National Library of Israel
The National Library of Israel is lending the 400-year-old artifact to the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah for a new temporary exhibition.
Conducted in Hebrew, they showcase innovative features that make the library an outstanding example of green design.
It provides a thematic journey through the library’s collections, sharing anecdotes about the works and the people behind them.
As several museums mark the 100th anniversary of the famed novelist and writer’s passing, experts told JNS that Kafka remains very relatable today.
The National Library of Israel now houses the late U.K. chief rabbi’s personal archives.
The high-resolution scans will be made available to the public via the National Library of Israel website.
“It is in the library’s interest to track the development of a new and painful sub-category within the survey,” said spokeswoman Vered Lion-Yerushalmi.
David Moss devoted three years on three continents in the 1980s to full-time work researching, conceiving and executing a commissioned Haggadah.
The program grapples with identity, memory and culture under the central theme of “Between War and Healing.”
Israelis buy 34 million books a year.
According to the annual National Library of Israel survey, the drop is partly a result of “changes made by publishers” since the Oct. 7 massacre.
!["Mezukak Shivatayim," a rare manuscript with an unpublished commentary on Maimonides's Code of Jewish Law [Mishneh Torah] written in Provence by the 14th century scholar Rabbi Joseph ben Shaul Kimhi. Credit: Courtesy of NLI.](https://static.jns.org/dims4/default/6e3d211/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1600x899+0+94/resize/500x281!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-jns-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F06%2FMezukak-Shivatayim.jpg)
“Mezukak Shivatayim” is among the few rare books to represent the vanished Jewish community of Provence.