Interwar Poland saw an explosion in the establishment of all kinds of libraries, notably workers' libraries, run by political or labor organizations for the edification and education of working people. In 1929, under the auspices of the Linke Poale Zion, I. Rauchfleisch and L. Weiss published their Handbook for Libraries. This 73-page book was desiged to provide anyone desiring to open such a library as much information as they needed, in clear language and adequate detail, to operate such an institution in line with modern library practices.
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This article details the search for books from the Jewish Religious Community Library in Prague that were looted by the Nazis, and how the institution’s curators are working today to rebuild their original collection. It traces the history of the Prague Library, the Nazis’ policies of confiscating Jewish books for their proposed institutes on the ‘Jewish Question,’ and how some of these confiscated books ended up in the UCLA Library. Librarians at UCLA did not find any professional guidelines for the repatriating looted material from academic libraries, even though the museum and art worlds have dealt with these issues for decades. We share processes we developed and our quest to publicize this issue as broadly as possible. We also discuss methods that European librarians are currently using research provenance. Ours is a singular case, and institutions must understand that each question of repatriation must be considered within its own particular context. We offer some models for addressing repatriation questions and call for an organized English language forum where Judaica librarians in academic libraries and archives everywhere can discuss these issues in order to promote broader understanding, collaboration, and actions.
本文详细介绍了在布拉格犹太宗教社区图书馆(Jewish Religious Community Library)寻找被纳粹掠夺的书籍的过程，以及该机构的策展人今天如何努力重建其原始收藏。它追溯了布拉格图书馆的历史，纳粹没收犹太书籍的政策，用于他们拟议的“犹太问题”研究所，以及这些被没收的书籍是如何最终进入加州大学洛杉矶分校图书馆的。加州大学洛杉矶分校的图书管理员并没有找到任何专业的指导方针，尽管博物馆和艺术界已经处理了几十年的这些问题。我们分享了我们制定的程序，以及我们尽可能广泛地宣传这一问题的努力。我们还讨论了欧洲图书馆员目前正在使用的研究来源的方法。我们的情况是一个特例，各机构必须理解，必须在其自身的特定范围内考虑每一个遣返问题。我们提供了一些解决遣返问题的模式，并呼吁建立一个有组织的英语论坛，让各地学术图书馆和档案馆的犹太图书馆员可以讨论这些问题，以促进更广泛的理解、合作和行动。
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The COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, changing expectations and work around the globe. The pandemic forced the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) to expedite changes that had been moving along slowly, leading to a completely revamped organization. This article goes through some of the background leading up to COVID-19 and how AJL was already changing and continues to change to meet the needs of its members.
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{"title":"Tribute to Heidi G. Lerner upon Her Retirement","authors":"Aaron J. Taub","doi":"10.14263/22/2022/701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14263/22/2022/701","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81746,"journal":{"name":"Judaica librarianship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47141742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article offers a chance to readers to know better the Hebraica catalogers who have been active in the United States and Canada, currently active, retired and deceased. There are two parts in this article. First the author presents how the article came into being, the source the author used and the existing bibliography. Then the author presents the field of Hebraica and Judaica librarianship in the “longue durée.” The second part contains testimonies of Hebraica catalogers who accepted to contribute to this article.
{"title":"Hiding in Plain Sight: Toward a Celebration of Hebraica Catalogers","authors":"Roger S. Kohn","doi":"10.14263/22/2022/695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14263/22/2022/695","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a chance to readers to know better the Hebraica catalogers who have been active in the United States and Canada, currently active, retired and deceased. \u0000There are two parts in this article. First the author presents how the article came into being, the source the author used and the existing bibliography. Then the author presents the field of Hebraica and Judaica librarianship in the “longue durée.” The second part contains testimonies of Hebraica catalogers who accepted to contribute to this article. ","PeriodicalId":81746,"journal":{"name":"Judaica librarianship","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41510758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Two translated articles published by Ber Borokhov (1881–1917) in the Yiddish newspaper Di varhayt (Warheit) in New York, in 1917. The translations are accompanied by an essay that recounts Borokhov's history, scholarship, and keen interst in Jewish libraries.
Ber Borokhov（1881–1917）于1917年在纽约的意第绪语报纸Di varhayt（Warheit）上发表的两篇翻译文章。译文附有一篇文章，讲述了博罗霍夫的历史、学术和对犹太图书馆的浓厚兴趣。
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The rising significance of Holocaust commemoration has advanced provenance research of Nazi-looted material Jewish heritage and has shown the urgent need for reliable resources in order to cope with the particular challenges of identifying Judaica objects. This review essay examines the theoretical foundations of provenance research in Germany and presents two indispensalbe resources that help with practical provenance research. The Lost Art Database, maintained by the Lost Art Foundation, documents cultural assets beeing illegaly confiscated by the Nazis. The Handbook on Judaica Provenance Research: Ceremonial Object, an open access electronic publication, funded by Claims Conference and the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), provides detailed information to identify Jewish cultural objects. The theoretical framework of memory culture in Germany is explored in the book by Dora Osborne, What Remains: The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture. In this oustanding analysis of the functions of archives in the process of coming to terms with the Nazi past, Osborne rightly emphasizes the archival turn in German memory culture and proves its importance.
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