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Levinson-Krupp Library
Levinson-Krupp Library
This library was dedicated 50 years ago to the memory of Rebecca Lewin Levinson and Brannette Mayer Krupp by Justice and Mrs. Bernard Levinson. Over the years the library fell into disrepair, but starting in 2005 was redesigned… Continue reading
Honey and Poi: Sof History Project
By Dr. Mathew Sgan
Honey and Poi – Sof Maʻarav History Books
Two books, courtesy of the Sof History Project. Honey and Poi provides a history of Sof Maʻarav from its founding in 1971 until today. The Sof Maʻarav… Continue reading
Sof Book Club Schedule
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If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
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Ilana Kurshan
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Non-fiction. Author’s connection to Daf Yomi, the… Continue reading |
Sof Book Reviews
The Song of the Jade Lily: A Book Review
March 27, 2020
By Sid Goldstein
The novel, The Song of the Jade Lily, by Kirsty Manning deals with the little-known subject of the lives of Jewish refugees in Shanghai China… Continue reading
Torah and Taro
Praise for Torah and Taro
February 10, 2021
Professor Edwin Yamauchi (B.A. UHM; M.A. and Ph.D. Brandeis University) Professor of Emeritus of History at Miami University of Ohio writes:
“I received and read Torah and Taro: Jewish Contributions to Hawaii.… Continue reading
From the Yiddish Book Center
“Go Be a Prophet!”
There’s a Yiddish expression that says, “Gey zay a novi—Go be a prophet!” That’s exactly what the anonymous author of “The World in the Year 2058” tried to do back in 1958, when this curious Yiddish… Continue reading
Honey and Poi – Book Sale!
By Mat Sgan
Our Sof book Honey and Poi is lagging in sales. Rabbi Saul Perlmutter received a copy and he wrote back to Mat and Alex, “What a wonderful contribution you have made to Sof and to the understanding… Continue reading
Books By Sof’ers
American Pastimes
A New Book by S.P. Goldstein
Sof Communications chair Sid Goldstein has just published a new book of baseball-themed short stories entitled American Pastimes. Here is the publisher’s press release that accompanied the launch of the book.… Continue reading
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