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The Feinberg Library |
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Stop In This Summer
We have plenty of summer reading. Come in and browse, starting with our new book collection by the front door. Or look up books on our public computer. Fill out a slip from the box on the desk to check out books.
About the Library
The
Feinberg Library is an integral part of the Congregation Mishkan Tefila community. The Library fulfills critical needs of the Hebrew, Sunday and Nursery Schools and is incorporated into their curricula. Classes are frequent and welcome visitors to the Library.
The Library provides all congregants with access to a wide variety of Judaic library materials and enrichment. Our collection encompasses children’s literature, adult fiction, holiday books, halakhah guides, Israeli history, memoirs and more.
The Feinberg Library offers:
• Over 10,000 volumes of Jewish books
• The Encyclopedia Judaica, both online and in print.
• CD, audiobook, video and large print collections.
• A self-check-out system.
• A professional librarian.
• A monthly adult book discussion group.
• A cart of children’s books in the Sanctuary every Shabbat.
• The Clara Weitz Research Center with a
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Come and See Us
The Library is open whenever the synagogue is open. Feel free to come in and browse. Fill in a slip from the box on the desk if you take a book out, and return books in the book drop in the hall. Right inside the back door is a children's corner where young members can make themselves at home.
Barbara is here on Tuesday and Thursday
afternoons after 1 pm during the school year. If you want to see her at another
time about a book you want or services you’d like to have the
library work on for you, please call x3231 or email librarian@mishkantefila.org to make an appointment, and she'll be
happy to accommodate you.
Contact Myrna at myrna.cohen@comcast.net if you'd like to learn more about our library. Please consider becoming a volunteer. You'll be needed and deeply appreciated.
Myrna Cohen, Library Chair
Barbara Mende, Librarian |
Find Your Favorites
If you’re looking for a book with a Jewish theme – or one by a Jewish author such as Alan Dershowitz or Allegra Goodman – look for it here first. If you don’t see it, ask us about it; we may be able to order it. We’re open to anything connected with Jewish culture.
Please come into the Library and look through some of your old favorites as well as our new additions. We have many works by familiar authors such as Saul Bellow, Chaim Potok and Herman Wouk for you to read and enjoy again.
In our Judaica collection we have books on and about Maimonides, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Mordecai Kaplan. Our biography section includes books on the lives of Herzl, Dayan, Dreyfus, Szold, Gershwin, Shcharansky, Goldwyn and Koufax. We collect the winners of such prizes as the National Jewish Book Awards and the Sydney Taylor Book Awards for children's books.
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Library Book Club
Our Book Club meets in the library on the third Thursday of every month at 1:00pm. Bring a dairy, parve or kosher lunch at 12:30 if you like, to enjoy with our beverages and great conversation.
On August 19, in keeping with our rule of light reading in the summer, we’ll discuss The Family Man by Elinor Lipman. We won’t meet in September due to conflicts with the Holy Days. For our October 21 meeting we'll read our 5711 One Synagogue, One Book selection, our own Dr. Davin Wolok's delightful You Can Go Home Again. Amos Oz's memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness is scheduled for November 18.
Please bring your ideas for books we can read at future meetings; we decide together on future selections.
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New Titles
Louis D. Brandeis: A Life by Melvin Urofsky was a 2009 National Jewish Book Award winner. So was Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End by Daniel Gordis.
We’ve recently acquired renowned Israeli author Amos Oz’s memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness. Levittown, by David Kushner, can be described by its subtitle: Two families, one tycoon, and the fight for civil rights in America’s legendary suburb.
Congregational Programs
The Library is a leader in planning and coordinating our One Synagogue, One Book program. Our 2011 activities will be built around You Can Go Home Again by our Ritual Director Dr. Davin Wolok. Watch for programs based on the themes of the book.
For Children and Young Adults
Our collection includes picture books, storybooks, chapter books, and huge numbers of holiday books. We have a wide variety of titles that will capture the interest of young adults. Our new six-volume Rebecca: An American Girl series, depicting an immigrant family in 1914, is the companion to the popular new doll. We also maintain a Shabbat Cart, which is outside the sanctuary for children to use when they come to services.
Look on the back wall for our new Manny Kurland Memorial Collection for young adults. The books in this collection were donated by the Kurland family in honor of each of 2010’s B’nai Mitzvah.
Younger students will enjoy our new books on Israel: Snow in Jerusalem, First Rain, and The Waiting Wall. Look for them in the new-book bin in the children’s section.
Holiday Notebooks
Look for a loose-leaf binder on the coffee table as each holiday approaches. It contains little known facts gleaned online about the holiday, its history, and tips for celebrating it - plus games and puzzles for students and adults.
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