Re: [ha-Safran] Who taught the course on Romanization of Hebrew at YIVO?

Who else but the one and only Bella Hass Weinberg? Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu zekhar...@gmail.com On Oct 26, 2021, at 12:19 PM, Marion Stein via Hasafran mailto:hasafran@lists.osu.edu>> wrote: Marion Stein __ Message

[ha-Safran] Dr. Maurice Tuchman (1936-2022)

Long-time AJL members will recall with fondness Dr. Maurice (aka Murray) Tuchman, who has just passed away. Murray was active in AJL; after he retired from his position at Hebrew College (Boston) he became a professional appraiser of Judaica books and manuscripts. Professor Jonathan Sarna, of Br

[ha-Safran] American Jewish University is selling 'all or part' of its Los Angeles campus

Signs of the times? A sobering piece of news via JTA (with italics added): https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jta.org/2022/02/11/united-states/american-jewish-university-is-selling-all-or-part-of-its-los-angeles-campus__;!!KGKeukY!iL3waUI2u-2ry12b9Nyiz3V6Kde-xJjg14mXMuFTZplSFrbg5Z3MqvIX1CnBYfF

[ha-Safran] The ‘All-of-a-Kind Family’ books are set to become a TV show

Article in today’s NY Jewish Week: (New York Jewish Week) – The Lower East Side’s most famous set of Jewish sisters — Ella, Henn

[ha-Safran] Free online textbook: The Holocaust: Remembrance, Respect, and Resilience

The historian of Jewish dance Judith Brin Ingber has brought to my attention this free online textbook: The Holocaust: Remembrance, Respect, and Resilience

[ha-Safran] Jewish LearningWorks ends ties with Jewish Community Library of San Francisco

Here is an informative report by Dan Pine of the J - Jewish News of Northern California, on the recently announced separation of the Jewish Community Library of San Francisco from its long-time parent agency, Jewish Learning Works (formerly the Bureau of Jewish Education). From the article: On

[ha-Safran] Discovery and Recovery: Uncovering Nazi Looted Books in the UCLA Library and Repatriation Efforts

The latest issue of College & Research Libraries (vol. 84, no. 6, 2023) includes this article by Diane Mizrachi, of the UCLA Library, and Michal Bušek, at the Jewish Museum of Prague:

[ha-Safran] Paul Hamburg, z'l

News of Paul Hamburg’s passing is sad indeed. We first crossed paths at AJL conferences, probably back in the 1990s (when they were still called “conventions”), and we became close colleagues when he joined the library staff at UC-Berkeley in 2002 as its Judaica librarian. He was an ideal fit fo

[ha-Safran] 2024 Fanny Goldstein Award

The irrepressible Gail Shirazi — congratulations on this well-deserved honor! Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu zekhar...@gmail.com __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not

[ha-Safran] Curators' conference at the National Library of Israel

I attended a few curators’ conferences at the National Library of Israel in its former home on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University. The first such conference to be held in the NLI’s new building took place in May — I wish I could have been there. The NLI blog includes this account:

[ha-Safran] Leah Adler z”l

It is so sad to hear that Leah Adler is no longer with us! She had such elegance of manner and spirit. All who had the good fortune to know her will greatly miss her combination of integrity, intelligence, and tact. May her memory be blessed. Zachary Zachary M. Baker zba...@stanford.edu zekhar.

[ha-Safran] AJL conference program book

Thank you, Jackie, for sharing the link to the AJL conference program book. The programming looks terrific, all across the board, and from all accounts it was a very successful conference. I’m very sorry I wasn’t able to partake of the offerings. And belated congratulations, aka mazl-tov, to El

[ha-Safran] Job openings at the Yiddish Book Center

Colleagues, The Yiddish Book Center has a number of job openings of possible interest, including the following: Metadata Librarian The Yiddish Book Center seeks a Metadata

[ha-Safran] "Leksikon" translation completed

Here is an exciting announcement from my friend Josh Fogel: Just a brief note to say that, after five and one-half years of work, I have finished my translation of "Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur" (8 volumes plus Berl Kagan's volume of additions and corrections). I've also added inf

[ha-Safran] Fanny Goldstein Merit Award

Dear Colleagues, I had hoped to join you at this year’s AJL Conference in Evanston, which for understandable reasons has been canceled along with so many other activities and functions. With Passover imminently upon us, here we all are, sheltering in place, hoping that this frightful pandemic w

[ha-Safran] AJL Conference 2020

I’d like to express my profound appreciation and gratitude to all of the organizers of and participants in this year’s AJL conference. The coronavirus pandemic turned the conference into an impressively international event, with a steady flow of excellent sessions. It was great to “see” everybod

[ha-Safran] Celebrating (and Accessing) Jewish Archives, Collections, Libraries: In Italy, the UK, and in Europe

This announcement is from the latest Jewish Heritage in Europe newsletter: JHE primarily deals with Jewish built heritage -- but also with the variety of issues linked to and concerning it, from museums and exhibits to tourism. Today, we celebrate Jewish Archives, Libraries, and Archival Collect