Word: judaica
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twersky's colleagues described him as a leader who helped establish the academic study of Judaica as a rigorous discipline and someone who set a religious example for his community...
Irving Moskowitz is no household name. Even in Miami Beach, where the 69-year-old doctor lives most of the time, he is barely known, except perhaps as the husband of the nice lady who runs the Judaica shop over on Lincoln Road. In Los Angeles, where he made a considerable fortune, Moskowitz is renowned--in the tiny, working-class town of Hawaiian Gardens, that is--for taking over its bingo parlor and turning it into a multimillion-dollar money machine...
DIED. HARRY KEMELMAN, 88, author of the popular Rabbi Small mystery series; in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Beginning with Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, his tales won praise for their masterly mix of sleuthing and Judaica...
...adding both context and detail to that story let me admit that I am a friend of the museum: I have chaired committees for two of the museum's most splendid exhibitions ("Judaica from the Vatican Library" and "The Silver Calf from Ashkelon") and was a member of the committee for a third ("The City of David: Discoveries from the Excavations"). I acquired for the museum the photographs by the rediscovered 19th century photographer M.J. Diness now on exhibit until December 18. My bias for these undertakings notwithstanding, the facts are the facts...
...example, De Gennaro consolidated the library's three area studies departments--Judaica, Slavic and Middle Eastern--into a single department headed by Charles Berlin, formerly director of the Judaica section...