A Sabbath Kristallnacht in the Temple Beth El Library

[First published on November 10, 2007, as On Libraries: The Library of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester]

I write this on Saturday, November 10, less than a week before I am to give a talk this coming Friday on the use of open technologies such as open-source to a group of librarians of the City [...]

The Loss of Innocence

[I published this, in slightly different form and with a a different title, as presentation to be given to some librarians of the City University of New York on November 16, 2007, On the Authority of Librarians. The writing is also appropriate to this project.]

Our librarians are among the key custodians of our culture, [...]

On Searching for the Meaning of “Sabbath Kristallnacht”

I (Dave Shields) write this on the second night after I spent a night in my Syngagogue’s Library and then wrote a blog post, On Libraries: The Library of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester noting that Friday, November 9, 2007, was unusual in that is both the anniversary of “Kristallnacht” and also [...]

Shabbat Kristallnacht in the Library of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester

This post continues a post on my primary blog, On Libraries: The Library of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester.
I copied out the following excerpt from one of most authoritative histories of the Holocaust, The War Against The Jews, by Lucy S. Dawidowicz, shortly after midnight of November 9 — November 10, 2007, a [...]