7 Mar 90 JUDAIC STUDIES #34 10 Adar 50 BS"D To send a note to this listserv on any issue of common interest, address it to judaica@taunivm Edited by Y. Greenbaum CONTENTS 1) Lectures 2) Opportunity 3) Nota Bene 1) Lectures 7 Mar 20:00 Schocken Institute Lecture Series 5750 Schocken Library, 6 Balfour St, Jerusalem Dr. Jordan Sterling Penkower The Tosafist R' Menahem of Joigny and the Massoretic Compendium Ochla we-Achla Ms. Eli' Exhibit: Tosafists as Masoretes (with the Philobiblic Society) (Yechiel comments: We are working on implementing Hebrew characters within the newsletter with all due haste. Meanwhile, we appreciate the patience of the Agudat Yedidei haSefer and all those who must contend with our ad hoc translations, none of which should be taken as definitive.) From: "Moshe Kramer" Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 10:28:45 PST Hebrew Printing In Italy: Religion, Culture, and Economics Speaker: Dr. Menahem Schmelzer Wednesday, March 7, 1990, 8:00 pm Feinberg Auditorium The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 3080 Broadway, New York, NY Exhibition The Crown of All Wisdom: Hebrew Printing in Italy from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries. In the Library Building of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America 2) Opportunity From: "B. R. GOLDSTEIN" Date: Wed, 28 Feb 90 14:14 EST The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh may have a full time position for a modernist (field open) to visit for the academic year 1991-92. This is only a possible visiting position at the moment, but preliminary inquiries would be appreciated. Rank open. This is a sabbatical replacement position. For further information, please write to Professor B. R. Goldstein, JS/2604 CL, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA, or contact him by bitnet: brg@pittvms. 3) Nota Bene From: Marc Bregman (HUC Jerusalem) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 1990 17:56 IST I would ... like to share information with your members about using NOTABENE with Lettrix as a printer driver (for an epson compatible). Yechiel notes: Although there is a discussion group (notabene@taunivm) for Nota Bene users, I would appreciate it if any of our mutual readership would keep us up to date on developments which might be of general interest. The following items represent my commands issued to listserv@taunivm (^ precedes my command) followed by extracts from the responses received. ^ list short * NOTABENE Nota Bene List ^ rev notabene * Files= Yes * Notebook= Yes,a,monthly,public * * News and information exchange for Nota Bene users * ^ get notabene filelist NOVICE GUIDE ALL OWN V 73 110 89/07/26 15:51:10 NOTABENE list gu ^ get novice guide A NOVICE'S GUIDE TO THE NOTA BENE USER'S GROUP ON BITNET By Michael Shalev (Sociology, Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem; SHALEVA@HBUNOS.Bitnet) The Nota Bene User's Group operates via Bitnet from the TAUNIVM mainframe at Tel-Aviv University. It is administered jointly by Professor Itamar Even-Zohar of the TAU Porter Institute , and by David Sitman of TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Computing Center. The Group offers the following services: (1) Access to a variety of Nota Bene programs (written by Even-Zohar and others), (2) Various documents discussing Nota Bene issues, and (3) The possibility to exchange information with other Nota Bene users. ... ^ (I then sent the following file) // Database Search DD=Rules //Rules DD * s Lettrix or epson in notabene i /* (Here is the entire reply) > s Lettrix or epson in notabene --> Database NOTABENE, 8 hits. > i Item # Date Time Recs Subject ------ ---- ---- ---- ------- 000015 89/01/17 11:52 18 Hebrew on Epson 000018 89/01/18 16:03 34 same problem 000053 89/04/20 21:30 23 1.5 line spacing 000187 89/11/09 15:32 19 000238 89/12/21 10:00 35 1. Epson FX-80; 2. Sending NB files 000414 90/02/28 12:51 24 new printers now supported by SLS 000419 90/02/28 12:49 89 Update and new features of SLS 000427 90/03/06 19:43 22 RE: Panasonic KX-P1124 driver ^(Now I edited the same file and resent it as below) // Database Search DD=Rules //Rules DD * s Lettrix or epson in notabene p all of 414 419 427 /* (Here is a bit of the response) > s Lettrix or epson in notabene --> Database NOTABENE, 8 hits. > p all of 414 419 427 >>> Item number 414, dated 90/02/28 12:51:00 -- ALL ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Feb 90 12:51:00 EST Reply-To: Dorothy Day Sender: Nota Bene List From: Dorothy Day Subject: new printers now supported by SLS I received word from Dragonfly of additional 24-PIN DOT-MATRIX printers WITH (remainder of text deleted) >>> Item number 419, dated 90/02/28 12:49:00 -- ALL ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 28 Feb 90 12:49:00 EST (remainder of text deleted) >>> Item number 427, dated 90/03/06 19:43:00 -- ALL ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 6 Mar 90 19:43:00 EST (remainder of text deleted) Such searches enable entry into the discussion with an awareness of what may have already been said on a given topic, and may incidentally reveal much other useful information.