Library News for Jewish Studies

My Father's Paradise

From Unshelved a librarians' comic strip.

Need a Course Webpage? I Can Create One for You

It has now become quite easy for me to create a course web guide if you so desire one. With your syllabus in hand I can put up a basic page and easily incorporate your suggestions for additional content. Here are two examples of course pages for spring 2009.

  

A Nation Apart? Jewish Identity in an Age of Nationalism

 

The Holocaust: History and Memory

Judaica Sound Archives: Rescuing, Preserving and Sharing a Heritage

Judaica Sound Archives

Florida Atlantic University Libraries

Album List

FAU Libraries' Judaica Sound Archives collection includes 78 rpm phonograph recordings, LP albums, cassette tapes, 8-track tapes, 45 rpm recordings, and CDs. Taken together, this represents well over 70,000 sound tracks. The collection is continually growing as a result of material donations from institutions and individuals.

Professor Claire Solomon, Romance Languages Department, visited this  fantastic archive of digitized audio materials and suggested that WU subscribe to it. Currently, Florida Atlantic University is allowing  free access to these sound recordings on four campus computers.  The Humanities Digital Workshop (Eads 007) will load software on two lap tops which can be checked out  by faculty and the library will load the software on the Start menu on two public library computers; those closest to the  Reference Help Desk (160 and 161).

BBC Archive: Witnessing the Holocaust: Personal Accounts of a Crime Against Humanity

 BBC: Witnessing the Holocaust

 This online BBC archive, Witnessing the Holocaust: Personal Accounts of a Crime   Against Humanity, has radio and television programs from 1945-2005, and documents from 1942-1945, that reveal the horrors and aftermath of the Holocaust. Visitors interested in listening to or watching video or audio programs can scroll down the page to view the 17 programs available.  The programs with a blue speaker icon next to the title denote a radio program, and those with a right-facing arrow next to the title indicate that there is a video available.  Each program is accompanied by a written synopsis of the program, as well as a section entitled "Did You Know?" that has little known facts pertaining to the subject of the program. The radio programs range from a 1945 four-minute broadcast from a Canadian reporter entitled "Gestapo in Holland", to an almost hour-long 2003 broadcast called "Marianne Grant", about the artist's heart-wrenching story of having to paint for Dr. Mengele at Auschwitz. The video programs include a 1989 interview with "Simon Wiesenthal" as well as a 2005 broadcast, "Grandchild of the Holocaust", about a grandson and his grandmother who was the only Holocaust survivor of her family. (text from site homepage)

Jewish Graphic Novels

With a renewed interest in some older Jewish graphic novelists, Will Eisner, for instance, and a new interest in the genre as a whole by academics, I have purchased the following books from the Neureuther fund for popular literature.

           

          

       

 
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