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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 17d

Complete Sephardi Mahzor for High Holidays, "The House of the Wealthy Man, Uri Halevi". Printed in Amsterdam, 1679.

#RoshHashanah

(Congregration Shaar Hashomayim, Museum and Archives)

Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 21d

6/ This Rosh Hashanah Card, when completely unfolded, shows the full mosaic of the delegates to the second Zionist Congress

(Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives)

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 21d

5/ As it turns out, the card is full of photos of great Jewish figures and images of Jewish history, both contemporary and past (who/what can you spot?)

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 21d

4/ We next get a longer message, this time a poem in Yiddish, with photos of the Hebrew poets Menahem Mendel Dolitzki and Yehudah Leib Gordon

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 21d

3/ The message continues, this time with further greetings in English, Hebrew, and Russian, along with photos of Moses Mendelssohn and Edmond de Rothschild

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 21d

2/ The first pages open to reveal a simple Happy New Year message in English and Yiddish, along with a image depicting "Das Schofarblasen" (Shofar blowing)

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 21d

1/ This 1898 Rosh Hashanah card at first glance seems beautiful, though small. But when unfurled, it is packed with unbelievable gems, including a mosaic of delegates to the 2nd Zionist Congress in Basel

A 🧵on the wonderful finds inside this card

#RoshHashanah

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 21d

6/ This Rosh Hashanah Card, when completely unfolded, shows the full mosaic of the delegates to the second Zionist Congress

(Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives)

Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 21d

5/ As it turns out, the card is full of photos of great Jewish figures and images of Jewish history, both contemporary and past (who/what can you spot?)

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 21d

4/ We next get a longer message, this time a poem in Yiddish, with photos of the Hebrew poets Menahem Mendel Dolitzki and Yehudah Leib Gordon

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 21d

3/ The message continues, this time with further greetings in English, Hebrew, and Russian, along with photos of Moses Mendelssohn and Edmond de Rothschild

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 21d

2/ The first pages open to reveal a simple Happy New Year message in English and Yiddish, along with a image depicting "Das Schofarblasen" (Shofar blowing)

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · 22d

Our digital exhibit, "100 Years of the Shaar in Westmount" has been live for a few months now and is packed with lots of incredible gems to discover. Have you had a chance to explore it yet?
www.communitystories.ca/v2/century-s...

100 Years of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount

In 2022, Congregation Shaar Hashomayim — Canada’s second oldest synagogue and its oldest Ashkenazi synagogue — marked a milestone occasion of 100 years in its Westmount (Montreal) building. […]

www.communitystories.ca

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · Sep 9

Maya Arad's "Happy New Years"—her first full-length novel to be translated into English (trans. Jessica Cohen)—is not just timely read as we near Rosh Hashanah, but also excellent and moving. Read my review in @thecjn.bsky.social

@newvesselpress.bsky.social

thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

Book review: Novel tells the story of an Israeli expat’s life through Rosh Hashanah letters

'Against the backdrop of events like the Yom Kippur War, Rabin’s assassination, and 9/11, Leah’s yearly updates capture the quiet persistence of life lived in history’s shadow.'

thecjn.ca

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · Aug 6

1929 and 1924 pamphlets for special consecration services for girls. These were published by the office of Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, offering a fascinating glimpse into the early evolution of what would eventually (much later) become the bat mitzvah

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · Aug 5

This is fantastic, (and so are all your other leads!!), thank you Haim!!

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · Aug 5

As listed in the Eternal Lights Kinescopes catalogue supplement!

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · Aug 5

✨Help me find Expo 67 historical material✨

I'm looking for a film "Expo 67—Pavilion of Judaism: A view of the Ages" script by Moses Rowell. It was listed in a 1968 Eternal Lights Kinescopes catalogue. The Shaar archives is interested in finding this for an upcoming project!

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · Jul 3

Leonard Cohen's birth announcement in the Shaar Hashomayim bulletin (September 28, 1934 issue). Simply identified as "the gift of a son" to Mr. And Mrs. Nathan B. Cohen, as the bulletin would've gone to print before he had his Brit Milah!

#LeonardCohen

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Hannah Srour-Zackon @hsrourzackon.bsky.social · Jun 26

This was SUCH fun session and a true pleasure to moderate

Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · Jun 26

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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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · Jun 24

#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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Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social · Jun 24

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

Exhibit Home

International criminal tribunal records (1945-present)

exhibits.stanford.edu

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Association of Jewish Libraries @jewishlibraries.bsky.social · Jun 24

So many great recommendations in the session on recent and forthcoming Jewish children's and young adult books! Thanks Heidi, Rebecca, and Talya! #AJLCon25

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Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social · Jun 24

University Yiddish Library now online! www.universalyiddishlibrary.org/en/ #AJLCon25

Search the Universal Yiddish Library

The Universal Yiddish Library has over 60,000 Yiddish books available for search

www.universalyiddishlibrary.org

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Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social · Jun 24

Also, the VERY COOL geo-search of the NLI's digital collections (including KTIV, I believe, so includes other institutions' holdings as well) now has a landing page (so I guess that's official too :) ) www.nli.org.il/en/research-...
#AJLCon25

חיפוש גאוגרפי

The National Library's geographic search allows you to find items by the place they describe or the place where they were created, on an interactive map.

www.nli.org.il

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