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. 

Blois, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Inv. 73.7.52.
‘Princess Abigail and the Factory of Emotions’ (see Friday).

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 Egypt and Greece clash over St. Catherine's – home to Moses's Well, world's oldest library.

Egypt and Greece clash over St. Catherine's – home to Moses's Well, world's oldest library


Taking the lid off the library

Frederick Wiseman’s documentary about the New York Public Library graces Docaviv

THE NEW YORK Public Library

American Tu B’shvat?

Is it possible the the Jewish holiday gained some inspiration from Arbor Day?

Tu Bishvat in Rishon LeZion from the beginning of the 20th century (ca. 1910)

The librarian of Auschwitz

In November 1942, Dita Kraus was sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto. From there she was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she became the librarian of the smallest library in the world.

DITA KRAUS, 88, at her Netanya home.

Valuable Hebrew manuscript collection to be digitized

While the originals will remain in Russia, around 2,000 manuscripts and thousands of books will be digitized and made accessible to researchers.

The Günzburg collection was digitized established in the 19th century by Joseph Günzburg (1812-1878) and continued by his son Horace.

Peaple and places: From librarian to Israeli businesswoman

It is my little bit of tikkun olam – making Israel a better place.

Nomi Lawson at the Osfa boutique in Baka.

The second lives of four Israeli librarians

‘The job satisfies my fantasy of being an eternal student'

Galila Sfarim

In Russia, a treasure trove of books

The Jewish Museum in Moscow is set to open a multimedia library unlike any other in the world.

Along with its new digitized contents, the Jewish Museum in Moscow will not be without books, especially Russian and Yiddish tomes

מַעֲשֵׂה בְּרֵאשִית

New children’s book: Creation

New children’s book: Creation

In your footsteps, Orwell

Without public financial support, most of the artistic events and venues simply cannot survive.

The Soviet leadership with (standing at left) Central Committee secretary Andrei Zhdanov. (Leader Joseph Stalin is standing second from right.)

Old City’s Khalidi Library reopens after nearly a half century

Islamic legal texts are at the core of the collection. Other fields include medicine, history, geography, astronomy, Koranic exegesis, rhetoric, logic, philosophy and poetry.

Old City’s Khalidi Library