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Campbell, Heidi A. (ed.) Digital Judaism: Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture. Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture 2. New York and London: Routledge, 2015. vi, 213 p., $148. ISBN: 9780415736244
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The Younes And Soraya Nazarian Library, University of Haifa: Israel's Northern Star
Full text linkThe Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library of the University of Haifa is the largest academic library in northern Israel, providing information services to a multicultural community of more than 20,000 students and staff. Since the 1980s, the library has pioneered the use of computers for the provision of services, by means of commercial products and in-house software development, most notably the Index to Hebrew Periodicals. Emphasis is placed on developing information literacy by means of instruction, reference services, and online tools. The library attempts to make the user community aware of its offerings through the use of social media and hosting public events. This article traces the history of the library and describes its special collections, innovative services and projects. The appendix includes suggestions for further reading
Phonemic Conversion as the Ideal Romanization Scheme for Hebrew: Implications for Hebrew Cataloging
Full text linkThis paper examines a romanization scheme developed by linguist Uzzi Ornan that has not been considered for implementation in libraries. Phonemic conversion of Hebrew neither uses transliteration nor transcription strategies but reconstructs the theoretical structure of the original Hebrew word based on its phonemes. The article describes this scheme and its benefits, which include full coverage of all historical periods and script modes of Hebrew, and full reversibility, complete with an online interface that enables automatic conversion. The article compares the suggested phonemic conversion scheme with the ALA/LC Romanization of Hebrew and provides a history of previously attempted reversal schemes
Adding Insult to Injury: Zionist Cultural Colonialism. In response to Gish Amit’s Eḳs libris: hisṭoryah shel gezel, shimur ṿe-nikus ba-Sifriyah ha-leʼumit bi-Yerushalayim (Ex Libris: Chronicles of Theft, Preservation, and Appropriating at the Jewish National Library). Yerushalayim: Mekhon Ṿan Lir bi-Yerushalayim, 2014. 220 p., 79 New Israeli Shekel. ISBN 9789650207069. [Hebrew]
Full text linkThe review essay claims that no books plunder was initiated by the National and University Library in Jerusalem, neither with regard to the books of European Jewry found after World War II, nor with regard to the Palestinian books abandoned during the 1948 war, or the Yemenite Jewish books not claimed after their arrival as cargo without owners to Israel.
The essay is a translated and annotated version of Zeev Gries's talk, given in Hebrew at a literary evening in the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (February 12, 2015), on the occasion of the publication of Gish Amit's book
Kiron, Arthur, ed. Constellations of Atlantic Jewish History, 1555-1890: The Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2014. xxv, 162 p., $25. ISBN 9780615966678
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Amit, Gish. Eḳs libris: hisṭoryah shel gezel, shimur ṿe-nikus ba-Sifriyah ha-le’umit bi-Yerushalayim (Ex Libris: Chronicles of Theft, Preservation, and Appropriating at the Jewish National Library). Yerushalayim: Mekhon Ṿan Lir bi-Yerushalayim, 2014. 220 p., 79 New Israeli Shekel. ISBN 9789650207069. [Hebrew]
Full text linkThe Schachter-Shalomi Collection Anchors Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archive at University of Colorado
Full text linkRabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of Jewish Renewal, was a visionary teacher and leader who developed tools for transformation and helped a generation of Jewish Americans rekindle their faith. This article describes the acquisition, assessment, digitization and public access dimensions of the Schachter-Shalomi Collection housed at the University of Colorado, Boulder archives
