Re: [ha-Safran] FW: Mordicai Gerstein: In Memoriam

2019-09-25 Thread Annette Goldsmith via Hasafran
What sad news, Lisa! A great loss to the children's literature community. Annette On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 5:15 AM Lisa Silverman via Hasafran < hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > I am forwarding Rich Michelson’s email from today. Mordecai Gerstein was a > 2006 Sydney Taylor Award winner for *Shole

[ha-Safran] LIBRARIANS FOR FAIRNESS REPLES TO MICHAEL KAHN'S POSTING

2019-09-25 Thread Librarians for Fairness via Hasafran
[Hi Yossi, Please use only this version as our posted reply to Mike Kahn's comments] Hi Safranim, We've sent an Email reply to Mike, and we are sharing this very slightly edited version of it (we've edited out a couple of minor typos). . There are several other points that should be noted here.

[ha-Safran] Atla Annual: Call for Conference Proposals

2019-09-25 Thread Megan E. Welsh via Hasafran
Greetings, The Atla Conference Committee invites members and friends to submit proposals for Atla Annual 2020, June 17-20, 2020, in Detroit, Michigan. The deadline for program proposal submissions

Re: [ha-Safran] EMAIL LIBRARIANS FOR FAIRNESS JUST SENT TO DR. BOLLINGER OF COLUMBIA U.

2019-09-25 Thread Michael Kahn via Hasafran
I am not a member of Librarians for Fairness. Perhaps a more conciliatory note could have been taken such as asking "What steps can be taken so that we do not need to call on our members to cease donating to your library?" I also wonder, can the library even influence who the university invites to

[ha-Safran] EMAIL LIBRARIANS FOR FAIRNESS JUST SENT TO DR. BOLLINGER OF COLUMBIA U.

2019-09-25 Thread Librarians for Fairness via Hasafran
[Hi Yossi, I just now caught a typo in the part of this posting that started with Dear Safranim. The word mentioned had an "r" in it that definitely shouldn't have been there. Please post this corrected version.] Dear Safranim, We were initially pleased with the results of posting the invita

[ha-Safran] Job opening: Professor in the field of Contemporary Jewry (Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan)

2019-09-25 Thread Gabriel Mordoch via Hasafran
The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan invites applications for a tenured appointment at the Associate or Professor rank in the field of contemporary Jewry. This is a university-year appointment with an expected start date of September 1, 2020. Discipline and specializa

[ha-Safran] New title in English

2019-09-25 Thread RIFAT BALI via Hasafran
Dear Safranim, I would like to bring to your attention the following title: Abouaf Ben-Shlomo, Benjamin , From Izmir to Haifa - Memoirs of a Turkish Jew, Libra kitap, Istanbul 144 p., ISBN - 9786057884299 This book is the a

[ha-Safran] FW: Mordicai Gerstein: In Memoriam

2019-09-25 Thread Lisa Silverman via Hasafran
I am forwarding Rich Michelson’s email from today. Mordecai Gerstein was a 2006 Sydney Taylor Award winner for Sholem’s Treasure, and has written and illustrated many other distinguished books so many of us have in our libraries. R. MICHELSON GALLERIES is saddened to announce the passing of ou