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From: Melody Allen <melodyan>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:16:41 -0500
Marian, Could you explain (or anyone else) what other level is happening in Joseph? I can see there are references although I don't get many of them, but is there another story line or meaning level I would appreciate if I understood the references? To me, it just looks like additional matter that distracts me (but maybe not a child) because I don't get it. Thanks for any assistance.
Melody Allen melodyan at lori.state.ri.us
---------From: arcanis at sirius.com[SMTP:arcanis at sirius.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 3:56 PM To: MNevett at aol.com; ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu; ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu (Subscribers of ccbc-net) Subject: Re: RE: Bud, Not Buddy and Joseph
It may well be a punnish pseudonym. He was, though, a real person, in any variation of spelling in which his name may appear when transliterated into English. I've also seen it given as: Mendele Moikher Seforim. So whether Seforim or Sforim, he's real.
This is just one of those little references that adult readers may note and that lifts these illustrations out of the ordinary -there's more than one level happening here, visually speaking.
(But I do wish I could be more enthusiastic about the text!)
Marian Drabkin Richmond Public Library Richmond, CA
----------------Also, I am not familiar with Moishe S'forim, but the Hebrew word for
book is "Sefer", with the plural being20
"Seferim", with all variants of the root having something to do with books ( If I remember correctly, librarian is "s"fariah") so I thought that name was in fact a pun- maybe it was a pseudonym?!
Micki ( MICKI NOT MICHELLE!!!) Nevett Westmere Elementary School
Received on Fri 28 Jan 2000 06:16:41 AM CST
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 07:16:41 -0500
Marian, Could you explain (or anyone else) what other level is happening in Joseph? I can see there are references although I don't get many of them, but is there another story line or meaning level I would appreciate if I understood the references? To me, it just looks like additional matter that distracts me (but maybe not a child) because I don't get it. Thanks for any assistance.
Melody Allen melodyan at lori.state.ri.us
---------From: arcanis at sirius.com[SMTP:arcanis at sirius.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 3:56 PM To: MNevett at aol.com; ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu; ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu (Subscribers of ccbc-net) Subject: Re: RE: Bud, Not Buddy and Joseph
It may well be a punnish pseudonym. He was, though, a real person, in any variation of spelling in which his name may appear when transliterated into English. I've also seen it given as: Mendele Moikher Seforim. So whether Seforim or Sforim, he's real.
This is just one of those little references that adult readers may note and that lifts these illustrations out of the ordinary -there's more than one level happening here, visually speaking.
(But I do wish I could be more enthusiastic about the text!)
Marian Drabkin Richmond Public Library Richmond, CA
----------------Also, I am not familiar with Moishe S'forim, but the Hebrew word for
book is "Sefer", with the plural being20
"Seferim", with all variants of the root having something to do with books ( If I remember correctly, librarian is "s"fariah") so I thought that name was in fact a pun- maybe it was a pseudonym?!
Micki ( MICKI NOT MICHELLE!!!) Nevett Westmere Elementary School
Received on Fri 28 Jan 2000 06:16:41 AM CST
