Today, a six year old said to me "Do you know what's cool about the library? When it's a holiday you put books out that are about that holiday!"
Very observant child!
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Friday, October 19, 2012
Community Author Events!
At Brookline Booksmith:
Sue Kushner Resnick - You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me about Living, Dying, Fighting, and Swearing in Yiddish October 23, 7:00 pm
http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/sue-kushner-resnick-you-saved-me-too
Alicia Suskin Ostriker - The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011
October 30, 7:00 pm
http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/alicia-suskin-ostriker-book-life-selected-jewish-poems-1979-2011
Sue Kushner Resnick - You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me about Living, Dying, Fighting, and Swearing in Yiddish October 23, 7:00 pm
http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/sue-kushner-resnick-you-saved-me-too
Alicia Suskin Ostriker - The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011
October 30, 7:00 pm
http://www.brooklinebooksmith-shop.com/event/alicia-suskin-ostriker-book-life-selected-jewish-poems-1979-2011
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Judaica Librarian's event, May 4
MAKING HISTORY:SYNAGOGUE REPLICATION PROJECT, WITH RICK AND LAURA BROWN, @ SPRING MEETING OF THE NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES (NEAJL) , FRIDAY, MAY 4.
The Spring Meeting of the New England Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries (NEAJL) will take place, Friday, May 4, @ Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA. All are welcome!
The schedule is below. (If you're just interested in the "Making History" program, it's fine to come just for that session.)
9:30 - 10:00: Coffee, tea, muffins, shmooze.
10:00 - 11:15. Making History: Synagogue Replication Project, with Rick and Laura Brown (details below).
11:30 - 12:15. The Wonderful World of E-Books! - facilitated by Jane Zande, Librarian, Cong. Beth Israel, W. Hartford, CT; and Cathy Balshone, Librarian, Newton Public Library.
12:15 - 1:00. Stay for lunch if you like! You may bring a dairy or pareve bag lunch. We''ll have water, seltzer, coffee, tea.
1:00 - Shabbat Shalom!
MAKING HISTORY, WITH RICK AND LAURA BROWN.
Rick and Laura Brown are the creative forces behind "Making History," a truly remarkable and inspiring project they founded ten years ago to replicate models of 17th century Polish wooden-frame synagogues, along with recreations of the exquisite paintings that adorned the vaulted ceilings and walls. The smaller scale models they have produced with artisans, scholars and students have been wowing viewers across the country over the last decade. Articles on earlier phases of their work have been featured in the NYTimes, JTA, and other publications.
Now, NEAJL members and guests have a chance to hear firsthand about this one-of-a-kind endeavor that is culminating this summer in Poland, as the Browns lead the final phase of construction and painting of the Gwozdziec synagogue replication project. The completed work will become the centerpiece of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, set to open in Warsaw in 2013. The Browns, professors at Mass Art, are world renown in the field of recreating historic objects. Their work has been featured on PBS and the History Channel. They are co founders of HandsHouse Studio, a not-for-profit, innovative, educational organization that creates adventurous hands-on projects through community-service, building projects with non-profit partners around the world and is a Cooperating Institute with the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Professional and Continuing Education Program.
-Here's more info about who they are and what they're doing http://www.handshousestudio.org
They will tell us about HandsHouse Studio, the Synagogue Replication Project and a documentary film they're working on about the Synagogue Project.
RSVP ASAP, the latest, please, by Friday April 27, to Ann Abrams, aabrams@tisrael.org .
Ann Abrams, President, NEAJL
Librarian, Temple Israel, Boston
The Spring Meeting of the New England Chapter of the Association of Jewish Libraries (NEAJL) will take place, Friday, May 4, @ Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA. All are welcome!
The schedule is below. (If you're just interested in the "Making History" program, it's fine to come just for that session.)
9:30 - 10:00: Coffee, tea, muffins, shmooze.
10:00 - 11:15. Making History: Synagogue Replication Project, with Rick and Laura Brown (details below).
11:30 - 12:15. The Wonderful World of E-Books! - facilitated by Jane Zande, Librarian, Cong. Beth Israel, W. Hartford, CT; and Cathy Balshone, Librarian, Newton Public Library.
12:15 - 1:00. Stay for lunch if you like! You may bring a dairy or pareve bag lunch. We''ll have water, seltzer, coffee, tea.
1:00 - Shabbat Shalom!
MAKING HISTORY, WITH RICK AND LAURA BROWN.
Rick and Laura Brown are the creative forces behind "Making History," a truly remarkable and inspiring project they founded ten years ago to replicate models of 17th century Polish wooden-frame synagogues, along with recreations of the exquisite paintings that adorned the vaulted ceilings and walls. The smaller scale models they have produced with artisans, scholars and students have been wowing viewers across the country over the last decade. Articles on earlier phases of their work have been featured in the NYTimes, JTA, and other publications.
Now, NEAJL members and guests have a chance to hear firsthand about this one-of-a-kind endeavor that is culminating this summer in Poland, as the Browns lead the final phase of construction and painting of the Gwozdziec synagogue replication project. The completed work will become the centerpiece of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, set to open in Warsaw in 2013. The Browns, professors at Mass Art, are world renown in the field of recreating historic objects. Their work has been featured on PBS and the History Channel. They are co founders of HandsHouse Studio, a not-for-profit, innovative, educational organization that creates adventurous hands-on projects through community-service, building projects with non-profit partners around the world and is a Cooperating Institute with the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Professional and Continuing Education Program.
-Here's more info about who they are and what they're doing http://www.handshousestudio.org
They will tell us about HandsHouse Studio, the Synagogue Replication Project and a documentary film they're working on about the Synagogue Project.
RSVP ASAP, the latest, please, by Friday April 27, to Ann Abrams, aabrams@tisrael.org .
Ann Abrams, President, NEAJL
Librarian, Temple Israel, Boston
Sunday, March 25, 2012
USED BOOK SALE!
We'll be having our first ever USED BOOK SALE, Sunday, June 10, from 9:00 - 2:00, of all kinds of Jewish books, for children and adults. For more information, please contact aabrams@tisrael.org
Sunday, May 15, 2011
May is Jewish American Heritage Month
This month is Jewish American Heritage Month and throughout the month the government will be hosting events and offering historical information on a variety of websites. For example, on Tuesday, May 17th, President Obama will host a Jewish American Heritage Month reception at the White House. A number of government agencies have combined to create a website with historical information and audio/visual resources as well. Another website focuses on events happening around the country and also includes a page entitled 50 States/50 Stories that highlights Jewish American historical events and famous figures in each state, including Massachusetts. If you are interested in the legal history of Jewish American Heritage Month, the Law Library of Congress has a research guide that collects information on the legislative and executive branch documents related to this commemoration.
The Library of Congress also has a website devoted to its exhibit, From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
Posting by Library Intern, Carli Spina.
The Library of Congress also has a website devoted to its exhibit, From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
Posting by Library Intern, Carli Spina.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Edith Pearlman Events
Unfortunately, Edith Pearlman's reading at Porter Square Books on March 8th had to be cancelled. However, it has been rescheduled and she will also be speaking at a number of other venues in and around Boston in the coming weeks:
Edith Pearman Events post by Library Intern, Carli Spina.
- Stellina's Author Night, Watertown - March 16th at 6pm
- Porter Square Books, Cambridge - March 28th at 7pm
- Upstairs at the Square, Cambridge - April 7th at 7pm
- Smith College, Northampton - April 20th at 4pm
- Muse and the Marketplace at the Park Plaza, Boston - April 30th and May 1st
Edith Pearman Events post by Library Intern, Carli Spina.
Monday, January 31, 2011
February Author Events
Several local bookstores, libraries and community centers are hosting interesting events in February.
Thursday, February 3rd at 2:00 pm, the Central Library of the Boston Public Libraries will be showing Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, a documentary on Gertrude Berg who was creator, star, and writer of “The Goldbergs,” a popular radio show which became television’s first character-driven sitcom.
Also on Thursday, February 3rd at 8:00 pm, the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore will be live broadcasting an interview of author Michael Lewis by NPR’s Ira Glass that is happening in New York City. Lewis will discuss his book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, about the global financial crisis and steps to prevent future collapses.
Tuesday, February 8th at 7:00 pm, the Harvard Bookstore and Harvard Hillel will co-host James L. Kugel, Harvard professor of Hebrew literature, who will discuss his new book, In the Valley of the Shadow: On the Foundations of Religious Belief.
On Wednesday, February 9th at 7:00 pm, Jennifer Wright Knust, an assistant professor at BU, will be discussing her new book, Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire at the Brookline Booksmith.
Saturday, February 13th at 11:30 am, Porter Square Books will be hosting Senator Bernie Sanders, who will discuss his new book, The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class.
On Thursday, February 17th at 6:30 pm, the Cambridge Public Library will be hosting Ted Gup who will discuss his book on the Depression Era entitled, A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness – And a Trove of Letters – Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression.
On Friday, February 18th at 7:30 pm in First Parish Church in Harvard Square, Cambridge Forum presents a benefit concert for the Terezin Music Foundation and Cambridge Forum. Performances of works created in Terezin and contemporary works inspired by the artists of the holocaust will be followed by a panel discussion on the relationship between creativity and stress, using the works created in Terezin as examples. More information about this event is available on the Harvard Bookstore website.
Author events postings by Library Intern, Carli Spina.
Thursday, February 3rd at 2:00 pm, the Central Library of the Boston Public Libraries will be showing Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg, a documentary on Gertrude Berg who was creator, star, and writer of “The Goldbergs,” a popular radio show which became television’s first character-driven sitcom.
Also on Thursday, February 3rd at 8:00 pm, the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore will be live broadcasting an interview of author Michael Lewis by NPR’s Ira Glass that is happening in New York City. Lewis will discuss his book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, about the global financial crisis and steps to prevent future collapses.
Tuesday, February 8th at 7:00 pm, the Harvard Bookstore and Harvard Hillel will co-host James L. Kugel, Harvard professor of Hebrew literature, who will discuss his new book, In the Valley of the Shadow: On the Foundations of Religious Belief.
On Wednesday, February 9th at 7:00 pm, Jennifer Wright Knust, an assistant professor at BU, will be discussing her new book, Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire at the Brookline Booksmith.
Saturday, February 13th at 11:30 am, Porter Square Books will be hosting Senator Bernie Sanders, who will discuss his new book, The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class.
On Thursday, February 17th at 6:30 pm, the Cambridge Public Library will be hosting Ted Gup who will discuss his book on the Depression Era entitled, A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness – And a Trove of Letters – Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression.
On Friday, February 18th at 7:30 pm in First Parish Church in Harvard Square, Cambridge Forum presents a benefit concert for the Terezin Music Foundation and Cambridge Forum. Performances of works created in Terezin and contemporary works inspired by the artists of the holocaust will be followed by a panel discussion on the relationship between creativity and stress, using the works created in Terezin as examples. More information about this event is available on the Harvard Bookstore website.
Author events postings by Library Intern, Carli Spina.
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