Literature on Tel-Aviv in the Eliasaf Robinson Collection

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Friday, June 19, 2009

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The comprehensive Eliasaf Robinson Collection on the history of Tel-Aviv at Stanford University Libraries includes a number of digitized books, brochures and serials that are now available online. The quality of the material in general is rather good. Some of it is "grey literature" that is hard to find in libraries. Most of the texts are in Hebrew, some in Yiddish. There are some German and English titles too. Some examples:


[Picture: Title of ha-Ir Tel-Aviv, unknown designer, 1932]

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EU gives millions to preserve Auschwitz

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Thursday, June 04, 2009

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"The European Union will give €4.2 million ($5.9 million) to help preserve Auschwitz, the former Nazi death camp which more than six decades after the World War II is in a state of serious disrepair." Read more in the online version of the Jerusalem Post.

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Podcast Series - Jews in Business: Myth and Reality

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Thursday, June 04, 2009

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The Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at University of Pennsylvania started the public podcast series Jews in Business: Myth and Reality. Three Podcast are available at the moment:
  1. Jonathan Karp - A Head Without a Body? Reconstructing the History of Jews in Business
  2. Evelyne Oliel-Grausz - Kinship, Commerce, and Trade Networks: The Early Modern Sephardic Diaspora
  3. Adam Teller - Before Rothschild: Jewish Businessmen in Eighteenth Century Eastern Europe

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