Thank You for Supporting the Library

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Notes from the Lampert Library
Sukkot is over, but Thanksgiving is coming up. So I will seize the opportunity to say “Thank you.”

A wholehearted thanks to everyone who has helped the Lampert Library grow. Each one of you is an angel.

You have helped the religious school staff and students, several of whom come to the library regularly.

You’ve helped Rabbi Greenstein who can often be found in the library looking for the right piece of information or a particular Talmud volume.

You have helped the Preschool staff members who use the library to supplement the books in their classrooms.

You’ve helped me by providing the funds for storytime books.

Your donations will help us to computerize over the next few months. We especially need some angels to make the computerization project sustainable into the future.

And, a special thanks goes to the Weiss family which has donated funds for the Helen Weiss Jewish Humor Collection. I envision this collection as a comprehensive selection of materials which will include films, children’s and young adult books, joke books, humorous nonfiction and humorous novels. Since humor can be found everywhere, books will be identified with a smiley-face sticker.

Thanks to all. Now go find a book, curl up and thank the parent, teacher or librarian who taught you the pleasures of the written word.

To tempt you here are some recent library acquisitions (Annotations are adapted from published reviews.)

Corona The Mapmaker’s Daughter, set on the eve of the expulsion from Spain, is a stirring novel about identity, exile, and what it means to be home.

Dahl Invisible City introduces Rebekah Roberts a compelling character in search of the truth about a murder and an understanding of her own Jewish heritage.

Gafla The World of the End finds Ben Mendelssohn, an author who writes endings to books for writers who are unable to, needs to finish his own true-life story.

Grossman Falling Out of Time explores grief at the loss of a son in this multi-genre work by an author who did lose a soldier son defending his Israeli homeland.

Hoffman The Museum of Extraordinary Things with its sprinkling of magical realism blends social realism, historical fiction, romance, and mystery in a fast-paced and dramatic novel filled with colorful characters and vivid scenes of life in New York more than a century ago

Hughes Hero on a Bicycle is set in Florence, 1944 and features thirteen-year-old Paolo who must figure out once and for all whether he has what it takes to truly be a hero. (J)

Salamon Rambam’s Ladder: a meditation on generosity and why it is necessary to give draws a humanistic and inspirational message from Rambam’s ladder, positing that, in the end, we are measured not by what we have, but by what we give to one another.

Satlow How the Bible Became Holy breezily charts the development of the Bible’s textual authority from Israelite to Christian communities, a process that began in earnest almost 3,000 years ago.

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