Library
Rare Archimedes text resurfaces in a French museum, researchers confirm
A page long thought missing from the Archimedes Palimpsest has been identified at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, France.
Jerusalem highlights: March 6-12
The social repository everyone can use: Tools, guides, and insights from the field
Egypt and Greece clash over St. Catherine's – home to Moses's Well, world's oldest library
Meet the volunteers dedicated to books and their kibbutz library
The women, in their seventies, came to the kibbutz in the 1960s. Just recently, they all pitched in to work on a renovation of the library that took six months and cost over NIS 100,000.
Shelf-help: Librarians are asking how to turn their archives into weapons against antisemitism
CJH, in collaboration with jMUSE, is presenting an all-day conference Sunday
National Library documentary film festival returns between August 15-19
Docu.Text, the documentary film festival in Jerusalem of the National Library of Israel, is back live this summer from August 15 to 19 with a slate of thought-provoking literary and cultural films.
Kids program at Israel National Library explores world of magic and myths
Fictional creatures that children will learn about include unicorns, dragons, and sea monsters.
Jerusalem library to be opened as part of city development plan
The library will include thousands of titles available to read and borrow, as well as internet and multimedia access for residents of Jerusalem.
First trilingual street library to open in Jerusalem
The only Jerusalem library in a ‘mixed’ neighborhood may provide another venue for Jewish, Arab co-existence
New central public library planned for Jerusalem
Residents will be able to borrow thousands of books from the library as well as have access to multimedia systems and internet access.
Max Gross’ ‘Lost Shtetl’ wins best fiction from Assoc. of Jewish Libraries
Gross, who will receive a $1,000 cash prize, told Alma that the insulated lives of the people of Kreskol were in part drawn from the enclosed non-Lubavitch Hasidic communities he’s encountered.
Five-hundred years in the life of the Amon family
From the surrender of Spain to the court of Suleiman the Magnificent and beyond, they were there.
National Library of Israel to put 300 workers on unpaid leave
Under the suspension, the library will stop the lending of books and close reading rooms.
