Print this out and put on your refrigerator or class bulletin board, and have the kids design, with traditional art materials or a computer program, their own bookmarks that express what the quote means. Students could also use home and library resources to find more information about the person who was responsible for the quote!
Especially useful during Jewish Book Month -which always takes place a month before the first night of Chanukah!
Cover your bookcases with rugs and linens
of fine quality; preserve them from dampness and mice and
injury; for it is your books that are your true treasure.
Ibn Tibbon 1120-1190?
Spanish Jewish Scholar
Never refuse to lend books to anyone
who cannot afford to purchase them, but lend books only to
those who can be trusted to return them.
Ibn Tibbon 1120-1190?
Spanish Jewish Scholar
If you have one child who does not
like to lend books, and another child who does, leave your
library to the second, even if that child is younger.
Judah of Regensburg, Sefer
Hasidim
13th century, work on ethics
Books should be placed in stately
array near the dead, so that the souls of the righteous may
in death study as they did on earth.
Judah of Regensburg, Sefer
Hasidim
13th century, work on ethics
If you drop gold and books, pick up
the books first, then the gold.
Anonymous
My pen is my harp and my lyre; my
library is my garden and my orchard.
Judah Ha-Levi
Spanish Poet, Physician
Make books your companions; let your
bookshelves be your gardens: bask in their beauty, gather
their fruit, pluck their roses, take their spices and myrrh.
And when your soul be weary, change from garden to garden,
and from prospect to prospect.
Ibn Tibbon, c. 1120-1190 ?
Spanish Jewish scholar
Three possessions should you prize:
a field, a friend, and a book.
Hai Gaon
Head of Bet Din in 998
Wrote commentaries on Torah and Talmud until his death at
age 99.
Favorite Quotes about
Libraries:
"Human beings can lose their lives in
libraries. They ought to be
warned."
Saul
Bellow, Him With His Foot in His
Mouth (1984). p. 11.
"Libraries will get you through times of
no money better than money will get you through times of no
libraries."
Anne
Herbert, The Whole Earth
Catalog
"The death of a library, any library,
suggests that the community has lost its
soul."
Kurt
Vonnegut Jr. quoted in the
Hartford Courant, January 31, 1995, p.A9
"Many of the greatest adventurers of our
age...didn't travel much further than...a
library."
Salman
Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands
(1991), p. 225.
"Libraries ...house our
dreams."
Nikki
Giovanni, American Libraries, may
1996, p. 56.
"When in doubt, go to the
library."
Kate
Charles, A Drink of Deadly Wine
(1992), p.116
"A library doesn't need windows. A
library is a window."
Stewart
Brand, How Buildings Learn (1994),
p. 33.
These quotation reference books are
available at the Jewish Community Library and at other
public libraries.
Leo Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations by Leo Rosten
The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1972.
"A dazzlement of 4,352 proverbs, folk sayings, witticisms,
insights, maxims and moralisms-collected over 58 years,
freshly translated or rewritten, and garnished with irony,
pardox and truth."
A Treasury of Jewish Quotations by
Joseph L. Baron
Crown OPublishers Inc., New York, 1956.
Leo Rosten's Treasury
of Jewish Quotations
A Treasury of Jewish Quotations