any of their Forverts issues. And my query to the Forward has gone unanswered -- I suspect that the copies of the Yiddish supplement at http://yiddish.forward.com were all born-digital, as none are any earlier than 1999. Sorry to not have better

Re: [ha-Safran]: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Librarians

2011-03-05 Thread Kimberley A. Shaw
Glad to see mention of this site, especially since I'm in one of the events (ASL song-interpreter for the chorus, A Besere Velt)! Related to the Triangle comemmorations, does anybody know where/how one can read issues of the Forverts of the time? It sounds like such an influential and

Re: [ha-Safran]: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Librarians

2011-03-05 Thread myjewishbooks
The Forward is publishing a special issue this month which will have IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION original stories from 1911 on the fire and aftermath --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish