The collection was bequeathed to the library by the family of the late Yehuda Levi Nahum, a Jew with a passion for his Yemenite heritage who immigrated to Israel from Yemen in 1929.
Reading 101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel is like wandering through a fascinating museum where each exhibit has something exciting and unusual to teach you
Richard Michelson has a profound grasp of Jewish history, of antisemitism and pogroms, of moral teachings and midrash, of sinners and prophets.
The remarkably well-designed Library of Lost Books website provides an eye-catching and enthralling retelling of the events and the difficulties caused by the rise of the Nazis.
The case in Escambia County is one of several currently unfolding against local and state book-ban laws — and is not the only one to involve Jewish books.
The winner will receive a prize of NIS 180,000, and the winning book will be translated into Arabic as well as another foreign language.
Talya Tomer-Schlesinger found herself alone with three children while her husband was in reserves, so she wrote a book to help children and families talk about their fears.
Yaroslav Trofimov provides a compelling, up-close-and-personal account of Ukrainians’ fight for their independence in Europe’s most consequential shooting war since 1945.
The flawed and the complex; the historic and the particular. These are the qualities that I look for in a good book. Below are some of the Jewish books I read and enjoyed in 2023.
Ethics of Our Fighters has as its background the Jewish reaction to being confronted with the moral challenges of warfare.