The Baltimore Hebrew University (BHU) was one of a handful of independent Jewish studies institutions in the United States during the twentieth century. Located in the heart of the Baltimore Jewish community, it grew from a small teachers’ college to a doctoral degree-granting university over the course of its many decades. Several factors, including shifting educational trends, pragmatic economic considerations, and societal expectations altered the academic landscape for this institution; dwindling enrollment forced the once-thriving school to consider options for re-location, re-organization, or closure. A little more than ten years ago, BHU’s programs, faculty, and library were incorporated into a large public university located in nearby Towson, Maryland. As part of this move, the extensive resources of the BHU library were integrated with the much larger library of Towson University (TU), and both collections are now housed in one multi-storied building in the middle of a busy urban university campus. This article addresses the phenomenon of merging two disparate library collections and focuses on both the positive and negative results of consolidating academic libraries of different sizes, content, and cultural heritage. The author was a former librarian at BHU and is currently a librarian at TU.
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Kanon im Exil is an interdisciplinary biographical study of the reading canon and writings of five German-Jewish authors who emigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. Caroline Jessen’s eloquent and creative work, an abridged version of her dissertation, brings together literary and exile studies, social and cultural history, history of the book, and the history of ideas. It is embedded in the specific political context of a newly formed society in Palestine/Israel, which chose Hebrew as its unifying language and embarked on new national literary expressions and cultural narratives. Immigrants to Palestine found themselves in a very different situation in comparison to those in other prominent places of German-Jewish emigration in the 1930s—mainly in the United States and the United Kingdom—where the newcomers entered established societies and negotiated their space there. The lives of the five people profiled in this book offer an impression of the tensions and conflict areas they encountered. Jessen argues that the conscious and unconscious discourse with the German literary canon that each of these writers grappled with is an invaluable tool for the study of contemporary discourses as an expression of cultural memory. 1 Before embarking on a theoretical framework for canon research, Jessen introduces the topic with an observation regarding German book collections taken to Palestine/Israel by emigrants from Germany as material manifestations of their literary culture: These once ubiquitous collections are now vanishing from everyday Israeli life together with the last generation of their owners.
Kanon im Exil是一个跨学科的传记研究，研究了20世纪30年代移民到巴勒斯坦的五位德国犹太作家的阅读经典和作品。卡罗琳·杰森雄辩而富有创意的作品是她的论文的删节版，汇集了文学和流亡研究、社会和文化史、书的历史以及思想史。它植根于巴勒斯坦/以色列新成立的社会的特定政治背景中，该社会选择希伯来语作为其统一语言，并开始了新的民族文学表达和文化叙事。与20世纪30年代德国犹太人移民的其他突出地区（主要是美国和英国）相比，巴勒斯坦移民发现自己的处境非常不同，在那里，新移民进入了成熟的社会，并在那里谈判他们的空间。本书中描述的五人的生活给人一种他们所遇到的紧张局势和冲突地区的印象。杰森认为，这些作家中的每一位都在与德国文学经典进行有意识和无意识的话语斗争，这是研究当代话语作为文化记忆表达的宝贵工具。1在开始经典研究的理论框架之前，杰森介绍了这个话题，并观察到德国移民带到巴勒斯坦/以色列的德国书籍收藏是他们文学文化的物质表现：这些曾经无处不在的收藏现在正与它们的最后一代主人一起从以色列的日常生活中消失。
{"title":"Book Review: Caroline Jessen, Kanon im Exil: Lektüren deutsch-jüdischer Emigranten in Palästina/ Israel. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019. 398 p. ISBN: 9783835333482. [German]","authors":"Renate Evers","doi":"10.14263/22/2022/569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14263/22/2022/569","url":null,"abstract":"Kanon im Exil is an interdisciplinary biographical study of the reading canon and writings of five German-Jewish authors who emigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. Caroline Jessen’s eloquent and creative work, an abridged version of her dissertation, brings together literary and exile studies, social and cultural history, history of the book, and the history of ideas. It is embedded in the specific political context of a newly formed society in Palestine/Israel, which chose Hebrew as its unifying language and embarked on new national literary expressions and cultural narratives. Immigrants to Palestine found themselves in a very different situation in comparison to those in other prominent places of German-Jewish emigration in the 1930s—mainly in the United States and the United Kingdom—where the newcomers entered established societies and negotiated their space there. The lives of the five people profiled in this book offer an impression of the tensions and conflict areas they encountered. Jessen argues that the conscious and unconscious discourse with the German literary canon that each of these writers grappled with is an invaluable tool for the study of contemporary discourses as an expression of cultural memory. 1 Before embarking on a theoretical framework for canon research, Jessen introduces the topic with an observation regarding German book collections taken to Palestine/Israel by emigrants from Germany as material manifestations of their literary culture: These once ubiquitous collections are now vanishing from everyday Israeli life together with the last generation of their owners.","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":"44935510","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 discusses YIVO's prewar collections, their looting and dispersion during the Holocaust, and the various subsequent efforts to recover them. The article includes a brief overview of YIVO's founding and prewar activities; a discussion of the Nazi looting of YIVO's materials during the Holocaust and the heroic efforts by Jews to save these materials during and after the war; YIVO's shift of its headquarters to New York City in 1939–1940; the US Government restitution of materials to YIVO in 1947; and efforts to reclaim additional materials from Lithuania from 1989 to 2001. The article closes with a brief note on YIVO's newly completed Vilna Collections Project to digitally reunite YIVO's pre-war materials in New York City with materials housed in three Lithuanian repositories.
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{"title":"Scatter of the Literature, March 2020–December 2022","authors":"Rachel Leket-Mor, N. Sharon","doi":"10.14263/22/2022/729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14263/22/2022/729","url":null,"abstract":"a cross","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":"44720534","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}
Archives are not merely collections of materials, nor are they simply the buildings that house them, but are also the multiple people and communities that coalesce around them at the conceptual and the material level at different points along the records continuum (Evans et al. 2017). Archival records gain new meaning as creators, users
档案不仅仅是材料的集合，也不仅仅是容纳它们的建筑物，而是在记录连续体的不同点上，在概念和物质层面上围绕它们结合在一起的多个人和社区(Evans et al. 2017)。档案记录作为创造者、使用者获得了新的意义
{"title":"Book Review: Jason Lustig, A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. ix, 265 p. ISBN: 9780197563526","authors":"Larissa Allwork","doi":"10.14263/22/2022/725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14263/22/2022/725","url":null,"abstract":"Archives are not merely collections of materials, nor are they simply the buildings that house them, but are also the multiple people and communities that coalesce around them at the conceptual and the material level at different points along the records continuum (Evans et al. 2017). Archival records gain new meaning as creators, users","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":"48601436","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}
Jewish-American-themed children’s fiction often includes descriptions of ritual observance. Yet, although ritual circumcision (brit milah, or bris) is a requirement in halacha (Jewish religious law) for all newborn males, this event is virtually absent from Jewish children’s books; the incorporation of a surgical procedure would create obvious narrative difficulties. Sydney Taylor and Sadie Rose Weilerstein, two of the most important twentieth century Jewish-American children’s authors, each wrote a series of books including a newborn son. Instead of a bris, they both included the less common, nonsurgical ritual of pidyon ha-ben. Thus, they eluded a problematic description, while informing readers about a lesser-known Jewish practice.
以犹太裔美国人为主题的儿童小说通常包括对仪式仪式的描述。然而，尽管仪式性割礼（brit-milah，或bris）是halacha（犹太宗教法）中对所有新生儿男性的要求，但犹太儿童书籍中几乎没有这一事件；合并外科手术会造成明显的叙述困难。西德尼·泰勒（Sydney Taylor）和萨迪·罗斯·韦勒斯坦（Sadie Rose Weilerstein）是20世纪最重要的两位犹太裔美国儿童作家，他们各自写了一系列书，其中包括一个刚出生的儿子。它们都包括了不太常见的非手术仪式pidyon ha ben，而不是bris。因此，他们避开了一个有问题的描述，同时向读者介绍了一种鲜为人知的犹太习俗。
{"title":"Jewish Identity and American Acceptance: Welcoming a Firstborn Son in Two Classic Children's Books","authors":"Emily Schneider","doi":"10.14263/22/2022/567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14263/22/2022/567","url":null,"abstract":"Jewish-American-themed children’s fiction often includes descriptions of ritual observance. Yet, although ritual circumcision (brit milah, or bris) is a requirement in halacha (Jewish religious law) for all newborn males, this event is virtually absent from Jewish children’s books; the incorporation of a surgical procedure would create obvious narrative difficulties. Sydney Taylor and Sadie Rose Weilerstein, two of the most important twentieth century Jewish-American children’s authors, each wrote a series of books including a newborn son. Instead of a bris, they both included the less common, nonsurgical ritual of pidyon ha-ben. Thus, they eluded a problematic description, while informing readers about a lesser-known Jewish practice.","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":"48145567","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}
When German Jews looked for a country to receive them in the late 1930s Ecuador had its doors open for immigration. This paper traces the story of four German Jewish refugees who landed in Ecuador and established bookstores and libraries in a country that knew little of either. Rescuing their lives from oblivion is a way to highlight their cultural contribution to their host country.
{"title":"Jewish German Immigrant Booksellers in Twentieth-Century Ecuador","authors":"Irene Munster","doi":"10.14263/22/2022/517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14263/22/2022/517","url":null,"abstract":"When German Jews looked for a country to receive them in the late 1930s Ecuador had its doors open for immigration. This paper traces the story of four German Jewish refugees who landed in Ecuador and established bookstores and libraries in a country that knew little of either. Rescuing their lives from oblivion is a way to highlight their cultural contribution to their host country.","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":"46004704","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 essay introduces the scope and aim of the Sephardic Archive Initiative at the University of California, Los Angeles. In conjunction with the Library, Special Collections, and the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, this project seeks to locate, collect, archive, and share documents and ephemera relating to Sephardic history. With a focus on their journeys to Los Angeles and Southern California, the initiative aims to tell the stories of Jews from North Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and the lands of the former Ottoman Empire. The transnational ties of Sephardic commercial, intellectual, religious, social, and family networks have produced a richly tangled web of history, which for the past century has found a thriving base in Los Angeles. The project seeks to create a hub of scholarly and communal investment, interest, and exploration of materials related to the Sephardic past.
{"title":"The UCLA Sephardic Archive Initiative: Finding the Keys to an Untold History","authors":"M. Daniel","doi":"10.14263/jl.v21i.533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14263/jl.v21i.533","url":null,"abstract":"This essay introduces the scope and aim of the Sephardic Archive Initiative at the University of California, Los Angeles. In conjunction with the Library, Special Collections, and the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, this project seeks to locate, collect, archive, and share documents and ephemera relating to Sephardic history. With a focus on their journeys to Los Angeles and Southern California, the initiative aims to tell the stories of Jews from North Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and the lands of the former Ottoman Empire. The transnational ties of Sephardic commercial, intellectual, religious, social, and family networks have produced a richly tangled web of history, which for the past century has found a thriving base in Los Angeles. The project seeks to create a hub of scholarly and communal investment, interest, and exploration of materials related to the Sephardic past.","PeriodicalId":81746,"journal":{"name":"Judaica librarianship","volume":"21 1","pages":"38–48-38–48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46613558","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}
{"title":"JS/DH: Primary Sources and Open Data","authors":"Michelle Chesner","doi":"10.14263/jl.v21i.543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14263/jl.v21i.543","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81746,"journal":{"name":"Judaica librarianship","volume":"21 1","pages":"119–121-119–121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45114833","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}
The author shares the circumstances that led to his encounter with the personal archives of Victor Haim Perera (1934–2003), an award-winning Sephardic-American writer, journalist, environmental and political activist, and academic born in Guatemala City. Perera published six books on topics as varied as Sephardic history, the Maya Indians, and the Loch Ness monster, and contributed dozens of articles, short stories, and essays to newspapers, trade journals, magazines, and literary anthologies. This paper also provides an overview of Perera’s life and work and shares information about the Victor Perera Papers collection at the University of Michigan Library. It presents a case study illustrating that library catalogers can improve discoverability of and access to library special collections by expanding beyond their core duties and investigating the contexts behind the materials that cross their desks. The article ends with a preliminary bibliography of Perera’s works.
{"title":"The Victor Perera Papers","authors":"Gabriel Mordoch","doi":"10.14263/jl.v21i.529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14263/jl.v21i.529","url":null,"abstract":"The author shares the circumstances that led to his encounter with the personal archives of Victor Haim Perera (1934–2003), an award-winning Sephardic-American writer, journalist, environmental and political activist, and academic born in Guatemala City. Perera published six books on topics as varied as Sephardic history, the Maya Indians, and the Loch Ness monster, and contributed dozens of articles, short stories, and essays to newspapers, trade journals, magazines, and literary anthologies. This paper also provides an overview of Perera’s life and work and shares information about the Victor Perera Papers collection at the University of Michigan Library. It presents a case study illustrating that library catalogers can improve discoverability of and access to library special collections by expanding beyond their core duties and investigating the contexts behind the materials that cross their desks. The article ends with a preliminary bibliography of Perera’s works.","PeriodicalId":81746,"journal":{"name":"Judaica librarianship","volume":"21 1","pages":"5–29-5–29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46117850","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}
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