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Epistle from Israel (2000)
Get PDFActivities of the Judaica Librarians' Group, the Jewish National aחd Uחiversity Library, and other Judaica libraries in Israel during 1995–1996 are surveyed. Also, lsraeli World Wide Web sites with important information for Judaica librarians, and new Judaica publications of special importance to libraries are described
Recommended Judaica Reference Works, 1994-1996
Get PDFThe purpose of this column is to recommend current Judaica reference sources, both general and specialized. It is intended to serve as a guide to new tools for scholarly research as well as to more popular, but reliable, works. The annotations describe the scope, arrangement, and use of each work.
This column lists selected reference materials that appeared from 1994 to 1996. Works published in 1992 and 1993 that were not reviewed in prior columns are included as well
Indexes to the Journals of the American Jewish Historical Society: Significance, Coverage, and Format
Get PDFThe indexes to the journals of the American Jewish Historical Society are reviewed from the perspective of recent indexing standards. The significance of the journals is great, and they clearly merited indexing, but there are many flaws in the execution of the project. Inconsistency of coverage, poor vocabulary control, a lack of continuation headings, and imprecise filing are among the problems noted. The detailed indexing is praiseworthy, and these tools should be useful to librarians and researchers. References to recent indexing manuals and standards are provided
Hebrew Codicology: An Introduction
Get PDFThe codex or so-called manuscript book, the precursor to the printed book, thrived in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The task of the codicologist is to analyze and describe the physical features סf the codex, or in the words סf Professor Malachi Beit-Arie, Director of the Hebrew Paleography Project at the Jewish National University Library in Jerusalem, to conduct an "archaeological examination" of a codex so that it may be correctly localized and dated. This paper explains and illustrates the most prominent features of Hebrew codicology
"Hayah noten ba-hem simanim": Hebrew Abbreviations, Chiefly Rabbinic, and Their ALA/LC Romanization
Get PDFThis list provides the ALA/LC standard romanization of many acronyms and initialisms commonly encountered in Hebrew cataloging. The list is arranged by Hebrew abbreviation. Spaces and apostrophes are ignored in filing. Initial Hebrew definite articles are not ignored. The list includes a few terms that are not abbreviations, but which may be mistakenly interpreted as such