Judaica Librarianship

Editor’s Note

ZACHARY M. BAKER

Our Collections

IsraPulp: The Israeli Popular Literature Collection at Arizona State University

RACHEL LEKET-MOR

Nahum Stutchkoff’s Yiddish Play and Radio Scripts in The Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library

AMANDA (MIRYEM-KHAYE) SEIGEL

Essays and Research

The National Library of Israel and OCLC

ELHANAN ADLER AND MARINA GOLDSMITH

Frontlog Cataloging: Using In-Process Records to Reveal Backlogged Collections

JASMIN NOF

The Changing Terms in Sears

SARA ROFOFSKY MARCU

The Contribution of Hebrew Printing Houses and Printers in Istanbul to Ladino Culture and Scholarship

RACHEL SIMON

Isaac Edward Kiev: Early Leader in American Judaica Librarianship

AMY F. STEMPLER

Cookbooks: Preserving Jewish Tradition

DANIEL E. FEINBERG and ALICE CROSETTO

Reviews

Rabbinics in the New Encyclopaedia Judaica (review essay)

ELIEZER DIAMOND

Encyclopedia Interrupta, or Gale’s Unfinished: the Scandal of the EJ²

BARRY DOV WALFISH

Vol. 15 - 2009
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
ZACHARY M. BAKER
Letter to the Editor
ROGER S. KOHN
Essays and Research
A "Mind-Boggling" Implication: The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and the Definition of a Work
DAVID CONNERS
Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update
BETH DWOSKIN
Our Collections
The Bibliothèque Medem: Eighty Years Serving Yiddish Culture
GILLES ROZIER
Reviews
Hebrew Manuscripts in the Vatican Library, edited by Benjamin Richler
ROGER S. KOHN
Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Paula E. Hyman, Dalia Ofer
YAFFA WEISMAN
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, edited by Gershon Hundert
JAMES P. ROSENBLOOM
Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition, Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik, editors
"Women"
FAITH JONES
"Yiddish"
FAITH JONES
Bibliography
Scatter of the Literature
STEVEN M. BERGSON

Vol. 14 - 2008
Table of Contents
Editor's Note
Zachary M. Baker Editor's Note
Bella Hass Weinberg Essays and Research
The Changing Landscape of Hebraica Cataloging
Daniel Lovins
The Making of a Classification Scheme for Libraries of Judaica
David H. Elazar
Recognizing Jewish Children’s Literature for 40 Years: The Sydney Taylor Book Award
Kathe Pinchuck
2008 Sydney Taylor Book Awards
Rachel Kamin
Yizkor Books in the 21st Century: A History and Guide to the Genre
Michlean J. Amir; Rosemary Horowitz
No Disneyland: Biography and Bibliography of Rabbi Shimeon Brisman (1920-2004)
Roger S. Kohn
Reviews and Bibliography
Studying the Jewish Book: A Review Essay (review of: The Book in the Jewish World 1700-1900, by Zeev Gries)
Arthur Kiron
Miftuah: ‘iyun u-ma‘aseh (Indexing: Theory and Practice), by Shoshana Langerman
Bella Hass Weinberg
Scatter of the Literature
Steven M. Bergson

Vol. 13 - 2007
Table of Contents
Editor's Note
Zachary M. Baker
Essays and Research
Johann Heinrich Hottinger and the Systematic Organization of Jewish Literature
Seth Jerchower and Heidi G. Lerner
Creating a National Bibliographic Past: The Institute for Hebrew Bibliography
Roger S. Kohn

Reviews and Bibliography
Catalogue of Hebrew Incunabula from the Collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, by Shimon Iakerson
Barry Dov Walfish
Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, by Yosef Goldman
Arthur Kiron
A History and Guide to Judaic Dictionaries and Concordances, by Shimeon Brisman
Roger S. Kohn
Scatter of the Literature
Steven M. Bergson

Vol. 12 - Spring 2006

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Zachary M. Baker We Remember…

Shimeon Brisman (1920-2004)

David Hirsch

Herbert Zafren (1925-2005)

Remembrances by David Gilner, Linda Lerman, Menahem Schmelzer, Yaffa Weisman, Laurel Wolfson

Letters to Miriam Zafren from Leonard Gold and Michael Grunberger

A letter from Herbert Zafren to the Jewish Institute of Religion on behalf of the Hapoel Hamizrachi Library, Baltimore, May 1944 Essays and Research

Jewish Libraries and Archives in America

Pearl Berger

The First Deinard Collection of the Library of Congress

Myron M. Weinstein

A Chimney on the Canadian Prairies: Yiddish-Language Libraries in Western Canada, 1900 to the Present

Faith Jones

The Quest for Excellence in Jewish Children's Literature

Cheryl Banks, Ellen Cole, Lisa Silverman, and Linda Silver

A Library Education Program For Haredi Librarians

Shoshana Langerman Reviews and Bibliography

Harvard Judaica, by Charles Berlin

Arthur Kiron

Judaica Reference Sources: A Selective, Annotated Bibliographic Guide, 3rd revised and expanded edition, by Charles Cutter

Roger S. Kohn

Hebrew Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma, edited by Benjamin Richler; palaeographical and codicological descriptions Malachi Beit-Arié

Roger S. Kohn

Scatter of the Literature

Steven M. Bergson