Tag: National Library of Israel
Ethiopian Jewish holy books digitized in Jerusalem
A collection of rare holy books and manuscripts from the Ethiopian Jewish community written in Ge’ez, an ancient South Semitic language sometimes referred to as Classical Ethiopic, have been digitized and will be available online, the...
National Library of Israel receives gift of original David Moss Haggadah
The National Library of Israel has received the original version of a modern masterpiece of Hebrew manuscript illumination: the Moss Haggadah. Created by renowned Judaica artist David Moss, it is a large-format, handwritten and...
Theme of Docu.Text Festival at National Library of Israel: ‘War and Healing’
Now in its ninth year, the Docu.Text Festival, in cooperation with Docaviv Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, will present five days of contemporary filmmaking from Israel and around the world at the National Library...
USC Shoah Foundation partners with National Library of Israel
The USC Shoah Foundation has partnered with the National Library of Israel to provide Israelis with the first countrywide access to the Institute’s entire Visual History Archive, including testimonies from more than 52,000 Holocaust...
National Library of Israel preserving ‘collective memory’ of Oct. 7
The National Library of Israel has embarked on a massive project to collect and archive all published materials about the Oct. 7 massacre, both the good and the bad.
While scholars and the curious public...
Jerusalem library gets 45,000 Jewish manuscripts from Yemen
The National Library of Israel in Jerusalem has received the world’s most extensive collection of Yemenite Jewish manuscripts.
The 60,000 items in the collection include notable pieces such as Judeo-Yemenite renditions of works by Maimonides...
Long-awaited National Library of Israel opening to public
After years of meticulous planning and construction, the much-anticipated National Library of Israel is finally set to open its doors. The transformation of a triangular plot of land in Jerusalem, situated between the Knesset...
‘Exodus’ immigrant’s diary shows hardships of post-Shoah refugees
Dozens of personal diaries from people living through the early years of the Jewish state have been handed over to the National Library of Israel as part of the Operation Diary project.
One presented recently...
National Library of Israel expands Sephardic heritage, Spanish-language offerings
The National Library of Israel (NLI) announced the online availability of its Sephardic Heritage and Spanish-language resources. In time for Passover, these resources include a large selection of Haggadot in the Sephardic tradition, available...
National Library of Israel gets a celestial space diary
It’s a diary of cosmic proportions, which has rubbed shoulders with the stars.
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian owns a flute, which the first astronaut enrolled in an American Indian tribe played...