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Videos: "Jewish Life in the Middle Ages Series,” curated by Elisheva Baumgarten, Maya Soifer Irish, Marcia Kupfer, and Asa Mittman. #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17961

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New book: Marc M. Epstein, "People of the Image: Jews and Art," (Penn State University Press, 2025). #jewishstudies mjsnow.hypotheses.org/17897

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Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

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#AJLCon25 just came to an end. A great conference with lots of rich presentations across the board. A big thank you to the @jewishlibraries.bsky.social Conference Committee, the tech team, the presenters, the supporters, and the attendees for making this conference a huge success.

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Day 4 of the #AJLCon25 virtual conference - this session - a graduation session - honored those individual who completed the AJL-JTS Certificate Program in Judaica Librarianship. Here are some highlights. Congratulations to all of the graduates from this program. @jewishlibraries.bsky.social

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What's AJL been up to recently? At 11am, celebrate the first graduates of the JTS/AJL Certificate in Judaica and Hebraica Librarianship program! And at 1pm, the first cohort of AJL's Developing Leaders Academy will share the services and programs they implemented at their libraries. #AJLCon25

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While we are going through this #heatwave, here is a research guide from @librarycongress.bsky.social on this history of the #air-conditioner guides.loc.gov/this-month-i... Stay cool!!😎

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It's the final day of the #AJLCon25 with a full day of sessions! Start your day at 9am EDT with Biblical Archaeology to Spark Curiosity: Introducing Young Readers to Archaeology and History Through Literature OR Institutional and Private Archives and Libraries.

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Quick round of updates: Early Short Title Catalogue has moved to CERL, it is the beta version. They do not just want to restore but also improving the data. They call on research community for input on beta version #Bookhistory

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This was SUCH fun session and a true pleasure to moderate

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Day 4 of #AJLCon25 attended the session Biblical Archaeology to Spark Interest a session lead by authors Tammar Stein and Anna Levin and moderated by @hsrourzackon.bsky.social This session showed us how to introduce children to Jewish history and archaeology through literature and objects.

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Day 4 of the #AJLCon25 Looking forward to attending and hearing from the first graduates of the AJL/JTS Certificate Program in Judaica Librarianship @jewishlibraries.bsky.social

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Looking forward to speaking at #AJLCon25 later today on Managing a flagship collection @ucllibraries.bsky.social

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Attended the session on the Judaica music collection held at FAU, which included a few music demos. The presentation included a discussion on its his and processing. A side chat included the fine line between collecting and hoarding. #AJLCon25 @jewishlibraries.bsky.social

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Day 3 of AJLCon25. Attended a session on the history of Judaica and Hebraica collections - at Johns Hopkin University, University of Postdam, and Hebrew Union College and The Jewish Theological Seminary. Wonderful presentations and learned lots.

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Three fantastic presentations on the history of Jewish libraries at JTS/HUC, Johns Hopkins, and Potsdam, by David Selis, Mack Zalin, and Joshua Shelly! #AJLCon25

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Day 3 of #AJLCon25 is underway! What are you looking forward to today?

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Currently learning about the Virtual Tribunals Initiative at Stanford: exhibits.stanford.edu/virtual-trib... #AJLCon25 (includes records from the Nuremberg trails)

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#AJLCon25 I attended and presented at the IJ Section update. This session presents the highlights of the past year at LC, especially as it pertains to Hebraica and Judaica. @jewishlibraries.bsky.social

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Thank you to Deborah Bodin Cohen, Kerry Olitzky, Sammy Savos, and A. R. Vishny for a wonderful presentation on what inspired you and how you brought your 2025 Sydney Taylor Award–winning stories to life! #AJLCon25

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Now at the Film and Media session #AJLCon25. Avivs Weintraub is presenting on the history of the NY Jewish Film Festival

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We begin Session 1A: Global Jewish Archives I! First up is Esthy Klein, the Library Director at Har Etzion Yeshiva and Herzog College on the integrated Yeshiva-College Library. The library has over 100k+ volumes and one of the largest in Israel! #AJLCon25

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📣 New Academic Book Talk just listed! Join us for a discussion of a new monograph by Helen Finch, in conversation with Anna Hájková. The book focuses on four authors who bore literary witness to the Shoah – H. G. Adler, Fred Wander, Edgar Hilsenrath, and Ruth Klüger. Tickets: buff.ly/wr16F1B

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The June 2025 issue of PBSA is out! Paper copies should be arriving to @bibsocamer.bsky.social members! We’ve got three terrific articles (comparative paratexts of Zitkála Šá editions, the sea monster image, and a typewriter for dance notation) & a bibliographical note (Milton in Leipzig)!

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Day 2 of #AJLCon25 right now listening to the NLI presentation. First was Chaim Meir Neira who presented on living archives related to Oct 7. Followed by Abby Horowitz presenting on what happened on college campuses and the initiative to collect materials. @jewishlibraries.bsky.social

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A lot to take away on the first day of the conference. 2 highlights for me - 1. learning about Fanny Goldstein - what an incredible person 2. during the Keynote, we learned about the Yiddish speaking nun (whose also fluent in Hebrew). Looking forward to more of the conference. #AJLCon2025

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Shirley Epstein Keynote Address - Australian Jewish Archives: with Sabrina Elias and interns Molly Hayes, Ailish Schneider, and Anna Paradise. #AJLCon2025 @jewishlibraries.bsky.social

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Fascinating Shirley Epstein Keynote Address on the Australian Jewish Historical Society by AJHS archivist Sabrina Elias and interns Ailish Schneider, Anna Paradise, and Molly Hayes. A Yiddish-speaking nun and an early feminist riding an ostrich had supporting roles. #AJLCon25

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A riveting presentation on Fanny Goldstein by Richard Michelson #AJLCon2025 @jewishlibraries.bsky.social

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