[ha-Safran] A Piyyut in connection to Rosh Ha-Shanah

2014-09-16 Thread Yael Levine
I'm including a link to a piyyut I composed in connection to Rosh Ha-Shanah. www.kipa.co.il/blog/223302/3811 You can pass it on. I don't have an English translation. Shana Tova Yael Levine __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily e

[ha-Safran] Thank You

2014-09-16 Thread Paula Fine
Hi, My thanks to everyone who posted responses to two recent requests I made regarding read-a-thons and a library re-design project. Your answers were helpful and I appreciated the time you took to get back to me. The support Hasafran offers to all of us is invaluable. I wish you and your dear o

[ha-Safran] Question regarding job tasks

2014-09-16 Thread Debbie Drachman
To all Librarians, I am fairly new to my position, one year, working at a JCC library with about 2600 items in our collection. We have about 500 patrons that use the library in a one month period. Patrons do not pay to use the library, membership is free to JCC users. As the new year approac

[ha-Safran] Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry

2014-09-16 Thread Taub, Aaron
I am forwarding this announcement on behalf of Scott Ury. == I am delighted to announce the publication of Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry

[ha-Safran] Fw: Help cataloging a book in Elazar

2014-09-16 Thread Rachel Haus
Dear Hasafranim, > > >I'm struggling to catalog A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York by >Liana Finck. Would I put it under 553.6? Would it go in 920.77? What about 536 >or 566? The book straddles so many areas, I'm at a loss. (I don't have a >separate section for graphic novels -

[ha-Safran] Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry

2014-09-16 Thread Scott Ury
I am delighted to announce the publication of Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry by Stanford University Press. Based on a wide array of archival and published sources in Hebrew, Polish, Russian and Yiddish from collections in Israel, Pol

[ha-Safran] available at no cost 70 copies of Maḥzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur : a prayer book for the Days of Awe Author: Jules Harlow

2014-09-16 Thread Israel Mizrahi
Hi we have 70 copies of the Maḥzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur : a prayer book for the Days of Awe by: Jules Harlow, they are available at no cost We would be glad to ship them at cost if anyone can put them to use, they can also be picked up at our store address below Shanah Tova