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Shalom Safranim Ve-Safraniot, One of our professors is looking for the frontispiece - an image - of the 1644 Latin publication of Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer, translated by Vorstius. I was able to find: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://winners-files.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/sale_109-public/3

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Shalom Safranim ve Safraniot, One of our readers in the library is in search of a modern novel that was originally written in English and subsequently translated to Hebrew. The novel should focus on a maternal figure in a patriarchal society or, alternatively, matriarchs in a female lineage.

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One of our students is writing a thesis on "Kamtza and Bar Kamtza". She is looking for English sources of the story. She also prefers ancient versions written in English. Can you help her? Thank you and Gmar Chatima Tova! Smadar Wisper English Seminar Library Bar Ilan University Israel __ Messag

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Dear Safranim ve Safraniot, I was asked by one of our professors: Is there any way to find out how many books of poetry were published by African American/Black poets (slave, free born, or freed) in the eighteenth century? How many in the 19th? Thank you! Smadar Wisper English Seminar Library Bar

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Smadar,Would Sefer Ha-Aggadah  edited by Bialik and Ravnitsky and translated into The Book of Legends work?  All original sources appear in footnotes, in English, so everything can traced back to sources which can often also be found in translation.  There are 3 -4 pages on Kamtza and Bar Kamtza

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I would start with LI guides like this one https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=694271&p=4920684__;!!KGKeukY!3glEQufBHX7cIlcitmz6DdmiS-EReyaNgBDjaKc8XBTXCPJG_lxzT2VUh0IB66RmoiqbTpcQjZqyJUkGRrb0sao$ On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 9:39 AM Smadar Wisper via Hasafran < h

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I would contact Kevin Young at the Schomburg Library. He edited the recently (2020) published compendium *African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song*. It contains notes on the texts, as well as biographical notes on the poets. Warm regards, Sharon Elswit author of *The Jewish Story Fi

[ha-Safran] Can you help with identification of copy of cantorial sheet music without title page?

Dear colleagues, A student asked me to identify the photocopy (no title pages) of cantorial scores for the High Holydays which once belonged to their mother. The original book must have been published before 1992. It has at least 224 pages. It was used by a conservative cantor in Philadelphia.