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



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