[ha-Safran] Student discussion guide to A VISIT TO MOSCOW

2024-05-05 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
First, I hope that if any of you have family and friends in Israel, they are safe. I'd like to share that the student discussion guide to the graphic novel A VISIT TO MOSCOW, with received a 2023 Eisner nomination, has just been made available by Creators Assemble!, a nonprofit focused on

[ha-Safran] Requesting links to articles

2024-03-01 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
I’d like to thank everyone who helped me add to my list of links to articles by Blacks, Arabs, Palestinians, and other people of color that are pro-Israel and that stand up for Israel in the wake of October 7. I crafted a response to the two editors who had rejected my clients’ work because

[ha-Safran] Requesting links to articles

2024-02-17 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
As a response to certain publishers who have rejected my clients' manuscripts because my clients are either Israeli or are pro-Israel, I am collecting links to articles by Blacks, Arabs, Palestinians, and other people of color that are pro-Israel and that stand up for Israel in the wake of

[ha-Safran] 11 issues of AVOTAYNU available to donate

2023-05-25 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
A year ago I offered to donate my 9 issues of AVOTAYNU (The International Review of Jewish Genealogy)—Summer 2019 through Summer 2021 (Volume 35, #2-Volume 37, #2) to the first library who requested them. No library was interested. I have since finished reading the last 2 issues that AVOTAYNU

[ha-Safran] 9 issues of AVOTAYNU available

2022-07-17 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
Would anyone like the past 9 issues of AVOTAYNU (The International Review of Jewish Genealogy): Spring 2020-Summer 2021, Volume 36, #1-Volume 37, #2. The issues of fairly pristine. If any library would like them, let me know and I will ship them to you: olswan...@mac.com

[ha-Safran] Three books available

2022-07-10 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
A cousin, who was a Holocaust survivor, recently died and I found three books on her shelves that might be of interest to a library, although they are not necessarily of Jewish value: Sears' Illustrated Description of the Russian Empire (seems to have been published by Robert Sears in 1855)

[ha-Safran] JPhoto Album-Catalogue by photographer Chaimas Kaplanskis

2022-05-22 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
I have a copy of the hardcover book Photo Album-Catalogue by photographer Chaimas Kaplanskis, the 2007 Vilnius edition. It is a collection of photographs of western Lithuanian people from the 19th and 20th centuries. There may be some Jews among the photographed people. If any library would

[ha-Safran] Jewish Historical Society of Memphis and the Mid-South Zoom program on March 20th

2022-03-07 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
Could you post the second announcement instead of the first? I think it's more explanatory. Thanks if I caught you in time. Anna Olswanger Anna Olswanger | Literary Agent | Olswanger Literary LLC 16-60 Chandler Drive | Fair Lawn, NJ | 07410-2715 t: 201-791-4699 | w:

[ha-Safran] Jewish Historical Society of Memphis and the Mid-South Zoom program on March 20th

2022-03-07 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
Everyone is invited to a free Zoom program with AJL member and author Anna Olswanger on March 20th sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of Memphis and the Mid-South. The 25-minute film GREENHORN, based on Anna's middle grade novel of the same name, will air at 2:00 p.m. and will be

[ha-Safran] Jewish Historical Society of Memphis and the Mid-South Zoom program on March 20th

2022-03-07 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
Everyone is invited to a free Zoom program with AJL member and author Anna Olswanger on March 20th sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of Memphis and the Mid-South. The 25-minute film GREENHORN, based on Anna's middle grade novel of the same name, will air at 2:00 p.m. and will be

[ha-Safran] Soviet Embassy

2021-12-29 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
I would like to find out if it is possible to obtain records (c. 1965) from what was the Soviet Embassy? Would anyone have advice about how I could research this? Thanks very much. Anna Olswanger Anna Olswanger | Literary Agent | Olswanger Literary LLC 16-60 Chandler Drive | Fair Lawn, NJ |

[ha-Safran] Concentration camp

2020-03-24 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
I hope everyone is safe and well. Would one of you know if there’s a way to determine which concentration camp a Moscow Jew was likely to have been deported to? Thank you if you have any insight about this. Sincerely, Anna Olswanger Anna Olswanger | Literary Agent | Olswanger Literary LLC

[ha-Safran] First-person accounts

2019-05-21 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
Does anyone know of a first-person account/memoir, especially online, of an American rabbi or other Jew who visited the Soviet Union in the time period between 1965-1969. I’d like to find out details, such as what the visitors took with them in the way of religious objects and how they may

[ha-Safran] First-person accounts

2019-05-21 Thread Anna Olswanger via Hasafran
Does anyone know of a first-person account/memoir, especially online, of an American rabbi or other Jew who visited the Soviet Union in the time period between 1965-1969. I’d like to find out details, such as what the visitors took with them in the way of religious objects and how they may