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An undated photo of part of the Nahum Collection of Yemenite Manuscripts, which comprises 60,000 Yemenite-Jewish manuscripts and fragments, and which the National Library of Israel said in January 2024 was set to become available to researchers and scholars. (NLI via JTA)
January 23, 2024, 10:17 pm
Major Judaica trove amassed by Yemenite Jewish butcher donated to National Library
Put together over 50 years by Yehuda Levi Nahum, collection includes translated Maimonides manuscripts and writings by key Yemenite Jewish writers
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Dr. Idan Perez holds the 'Siddur Catalunya,' a reconstruction of the prayer book used in parts of pre-Expulsion Catalonia, at Jerusalem's National Library, September 15, 2019. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
September 5, 2020, 1:39 am
Israeli scholar wins prize for recreating medieval Catalonian Jewish prayer book
Comparing 6 manuscripts in archives from St. Petersburg to Rome, National Library of Israel’s Idan Perez pieces together lost rites of vibrant community that’s all but disappeared
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Arabic petition with Hebrew writing from Cairo Geniza (Michelle Paymar)
May 16, 2019, 4:32 am
Documentary unravels history — and digital future — of mysterious Cairo Geniza
Film includes interviews with 40 experts who chart the strange discovery and continued scholarship of the mass of rare random documents that make for a rich ‘medieval Facebook’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Copies of "The Diary of Anne Frank" are displayed at the exhibition 'Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away' on November 28, 2017 at the Arte Canal Exhibition Centre in Madrid. (AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS
May 16, 2018, 12:11 pm
Anne Frank’s gay uncle, sex jokes found ‘hidden’ in her diary
Just-released ‘uncovered’ writings in Frank’s original diary show she enjoyed the occasional off-color joke — just like any teen
By Matt Lebovic
A foldout illustration from page 88v of the Beinecke MS 408, aka the Voynich Manuscript. (Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
February 1, 2018, 7:32 am
Scientists claim to crack an elusive centuries-old code — and it’s Hebrew
Not so fast, say language, medieval and computer science scholars, who break down the so-called decryption breakthrough
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Seder Tephiloth mikol HaShanah [prayers for the whole year], according to the Ashkenazic rite with instructions in Yiddish. Printed entirely on vellum in Mantua by Venturino Roffi nello for Meir b. Ephraim and Yaakov b. Naphtali, 1558. (Kestenbaum & Company)
November 7, 2017, 10:12 pm
Who’s selling treasures from the Valmadonna Trust Library? Depends who you ask
Months after the finest and largest private collection of Jewish books was acquired for the National Library of Israel, some of its most valuable selections are up for auction
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Torah calligraphy by Hanna Klebansky. (AP/Bernat Armangue)
November 7, 2017, 8:53 am
Israel-Russia deal gives ancient books new life online
Guenzburg collection contains some 2,000 manuscripts and 14,000 books, some of them hundreds of years old
By AFP
A Passover Haggadah printed in Prague in 1556. (National Library)
January 18, 2017, 11:56 pm
National Library makes ‘historic’ acquisition of rare Hebrew texts
Valmadonna Trust Library’s manuscripts span the globe and a millenium, including a 1491 Bible; will be on display at institution’s new Jerusalem home
By Ilan Ben Zion
A man walks inside a hall at the al-Qarawyin Library in the Moroccan city of Fez on November 21, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA)
December 1, 2016, 4:39 pm
In Morocco’s Fez, world’s oldest library holds gems
The Qarawiyyin library, built in 9th century, is home to priceless treatises in Islamic studies, astronomy and medicine
By Hervé BAR
A library official shows celebrated author Franz Kafka’s Hebrew vocabulary notebook at Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem, October 2014. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
August 8, 2016, 8:32 pm
Kafka’s manuscripts are Israel’s property, court rules
Prague-born literary giant’s documents should be given to public institution, not retained by family, says Supreme Court, ending lengthy legal battle
By AFP
Author Chanan Tigay during a recent trip to Venice, Italy. (Emanuele Dello Strologo)
March 30, 2016, 9:45 am
Author plays Indiana Jones on the trail of ‘the World’s Oldest Bible’
In 1883, Moses Shapira claimed to have found ancient parchments with the text of Deuteronomy in the Judean Desert. But they were dismissed as forgeries, and he committed suicide. Decades later, the Dead Sea Scrolls were uncovered in the same area. Chanan Tigay set out to discover if Shapira was wronged
By Matt Lebovic
A library official shows a 13th-century German prayer book containing the earliest evidence of the Yiddish language, at Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem, October 5, 2014. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
August 3, 2015, 10:41 pm
Israeli-British project makes Hebrew texts available online
A bible dating back more than 1,000 years, Hebrew literature, prayer books, bibles, Talmud to be digitized
A page from the 14th century Wolff Haggadah, at the National Library, showing a Medieval Jew holding bitter herbs (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)
April 1, 2015, 9:24 am
Historic haggadahs offer ‘snapshot’ of Passovers past
National Library displayed a selection from the world’s largest collection of seder texts; here are a few in case you missed it
By Ilan Ben Zion
In this photo taken on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, an employee works on a restoration of an old manuscript at the al-Aqsa mosque compound library in Jerusalem. (photo credit: AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
January 31, 2014, 1:19 pm
Manuscripts at al-Aqsa mosque undergo facelift
Library on Temple Mount sanctuary holds 130,000 books stretching back 900 years, many in poor condition
By Tia Goldenberg and Areej Hazboun
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