Posen Library News
NEW Teaching Clips and Random Drawing WINNERS
Winners of our NEW SUBSCRIBERS random drawing
In December, we conducted a random drawing among new subscribers to the bi-monthly Posen Library e-newsletter from Deborah Dash Moore. Each new subscriber had the chance to win one of three free copies of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 1: Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings through 332 BCE, edited by Jeffrey H. Tigay and Adele Berlin. We are delighted that these new subscribers included a number of attendees of the 2021 AJS Annual Conference in Chicago.
We are pleased to now announce and congratulate the winners:
Ira R. from Montreal
Max S. from Tucson, AZ
Diane R. from New York, NY
Three New Teaching Clips released by The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization has just released three new Posen Library Teaching Clips on Antisemitism and the Holocaust and Jewish Literature to join the ten clips already available at https://www.posenlibrary.com/teachingclips.
The Posen Library Teaching Clips are 3- to 5-minute videos, each featuring an esteemed scholar of Jewish studies discussing aspects of Jewish culture or history, free to use for lectures, classes, congregations or discussion groups.
These new videos include:
Jewish Wartime Anthologies of Despair, Resistance, and Hope: Posen Library Teaching Clip #10 | ||
| In Jewish Wartime Anthologies of Despair, Resistance, and Hope: Posen Library Teaching Clip #10, Samuel Kassow explores the impetus felt by some Jewish editors to compile anthologies. Such anthologies provided Jews with historical models for meeting the challenges of the ghetto and the war, while also giving contemporary Jews a place to record their actions, feelings, and resistance for future readers. | |
Jewish Resistance: Weapons, Written Words, and Religious Defiance: Posen Library Teaching Clip #11 | ||
| In Jewish Resistance: Weapons, Written Words, and Religious Defiance: Posen Library Teaching Clip #11, Samuel Kassow demonstrates that resistance to antisemitism and to annihilation was not limited to armed rebellion and partisan activities. Written words and religious defiance are also methods of fighting. | |
Poets of the Jewish Ghettos: Posen Library Teaching Clip #12 | ||
| In Poets of the Jewish Ghettos: Posen Library Teaching Clip #12, Samuel Kassow discusses the contemplations of two poets who envisioned their post-Holocaust fate. From the Lwów ghetto, Zuzanna Ginczanka grieves her impending death, mourning that “dresses, colorful dresses—will survive me. / I leave no heirs. / So let your hands rummage through Jewish things.” | |
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