We all had a great time at the May 12th NCJW Mah Jongg Fundraiser Event held in the KOH Library and Cultural Center.
Friday, May 20, 2011
NCJW Mah Jongg Fundraiser
We all had a great time at the May 12th NCJW Mah Jongg Fundraiser Event held in the KOH Library and Cultural Center.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Up Coming Events in May
Please join us at any or all of the upcoming events at KOH Lirary and Cultural Center
Thursday, May 12 6:30 - 9:30
Come play MAHJONG with National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW)
Join the fun, enjoy desserts, and play Manj with friends, new and old
RSVP: jb6197@aol.com
Sunday, May 15 7 PM
KOH Film Club presents "LEMON TREE", an award winning Israeli film abount an Israeli woman, an Arab woman, the man in-between, over the background of Israel's unique political scenery.
Hillel Damron, founder of a local Jewish blog, www.good4jews.com will lead a discussion following the screening of the film.
Refreshments will be served.
Tuesday, May 17 7 PM
Monthly meeting of the KOH Book Club. New members are always welcome.
This month Ruth Baron will lead a discussion of Anita Diamant's novel, Day After Night, a dramatic story of survivors and renewal at Atlit, the British-run internment camp in Palestine following World War II.
(See earlier post, below for more information.)
Reminder:
Monday, May 30
Library Closed for Memorial Day
Thursday, May 12 6:30 - 9:30
Come play MAHJONG with National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW)
Join the fun, enjoy desserts, and play Manj with friends, new and old
RSVP: jb6197@aol.com
Sunday, May 15 7 PM
KOH Film Club presents "LEMON TREE", an award winning Israeli film abount an Israeli woman, an Arab woman, the man in-between, over the background of Israel's unique political scenery.
Hillel Damron, founder of a local Jewish blog, www.good4jews.com will lead a discussion following the screening of the film.
Refreshments will be served.
Tuesday, May 17 7 PM
Monthly meeting of the KOH Book Club. New members are always welcome.
This month Ruth Baron will lead a discussion of Anita Diamant's novel, Day After Night, a dramatic story of survivors and renewal at Atlit, the British-run internment camp in Palestine following World War II.
(See earlier post, below for more information.)
Reminder:
Monday, May 30
Library Closed for Memorial Day
Online References at KOH
Please avail yourselves of the following online reference materials installed on the computers in the KOH Library.
Encyclopedoa of Religion and Ethics
JPS Digital Torah Library
Judaic Scholar Digital Reference Library
The Jewish Encyclopedia
Rabbinic Bookshelf
S.R. Driver-U: Cassuto Collection
The International Critical Commentary of the Holy Scriptures: Tanakh
We are in the process of installing Webster's Online Dictionary
In addition, we have a Hebrew keyboard program (Dagesh) available - ask the Librarian for assistance next time you visit.
Encyclopedoa of Religion and Ethics
JPS Digital Torah Library
Judaic Scholar Digital Reference Library
The Jewish Encyclopedia
Rabbinic Bookshelf
S.R. Driver-U: Cassuto Collection
The International Critical Commentary of the Holy Scriptures: Tanakh
We are in the process of installing Webster's Online Dictionary
In addition, we have a Hebrew keyboard program (Dagesh) available - ask the Librarian for assistance next time you visit.
May New Arrivals
Books:
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
by Jan Gross
The Perfect Nazi; Uncovering my Grandfather's Secret Past
by Martin Davidson
For the Soul of France; Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
by Frederick Brown
A Jewish Feminine Mystique?
Edited by Hasia Dinar, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson
Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphanies Changed Our World
by Norman Lebrecht
Operation Exodus: From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land: A Perilous Journey That Shaped Israel's Fate
by Gordon Thomas
Confronting Scandal - How Jews Can Respond When Jews Do Bad Things
by Dr. Erica Brown
Vision and Valor - An Illustrated History of the Talmud
by Rabbi Berel Wein
We are Coming Unafraid: The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War
by Michael Keren and Shulomit Keren
The Sabbath Word: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
by Judith Shulevititz
DVDs:
The Flying Camel
Partisans of Vilna
Newland
Decoding the Past: Secrets of Kabbalah
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
by Jan Gross
The Perfect Nazi; Uncovering my Grandfather's Secret Past
by Martin Davidson
For the Soul of France; Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
by Frederick Brown
A Jewish Feminine Mystique?
Edited by Hasia Dinar, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson
Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphanies Changed Our World
by Norman Lebrecht
Operation Exodus: From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land: A Perilous Journey That Shaped Israel's Fate
by Gordon Thomas
Confronting Scandal - How Jews Can Respond When Jews Do Bad Things
by Dr. Erica Brown
Vision and Valor - An Illustrated History of the Talmud
by Rabbi Berel Wein
We are Coming Unafraid: The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War
by Michael Keren and Shulomit Keren
The Sabbath Word: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
by Judith Shulevititz
DVDs:
The Flying Camel
Partisans of Vilna
Newland
Decoding the Past: Secrets of Kabbalah
Monday, May 2, 2011
May Book Club Meeting
Please join us on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 7 p.m. as Ruth Baron leads us in a discussion of this month's book, "Day After Night" by Anita Diamant.
Diamant's bestseller, The Red Tent, explored the lives of biblical women ignored by the male-centric narrative. In her compulsively readable latest, she sketches the intertwined fates of several young women refugees at Atlit, a British-run internment camp set up in Palestine after WWII. There's Tedi, a Dutch girl who hid in a barn for years before being turned in and narrowly escaping Bergen-Belsen; Leonie, a beautiful French girl whose wartime years in Paris are cloaked with shame; Shayndel, a heroine of the Polish partisan movement whose cheerful facade hides a tortured soul; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor who is filled with an understandable nihilism. The dynamic of suffering and renewed hope through friendship is the book's primary draw, but an eventual escape attempt adds a dash of suspense to the astutely imagined story of life at the camp: the wary relationship between the Palestinian Jews and the survivors, the intense flirtation between the young people that marks a return to life. Diamant opens a window into a time of sadness, confusion and optimism that has resonance for so much that's both triumphant and troubling in modern Jewish history.
Diamant's bestseller, The Red Tent, explored the lives of biblical women ignored by the male-centric narrative. In her compulsively readable latest, she sketches the intertwined fates of several young women refugees at Atlit, a British-run internment camp set up in Palestine after WWII. There's Tedi, a Dutch girl who hid in a barn for years before being turned in and narrowly escaping Bergen-Belsen; Leonie, a beautiful French girl whose wartime years in Paris are cloaked with shame; Shayndel, a heroine of the Polish partisan movement whose cheerful facade hides a tortured soul; and Zorah, a concentration camp survivor who is filled with an understandable nihilism. The dynamic of suffering and renewed hope through friendship is the book's primary draw, but an eventual escape attempt adds a dash of suspense to the astutely imagined story of life at the camp: the wary relationship between the Palestinian Jews and the survivors, the intense flirtation between the young people that marks a return to life. Diamant opens a window into a time of sadness, confusion and optimism that has resonance for so much that's both triumphant and troubling in modern Jewish history.
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