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The “Mapping Jewish Libraries” database brings together, on a searchable platform, information about Jewish libraries’ holdings in Europe. Researchers, students and other users can locate collections of Jewish materials to meet their needs. About...
From Jewniverse In 1959, Soviet Jewish writer Vasily Grossman finished his magnum opus, the novel Life and Fate, an account of the Battle of Stalingrad during the Nazi invasion of the USSR and, simply,...
The 2016 Sydney Taylor Book Award BLOG TOUR will take place Feb. 8-12, showcasing interviews with the gold and silver medal winning authors and illustrators! Visit the participating blogs ON or AFTER the blog...
The January Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by Marie Cloutier at The Boston Bibliophile at http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2016/01/jewish-book-carnival.html. You’ll find links to Jewish book...
From The Times of Israel Most readers of The Times of Israel are familiar with AACI, the oldest and best-known non-profit organization that was created to assist English-speaking immigrants from around the globe to...
From Tablet Magazine: The Fate of Jewish Collections in 19th-Century Germany Tracing the birth of ‘Jewish studies’ as we know it By Ismar Schorsch Archives tend to put people to sleep. They seem about...
The December Jewish Book Carnival, a monthly roundup of Jewish literary links from across the blogosphere, is being hosted by Deborah Kalb at “Book Q&A’s with Deborah Kalb” at http://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2015/12/jewish-book-carnival-for-december-2015.html. You’ll find links to...
From Stanford University’s Digital Library Blog Conservation Services is delighted to announce our new collection in the SDR, Stanford University Libraries Conservation Services treatment documentation. Beginning this past summer, we began depositing treatment reports,...
From the Jewish Journal by Lisa Silverman Posted on Nov. 25, 2015 at 9:10 am It’s time for a top-10 list of a few of the best recently published Jewish books for this Chanukah...
Tracing the fate of 25,000 volumes lost to the Holocaust By Michael Frank …In all this relentless looting, packing, transporting, organizing, categorizing, sequestering, and (after the war) returning of the calligraphed and printed word,...
