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"The Struggle for the Old Testament in Nazi Germany: The Untold Story of Gerhard von Rad"

Bernard Levinson, Berman Family Chair in Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible and Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and of Law at the University of Minnesota, will be giving a special lecture at Or Emet: Minnesota Congregation for Humanistic Judaism on Friday, April 27, 2012. Levinson will discuss the moving story of Gerhard von Rad's heroic struggles to defend the Old Testament in Nazi Germany and how he fought this battle in near isolation, long before he became a famous Protestant theologian.

The lecture will begin after Or Emet's 7:30 pm Humanistic Sabbath service and will be followed by an Oneg Shabbat reception. The event will be held at Minneapolis Sabes Jewish Community Center, 4330 Cedar Lake Rd. S., St. Louis Park, and is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit http://www.oremet.org/

October 24-30 is Open Access Week, and the University of Minnesota Libraries are celebrating! Events and workshops on open publishing and scholarship are happening all over campus this week--check them out, and find other information on Open Access at the University of Minnesota, at z.umn.edu/oaweek.

Five of the Dead Sea Scrolls are now online at http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/:

The Great Isaiah Scroll
The Temple Scroll
The War Scroll
The Community Rule Scroll
The Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll

Read more about the project
excerpt:
The Project

"The Israel Museum welcomes you to the Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project, allowing users to examine and explore these most ancient manuscripts from Second Temple times at a level of detail never before possible. Developed in partnership with Google, the new website gives users access to searchable, fast-loading, high-resolution images of the scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence, offer critical insight into Jewish society in the Land of Israel during the Second Temple Period, the time of the birth of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. Five complete scrolls from the Israel Museum have been digitized for the project at this stage and are now accessible online."

Read about the new
International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property

news item:
"Under an agreement signed on Thursday by organisations including Britain's
National Archives, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, the US National
Archives and Records Administration (Nara) and Germany's Bundesarchiv, the
records will be available through a single web portal."
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/05/archive-artworks-stolen-nazis-online

fyi: the link to the database referred to in the article is:
http://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/international-resources/index.html

Israel Antiquities Authority, Partner with Google R&D Center in Israel - To Make Dead Sea Scrolls Available On-line
With Lead Funding from the Leon Levy Foundation and a Major Donation of the Arcadia Foundation

(October 2010) "Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library" Will Enable Imaging, Digitization of 900-Manuscript Collection

Article in Media Decoder
April 10, 2011, 7:28 PM
Holocaust Memories, via Cable
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/holocaust-memories-via-cable/
By BRIAN STELTER

Ten films about the Holocaust will be made available to Comcast
customers and others on Monday [through 5/25/11]

Comcast, the nation's top cable company, is distributing 10 films
about the Holocaust in a public service project it is calling "Days of
Remembrance." And it started with an unrelated telephone call to the
director Steven Spielberg...

Direct link to film site:
http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/specials/daysofremembrance