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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

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Illustrative: Readers and researchers trying out the new National Library of Israel building, in Jerusalem, as it opened unofficially on October 29, 2023. (Courtesy Yoni Kelberman)
July 6, 2024, 9:38 pm
Herzliya libraries, now open on Shabbat, see subscriptions spike
Central city’s Mayor Yariv Fisher touts most sign-ups in a single day after deciding earlier this week to keep libraries and country club open over weekend
By ToI Staff
Bettina Farack, a research fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem, speaks about the Library of Lost Books initiative during a launch event in Berlin in November 2023. (Courtesy Weiner Library via JTA)
July 6, 2024, 3:59 am
Amateur detectives invited to join search for lost Jewish library looted by Nazis
Researchers from the Leo Baeck Institute seek to virtually reunite 60,000 texts from the modern liberal Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, destroyed in the Holocaust
By Shira Li Bartov
A member of the Kurdistan Center for Arts and Culture (KCAC) scans the pages of an old book as part of an effort to digitize historic Kurdish volumes and manuscripts, in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk on February 13, 2024. (Safin HAMID / AFP)
March 10, 2024, 9:32 am
‘Sacred job’: Iraqi Kurds digitize aging manuscripts to save vulnerable culture
Archival crew pursues rare documents that offer insight into nation’s history, carefully scans them for website set to launch in April
By AFP
Konrad Kutt and Irena Aselmeier, founders of Germany's book box initiative, stand in front of the burned-out book box near the "Gleis 17" Holocaust memorial after an apparent arson attack. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
August 15, 2023, 11:47 am
Mini library at Holocaust memorial in Berlin torched in suspected antisemitic act
Witnesses say they saw suspect start blaze inside the ‘Bucherboxx’ at train station in German capital; antisemitic note said found at scene
By Toby Axelrod
From left to right: A page from a 1607 edition of the Shulchan Aruch printed in Krakow; a brightly colored cover page of a religious text from Venice, 1674; and a page from a 1540 edition of the Arba'ah Turim by Jacob ben Asher. (From the 'Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures'/ Courtesy of Brill Publishers)
July 10, 2023, 5:12 pm
Built by conversos fleeing Spain, Amsterdam’s ancient Ets Haim library gets an update
Massive Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures also underway by Dutch publisher Brill, who says 31 institutions already purchased access to the compilation to be complete in 3 years
By Martin Rosenberg
The Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, photographed on October 17, 1934, is superimposed with an image of a page from a manuscript of a Tiberias rabbi who traveled to Europe on a fundraising mission in 1807. (MCNY/Gottscho-Schleisner/Getty Images/ via JTA)
August 5, 2021, 5:19 am
A NY Jewish library’s treasure surfaces at online auction. How did it get there?
The Jewish Theological Seminary’s quiet sale of a 200-year-old travelogue from the Holy Land raises questions about what responsibilities private libraries have to the wider public
By Asaf Shalev
Response of Jacob Rafael of Modena, to a question relating to Jewish marriage law that might apply in the divorce of King Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon. Italy, 1530. Arundel MS 151, ff. 190-191v. (British Library Board)
December 3, 2020, 6:23 am
Don’t divorce her: Rabbi’s letter to Henry VIII at heart of British Library show
Hebrew manuscript exhibit includes earliest dated copy of the ‘Guide for the Perplexed’ and spans science, law, music, and magic. Viewable online now, and in person from December 3
By Robert Philpot
The 'Library of Exile' installation by Edmund de Waal at the British Museum. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum)
September 12, 2020, 3:07 pm
‘Library of Exile’ exhibit opens at British Museum before resettlement in Iraq
Interactive display launched in tandem with London museum’s reopening is inspired by author Edmund de Waal’s Austrian Jewish grandparents, who lost their books to Nazis
By Anne Joseph
Some 450 people attended a conference at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York on the history of Yiddish Anarchism, January 20, 2019. (JTA Photo)
January 22, 2020, 8:42 am
Yiddish institute YIVO, facing budget shortfall, lays off all its library staff
Calling it a ‘very difficult decision,’ Institute for Jewish Research says archival staff will now help run the library
By Marcy Oster
"The Snowy Day" is credited with breaking the diversity barrier in children's publishing. (New York Public Library via JTA)
January 15, 2020, 10:07 pm
Book by Jewish author is the most checked-out ever at NY Public Library
‘The Snowy Day’ by Ezra Jack Keats, one of the first kids books to portray an African-American child, has been borrowed 485,583 times since its release in 1962
By Penny Schwartz
Melvil Dewey, 1851-1931, inventor of the Dewey book-classification system, in 1891. (Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)
June 25, 2019, 2:49 pm
US library group expunges Dewey name from medal over anti-Semitism, misogyny
Inventor of the decimal system, who died in 1931, kept Jews and blacks out of his resort and was repeatedly accused of harassing women
By Marcy Oster
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