Announcements and Calendar of Events
Hebraic Section

Upcoming African Section and Library of Congress Events: May 23, 2001 (12:00-1:00 p.m., AMED Conference Room, Jefferson Building, Room 220) Dr. Marilyn Sephocle will read from and sign her book Then, They Were Twelve: The Women of Washington's Embassy Row. This presentation is being co-sponsored by the African Section with the Hispanic Division. Seating is limited. Please reserve a place by calling 202-707-1960.   Upcoming Outside Events: June 24-27, 2001 Annual Convention of the Association of Jewish Libraries, La Jolla, CA. http://www.JewishLibraries.org June 25, 2001 Annual Meeting of the Council of Archives and Research Libraries in Jewish Studies, La Jolla, CA

Past Events:

April 26, 2001 (Librarian's Reception Room, LJ119)
Dr. Grace Cohen Grossman, Curator, Skirball Museum (Los Angeles, CA) delivered the Second Annual Myron M. Weinstein Memorial Lecture on the Hebraic Book. The lecture, entitled “Israel Among the Nations: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hebrew Prayer Broadsides on Behalf of Governments and Their Leaders,” was sponsored by the Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, and was made possible by a grant from the family of Myron M. Weinstein.

November 13, 2000 (Madison Building, Dining Room A)
Armenian Seminar on The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide, by Prof. Yair Auron. Co-sponsored by the Near East Section)

November 8, 2000 (Coolidge Auditorium)

"One Man Show: Herman Wouk Reads from his Books and Plays," sponsored by the Library's Bicentennial Program and the Center for the Book .

July 18, 2000 (AMED Conference Room)

“Digitized German-Jewish Genealogy: A CD-ROM Searchable Database,” by Angelika G. Ellman-Krüger

June 19, 2000 (Jefferson Building Room, 119)

Myron M. Weinstein Memorial Lecture on the Hebraic Book, Inaugural Lecture: “Readers and Printers of Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Books in the Ottoman Empire,” by Professor Joseph Hacker

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